European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...l bring together for the first time a pan-European consortium with expertise in nanomaterials (manufacture, characterisation and standardisation) and the techniques needed to evaluate the potential risks of environmental, human exposure (accidental and purposeful) to the many emerging categories of nanomaterial...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
...seases. The first study, led by an international consortium of clinical scientists and genomics experts, incor... destroy the insulation along nerve fibers. The consortium study, reported in NEJM, was co-led by researchers at UCSF and five other universities and medical c...Risk genes for multiple sclerosis uncovered
...mmune diseases. The study, led by an international consortium of clinical scientists and genomics experts, is th... Society we formed a truly effective international consortium that was able to deliver the most exhaustive search for MS risk factors ever published. In an effort...Gene expression pattern could lead to improved treatment of pediatric septic shock
CINCINNATI A consortium of researchers headed by Cincinnati Childrens Hosp...d in the July issue of Physiological Genomics and consortium were led by Dr. Wong. The paper describes how comparative gene expression analysis of blood samples ...Contributing membership in the biomarkers consortium surges to 30 companies and nonprofits
...nd the first year of the central activities of the consortium which is managed be the Foundation for the Nationa...s and how organizations can become involved in the consortium through its contributing membership program,is available at: www.biomarkersconsortium.org ....CRESIB coordinates an international consortium to fight malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax
...ojects of international research, an international consortium of research in P. vivax will be created and promoted. This consortium will be constituted by leading malaria research centres, and will be coordinated from Barcelona....The UAB heads a European research project on proteases and pathological processes
...ct has already begun and is being carried out by a consortium of research groups from different universities, small and medium sized enterprises, and a large pharmaceutical company. Although under UAB coordination, six other collaborating centres from Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, United Kingdom and Denmark a...Global community listens to TAU genetic researcher at EU Conference on Hearing Loss
...ackler School of Medicine, represented EuroHear, a consortium of 25 European, Israeli and U.K.-based research teams, at the European Union conference Hearing and Seeing: European Research to Fight Deafness and Blindness, held at Pariss College de France on July 2-3, 2007. This fall, Prof. Avraham will visit t...'Virtual' mouse brains now available online
DURHAM, N.C. -- A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly ...as with the San Diego Supercomputing Center. The consortium has developed the computer infrastructure to collect a rapidly growing library of 3-D mouse brain da...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates pollen collection by bees
...heir pollinators. The Floral Genome Project is a consortium of labs in the United States and abroad whose goal is to construct a database that will contain comparative data on the expression patterns for a large number of genes across many different families of flowering plants. Starting with Linnaeus, pl...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates
... their pollinators. The Floral Genome Project is a consortium of labs in the United States and abroad whose goal is to construct a database that will contain comparative data on the expression patterns for a large number of genes across many different families of flowering plants. Starting with Linnaeus, pla...Germany's embryo protection law is 'killing embryos rather than protecting them'
...es for 2004 from the ESHRE European IVF monitoring consortium show that out of 8,500 deliveries in Germany in 20...cting them, he concluded. Other figures from the consortium show that the number of ART procedures in Germany has nearly halved since state funding for them was...Human genetic 'deserts' are teeming with significant life
...isting methods for annotating the human genome the consortium members hope to find the most effective ways of analysing it in its entirety. Although the finished sequence of the human genome announced in 2003 was a great achievement, it left a number of questions unanswered. Before the information contained...New findings challenge established views on human genome
An international research consortium today published a set of papers that promise to re...n of the entire human genome. All told, the ENCODE consortium generated more than 200 datasets and analyzed more than 600 million data points. Our results reve...UVa-led team uncovers important secret in gene replication
...project, using two preset cell lines. Overall, the consortium looked at just 1 percent of the human genome, using HeLa and lymphocytic cells for the study. Groups that were performing other experiments found that their data about genetic expression perfectly correlated with what the Dutta lab would have predict...ENCODE map changes view of the human genome landscape
...le online on June 14 to coordinate with the ENCODE consortium publication in the journal Nature . 1. Pervasive transcription, fewer boundaries Dr. Alexandre Reymond and colleagues conducted a series of experiments to annotate all 399 protein-coding genes in the ENCODE regions. In doing so, they found ...New findings challenge established views about human genome
...f DNA Elements (ENCODE), an international research consortium organised by the National Human Genome Research In...f DNA sequences that have a functional impact. The consortium identified many previously unrecognized start sites for transcription and new regulatory sequences t...University of Washington researchers play leading role in major study of human genome function
...f Washington and other members of an international consortium have completed a multi-year research effort that d...enome Research. Launched in September 2003, the consortium began a four-year pilot project to identify the function of all DNA sequences in a small section of ...The wider view from a detailed focus
...ol elements is yet to be elucidated. The ENCODE consortium is organized by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), whose Director, Francis S Collins, MD PhD, said: "This impressive effort has uncovered many exciting surprises and blazed the way for future efforts to explore the functio...Methodist, University of Houston, Cornell combine biomedical imaging expertise
...e possibilities for collaborative research by this consortium are endless, said Dr. King Li, the director of the IBIS and Chair of Radiology at the Methodist Hospital. We hope to attract research grants that will lead to discoveries in new technologies and techniques to better unearth diseases at their earlies...