Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
...s southeastern partnership is part of a nationwide network of regional government-industry-academic partnerships focused on determining the most suitable technologies, regulations, and infrastructure needs for carbon capture, storage and sequestration in different areas of the country. These regional partne...DFG establishes first German-Sino Research Training Group
...the future, participants may apply for funding for network meetings between several Research Training Groups. This measure is meant to support the exchange of expertise and ideas as well as the members' personal initiative. In addition, from 1 July 2004 onwards, the fellowship rates for doctoral students wil...University of Pittsburgh receives NIH funding to develop heart assist device for infants
...completely immobilizes patients with its elaborate network of tubes and medical equipment. Despite it being standard practice for nearly 30 years for pediatric patients of all ages who are in heart failure, its use is associated with a high death rate. Less than half of children and infants survive the thera...NCAR aircraft, ground instruments to track carbon dioxide uptake
.... As the research plane samples air aloft, a dense network of instruments will gather data over a half square mile on Niwot Ridge near Nederland. Perched atop three steel towers provided by NCAR, each between 100 and 200 feet tall, carbon dioxide sensors and sonic anemometers will measure changes in carbon l...Cellular problems found behind complex obesity syndrome
...help guide the cell's internal highway system -- a network of so-called microtubules along which tiny motors push and pull proteins, cellular packages and even chromosomes. When the BBS4 gene doesn't work correctly, the highway system falls apart, cell division halts and the cell dies. "But our exper...New studies show Curves Program raises metabolic rate in overweight and sedentary women
...ement classes combine fitness and a social support network that keep women interested and losing weight. We were very impressed that the women following the Curves program lost an average of 14 pounds in just 10 weeks similar to the amount of weight loss previously reported after following the Atkins, Prit...Annotation marathon validates 21,037 human genes
...e consortium has established a reliable systematic network of human-curated relationships between genes and their biological functions. The study, reported in the open access journal PLoS Biology, has taken over two years to complete, and is expected to set the standard for analysis of gene expression and h...Yellowstone's long-distance travelers in trouble, study says
...rrent winter migration route consist is a perilous network of narrow mountain passes to 100-yard-wide strips ...igrations, the authors of the study suggest that a network of strategically planned protected migration corridors should be established. ...Brain cells become more discriminating when they work together
...cells, but this does not acknowledge the intricate network structure of the brain, where each cell is connect...y of representing information that depends on this network structure is the degree of 'agreement' between groups of brain cells. That is what we have found in ...Malignant breast cancer cells to revert to normal with manipulation
...ng how manipulation of the extracellular matrix (a network of fibrous and globular proteins that surrounds breast cells) of non-malignant breast cells can lead to genomic instability via oxidative damage. She describes how manipulation of the microenvironment can allow malignant breast cancer cells to rever...Imaging the brain solving problems through insight
...ts and methods. Problem-solving involves a complex network of brain regions to encode, retrieve, and evaluate information, but these results show that solving verbal problems with insight requires at least one additional component. Further, the fact that the effect occurred in RH aSTG suggests what that proc...Decoding a sulfate-breathing bug
...ysis of the D. vulgaris genome, scientists found a network of c-type cytochromes proteins which facilitate electron transfers and metal reduction during the organism's energy metabolism. The presence of those c-type cytochrome genes are thought to give D. vulgaris a significant capacity and flexibility to r...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
...lonies in the world - a 600-mile-long subterranean network of Argentine ants stretching from Northern California to the Mexican border. According to the researchers, this "supercolony" is made up of billions of closely related workers - all direct descendants of a small group of Argentine ants that were acci...UC San Diego bioinformatics experts help reconstruct the genomic makeup of our ancestors
...omponents involved in human health and disease." A network of centers generated data and resources for the RGSP, including the BCM-HGSC, Celera Genomics, Genome Therapeutics Corporation, British Columbia Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre, The Institute for Genomic Research, University of Utah, Medical Col...World's largest tiger reserve declared in Myanmar
...s now part of Myanmar's Northern Forest Complex, a network of four contiguous protected areas explored and surveyed by WCS and the Myanmar Forest Department between 1996 and 2002. This 12,000 square-mile block now stands as one of the largest forested protected areas in Asia. The Wildlife Conservation Socie...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes 2004
...tive impact of consumers and resources on the food network on rocky shores" he went to Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on an Emmy Noether Fellowship funded by the DFG. Since 2003 he has led a working group under the same funding programme at the Institute for Marine Science at the Universit...Scientists seek cause for what makes good cell go bad
... network, and its malfunction causes cancers." The network that controls the movement of E. coli, a single-celled organism, is much simpler than the system that divides human cells. But signal transduction networks exhibit the same design principles across species, Cluzel said. Consequently, researchers will...Laboratory rat gene sequencing completed
...omes equally divided between males and females. A network of centers generated data and resources for the RGSP, including the BCM-HGSC, Celera Genomics, Genome Therapeutics Corporation, British Columbia Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre, The Institute for Genomic Research, University of Utah, Medical Col...OneWorld Health plans to form network of volunteer pharmaceutical scientists for global health
... today announced its intent to develop a volunteer network of corporate and industry pharmaceutical scientist...d Health. The concept for the volunteer scientist network arose after Dr. Hale was contacted by hundreds of pharmaceutical scientists globally, who offered to...Carnegie Mellon U. conducts first comprehensive proteomic analysis of developing animal
...ith other experimental tools, can help uncover the network of functions and interactions required for a variety of developmental processes and disease states." Minden said....