UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...s a series of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a ...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...s a series of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a...DNA lends scientists a hand, revealing new chemical reactions
...ction conditions are examined for their ability to transform one type of substrates into one type of product, may well be the best approach for trying to achieve a specific transformation," says Liu, an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "But no one...NSF and AIBS sign cooperative agreement for NEON project office
...ecological forecasting. "Once built, NEON will transform ecological research," said Mary Clutter, NSF assistant director for biological sciences. "It will create new collaborative environments, bringing together ecologists, engineers, and social, physical, computer and earth scientists to investigate ecol...AIBS tapped to coordinate design of ecological observatories
...biogeochemical cycles; and hydroecology. NEON will transform the way ecological research is conducted by bringing ecologists and engineers together with social, computer, and earth scientists to investigate important ecological phenomena across large geographical areas and long periods of time, and by creating...Green, leafy spinach may soon power cellphones and laptops
...ns in our body, when in fragments called peptides, transform themselves like tiny LEGOs TM into millions of substances. Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Engineering, discovered that these same peptides can be tweaked into forming completely new natural materials that perform u...Entrepreneurs to be told how nature's secrets can improve business
...rtunities exist for people to make discoveries and transform these into successful patents. "Our workshop presents advanced strategies for developing commercial inventions - it's a great way to turn opportunities out there into something relevant to modern industry. We invite people to come and bre...PCB breakdown in rivers depends on sediment-specific bacteria, find Carnegie Mellon U. scientists
...or no bacterial activity also could reveal ways to transform sites with poor eaters into areas that grow microbes with healthy appetites for PCBs. Ideally, the investigators could identify a combination of nutrients or other factors that could be added to river sediments to accelerate the breakdown of PCBs in...Near-zero-energy buildings blessing to owners, environment
... answer. "We have a roadmap for communities to transform their building industry from part of the problem to part of the solution by leading buildings from energy consumers to net energy producers," Christian said. While DOE's long-term goal is to develop technologies that enable net-zero-energy homes...UC Riverside researcher takes snapshots of the movement of molecules in a billionth of a second
...." A small portion of the catalyst surface can transform the pollutant into benign gasses while the rest of the surface supports these active sites. Understanding how carbon monoxide moves across a catalyst surface to find the active sites may ultimately allow the design of more efficient catalysts. The ar...From science fiction to reality: Nanomedicine brings fresh hope to the medical world
...rging nanomedicine technologies could dramatically transform medical science as we know it today with their potential to address unmet medical needs and provide targeted therapy. Nanomedicine technologies could find an increasing place in various areas and applications of the healthcare sector including drug ...Brookhaven lab biophysicist F. William Studier wins R&D 100 award
...of the year. Typically, these are innovations that transform basic science into useful products. The awards will be presented in Chicago on October 14. Studier's new method simplifies the production of many proteins in parallel. Proteins do most of the work in biological systems. They digest food for energy; ...Gene alteration points to longevity, thinness
...archers are using a tiny worm called C. elegans to transform that vision into reality. Researchers You-Jun Fei and Vadivel Ganapathy have found the Indy gene is critical in providing cells with energy, producing a transporter that helps deliver key ingredients of the fuel that drives cells. Indy delivers metab...Chemical Society announces EPA awards for environmentally friendly technology
... major adhesive ingredient polyvinyl acetate and transform it into a more benign polyvinyl alcohol. Engineered by bacteria, a renewable resource, the enzyme represents a safe, biodegradable alternative to hazardous industrial solvents. Engelhard Corporation (Iselin, N.J.) This company has crafted a colorf...Kaposi's sarcoma virus 'reprograms' blood vessel cells into lymphatic cells
...ses the skin tumor Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) appear to transform into the type of cells that usually line lymphatic vessels. The report from researchers at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center (CBRC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will appear in an upcoming issue of Nature Genetics and is being released...'Search and destroy' protein turns tables on HIV
...er in which cytosines in the first DNA strand they transform into uracil. APOBEC3G will transform the second of two adjacent cytosines. APOBEC3F, on the other hand, transforms a cytosine when it fol...NIH launches first center in Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
...s a series of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a...BioCDS could hit No. 1 on doctors' charts
...the outer edge of a CD. "It is these pits which we transform into miniature test tubes," Nolte said. "Each pit ...ure, and the changes that would need to be made to transform them into bio-assays are not unreasonable." Those changes would include exposing the pitted surface ...JGI decodes wood & toxic waste-degrading fungus genome
... P. chrysosporium not only degrade lignin but also transform an impressive array of xenobiotics," says Cullen. Xenobiotics are man-made compounds, for instance, the broad spectrum of organopollutants that include PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), PCP (pentachlorophenol), and various PAHs (polycyclic aromatic h...Institute for Systems Biology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announce collaboration
...abilities, which are fundamental to our ability to transform biology and medicine," said Dr. Leroy Hood, ISB president. "We are excited about this partnership as it provides a unique opportunity to leverage these capabilities in a way that will further our efforts in studying and applying systems biology and ...