CIESIN receives grant to establish government biological information site
...cal Survey (USGS) has awarded CIESIN two contracts totaling $876,000, one for three years ($476,000) and one for one year ($400,000), to develop the Northeast Information Node of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII). The NBII's Northeast Information Node will be a user-friendly website p...Conservation International & Starbucks expand partnership, launch Verde Ventures loan program
...in Central and South America. To date, three loans totaling nearly $435,000 have been approved for participants of the Conservation Coffee™ program in Chiapas, Mexico, and a cooperative of organic coffee farmers in Sumatra. CI owns and manages Verde Ventures, a $6 million investment fund which strengthe......ess personality," the UCLA team ranked each man by totaling his nervous system's reactions during two physical and mental testing periods. To assess the link between nervous system activity and HIV progression, for 12 to 18 months the scientists also monitored each man's HIV viral load and T-cells, which AID...NHGRI selects sequencing centers
...gies to sequence a strategic set of animal genomes totaling as much as 54 billion base pairs, or the equivalent of 18 human genomes. For fiscal year (FY) 2004, NHGRI has earmarked $163 million for the sequencing centers, which were selected through a competitive, peer-reviewed process. The centers will be ope...NSF awards $31.9 million in grants to study biocomplexity in the environment
...Natural and Human Systems (CNH), with eight awards totaling $8.5 million; Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles (CBC), with ten awards totaling $8.3 million; Genome-Enabled Environmental Science and Engineering (GENEN), with four awards totalin...Purdue team solves structure of West Nile virus
...ational Institutes of Health in the form of grants totaling nearly $18 million. These grants support basic research on viral infectious diseases, including West Nile. "We currently have a 17-angstrom resolution structure," Kuhn said. "We hope to use our NIH support to get down to the 9-angstrom scale or bette...Research grants program closing
...r Foundation has awarded its final research grants totaling $10 million, ending 27 years of support for young investigators in biomedical engineering. The final 44 awards were divided among 34 colleges and universities across the United States. The Biomedical Engineering Research Grants Program, which began a......e cellular level are the themes of two new grants, totaling more than $31 million over 5 years, awarded this month to research teams at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The...Researchers try to determine why cancer cells don't commit suicide
...er has received three Department of Defense grants totaling nearly $1.2 million to study both breast cancer and prostate cancer cells to determine what genetic defects may cause cancer cells to develop. The three studies will evaluate both at what stage cell suicide goes wrong in normal cells thus allowing c...Threatened juvenile salmon get scientific assistance
...nd the Federal Highway Administration pooled funds totaling $1.16 million to contract with PNNL to conduct the first phase of a five-year $3.4 million interdisciplinary program. Scientists with extensive natural resources and hydraulics expertise were selected from PNNL's Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim...Foundations join forces to find a cure or treatment for deadly genetic disease
... Investigator Awards in SMA (each individual grant totaling more than $350,000 and lasting three years) to be awarded to qualifying investigators. The research award will support not only the young investigator, but also their mentor in SMA research. "We believe this is an unparalleled opportunity to help cha...New science at K-State attracts $4.2 million from National Science Foundation
...as National Science Foundation EPSCoR subcontracts totaling $4.2 million go to Kansas State University. A subcontract of $1.2 million establishes the Kansas Lipidomics Research Center, one of a handful of centers for the study of lipids. Biochemistry professor Xuemin (Sam) Wang serves as the scientific direct...New center for preparation and distribution of adult stem cells
...The new center (established with a five-year grant totaling $4.3 million) will prepare and distribute a continuous supply of marrow stromal cells (MSCs) derived from adult human and rat bone marrow, respectively, using standardized protocols. Adult MSCs, also known as mesenchymal stem cells, are multipotentia...First soybeans grown in space similar to Earth-grown crops
...the United States with soybean and product exports totaling more than $6.6 billion. The world's largest seed company, Pioneer is also the brand leader in soybeans with more than 100 product varieties on the market. "This was an incredible scientific opportunity for us and our partners," Corbin said. "As a ...Ocean policies haven't kept up with science
... a program supported by a pair of five-year grants totaling $20 million from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, is studying the near-shore region of the Pacific Coast. OSU is one of four universities in the initiative, which Lubchenco says is a prototype for large-scale marine ecosystem-based research. ...HHMI renews postgraduate education support
New grants totaling nearly $3.5 million will continue Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) support for postgraduate education at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). The four-year grants include $1.32 million to CSHL and $2....Study boosts confidence in potential screening tool for Alzheimers disease
...o performed a meta-analysis of 51 similar studies, totaling 3133 Alzheimer's patients and 1481 controls. These included 17 controlled studies of beta-amyloid winnowed from 188 articles, and 34 studies of tau, sifted from an initial list of 200 articles. Of the beta-amyloid studies, 14 of the 17 found the sa......tional Science Foundation have just awarded grants totaling $6.43 million to support this project. "Biomedical research using Tetrahymena as a model organism has yielded major advances in a surprisingly broad range of areas," said Judith Greenberg, Ph.D., acting director of NIGMS. "We expect the sequencing of...Tufts environmental engineers tackle destructive nutrients in nations waterways
...rom the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) totaling more than $1.2 million to study how to control the destructive effects of excessive nutrients in waterways an environmental problem that threatens aquatic plant and animal life across the country. "Tufts is a national leader in computer modeling fo......research commitments to over 300 research projects totaling some $50 million. "These centers have the potential to increase MS research progress exponentially," says Stephen C. Reingold, PhD, the Society's Vice President of Research Programs. "They combine intensive laboratory studies with expansive clinical...