Baby Dolphin "Little Orphan Annie" Loses Battle For Her Life
...ty is built. Financial support from the public and private sectors isessential in the effort. If you would like to donate to the dolphin cause pleasecall HBOI, Development Officer, Suzanne Leffew at 561-465-2400, x 225...New Biomaterial May Replace Arteries, Knee Cartilage
...initial laboratory testing, secured investorsfor a private start-up company to produce and market the biomaterial, and arenow beginning the five- to seven-year process toward obtaining approval from theFood and Drug Administration. That process will include testing in humans. "The goal is to get the ...Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Selects First Cohort
...ntal issuesamong the media, policy makers, and the private sector. "Fellows within the Aldo Leopold Leaders...ntatives from leading universities, government and private agencies, andthe news media. ALLP Steering Committee members are affiliated with OregonState Univer...Whitehead Receives $35 Million Grant From National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
...n take advantage of anysequencing work done in the private sector. This may allow completion of thefinal sequence far sooner than 2003. "The Human Genome Project looks forwardenthusiastically to cooperating with all parties that can contribute to morerapid public availability of the human genome sequence," ...LSU Ag Center Brucellosis Specialist May Help Stem Bison Controversy
...a threat to cattle as bison. "Elk are more private animals, especially when giving birth, so thespread of the disease among them is lower, and the likelihood of domesticanimals coming into contact with aborted fetuses or placentas is extremely low,"Elzer says. For the past four years the Ag C...Recent USGS Work In New England And Beyond
...biologists and cooperators from federal, state and private groups, will useradio-telemetry to assess woodcock survival on the birds' local breeding areasin five northeastern states this fall. The following spring, bird dogs willhelp scientists monitor and assess woodcock brood production on study areas. Con...Study: Microgravity May Enhance Gene Transfer In Plants
...tion, now beingassembled in orbit, is dedicated to private commercial use. Companies involvedin plant genetic engineering are potential users of this new facility....Baby Grain Bins Help Purdue Researchers Tackle Big Problems
...d gift soliciting ($100,000worth of equipment from private industry), have made the first phase of the PostHarvest Education and Research Center a reality. CTB Brock Bins donated themini-bins. Farm Fans of Indianapolis contributed a new continuous flow dryer.Other companies provided fans, computer hardware a......n and NeurosensoryMechanisms Branch and now in the private sector. The spinal cord was selected as the target for the beta-endorphin gene, not onlybecause of its ease of access, but also because it is the first processing pointfor relaying pain signals to the brain, and pain can be effectively controlledat t...Suppression Of Natural Fires Harms Squirrels
...e about1,000 of the ground squirrels on public and private lands around PayetteNational Forest, the only part of North America where the rare animals live. By1998, the total population had shrunk to about 600, and 12 of the 36 knownpopulations were extinct, according to Gavin of Cornell's Department of Nat......lic onthe issues raised by the growing interest of private companies in populationstudies and patenting of sequences of the Human Genome. The expansion of thisnewborn and very promising sector known as pharmacogenomics, aiming to developdrugs tailored to individual genetic profiles, brings on an enourmous po...Center For Future Health Aims To Bring High-Tech, Low-Cost Health Care To The Home
...th and the National Science Foundation, as well as private foundations. Mostof the projects build on research currently being done and funded through grantsto individual investigators. As projects progress they will be tested anddemonstrated in a "medically smart home" before commercialization. While...Magnetic Fluids More Complex Than Previously Thought
...research is being conducted in both the public and private sector to extendthe techniques used to make computer chips and other microelectroniccircuitry to make microscopic systems that can mix, separate and identify awide range of chemicals. Such devices could have widespread application inthe environmental...Biologists work to preserve rainforests endangered plants
...by the Cincinnati Zoo andBotanical Garden and with private funding from Professor Dunford....First direct link found between bacteria in drinking water and stomach ulcers
...ining H. pylori and the infection through tests of private wells supplyingdrinking water to individual households. Interviews with residents who consumedthe water found a statistically significant correlation between presence of thebacterium and cases of stomach ulcers. Baker said drinking water i...Germany needs a national genome initiative
...ve realised the potentials and, through public and private funding, areinvesting currently approximately 1 billion dollars in genome research . Even atthis stage novel drugs and goods developed and produced in the US with a marketvalue of 2 billion German marks are being imported into Germany. By havingembar...Drug stops blinding blood vessel growth in mice
...opathy of Prematurity and Related Diseases; and by private donors. The study's other authors were Man Seong So, Nohoon Kwak, Hiroaki Ozaki,Haruhiko Yamada, Naoyuke Okamoto and Eri Yamada of Hopkins; and Doriano Fabbro,Francesco Hofmann and Jeanette M. Wood of Novartis. Campochiaro is a ...... the 067 trial. Theadoption of medical advances in private practice has been generally far slowerthan in academic medical centers." Dr. Turner and her co-workers are followingthe data on the women through 1998 to see who gets antiretroviral therapy up totwo years after they gave birth....Malaria called failure, puzzle and challenge
....S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. private sector, and partnersin Ghana, Australia, and France. Hoffman recently published the first proof ofthe principle that DNA vaccines can produce immunity in normal, healthy humans. On April 30, 1998, physicians conducting the first human trial of a DNA ...... in Golm, Germany. The demand in the public and private plant research communities for this information is demonstrated by the fact that the web site displaying the map data has already been accessed by several hundred users from all over the world ( <a href="http://www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/1...