Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...the "NIH Roadmap," which seeks to find new ways to solve problems that have not yielded to traditional rese...ty to bring enormous energy and new brain power to solve some of the most complex puzzles in eye research," says Darlene Dartt, PhD, the Director of Scientif...HHMI, NIBIB/NIH to invest up to $35 million in interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs
...re scientists to work across disciplinary lines to solve complex biomedical problems. "We're looking for training programs that provide strategies to eliminate or lower barriers between seemingly disparate scientific disciplines," said Peter J. Bruns, HHMI vice president for grants and special prog...Anthrax enzyme images reveal secrets of antibiotic resistance, suggest new drug design
... a crucial anthrax bacterium enzyme are helping to solve the mystery of how slight mutations in the shape of this protein can make it resistant to the antibiotics called sulfa drugs. These findings, by scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, appear in the September issue of Structure. Based on......ure out exactly why we move the way we do. To help solve this recalcitrant problem, Konrad Krding and colleagues, as reported in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, took a page from economists, who have long used equations called utility functions that incorporate the costs and benefits of a situation. S...22nd amino acid synthesized and added to genetic code of e. coli bacteria
...hers in chemistry and biology can come together to solve some important fundamental scientific questions." Future research may suggest new ways to make artificial proteins with unusual chemical properties for use in medicine or industry, Krzycki said. The research was supported by the National Science Foun...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...might balk at being spun and believesengineers can solve this by building magnets where the magnetic field isrotated around a person in a stationary chamber....Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
... the world full access to the latest techniques to solve complex challenges in the field. It will host a number of collaborations with other laboratories related to specific enhancements of the core projects, such as tissue engineering of human ligaments using transfected adult stem cells. In 2003...Sugar-coated sea urchin eggs could have sweet implications for human fertility
...lization among mammals, including the potential to solve some baffling human reproductive problems. "The importance for people is understanding the process. People come to fertility clinics wondering why their eggs don't fertilize," said Christiane Biermann, a research associate at Friday Harbor Labs in W...Joslin Diabetes Center adds first affiliate in California at Irvine Medical Center
...ns." For instance, UCI researchers are helping to solve the burgeoning public-health problem of the increase of children with type 2 diabetes. Previously considered a disease of middle aged and older adults, type 2 diabetes is associated with overeating and inactivity. In an effort to decrease the incid...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...d the project, plan to use the information to help solve real-world problems using the latest technologies. Findings and recommendations will be presented at a conference planned for December in Jacksonville. [Contact: Ron Walli 865-576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov ] AIR QUALITY -- Immediate analysis . . . ...As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...ta and transforming it into information that helps solve key problems in fields like medicine, genetics, chemistry, Internet security and engineering." Already, Dunn said, informaticians have sped up the analysis of terabytes of Human Genome Project data and have written software that correctly predicts t...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...s on international collaboration to understand and solve some of the most widespread health problems in the world, including cancer and infectious diseases. SIDEBAR IT ALL STARTED WITH A RUSSIAN HELICOPTER PILOT WHO WAS TREATED FOR LEUKEMIA AT FRED HUTCHINSON Providing some long-awaited answers to Chernoby...Study in Science reveals recreational fishing takes big bite of ocean catch
...er. Limiting fishing to catch and release may not solve the problem either. At least 20% of released fish end up dying, according to NMFS stock assessments for many species. For deep water species, this number is much higher. In addition, impressively large species like goliath grouper may well survive...OneWorld Health compiles comprehensive state of infectious diarrhea treatments, potential solutions
...onprofit pharmaceutical in the U.S., is working to solve this problem. OneWorld Health is conducting a landscape analysis in the field of infectious diarrhea. As a first step, OneWorld Health will use the findings from a recently held workshop of experts to examine the feasibility of an international diar......lleagues from Great Britain, France and Denmark to solve the mystery of the resistance mechanism and to highlight the cultural history of plant breeding (nature, 19.08.2004, cover story). Plants have - similar to animals and humans - a sophisticated multi-level immune system which enables them to identify ...Using statistics to decipher secrets of natural mutation
...ze models that are very difficult or impossible to solve analytically. "Until recently," he said, "the stat...-simplifications, but had the merit that you could solve them analytically. Without doing too much computation, you could make estimates of mutation rates of...Technology already exists to stabilize global warming
...ipe for large-scale use and showed that each could solve a significant portion of the problem. Their analysis, published in the Aug. 13 issue of Science, indicates that many combinations of these 15 technologies could prevent global emissions of greenhouse gasses from rising for the next five decades. ...Jefferson Lab detector technology aids development of cystic fibrosis therapy
...," Lee says. Lee and his colleagues hope to solve this problem by delivering gene therapy through an aerosol that patients can inhale. In a previous study, he found that dripping a solution containing a functioning copy of the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR) into the noses of mice without the gene could...Double-segment periodicity underlies 'odd' segment generation in centipedes
...rule" followed by centipedes and thereby helped to solve a well-known evolutionary puzzle. Centipedes are a familiar group of arthropods characterized by a long body made up of individual segments, each with its own pair of legs. Despite their familiarity, they actually represent a developmental mystery. T...Researchers identify gene for a primary form of sudden infant death sydrome (SIDS)
...genetic knowledge can, and should be, used to help solve medical problems," said Dr. D. Holmes Morton, Director of the Clinic for Special Children. ...