NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...ology improves. A portion of the center's annual budget will be used to partially support compelling genotyping research projects, to be selected by a steering committee. The first genotyping studies within the NCRR-funded Broad Institute genotyping center will be performed in early 2005. Researchers in...Economics and ecology combine at UGA in NSF-funded study of evolutionary game theory
... fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget exceeding $5.5 billion. Keenan has a research background in the area of game theory, which he said was originally developed to study the conscious interaction of "rational" agents. "For instance, it would be the preferred economic method for studyin...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Salty, acidic soup could have supported life on Mars
...d French and Italian researchers protested against budget cuts and more. Areas to watch in 2005: This year, Science 's predictions for hot fields in the upcoming year include obesity drugs, the international Haplotype Map, which should offer insights into genetic variation and human disease, and Cassini-H...Searle grant funds proteomics initiative
...mics/Informatics Demonstration Project for a total budget of nearly $2 million....First x-ray laser gets funding
...in funding provided by Congress in the fiscal 2005 budget appropriation."The Department of Energy's Office o... well, which is particularly notable in very tough budget times." Said Professor Keith Hodgson, director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSR...New collaborations offer hope for HIV/AIDS vaccine
...ne, Fauci said. The leveling-off of NIH's research budget has added to the need for greater coordination and data-sharing among studies, so that results from a clinical trial conducted in one country could, for example, be better applied in another country. To that end, Fauci said, NIH and other agencies ar...2005 ASM biodefense research meeting
... alone has devoted over $1.6 billion of its annual budget to biodefense research. This new biological research agenda, however, does not require scientists to start from scratch. Many new technologies currently being tested in the field of infectious diseases can be applied to the challenges of homeland de...Survivors to revisit the polio scare
...evelop a vaccine, was accomplished on a shoestring budget in a makeshift lab. Enders and colleagues initially had no protective apparatus, had no sterile hoods for working with viruses, and had to book glassware for experiments in advance since there wasn't enough to go around. They made do by being creativ...Bayer donates equipment to Children's Hospital, Oakland for infectious disease research
...ing. With 37 principal investigators and an annual budget of $47 million, CHORI has achieved significant research advancements in vaccine development, pediatric obesity, nutrition, cancers, sickle cell disease, AIDS/HIV, hemophilia and cystic fibrosis....HHMI taps two Long Island researchers as among the nation's most promising scientists
...ven years. The Institute's current annual research budget is $416 million. Through its flagship investigator program, HHMI currently employs 298 of the nation's most innovative scientists, who lead Hughes laboratories at 64 institutions. These scientists are widely recognized for their creativity and produ...Drezek wins Beckman Young Investigator Award
... support because the foundation does not require a budget at the time of proposal submission," said Drezek. Her Beckman research will focus on development of novel optical molecular imaging technologies for the early detection of cancer. The optical imaging methods she is developing use a combination of vi...Endangered Species Act provisions appear to benefit imperiled organisms
...endorse a recommendation that the recovery program budget be increased by $300 million....21-22 April AAAS forum to discuss Pentagon R&D spending, other policy issues
...developing specific weapons systems. The proposed budget would impose steep cuts on Pentagon science and te...ation. While the National Institutes of Health R&D budget would rise 0.5 percent to $27.9 billion, it would fail to keep pace with economy-wide inflation for ...Re-discovered ivory billed woodpecker still faces challenge to survival
... Administration to nearly double the Refuge System budget to $700 million annually, yet the FY06 Administration request falls woefully short of what's needed to keep pace with needs. "Unless we begin to see a concerted long-term effort to increase Refuge System funding, we'll have more surprises, but rarely...Detecting biological threats top goal of UH project
...ding upon results and how the agency's program and budget evolves over the next year. At the core of this research is bioinformatics, the use of computer science in biological research to analyze the composition of molecules, especially in understanding genomic data. HSARPA chose to fund the UH bioinfor...Allergies affect 15 million people in UK, says Professor
... 6% of all GP consultations, 10% of GP prescribing budget and total NHS costs conservatively estimated at in excess of 1billion pounds. "Whilst the reasons for these very dramatic increases remain as yet far from clear, evidence is however converging on the possible impact of improved living standards and ...Petition for increased EU funding sees decisive response from scientific community
...eased funding for research in the EU's Framework 7 budget has met with a rapid and decisive response from th...etition in response to the Luxembourg presidency's budget proposal of June 2, which suggests a cut of approximately 40% in the budget for research and innovat...CryoSat arrives safely at launch site in Russia
...nd continental ice cover. With speed and a limited budget in mind, the CryoSat project have found an elegant solution for launch, that being a Russian Rockot vehicle, which is actually a converted SS-19 ballistic missile launcher with an additional Breeze-KM upper stage. CryoSat will be the first ESA missio...Emerald Spectre haunts Ontario's ash forests
...inary efforts together. The 2005 federal Canadian budget contained the first line item ever to target invasive species directly $85 million, much of which is earmarked for battling the borer and another forest pest, the Asian longhorn beetle, which has infected hardwood trees in areas around Toronto, New ...... provided by the UQ Foundation, UQ's research-only budget and the Vice-Chancellor's Strategic Initiatives Fund. The 2005 winners are: Dr Andrew Griffiths of UQ's Business School, will receive $60,000 to study corporate resilience and adaptation to long-term global climate change. Dr Griffiths, of Yeeron...