NSF-funded scientists to examine environment at the molecular level
...stitution, Argonne National Laboratory and several private companies will participate. The other seven awards will support groups of three to five investigators at Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, University of California at San Diego, University of Kentuck...Aslera™ improves bone mineral density in lupus patients
...dwide have lupus, according to U.S. government and private sector statistics. Lupus primarily affects women, many of whom experience the initial onset in their late teens and early twenties....... findings. The trial was sponsored and funded by a private pharmaceutical company which entered into agreements with UCSF (Kahn) and Harvard (Lagakos) in September 1995 to allow Kahn to act as the study chair and Lagakos to act as statistician for a nationwide team of investigators in evaluating the clinical...ZymoGenetics researchers identify novel Interleukin that plays key role in immune system regulation
...ntly announced its establishment as an independent private company in conjunction with the signing of a $150 million private placement. The proceeds from this financing will be used to further accelerate ZymoGenetics targete...Procter & Gamble donates proprietary "super aspirin" technology to Vanderbilt University
...Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University is a private research university of approximately 5,900 undergraduates and 4,300 graduate and professional students. Founded in 1873, the University comprises 10 schools, a public policy institute, a distinguished medical center and The Freedom Forum First Amend...Energy department's Idaho lab teams with Russia to establish Ecological Biotrade facility
... with U.S. Energy Department laboratories and U.S. private industry to work on new non-weapons-related resear...sia, the Energy Department's national labs and the private sector, we are making great strides to redirect former Soviet weapons expertise towards peaceful act...New discovery: 'footprint' shows master switch simultaneously controls plants' disease defenses
...ght, open collaboration between the university and private industry and highlights the value of including undergraduates in research on campus," Dangl said. "Among its contributions, Syngenta gave us access to technology we needed but did not have on campusat the time, and that collaboration has paid off." ...British men favour beer and fast food diet
... survey of adults aged between 16 and 64 living in private households in Britain. Over 2,000 men and women completed seven day food diaries, detailing what and how much they ate. Fifty one food/drink items were included in the analysis. The results showed that over 90 per cent of men and almost 90 per cent ...Tobacco settlement $ = biomedical research; business development
...d animal models for researchers from universities, private research institutions, and biotechnology or pharmaceutical firms throughout Michigan. These core facilities will be physically located at the U-M, Michigan State University, Wayne State University or the Van Andel Institute, but they will be open to...Largest grant ever to Indiana U fuels Genomics Initiative
...cipates collaborations with other universities and private industry. The IU Advanced Research and Technology Institute,known as ARTI, will support economic development and promote commercialization of scientific discoveries through atechnology transfer assistance program. It will include access to seed and v......of collaborators from academia, government and the private sector to conduct research that, through the successful development of new drug therapies, can dramatically improve people's lives." The grant will fill a critical void in research funding for the two tropical diseases, Tidwell said."Although the pha...Human reproductive success tied to mitochondrial organization in eggs
... partner at Colorado Reproductive Endocrinology, a private in-vitro fertilization clinic at Denvers Rose Medical Center. "Eventually there may not be enough mitochondria in the blastomeres to produce a healthy embryo." The researchers stained individual mitochondria in fertilized eggs obtained from donors w...Computer generates comparative gene maps
...Department of Plant Breeding at Cornell and now in private industry), and several colleagues at Cornell and Iowa State University. The computer mapping done by Goldberg was based on Wilson's original data. The results, the researchers say, were remarkably similar, although in their paper they note some minor...Ancient underground fractures may threaten ground water supplies
... table, which supplies 800,000 private wells and more than 40 percent of the public water supplies in Ohio. But water that passes through fractures isn't purified in the same way as it would be if it traveled through tightly comp...Tax top of the food chain to aid environmental sustainability
...specially grain-fed livestock, and leave it to the private sector." Such groups, they write, "should ensure that good economics prevail, including accounting for full environmental and social costs." The authors would make exceptions in their tax plan for small-scale meat and milk production, such as natur...Award winners announced for 2001 Merck/AAAS undergraduate science research program
... selection of the 15 schools." Public and private colleges and universities must meet certain criteria to compete. They must be located in the United States or Puerto Rico, offer an American Chemical Society-approved program in chemistry and confer 10 or fewer graduate degrees annually in biology an...Award winners announced for 2001 Merck/AAAS undergraduate science
...selection of the 15 schools." Public and private colleges and universities must meet certain criteria to compete. They must be located in the United States or Puerto Rico, offer an American Chemical Society-approved program in chemistry and confer 10 or fewer graduate degrees annually in biology an...Baylor College of Medicine garners research grants to sequence rat genome
...ry for all forms of life. Seed funding from private philanthropic institutions has proven vital to Bay...ides an excellent example of such leveraging. This private grant helped us obtain a $36.7 million public grant to support the rat genome sequencing project. ...Dried cells, tissues could solve biological materials storage, transport problems
...will create technologies for use in the public and private sector," Potts says. The award is initially valued at $2.6 million for three years. An additional two years of support ($1.9 million) is also possible, contigent on program success and the availability of funds. Thus the total award is potential......e amount of stem-cell research taking place in the private sector without public oversight. Public funding, the reports states, would help to ensure that the research is closely monitored and meets ethical standards. ...