The Rett Syndrome Research Foundation commits $1.3 million for 2003 research awards
...are confident that a cure for RTT will be found as soon as is humanly possible. The suffering of the countless children and adults battling RTT must be eased," said Monica Coenraads, VP of Research for RSRF. The 67 proposals received this year represent a 50 percent increase over last year's response to R......ese efforts. The channel connecting the two should soon dry up anyway, preserving the Small Aral Sea at least. Meanwhile researchers are studying the salty Aralkum Desert effectively the newest land surface on Earth to see how best to promote plant growth and stabilise the dusty dry lakebed. About th...Whale populations are too low to resume commercial hunting, geneticists find
... But the IWC's main goal is to re-start whaling as soon as whale populations have come back to levels it considers safe," Palumbi observed. "Our conception of how the oceans and their ecosystems were put together probably needs to change, and genetics is one of the new tools that allows us to do that. We...Edible food wraps can keep kids' sandwiches fresh and the environment cleaner
With a new school year upon us, kids may soon have the chance to eat healthier and also help the environment, using something unique wrapped around their tuna, turkey or PB&J sandwiches. Edible vegetable and fruit wraps, among the latest developments from modern chemistry, could keep lunches fre...Protein that fights bacteria and viruses cloned by Scripps scientists
...e system are the body's first responders, arriving soon after foreign pathogens are detected. Normally, when human or mouse cells encounter bacteria or viruses, they recognize them with the help of TLRs and other proteins such as Trif. This recognition triggers the immune system, which responds with a mul...Manatee's cousin faces extinction on Tanzanian coast
...for its diversity of large species, Tanzania could soon lose one of its most unique mammals--the dugong--t...estruction. This close relative of the manatee may soon become locally extinct without measures to protect it where it still persists along the Tanzanian co...Emory scientists find anti-tumor compounds in magnolia cones
...oken down by the liver too quickly. But it is too soon at this point for clinical trials. "We need to investigate the pharmacokinetics in larger animals first, in a collaboration." Dr. Arbiser says. If further research on honokiol looks promising, a pharmaceutical firm probably wouldn't need to extract ...Older drug could have exciting new role in treating colorectal cancer
...eported thus far make it clear that this drug will soon become an integral part of the treatment of all patients with colorectal cancer." Blackstock said Wake Forest researchers found that oxaliplatin works quite differently than cisplatin, a related platinum-based drug that has been widely used in cancer...'Unzipping' double helix to study protein-DNA interaction
... is which. Better yet, the double helix rezips as soon as tension is relaxed so that the same bit of DNA can be recycled again and again with numerous proteins. After working on the technique for nearly three years, Wang has applied for a patent through the Cornell Research Foundation. Among other poss...Lone gene could force re-think on pest insect control
...research suggests the mutation arose in Drosophila soon after the introduction of DDT and has since spread throughout the world. But unlike a normal mutation, this one persisted rather than disappeared as the use of DDT around the world declined. Mutations normally only persist if there is selective pres...OXiGENE announces launch of ophthalmic clinical trial at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
...sing new therapies to clinical trials. We hope to soon see a host of new clinical trials for macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and other retinal degenerative diseases." Each year more than 500,000 new cases of wet AMD are diagnosed worldwide. In the U.S., macular degeneration is the leading cau...Researchers engineer low-cost hydrogen catalyst
...o finding the new catalyst, Dumesic and Davda will soon publish in the German journal Angewandte Chemie, International Edition refinements to the system that produce a higher quality of hydrogen using the platinum catalyst. Among the key accomplishments first cited in the August Nature article was the pro...Indiana University to become NASA base for space biology studies
...NGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University Bloomington will soon be the headquarters of one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's new Astrobiology Institute "lead teams," which are research institutes working on projects related to the search for life beyond Earth. Based at IU and involving 18 sci...Organelle's discovery challenges theory, could alter approach to disease treatment
...po began researching these organelles in 1994. He soon determined that a tiny granule in yeast, fungi and bacteria, thought to be for storage, was a fully operational organelle containing pyrophosphatase, a pump-like enzyme that allows proton transport. He named it an acidocalcisome for its acidic and c...U of T scientists build a bridge for new bone
...e patient out of their bed and out of the hospital soon so there's less cost to the health care system."......aterials scientist, whose ingenious research could soon make it possible to safely and permanently "mop up" some of the most common and dangerous industrial pollutants on Earth, has been awarded a $100,000 per year National Science Foundation Career Award. The honor is likely to mean at least $500,000 ov...A tiny pump promises big time performance
..."Perhaps three to four years." That might not seem soon enough for diabetics who would gladly trade lancet...s miniature invention nevertheless seems likely to soon be making life much sweeter for many in the health care, manufacturing and environmental arenas....Ensuring the safety of first responder gas masks
...her first responders faced with a terrorist attack soon will breathe a little easier knowing that their gas masks have been tested to ensure they work properly under emergency response conditions. Air purifying respirators, commonly known as gas masks, protect workers from hazards associated with chemical...Science Picks-Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (June 2003)
...currently available to emergency planners and will soon be accessible online to the public. Heidi Koontz, hkoontz@usgs.gov , 303-202-4763. FEEDS The Genetic Potential of Potentilla rupincola - Molecular genetic tools have become increasingly important in wildlife studies. Genetic techniques contribute ......at interventions to stop smoking can be started as soon as possible....