March of Dimes statement on newborn screening report
...y of these disorders and may have different number totals for these same conditions. We will urge states to inform all parents prospectively about the potential benefits and availability of comprehensive newborn screening. We will recommend that professional groups, such as the American Acade...Gene-rich human Chromosome 19 sequence completed
.... DOEs contribution to sequencing the human genome totals some 11%, with chromosome 19 representing the first of the three chromosomes the team has tackled, together with the completion of Chromosomes 16 and 5 in the offing. The magnitude of the accomplishment is further reflected in the nearly one hundred ...Bad Mileage: 98 tons of plants per gallon
...rned in a single year 1997 was used in the study totals 97 million billion pounds of carbon, which is equivalent to more than 400 times "all the plant matter that grows in the world in a year," including vast amounts of microscopic plant life in the oceans. "Every day, people are using the fossil fuel eq...Countries find common ground to protect world's rarest gorilla
...lla, the world's rarest subspecies of gorilla that totals a mere 280 individuals throughout its entire range, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The Cross River gorilla is only found in Cross River State, Nigeria and western Cameroon and is highly threatened from poaching and habitat fra......from NIGMS for Tetrahymena sequencing and analysis totals $3.87 million, and the two-year grant from NSF totals $2.56 million. The NIGMS grant also includes funds for database development....Backstage with a command performer
...rtoire of possible antibodies to invading microbes totals 50 million. For the immune system, this repertoire means the difference between destroying a potentially lethal antigen or not. Since the late 1970s, the genes for making immunoglobulin, a family of blood proteins that compose the antibodies, suffic...Takeda Chemical Industries and Beth Israel Deaconess announce research agreement
...th problems today. The three-year agreement, which totals $13.7 million, calls for collaboration between Takeda and a team of world-renowned scientists led by BIDMC Chief Academic Officer Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D. Principal investigators include BIDMC Chief of Endocrinology Barbara Kahn, M.D., Bradford Lowell,...Professor develops strategies to control exotic plant species
... commodities due to competition with exotic plants totals about $7.4 billion dollars annually, and an additional $3.6 to $5.4 billion is spent trying to control these pest species. In response to the posing threat, the Federal Interagency Committee has developed a national initiative that consists of a thr...Nabi experimental vaccine reduced Staph aureus bloodstream infections by nearly 60 percent
...r S. aureus and other hospital-acquired infections totals $4.5 billion a year. To complement StaphVAX, Nabi is also developing Altastaph, an investigational product that contains high levels of human antibodies against S. aureus. Altastaph is being developed to provide immediate protection from staph infect...Defense Department awards Stanford nearly $5.3 million for a 'revolutionary' biosciences project
...thought process." DARPA's grant to Stanford, which totals $5.265 million, extends from now until Sept. 30, 2003. In addition to McAdams, Tomlin, Solgaard, Scott and Shapiro, the other five DARPA collaborators are Professors James S. Harris and Martin Morf, electrical engineering; W. E. Moerner, chemistry; S...Multiple studies show that psyllium lowers cholesterol
...ucky found that psyllium reduced serum cholesterol totals as well as LDL cholesterol levels over a treatment period of at least 8 weeks. All 656 subjects in the 8 separate studies were hypercholestemic and received psyllium in addition to their previously-prescribed low-fat American Heart Associatio...Whitaker Foundation funds Washington University biomedical engineering facility
...ards for the Department of Biomedical Engineering, totals more than $19 million," Wrighton noted. "We are very grateful to The Whitaker Foundation for joining us in our commitment to the growth of biomedical engineering teaching and research at Washington University," Wrighton said. "With Professor Frank Y...UVic creates research chair on drinking water ecology
...ilities in the future. Cash funding for the chair totals more than $2.5 million over five years. Half will come from the federal Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and half from nine partners: the CRD Water Department in Victoria; AXYS Environmental Group in Sidney, B.C.; Galloway Lu......rticularly over the last 20 years -- precipitation totals across most of the Southwest have been abnormally high -- a fact that Allen says should be cause for concern. "It's been extremely good for tree growth, and a lot of extra forest biomass has accumulated on the landscape," he says. "The next time...