NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...mbrane proteins -- we just need that technological breakthrough to unleash it."...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...siology OR medicine. That is, either for a medical breakthrough per se, or like Axel and Buck's work, research in ... reduce discomfort in experimental animals. In his breakthrough experiments on salivation and digestion, Pavlov emphasized the neural control of the salivary glands...VitalSense(R) - Wireless vital signs monitoring
...ological parameters without wires or probes. This breakthrough technology was designed in partnership with the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. Phase I of this Integrated Physiological Monitoring System includes core body and skin temperature sensors. Phase 2, a heart rate sensor...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...gies" grants have as their goal the development of breakthrough technologies that will enable a human-sized genome to be sequenced for $1,000 or less. Grant recipients and their approximate total funding are: J. Michael Ramsey, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. $2 million (2 years) Nanotechno...Researchers find protein that makes long-term memory possible
...th each other to form long term memory. A breakthrough came in 2001, when another author of the current paper, Barbara Hempstead, M.D., Ph.D, of Cornell, and her colleagues deciphered the chemical reaction leading to the formation of mBDNF. In that study, Dr. Hempstead and her coworkers reported that th...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
...the Institute says is aimed at "the development of breakthrough technologies that will enable a human-sized genome...ist, however, Lindsay is careful in not claiming a breakthrough yet. "There is still a fair amount of harsh reality to deal with," he said. "As we work harder on t...Joslin Diabetes Center awards 1st Mary K. Iacocca Faculty Fellowship
...was selected for this fellowship, in part, for his breakthrough microscopy methods of using intra-vital imaging technology, which enable scientists to view cell processes in live animals and to see how one cell interacts with other cells in the body. Studying live-cell samples is a new approach in diabetes resear...NJIT stem cell researcher to receive research award from biomedical group
...of Biomedical Materials Research that documented a breakthrough in stem cell research. The paper focused on developing scaffolds that aid stem cells. Scaffolds are biomaterials, such as calcium phosphates, that act as frameworks for stem cells, allowing the cells to repair bone. Arinzeh performed animal studies o...Cranfield collaborator receives multi million dollar financing
...tiple times a day. This is an especially important breakthrough for diabetic children, who often have very sensitive skin." Proceeds from this financing will be primarily used to support Pelikan's commercialisation of the FDA-cleared Pelikan Sun TM lancing device, as well as the continued research and developmen...Academy eBriefings offer comprehensive reports on more than 100 cutting-edge scientific issues
... speakers for write-ups of their talks, has been a breakthrough both in terms of timeliness and readability. And of course, providing the option of listening to the actual talk while viewing the PowerPoint slides has proven to be useful to our members. We are looking forward producing the next hundred eBriefing...IRCM scientist demonstrates basic active mechanism of immune-system cells
...mation and advanced tissue damage. Dr. Veillette's breakthrough identifies a cascade of molecular reactions involved in this type of damage, providing new therapeutic targets that could be used to reduce attacks on the pancreas in juvenile diabetes, on the kidneys in lupus, and on the joints in rheumatoid arthrit...A puzzle posed by black-headed ducks yields to persistent biologists
...November 18 issue of the journal Nature . The key breakthrough was their discovery that each of the black-headed duck's two main host species--the red-gartered coot and red-fronted coot--were busy parasitizing the nests of their own species. The black-headed ducks were being thwarted by defenses that had evolved...Scientists develop 'electronic eye' for the blind
... than one step. Shioyama and Uddin have now made a breakthrough in detecting the location of crossings in the first place and added this to their original camera. To do this they used a calculation called the "projective invariant" which takes the distance between the white lines (called the band width) and a set...HIV research project scoops innovation prize
Research that could lead to a breakthrough in the treatment of HIV has scooped a University of Manchester scientist a prestigious industry award. Dr Curtis Dobson's work was voted Project of the Year at the annual Northwest Biotechnology Awards ceremony hosted by the Northwest Development Age...Discovery about Vitamin C explains its metabolic value
...g Institute at Oregon State University have made a breakthrough discovery about the way vitamin C functions in the human body, which may help explain its possible role in preventing cancer and heart disease. The study, which was just published in a professional journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
... artemisinic acid, a precursor to artemisinin. The breakthrough technology that makes all this possible was developed by Keasling and his UC Berkeley team over the past 10 years. Amyris will develop processes to produce large quantities of microbial artemisinic acid and chemically convert it to artemisinin and o...Femtosecond laser technique opens new opportunities for research on neural regeneration
SANTA CRUZ, CA--In a breakthrough for research on nerve regeneration, a team of scientists has reported using femtosecond laser pulses to precisely cut individual axons of nerves in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most versatile and widely used experimental organisms......ros) Immanuel Bloch achieved his first scientific breakthrough in 1999 with his development of the "Munich Atom Laser" together with other researchers. This experiment was the first to produce a continuous matter wave beam from Bose-Einstein condensates. These waves are similar to the beam of light emitted by a ...Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH
...c Technologies currently holds the license to this breakthrough technology, called picoarray gene synthesis. UH and the University of Michigan are co-holders of the patents to these DNA microchip technologies. Prior to coming to UH in 1992, Gao was a senior investigator at Glaxo Research Laboratory and receive...... remarkable." This study represents a major breakthrough in our knowledge of the genetic events involved in papillary thyroid initiation. It demonstrates that while BRAF activation is a common feature of both sporadic and post-Chernobyl thyroid cancers, it is the genetic event underlying BRAF activation th...