Purdue researcher creates soy feed to keep fish on the table
...ds. He also gave the formulation to a producer who plans to try it. Brown's also detailing diets for lobsters. "The lobster industry is growing, but producers face a shortage of feeds," Brown says. "Their main food has been cod racks the cod head, bones and guts left after processors take off the fillets....First awards made in NIH effort to understand how genes affect people's responses to medicines
...ch network awards. Applicants who devise the best plans for conducting pharmacogenetics research that will complement existing studies will join the network, and will contribute to the PharmGKB information library. NIGMS funds research and research training in the basic biomedical sciences, including ...Researchers find key to growing, differentiating human cells
...tiate. Kniss has no immediate plans to use this technology to try to grow entire organs. However, he said that researchers in other labs are currently trying to grow bone, bladder, kidney, liver, and cornea cells using related...Bionumerik reports data on two novel supercomputer engineered anticancer agents
...is therapy remains intact. The Company plans to initiate Phase 3 trials later this year for BNP7787 which has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration "Fast Track" designation for the prevention or reduction of the nerve damage associated with paclitaxel. Karenitecin A......lanners in the government ministries." Future plans call for collaboration with Zoo Atlanta to share knowledge gained from the research with broader audiences....... also under way at HHMI, as follows: The Institute plans to award $15 million in grants to support researchers inthe Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.It will award another $14 million in grants to support scientists around theworld whose research is related to infectious and...ZymoGenetics discovers potential new therapy for autoimmune diseases
...turn of the year 2000/2001. Novo Nordisk's current plans anticipate that ZymoGenetics will be listed independently at a later date. For further company information, visit Novo Nordisk on the World Wide Web at www.novo.dk , or www.zymogenetics.com ....Biological legacies a key of ecological rebirth after Mount St. Helens eruption
... he'll work at Kamchatka in Russia and next spring plans work at Mount Etna in Sicily. Franklin is collaborating with researchers as far away as Australia who are trying to help managers use ideas about biological legacies for managing natural resources including fish, rangelands and forests. "Disturban...Brookfield Zoo hosts international ape conference
...the most current information and to develop action plans on conservation, husbandry, and other issues. "Th...erence delegates will work together to form action plans and identify resources necessary to support conservation efforts that affect people and animals in t...Memory, forgetfulness help hamsters time breeding
...the labs of Hopkins neuroscientist Randy Nelson , plans to try to follow the encoding signal further into the hamster brain, possibly to the hippocampus, an area linked to other types of memory....Chemical industry research commitment spurs CIIT growth
...s health. It is recruiting lead scientists and has plans to expand its research staff over the next five years. "If we hope to attract world class scientists, we need to have facilities to allow them to advance their work," said CIIT Operating Board Chair Eugene Ervin in supporting the plan. Ervin is Corp...Carbon diem: Grants awarded to research that seizes excess carbon dioxide
...such as the other nutrients she feeds it. She also plans on finding ways to increase the efficiency of photosynthesis, the cellular process that transforms carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and releases oxygen at the same time. In addition to performing her experiments at Montana State, Stoots will be enl...NHLBI study shows large blood pressure benefit from reduced dietary sodium
... followed at three sodium levels. The two dietary plans were a "usual" diet, typical of what many American...ifferences in adverse effects among the two eating plans or different sodium levels. "The results show that those with hypertension should follow the DASH...Weight training helps to maintain good health, study finds
...kouts. Staron, an avid weight lifter himself, now plans to study how training affects the muscle itself: a project on the differences between performing one set versus three sets of a strength training exercise and one that compares the effects of exercise on a home exercise machine to a free weights rout...PRAECIS announces positive results for abarelix depot-M in two pivotal Phase III clinical trials
...er. "Based on the results of these trials, PRAECIS plans to continue clinical evaluation of abarelix depot-M and plans to file a New Drug Application with the United States Food and Drug Administration by fourth quarter...Chesapeake Bay watershed to benefit from new Landsat 7 land cover maps
...le the parks commission in Montgomery County, Md., plans to assess the extent of forests in its parks. The new land cover classifications will also help improve estimates of polluted water runoff flowing into the Chesapeake Bay by precisely identifying pasture land and different types of crops. This will......will be over open ocean in case of mishaps. Beal plans to buy, then partially drain, 100 square kilometres of swamp on the north bank of the River Waini and lease from Guyana a buffer zone three times as large. Hinds calls the site "generally unproductive land never before commercially utilised". But the...Genomics project aims to create a "virtual plant"
... Center, stressed the importance of 2010 Project's plans to coordinate functional genomics studies of Arabidopsis among researchers. In particular, he cited the need to coordinate reverse genetics studies in which the function of a gene is determined by mutating a gene and studying the resulting phenoty...New research centre to continue 200-year-old traditions
... the old centre. Adelaide University has announced plans to build a new field research station. Called the Flinders-Baudin Research and Education Centre, it will be a major project in Encounter 2002, the celebration in two years' time of the bicentenary of the meeting of Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin...AIDS prevention researchers to gain premier online info-exchange forum
...sity of California, San Francisco, today announced plans to provide researchers with a premier, centralized online source of information on all aspects of AIDS prevention. The new AAAS venture, supported by an $850,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), will be launched in collabor...