Progenika Biopharma presents a biochip that guarantees safety in blood transfusions
... With the aim of guaranteeing safety during blood transfusions, Progenika has developed and validated 1,000 clinical samples in cooperation with the principal European blood banks. Concretely, the validation of these samples was 99.8%, considerably higher than that produced u...NSF funding to advance research on interplay between biology and society
... ... Topics to be studied include widely disseminating the letters and other correspondence of Charles Darwin; ways to foster...Research without borders: Head of Santa Fe Institute to address NSF
... ... ... ... ... Where: National Science Foundation... 4201 Wilson Boulevard... Arlington, Va.... Room 1235... ... Many of the most challengi...Engineering professor receives prestigious NSF Career Award
... ... Han, who joined UTSA in 2003, is...UD scientist wins NSF career award for tissue engineering research
... ... Jia, an assistant professor of materials sci...UD chemical engineer receives NSF career award
... ... The five-year, $460,000 grant will support Epps' research and education program on block copolymers. These self-asse...UAF researchers garner $6.5 million in NSF grants
... ... ... ...Richard Collins UAF Geophysical Institute ....NJIT receives NSF grant to improve math, science and technology education in Newark High Schools
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) was awarded a five-year, $3-million National Science Foundation grant to impart and infuse computational methods and tools in a math and science context into high school classrooms in Newark. The result will be that 3000 high school students and their teachers will have a unique chance to learn how computers can be used to model, simulate and visualize...New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology'
... Microorganisms are essential to life on Earth, transforming key elements into energy, ma...NSF funds new Rutgers plant biomaterials initiative
... This initiative can yield cost-effective, bio-based materials to replace petroleum-derived plastics while creating new economic opportunities for American f...Magnetic resonance microscopy research lands professor NSF award
... Sarah Codd's work assists research on fuel cells, medical catheters and the cleanup of contaminated soil and water. The NSF Career Award is notable because it goes to a single person, whereas most NSF grants support teams of researchers. It is NSF's most prestigious award to support the early career...Solanacae Genome Project gets $1.8 million NSF grant
An international project led by Cornell and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) at Cornell has received $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue sequencing the tomato genome and to create a database of genomic sequences and information on the tomato and related plants.... The grant for the International Tomato Sequencing Project, a collaboration of re...NJIT awarded $1.1M NSF grant to change way inner-city students learn
... "We'll be using an exciting and excellent program from which we've already seen...UTSA awarded $900,000 NSF grant to support undergraduate scholars
... ... Originating last fall, the UMB Scholar program began with a start-up class of 10 students each awarded $8,000 annually over the next three years. One UMB Scholar is Max Gray...NSF funds biofertilizer research at Rutgers-Camden
CAMDEN -- A research project underway at Rutgers University's Camden campus could help revolutionize agriculture through the use of fungi as "biofertilizers" that reduce the farming industry's reliance on phosphate and nitrogen fertilizers that pollute water supplies.... Thanks to a newly awarded three-year grant of more than $419,000 from the National Science Foundation, Heike Bcking, an assis...Understanding the Arctic -- NSF-funded expeditions cover new ground in climate science
... ...Protein's effects essential for kidney-to-bladder urine transfer
... ... Swat and colleagues found a similar condition in mice after the gene for a protein...After 2 years, study shows Revlimid patients live longer and remain transfusion free
... "These landmark data demon...NSF awards 17 grants for research on biocomplexity in the environment
... Twelve awards were made in 2006 for studies of the interplay between carbon and water in the earth system (CWES), and five for research on materials use: science, engineering and society (MUSES). CWES grantees were awarded a total of $24.8 million; MUSES grantees were awarded...NSF, NIH award Ecology of Infectious Diseases grants
... "The joint program supports efforts to create a predictive understanding of the ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships among...NSF awards UGA $4.1 million grant to study so-called 'jumping genes' in maize
... The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $4.1 million to the University of Georgia to identify all the transposable elements (TE's) in maize and to generate an annotated database that will assist all future research in this crop plant crucial across the gl...NSF awards $4.5 million to researchers for study of protein folding mechanisms
... The award is one of three awarded by the NSF totaling $14 million given to researchers at UCLA, Stanford, UC Davis, Texas A&M, Michigan State University and the Scripps...ASU embarks on NSF grant for Nanotechnology Solar Energy Initiative
... ... "Over the past decade, ASU has quietly reassembled one of the most comprehensive portfolios of solar-relat...Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing
PITTSBURGH--Using environmentally safe compounds like sugars and vitamin C, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have vastly improved a popular technology used to generate a diverse range of industrial plastics for applications ranging from targeted drug delivery systems to resilient paint coatings.... The revolutionary improvement in atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) now enables l...NSF awards Harvard Forest $4.9 million to study landscape change
... Led by Harvard Forest Director David Foster, Harvard researchers and students will collaborate with scientists from the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woods Hole Research C...NIH launches national consortium to transform clinical research
BETHESDA, Md. -- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., today announced the launch of a national consortium that will transform how clinical and translational research is conducted, ultimately enabling researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients. This new consortium, funded through Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs...UCSF set to transform itself into engine of translational research
Signaling a watershed moment in the evolution of UCSF, the National Insitutes of Health today announced that the University has received funding for a major new venture designed to accelerate the pace at which scientific discovery is translated into patient care.... The highly competitive funding mechanism, known as the Clinical and Translational Science Award, is being issued under the "NIH Roa...NSF awards $3.3 million grant to Cornell to bolster the percentage of women faculty members
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Cornell University a $3.3 million grant to boost significantly over the next five years the percentage of women faculty members in the university's science and engineering departments. The grant begins on Nov. 1, 2006. ... Cornell is committed to diversity, gender equality and promoting an environment in which all faculty can achieve their pote...MBL scientists to present results of long-term ecological research at NSF meeting
... Much of the Ecosystems Center's r...NSF gives $12M to Rice to study nanotech's impact on health, environment
The National Science Foundation has extended funding for Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology with a five-year renewal worth $12 million. The renewal ensures CBEN programs will continue through 2011.... CBEN was the first academic research center in the world dedicated to studying the interaction between nanomaterials and living organisms and ecosystems. It wa...Science researchers genetically transform immune cells into tumor fighters
... ... ... Two of the 17 people with advanced melan...Completed genome set to transform the cow
...The ability of scientists to improve health and disease management of cattle and enhance the nutritional value of beef and dairy products has received a major boost with the release this week of the most complete sequence of the cow genome ever assembled. ... ... Differences in just one of these base pairs (known as single nucleotide polymorphi...NSF grant aids ASU biodiversity exploration in China
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State University ecologists Jianguo "Jingle" Wu and Jim Elser, along with Columbia University ecologist Shahid Naeem, have been awarded a $1.1 million grant over the next five years from the National Science Foundation to study the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the vast grasslands of China's autonomous Inner Mongolia region. A better unders...UCLA researchers transform stem cells found in human fat into smooth muscle cells
... Reported in the July 24 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study is one of the first to show that...Carnegie Mellon, Pitt receive $15 million from NSF to found center to improve quality of life
Pittsburgh -- Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have been awarded a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish an engineering research center that will develop technologies to help older adults and people with disabilities live independently and productively. ... Researchers at the new Quality of Life Technology Enginee...Microbes transform 'safest' PBDEs into more harmful compounds
WASHINGTON, June 14 Bacteria in the soil can transform the most commonly used flame retardant compound in the United States into more toxic forms that could be harmful to humans, according to a new laboratory study published today on the Web site of the American Chemical Society journal, . The study is scheduled to appear in the July 15 print issue of the journal....... The finding, by a team o...Supercomputers to transform science
New insights into the structure of space and time, climate modeling, and the design of novel drugs, are but a few of the many research areas that will be transformed by the installation of three supercomputers at the University of Bristol. ...... At peak performance the multi-million pound high performance computers (HPCs) will carry out over 13 trillion calculations per second. That is equivale...First study to show IVF single embryo transfer as successful as double transfer in older women
Research by fertility experts in Finland has demonstrated for the first time that in many cases transferring a single embryo to the womb in women undergoing IVF is just as likely to result in pregnancy and a live birth in those aged 36 to 39 as it is in younger women....... Their study indicates that it is the quality of the embryo that is more important in determining the success of IVF rather t...ENERGY STAR: Government rewards businesses and utilities with Market Transformation Awards
OTTAWA -- Businesses and utilities across Canada that promote energy efficiency to Canadians were recently recognized by the Government of Canada. The winners of the ENERGY STAR Market Transformation Awards for innovation and leadership in promoting ENERGY STAR-qualified products in Canada were announced during a ceremony in Toronto.... "I would like to congratulate the winners for their leadersh...Collaborative study successfully applies neutrons to study hydrogen transfer in biological systems
An innovative collaboration among scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fox Chase Cancer Center and the University of Tennessee has successfully applied neutron diffraction to create a three-dimensional map of the structure of the enzyme D-xylose isomerase. It is a model system for understanding other proteins involved in biological processes....... The first to locate the enzyme's activ...