Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
... million each. A panel of scientists and educators reviewed proposals from 189 institutions. Washington University, which has been funded by this program since 1992, will receive $2.2 million over four years to provide wide-ranging services and support for undergraduate and K-12 science education. Sarah CR....Endangered butterfly needs special environment
...or, Elizabeth Crone, of the University of Montana, reviewed possible restoration sites to see if the butterfly would thrive. The Nature Conservancy is helping to choose sites that could potentially be bought and restored, a combination of public and private land. Schultz and Crone evaluated 150 patches in al...It pays to save: Science study shows huge economic benefits from conserving wild nature
...verted versions of those ecosystems. Although they reviewed more than 300 case studies of such conversion, they only identified five examples that met their rigorous standards for comparing benefits. The economic value of an ecosystem can be measured in terms of the "goods and services"--including climate reg...Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Secretariat to move to Sweden
...ions that have been most directly involved in MIM, reviewed the applications and voted to select the new MIM Secretariat. The voting members consisted of 10 funding partners from the North and 11 African countries representing 16 research institutions. These voting members were identified based on their sig...Brain damage in infants not always tied to delivery
...ar scores at one and five minutes after birth, and reviewed their umbilical cord acid levels. Of the 13 infants who had seizures, one had abnormal chromosomes and was excluded from further study. The remaining dozen were delivered at an average gestational age of 35 weeks; four were premature. The average ...Long-term studies show most intersex adults happy with gender assignments at birth
...tors. In the first study, researchers interviewed, reviewed the history of and examined 39 people 21 years of age or older seen at Hopkins as infants or children with genital ambiguity. The patients all had a genetically male, XY genotype and a genetic intersex syndrome that causes the abnormal formation of a...NHGRI adds cow and dog to high priority list for sequencing model organisms
...y 10, June 10 and October 10. The white papers are reviewed by the Genome Resources and Sequencing Priority Panel (GRASPP), a blue-ribbon group NHGRI established to help set priorities. Evaluation criteria include an assessment of the medical importance of the proposed project; its importance to basic biologi...Early evaluation critical for kidney disease patients' survival
... October 1995 and June 1998. For this study, they reviewed information on 828 patients just starting dialysis, asking them to complete a questionnaire on their medical and social history and provide the month and year in which they first visited a nephrologist. They also compared the time between each pat...Washington University's Sarah C. R. Elgin is one of 20 'million dollar professors'
...culty members. A panel of scientists and educators reviewed 150 nominees' proposals and eventually selected 20 HHMI Professors at 19 universities in 13 states . All are tenured faculty members. They include nine women and three members of minority groups. Some will focus on attracting more women and minorit...Howard Hughes Medical Institute's million dollar professors
...culty members. A panel of scientists and educators reviewed 150 nominees' proposals and eventually selected 20 HHMI Professors at 19 universities in 13 states (See list of Professors and their institutions below.) All are tenured faculty members. They include nine women and three members of minority groups. ...UCLA science profs awarded $1 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grants
...culty members. A panel of scientists and educators reviewed 150 proposals and selected 20 HHMI Professors at 19 universities in 13 states. "Research is advancing at a breathtaking pace, but many university students are still learning science the same old way, by listening to lectures, memorizing facts and doi...New studies advance scientific knowledge of drinking water disinfection byproducts
...red. In addition, an independent panel of experts reviewed the study designs and interpretation of data. The studies were sponsored by the Research Foundation for Health and Environmental Effects, a tax-exempt foundation established by the Chlorine Chemistry Council. Following are brief summaries of each st...Ancient defense mechanism may still be protecting us
...ublished in the September 20 issue of Cell, and is reviewed in the recent issues of Science and Journal of Cell Biology. "This is exciting research that provides new understanding of how cells control the activity of their genes," says Joseph G. Gall, a cell biologist at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore....UC Riverside leads the country with the highest number of 2002 AAAS Fellows
...S council votes on a final aggregate list that was reviewed by respective steering groups representing specialty sections. The 13 new AAAS Fellows at UC Riverside are: Michael E. Adams , professor of entomology. Dr. Adams research interests span molecular and cellular physiology of chemical signaling, p...Zinc supplementation reduces diarrhea and death in Bangladeshi children
...alth fa-cilities are limited. A recent WHO meeting reviewed the findings of this and other zinc trials and concluded that zinc supplements are efficacious in reducing the severity and duration of diarrhea and recom-mended that additional effectiveness studies should assess the feasibility of this intervention...Hopkins researchers find postoperative fevers common following hemispherectomy
...e largest studies of its kind, Hopkins researchers reviewed the charts from 106 consecutive hemispherectomies performed at the Children's Center from January 1975 to December 2001. The review included 102 hemidecortications, a less radical form of hemispherectomy that removes the overlaying gray matter of the...UCSD bioengineers develop first computer model that predicts disease variant based on genetic defect
...nd his team at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering reviewed genetic information from patients who have an enzyme deficiency that causes hemolytic anemia. Physicians have recorded some 150 DNA sequence variations that could be involved in this type of anemia. By inserting the specific DNA sequences into a co...Blood proteins tied to inflammation
...vels of C-reactive protein and albumin. They also reviewed the patients' medical records until November 2000. During the follow-up period, the patients had a combined 278 heart events, including heart attack, bypass surgery, angioplasty, stroke, carotid endarterectomy (a procedure to remove plaque from the ...Supervised exercise program is an effective remedy for cramping leg pain
...gues at the Universities of Colorado and Minnesota reviewed more than 120 studies to reach their conclusions about exercise and PAD. Because patients with claudication experience pain when they exercise, they often slack off, Stewart says. "As a result, many are so unfit they become housebound or dependen...Study employs backyard scientists to document global warming impact
...at were recording data as a hobby. "The studies we reviewed often obtained data from persistent individuals, p...Climate Change Third Assessment report. The group reviewed more than 2,000 papers, then focused on a small subset that met the criteria for this additional stu...