AAAS hosts 'Battle of the Brains' to choose area student for international competition
...ouths to learn about the brain and inspire them to pursue careers in biomedical brain research. Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., AAAS chief executive officer and executive publisher of the journal Science, will be the judge. The participating schools include Benjamin Banneker Academic High School and the School Wi...DFG establishes 14 new research units
...of Bonn the DFG is establishing a Research Unit to pursue the question of why the bodies of these dinosaurs that have been extinct for more than 65 million years could have assumed such gigantic dimensions and how these bodies functioned. The project sections of the Research Unit entitled "Biology of the Sa...New human embryonic stem-cell lines to be made available to researchers
...elton's laboratory will use the stem-cell lines to pursue their interest in type 1 diabetes. His research team has been studying the insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells that are missing in patients with type 1 diabetes, which commonly afflicts children. His group's long-term goal is to learn how to dire...Top US scientist honored with prestigious award
...ll at university, to study life sciences and later pursue a scientific career. Their success will benefit all women. But the greatest beneficiary will be science itself." Mr. Owen-Jones joins Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, in hosting the awards event each year in Paris. The FWIS awards ...UC San Diego places in top tier of institutions awarded 2004 Sloan Research Fellowships
... Sloan Research Fellows, once chosen, are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of the most compelling interest to them. The fellowship carries with it a grant of $40,000, to be used over a two-year period in support of research. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide sup...Research to create lung-cancer blood tests receives $3.4M in Pennsylvania tobacco settlement funds
...y of Pennsylvania has been awarded $3.4 million to pursue development of blood tests for lung cancer. The need for such tests is great lung cancer kills more Americans by far than any other form of cancer, according to statistics compiled by the American Cancer Society. As with most cancers, treatment ...Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research at Carnegie Mellon
...titute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to pursue innovative work in applying nuclear magnetic reson...arnegie Mellon. Funds will allow investigators to pursue research in five technological research and development projects in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...Office Depot partners with Conservation Organizations to incorporate science into paper procurement
...rong demonstration of Office Depot's commitment to pursue practical approaches to issues of environmental concern," noted Bruce Nelson, Chairman and CEO of Office Depot. "Environmental stewardship is advanced by people and organizations that are specific in what they seek to achieve. We are perfectly clear...Study marks increased trends in infectious disease occurrences in our oceans
...a over time. This assumes that scientists actually pursue problems in proportion to their frequency in nature. But simply counting reports is misleading because of the general increase in scientific publications and other potential biases. Ward and Lafferty quantified the reports of disease, and normalized ...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...cs, and Engineering" conference, to enable them to pursue important new ideas and connections stimulated by the conference. The grants aim to fill a critical missing link between bold new ideas and major federal funding programs, which do not currently provide grants in areas that are considered risky or un...Young chimpanzees show sex differences in learning
...tes than males do. The young of both sexes seem to pursue activities related to their adult sex roles at a very young age." Because this learning difference is similar to published sex differences in human learning, a sex-based learning difference may date back at least to the last common ancestor of chimpa...Grant from GE Foundation to University of Houston to strengthen math, tech 'pipeline'
...education program aimed at encouraging students to pursue college-level studies in the quantitative areas of mathematics, science, technology and engineering. The GE Foundation's Math Excellence Program Grant, given to UH's College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM), is designed to support the crea...SAGE-acious prediction of thyroid carcinoma
...d reduce health care costs by allowing patients to pursue more aggressive treatments for FTC cases and avoid unnecessary surgery for FTA. Using SAGE to screen for differentially expressed genes in FTA and FTC samples, Janete Cerutti, Gregory Riggins, and colleagues, from the Federal University of So Paulo a...Biochemist becomes 15th UT Southwestern faculty member serving on National Academy of Sciences
...l University before moving to the United States to pursue graduate studies at UT Southwestern, where he earned a doctorate in biochemistry in 1991. His postdoctoral research at UT Southwestern was with Nobel laureates Dr. Joseph Goldstein, chairman of molecular genetics, and Dr. Michael Brown, director of t...Jorge Escalante-Semerena receives 2004 ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award
...cularly those from underrepresented minorities, to pursue careers in science. After completing his undergraduate education at the School of Chemistry, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM), Mexico City, Escalante-Semerena earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in microbiology at the University of Illi...Landmark, pivotal Phase IIb/III trial of biotoxin for cancer pain begins
...e promising results, the Company was encouraged to pursue a larger trial to further confirm the effectiveness of the compound. The current trial is a multicentre, randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study designed to compare the efficacy and safety of Tectin TM versus placebo in moderate to sev...NPS Pharma and VIMAC Ventures locate at MaRS, a major new research and enterprise center in Toronto
...e selected MaRS as the ideal global destination to pursue research and commercial opportunities in the fast-emerging medical and related technology fields. MaRS Centre will become the primary location for NPS's research and development activities in Canada while VIMAC, a venture capital firm active in bio......ng teachers. More minorities must be encouraged to pursue scientific careers. To help colleges meet these challenges, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is awarding $49.7 million in grants to 42 baccalaureate and master's degree institutions in 17 states and Puerto Rico. This brings HHMI's invest...Wilex & Fox Chase Cancer Center begin trial w/ novel compound targeting tumor invasion & metastasis
...rovided strong data warranting a clinical trial to pursue the possible benefit this drug may have in the treatment of breast cancer," said Lori J. Goldstein, M.D., principal investigator of this study and director of Fox Chase's Breast Evaluation Center and leader of the Breast Cancer Research Program at Fo......mson University scientist has received $250,000 to pursue a promising line of research for a way to treat breast cancer.Wen Y. Chen, associate professor in Clemson's department of biological sciences and assistant director of the Oncology Research Institute of Greenville Hospital System, has received fundin...