Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size
...is convincing faculty that participation can be of benefit to their projects. Even with hundreds of processors deployed in the collective interest, and with more being added all the time, there is still a competition for a finite resource. It is not always easy, Livny says, to transform a project that is bu...Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine gets $4 million to make 'smart nanoparticles'
...is a perfect example of how the Third Frontier can benefit Ohio's First Frontier, agriculture," said Johnson. "High tech advances in polymers have the potential for opening up new markets for Ohio-grown products." The BRTT Program supports biomedical and biotechnology research intended to lead to job creatio...Tamoxifen-like drug suggests new ways to selectively block estrogen
...or other endocrine therapy that will yield maximal benefit in the clinic." New tools such as the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratories are making this sort of once-grandiose plan more realistic, Greene said. "We used to solve the structures of one or two molecules a year. Now we have 40 t......s neural cells. Alzheimer's research would greatly benefit if their structures, particularly that of gamma-secretase, could be established at high resolution by x?ray crystallography. But membrane protein structures are particularly difficult to obtain. "Membrane protein complexes can be very difficult to p...Blocking blood vessels provides new option for large group of advanced lung cancer patients
... alone. "We also observed improvements in patient benefit with the bevacizumab arm, including the time betwe...ent of patients. "Even though this drug appears to benefit a subset of lung cancer patients, it is still a sizeable group of patients," Sandler said.The U.S. F...Hydroxycitric acid slows glucose uptake, cuts insulin peaks/valleys a la South Beach Diet
...y problem, it could potentially have an additional benefit in the therapeutic field. But this is all highly speculative," Wielinga added. Wielinga, who is moving to the Institute of Veterinary Physiology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, said another promising area "we plan to study is HCA's affect o...Ecosystems, economic choices and human well-being
...s of lost ecosystem services frequently exceed the benefit of habitat conversion. Such findings, it says, get...or example, we know that conversion of wetlands to benefit a few people often deprives many more of the valuable services that were provided when the wetlands ...New scientific and conservation institute launched in Florida
...thbay Harbor, Maine. "Marine ecosystems can truly benefit from the type of work Dr. Widder specializes in. Her high tech approach to sampling and analysis is an extremely efficient way of collecting data vs. traditional and costly methods of hand sampling." According to James Case, Research Professor and r...Racehorses, asthmatics, meatpackers may have similar etiology of airway disturbances
...r own controls in most experiments." An additional benefit of using animal models, he said, is obvious from the fact that while it looks like "we could make progress from our research in human chronic and acute conditions, probably the first direct beneficial application will be in the area of heaves, which ...The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds
...eration. It isn't clear why humans or birds should benefit from biased spatial attention, but past work has suggested that brain organization underlying attention asymmetries may offer benefits in spatial learning and in performing simultaneous spatial tasks, such as looking for food while being vigilant for...First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched
...l need for adequate supplies of safe blood for the benefit of the public health. Pall is continuing its prion research and development program to apply its technologies to meet the specific requirements of each nation throughout Europe, followed by Canada and the US. The Company is also developing an ante ...BioMed Central applauds Wellcome's leadership on Open Access
...chers, funders, or the general public, all of whom benefit from the widest possible access to research findings, which is what Open Access delivers." "Following on from the National Institutes of Health's similar initiative in the USA, Wellcome's move shows that the funders who spend hundreds of millions of ...Resistance training benefits older Hispanic adults with type 2 diabetes
...lts with diabetes are often told to lose weight to benefit their health, new information from researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University suggests that resistance training, even without weight loss, may offer similar benefits. Carmen Castaneda Sceppa, MD,...Water quality a major focus of $14 million grant to the University of Arizona
...se problems, which are not limited to Arizona, can benefit people throughout the world. The SBRP has an active outreach program to train Mexican scientists and practitioners in the detection and remediation methods UA scientists are developing. "We are sharing with our neighbor with whom we share a border --...New plant DNA libraries provides massive boost to world's plant researchers
...ce for plant researchers. It will be of particular benefit to academic researchers, scientists working in agriculture and horticulture and also to pharmaceutical research teams interested in the medicinal properties of plants. The new libraries have two key features that will make them particularly attractiv...Researchers report breakthrough against world's deadliest viruses
...inister Bennett added that people everywhere could benefit from the vaccine development,"in stopping outbreaks where they originate as well as reducing the risk that these viruses will be used in bioterrorism." Colonel Erik A. Henchal, commander of USAMRIID, said the study illustrates the benefits of collab...New research provides evidence that Rh proteins act as CO2 gas channels
...g that Rh was necessary for the algae's ability to benefit from high CO2 levels. In this new study, Kustu and her research team isolated strains of C. reinhardtii in which an Amt gene was inactivated. They found a 90 percent reduction in uptake of the ammonia analogue methylamine in those mutated strains of ...Public release of pig genomic sequences
... safety and animal health traits that will greatly benefit health care, industry and consumers. The Sino-Danish Pig Genome Project has been one of the best examples of international scientific collaboration, which puts its emphasis on issues of wider importance. The endeavour will be incorporated into the ne...MIT's nanoprinter could mass-produce nano-devices
...nce of cancer, hepatitis, or Alzheimer's." Another benefit would be large-scale diagnostics that could provide useful information about disease. Take diabetes. "We don't know if it's genetic. The only way to find out is to test a lot of people," said Stellacci. "The more we test with microarrays, the more we...Cancer research finds targets for new cholesterol-lowering therapies
...nts Fbw7/SREBP interaction would likely be of more benefit to some patients than statins alone." Dr. Ericsson said that the team also found that the Fbw7/SREBP interaction may also be connected to diabetes, as insulin signaling inhibited Fbw7's ability to affect SREBP levels and thus increased lipid and cho...