Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...esearch (FIBR) program, which supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. "The hallmark of life is movement," said Robert Full, professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley and leader of the team. "Yet, no single systems-level model, reaching from neurons to mu...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...y innovative and broadly integrative approaches to research in biology, FIBR projects tackle grand challenges ...ate varied expertise from several universities and research institutes. Combined, the six projects support dozens of investigators from 15 U.S. states and also ...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
A research team of biologists and engineers led by faculty at...en seeking funding and finding they can't continue research because they've hit a technological barrier they can't cross. Pakrasi and his collaborators first ob...Joslin researchers clarify mechanisms for beta-cell formation
...sue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Islet Transplantation at Harvard Medical School, the Beta Cell Biology Consortium and the Larry Hillblom Foundation. "Our paper clearly demo...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...d from this sequence information are data that the research community can trust and put to good use," said Ric...omosomes in humans. This finding backs up previous research suggesting that before mammals and birds split 300 million years ago, the sex chromosomes had not ye...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...logical relationships." Yet both basic and applied research in infectious disease ecology has been largely pie...ts, the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary research program in this area include: development of disease transmission theory; improved understanding of ...A liking for sweets, combined with novelty seeking, may predict alcoholism
Previous research has linked a pleasurable response to sweet taste (... insufficient by itself to predict alcoholism. New research shows that the combination of sweet liking and novelty seeking may predict alcoholism. Previous res...Simian virus 40 not associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, study shows
...and lymphoma in laboratory rodents. However, other research groups did not detect SV40 in NHL tumors, and recent evidence has suggested that it cannot infect human lymphocytes. Moreover, epidemiologic studies have failed to find an increase in the risk of NHL among people exposed to SV40-contaminated poliovir...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
...ild and instrument a portable field laboratory for research and research training. As an NSF major research initiative, the award will be matched by $148,000 from the Unive...Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases
... Pieter Rottiers and Erik Remaut, took the earlier research further and placed the mouse gene with the code fo...ritis, which proved to be successful as well. This research confirms the findings from the earlier VIB research (under the direction of Lothar Steidler and Erik...Byproduct of water-disinfection process found to be highly toxic
...ologist in the department of crop sciences. "This research says that when you go to alternatives, you may be opening a Pandora's box of new DBPs, and these unregulated DBPs may be much more toxic, by orders of magnitude, than the regulated ones we are trying to avoid." Plewa and colleagues, three of them w...Two separate research studies published in the September issue of Immuni...es as a threat. The results are likely to further research efforts designed to combat and hopefully prevent autoimmune disorders like celiac disease. Celiac di...Pioneering AIDS researcher to speak at UH
...h to Public Health Ho will speak about strides in research that have come about due to the AIDS epidemic in C...ation of old knowledge, Ho said. To go from basic research to clinical applications to public health in the land of my heritage is especially rewarding. Ho i...Former US Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to speak at science symposium
... (INRA). INRA is a coalition of eight northwestern research universities created to promote new opportunities for research and education that will benefit the region and the nation in a variety of technical disciplines. The...TANGO: towards faster prognosis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
... of Brussels (VUB), in collaboration with a German research group, have developed TANGO - a statistical method that can predict the susceptibility of proteins to sticking together. Thus, for the first time, TANGO enables the prediction of risky protein alterations that underlie this group of diseases. When p...Research on carbohydrate metabolism receives historical recognition
... scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio ...AACR applauds NCI initiative on nanotechnology
...zations to translate cancer-related nanotechnology research for the benefit of the patient. Nanotechnology ref... possible in the near future. "We in the cancer research community must reach out to scientists and experts from any discipline that offers new ways of under...Laboratory grows world record length carbon nanotube
...ting cable for wiring micro-electronic devices. In research reported in the current online issue of the journa... Department at Duke University in Durham, N.C. The research was conducted under the auspices of the Los Alamos Superconductivity Technology Center with funding ...Can an old gene learn new tricks?
...at occurred during the course of evolution. A new research study published in the September issue of Developmental Cell suggests that the evolution of higher-order vertebrate organ systems can result from primitive developmental genetic programs that are, in a sense, recycled for entirely new structures. A......ive enzymes associated with pancreatitis. Further research is needed to establish whether VAMP8 is directly linked to pancreatitis....