HHMI awards $10 million to graduate programs that combine science and medicine
...hich students study the basic life sciences in the context of human biology and disease. This program includes an integrated core curriculum, a clinical mentor program, and a specially designed course in principles of clinical research. The initiative has been formed in the new Cleveland Clinic Lerner Colleg...Combination of PET, MR imaging shows white matter degeneration in Huntington's disease patients
...) imaging studies, Italian researchers--within the context of an Italian-British collaboration--discovered that degenerative and dysfunctional events occur in individuals many years before the onset of Huntington's disease--particularly in the brain's white matter--an area not previously considered primarily...Grant will promote Yale-India environmental ties
...hat resource management models established in this context will be critical to preserving environmental wealth and promoting economic strength. He added, "There is a need to train and nurture expertise in environmental management, and this program is an effort to bridge the gap." Yale environment school Dean...Ernst Mayr's theory illustrated in genetic epidemiology studies
... such thing as a major or minor gene except in the context of another population. Templeton is in the Wright camp. "As soon as you have interactions between genes and then change the frequencies of these genes through some random factor, you're going to have a tremendous shift in where natural selection is ...International policy workshop on nitrogen in Paris March 8 10, 2006
...n coping with global environmental problems in the context of a global economy and the increasing inter-dependence of nations. The International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) was jointly launched by SCOPE and IGBP in 2003. The main impetus behind this was the concern expressed by many in the scientific commun...Penn researchers awarded $1.1 million for Pulmonary Hypertension Center
...llows us to analyze the laboratory findings in the context of how well a patient does with treatment" Over the last several years numerous hypertension drugs have entered the market. From a clinical standpoint, finding which drug is best for a given patient is one of the study's primary goals. "The problem ...Learning to love bacteria: Stanford scientist highlights bugs' benefits
...s that cause disease are usually considered in the context of harm and epidemics and so on," said Falkow. "But the fact is that a great number of organisms that infect humans come in and set up housekeeping as it were. There are no clinical symptoms of anything wrong and people take the organisms with them t...Biologists develop genome-wide map of miRNA-mRNA interactions
...for exploration of miRNA target predictions in the context of various functional genomic data resources ( gnetbrowse.org )....Study looks at ways to mitigate air pollution from freight transportation along I-95
...earch will help develop the integrated multi-modal context needed to understand freight transportation in both onroad and nonroad dimensions." In the future, Winebrake and Corbett hope to layer the tool with geographic information system technology to create a web-enabled interactive map for identifying tra...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...xample a tone with flashing light, the surrounding context guided rats to the correct response. Except, that is, in rats that received pretraining lesions of the PFC. Lesions of the anterior cingulate cortex at first hindered the contextual disambiguation, but performance in these rats eventually improved. ...New research suggests abdominal aortic aneurysm will afflict millions of baby boomers
...and thresholds of abdominal aortic aneurysm in the context of epidemiologic studies Epidemiology and pharmacological approaches to prevent AAA enlargement and rupture The use of animal models for study and their underlying pathophysiology and biomechanical aspects. Enzymology; another approach to interve...The American Association for Cancer Research provides support for promising cancer scientists
...ue an independent line of investigation within the context of his/her current fellowship placement. AACR-Pennsylvania Department of Health Fellows Grant Recipient: Sibele I. Meireles, Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center,Philadelphia, Pa. Project: Contribution of estrogen synthesis and detoxification enzyme ex...Top federal officials to speak at 20-21 April AAAS policy forum
...sion at 10 a.m. will discuss the budget and policy context for proposed R&D spending in the FY2007 federal budget. Kei Koizumi, director of the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, will assess the long-term implications of the proposed budget, which would increase R&D spending to nearly $137 billion in 2007 b...New crop of technology reveals plant health
...ts, on the data operating as a plant/environmental context management system. Called ePlantOS, it can control the deployment of water, nutrients or pesticides, as necessary. One of PLANTS' demonstrator went live at the Eden Project end March 2006 and was the centre point of a special workshop to introduce t...Fighting nutrition misinformation:
... or "causes"? Does the report reflect appropriate context (e.g., how the research fits into a broader picture of scientific evidence and consumer lifestyles)? Do the results apply only to a certain group of people?...From Alzheimer's to schizophrenia: SNM reveals latest MI/NM research at annual meeting
...de a summary of ongoing research and place them in context of the future of molecular imaging and nuclear medicine. A "Meet the Author" poster session will be divided into six 45-minute time slots June 46. This year, one session will provide a look at events in Chernobyl in the former USSR (now the Ukraine) ...Open source and open medicine take centre stage at UN research symposium
...so frames UNU-MERIT's activities in a wider global context by reporting on events and projects in other UNU Centres and Programmes, and elsewhere....Forsyth scientists gain greater understanding of how embryos differentiate left from right
...gy. The Levin team studies these processes in the context of embryonic development and regeneration, with a particular focus on the biophysics of cell behavior....Science Conference 'Innovations in Bioscience for Animal and Human Health'
...oping new products and scientific solutions in the context of animal and human health. The Dow AgroSciences Science Conference will be the main event for all involved and interested in innovations in bioscience for animal and human health and will bring together decision makers, scientists, researchers, acad......andic researchers, realizing just how much a cells context matters, used the 3-D cell culture pioneered by Mina Bissell, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. "We can build up a 3-D breast structure similar to what you have in vivo," says Gudjonsson. "You can analyse cell-cell interact...