NIGMS funds Center for Quantitative Biology
.... NIGMS will award $3 million to the center this year and expects the project to total $14.8 million over 5 years. Central to the effort is the integration of multidisciplinary research and teaching. In addition to bringing together 40 scientists from physical, computational and biological science fie...NASA satellites detect 'glow' of plankton in black waters
...where black water may move. Red tides occur every year off Florida and are known to cause fish kills, coral stress and mortality, and skin and respiratory problems in humans. Previous studies show that prolonged "black water" patches cause water quality degradation and may cause coral death. The use of r...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory gets $10 million from NIH to build virtual lung
...ng and Blood Institute, is PNNL's second this past year in the $10 million range. Last October, the lab was awarded more than $10 million to establish a national resource center for proteomics research. ( http:// www.pnl.gov/news/2003/03-37.htm .)...Advances in tumor angiogenesis Dendritic cells co-opted to the dark side
...ecologic cancers, causing about 25,000 new cases a year and about 15,000 deaths annually in the U.S. "One of the problems is that it's diagnosed late and we don't have effective treatments for it. "Dendritic cells play a central role in the generation of antitumor immune response," says Coukos. "As a resu...Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance
...arth. A study published in the journal Nature last year suggested that when an ebola outbreak affects a given area, more than 80 percent of all great apes living in that area die of the disease. Ebola outbreaks have already occurred in this general area. In the past two years, two reported cases were con...Study of flu patients reveals virus outsmarting key drug
... defense for a disease that claims many lives each year and that, in a pandemic, is among the world's most feared and deadly diseases. "The importance of this work is that when a pandemic occurs with a new virus and this drug is extensively used, then we may be faced with the rapid appearance of resistan...Environmental costs of home construction lower with wise choice, reuse of building materials
...wood-, steel- and concrete-frame construction each year consumes as much energy as heating and cooling 10 million or more homes a year. Better material selection and house design could reduce energy use during home construction substantially, he says. The energy tallied for the study included not just el...Review article makes case for a new source of cells in the body
... Dr. Dickinson who first heard of these cells last year when their discoverer, MCG Developmental Biologist Paul Sohal, gave a lecture at the MCG School of Dentistry. Dr. Dickinson thought these cells might be used to establish a human cell line to enable his studies of the development and function of sali...What actually influences air pollution over the Indian Ocean?
...an and south-east Asian outflow during most of the year and China during part of the year (Geophysical Research Letters, 30 April 2004 and 11 August 2004).Current knowledge of atmospheric ch...OneWorld Health compiles comprehensive state of infectious diarrhea treatments, potential solutions
...th of four to six million people of all ages every year around the globe. The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit 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 ...Millennia still mean early days for newly identified sex chromosome
...aled a detailed picture of a three-hundred-million year old sex chromosome, but this does not explain how sex chromosomes begin to form in the first place. Some experimental data from young sex chromosome systems in plants and insects suggest that there are common themes underlying the formation of sex ch...Decreasing toxins in brains of Alzheimer's patients keep cognitive deficits at bay
...ally designed shunt continuously operating for one year stayed stable. However, the scores of patients who did not get the shunt declined by 20 percent after 12 months. "What's interesting is that the patients without the shunt didn't stop taking their regular Alzheimer medication, such as anti-cholineste...First clinical study of new pediatric croup vaccine shows safety, tolerability in adults
...se that causes almost 30,000 hospitalizations each year and many more emergency room visits. These findings are published in the current issue of Vaccine. Successful development of an effective hPIV-1 vaccine would be significant because none is currently available and a vaccine that is given to infants...Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort
...the next few years. The $4.2 million is for fiscal year 2005, and comes on top of a $1.7 million Congressional "earmark" secured this summer. The newly-funded research program will involve laboratory work and field testing. It will draw on the scientific and technical experience and expertise the Sequim l...Clemson University spin-off uses corn to make plastics, provide cleaner air
... new material could reduce by 5 billion pounds per year the amount of single-use, nonbiodegradable plastics discarded by consumers. And reduce the air pollutants from plants that produce plastics for everything from cars to airplanes to golf clubs. "By finding commercial applications for Clemson research,...Managing occupational exposures to potential bioterrorist agents
...350 people worked in the laboratories in any given year during this period," said George V. Ludwig, Ph.D., interim science director for USAMRIID. "The fact that there were only five laboratory acquired infections is an indicator of the success of our biosafety and medical management program. This is an ex...Virus known for its photo ops makes its movie screen debut
... and it builds on research the team published last year regarding the baseplate of the T4 virus. This previous paper offered a close-up picture of the baseplate at a single moment in time, information that was valuable because of the detail it provided of the part of the virus that attached itself to E. c...Counting foxes before the last tally-ho
...ox numbers when hunting was suspended for nearly a year during the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001. IFAW campaigner Josey Sharrad, said: "This research demolishes arguments by the hunting lobby that foxes need to be killed to prevent a population explosision. It will also allow us to monitor the impact of...Nucleic acid-amplification testing further safeguards nation's blood supply
...ons and 56 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections each year since it began being used in the United States as an investigational screening test in mid-1999. The study is published in the August 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine . "Risks to blood recipients from transfusion-transmitted viruses ...... century at rates approaching 1 million pounds per year and still have essentially no idea of what exactly happens to the compound after we flush it down the drain. Further studies are needed to determine the effect of triclocarban on aquatic life and potential pathways of unwanted human exposure," said D...