Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...MOA -- The University of California, Berkeley, has signed an agreement with the Samoan government to isolate...ill be made to reflect this fact." The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Tuila'epa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi of Samoa and UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...amoa - The University of California, Berkeley, has signed an agreement with the Samoan government to isolate...ill be made to reflect this fact." The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Tuila'epa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi of Samoa and UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...rly useful for studying discreteness in spoken and signed languages. In developed languages we break up the idea of a continuous movement into separate words. For example, in the expression, "rolling down the hill," one word ("rolling") conveys the type of movement while another ("down") conveys the directi...Snakehead in your inbox? Welcome to the nonindigenous Aquatic Species Alert System
...e information. An alert is then sent to those who signed up for that taxonomic group, and species. If the ...s new to the state the alert is sent to anyone who signed up for that state. Those who signed up for alerts on a specific species will get alerts to any new ...Second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator Award
..., is based upon the "Memorandum of Understanding", signed by 20 scientific organisations from 16 European countries in May 2004. The programme is open to researchers from all scientific disciplines and is directed towards researchers from anywhere in the world. Each award will last for a five-year period an...New fumigant to replace gas that damages ozone layer
...e global industrial gas company the BOC Group have signed a deal to deliver to the international market a new environmentally-safe fumigant for treating soil, insect pests, weeds and diseases. CSIRO and BOC have agreed to commercialise ethanedinitrile (EDN) as a fumigant to replace the ozone-depleting methy...EURYI Award given for the first time to 25 young European researchers
...ce is based upon the "Memorandum of Understanding" signed by 18 research organisations from 15 European countries in 2003. The prizes will be awarded on 26 August 2004 during the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Stockholm by the current president of the EUROHORCs, Professor Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, President...MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
...ts Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (PMB) signed a five-year collaborative research agreement with Novartis in which the company agreed to pay the department up to $25 million in research support over a period of five years. In this widely discussed and criticized private sponsorship of universi...Unique partnership between UH, FDA opens path for scientific exchange
...FDA. In a Memorandum of Understanding originally signed in 2003, a revised framework is being established for the exchange of scientific resources and educational opportunities between the two institutions. Specifically, the two institutions will promote the training of UH academicians and students in th...National Corn Growers Association announces valuable maize genome data now available to scientists
...eading role in getting the Plant Genome Initiative signed into law in 1997 and continues to support this important effort. With the availability of sequencing data from Ceres, DuPont and Monsanto, the corn genome could be completely sequenced by 2007, potentially years ahead of when it would have been compl...ESA and EADS-CASA sign contract to build instrument for the SMOS mission
The contract, worth 62 million euros, was signed in Madrid, Spain on 11 June 2004 at the premises o... a global scale. Now that the contract has been signed to go ahead and build the payload the SMOS mission has taken a significant and exciting step forward...Scientists discover way to regulate the body's energy expenditure
...uncil. Professor Parker and his team have recently signed a deal with CytRx, a US based biopharmaceutical company, to commercialise the results of this research. ...3-D micro-imaging technology licensed to Carl Zeiss Jena
...ltiphoton technology. Additionally, Carl Zeiss has signed collaboration and development agreements with Cornell, in Ithaca, N.Y., and with multiphoton microscopy co-inventor Watt W. At Cornell, Webb, a biophysicist, is director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Developmental Resource for Biophysic...Beagles win first round in fight for reprieve from patenting
... UT Austin held a campus rally, collected over 300 signed letters, and delivered them to their University's President urging him to reclaim the patent. In addition, AAVS constituents sent over 2,100 petitions to the USPTO Director in support of the AAVS/PatentWatch Request. The decision of the USPTO to ree...NPS Pharma and VIMAC Ventures locate at MaRS, a major new research and enterprise center in Toronto
...estone Medica Fund. To date, 12 organizations have signed agreements to lease almost 600,000 square feet of the 700,000 square feet available in Phase One of MaRS Centre, including CMDF (Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund), the Hospital for Sick Children, MDS Inc. (MDS Sciex Division), RBC Technology Venture...Nerac to expand patent collection with 17 more resources
...ists, engineers and IP professionals, has recently signed an agreement with Univentio to add 17 additional patent databases from around the world. Beginning this month, Nerac plans to incorporate the patent files over the next year and a half. Clients will receive updates as each new database becomes availa...S.C. hospitals and universities form statewide health research collaborative
..., and the University of South Carolina (USC) today signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the South Carolina Health Sciences Collaborative (SCHSC). The unprecedented initiative calls for four of the state's largest universities and health systems to invest a total of $80 million over the next ten...National Academies news: 72 new members chosen by academy
...d in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, which calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology. Additional information about the institution is available on the Internet at HTTP://NATIONA...Patagonia's coastal wildlife receive a protective boost by Argentine government
...protective boost, when the government of Argentina signed a comprehensive plan to safeguard its 2,000-mile coastal zone from harmful development activities, including overfishing and unregulated tourism. The agreement marks a significant milestone in sealing political commitment to the Patagonia Coastal Zon...Moffitt teams with DNAPrint(TM) to predict patient response to chemotherapy
...m exposure to ineffective therapy. With the newly signed agreement, both organizations have teamed to make an important stride towards their goal of enabling a more personalized, safe and effective modality of cancer treatment for our current generation of cancer patients. A primary area of focus for the e...