HHS awards $232 million in biodefense contracts for vaccine development
...cretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced four new contracts totaling more than $232 million to fund developmen...error agents," Secretary Thompson said. "These new contracts are the next steps in our plans to build a robust stockpile of critical medical countermeasures and ...NIH funds new bioinformatics resources at UT Southwestern
...bat infectious diseases and immune disorders. The contracts were awarded by the National Institute of Allergy ...$8.7 million designated for UT Southwestern. The contracts will create separate bioinformatics resources the BioHealthBase Bioinformatics Resource Center for ...UGA partners with U of Pennsylvania for bio-defense and infectious disease research project
...nal Institutes of Health, awarded a total of eight contracts in 2004 to establish national Bioinformatics Resource Centers, including the Penn/UGA award. Jessica Kissinger, assistant professor of genetics and member of UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, is the principal investigator for...The Cochrane Library Newsletter, 2005, Issue 1
...nt the person could be dead in hours. When someone contracts the disease, doctors try to treat all family members and close contacts with antibiotics to eradicate the bacteria and prevent the disease spreading. In addition, antibiotics can be given periodically to 'at risk' groups of people to wipe out the bac...NIH should take decisive steps to promote independence, originality
...ntists work should offer them multiyear, renewable contracts that guarantee office space, a salary, and minimal research assistance -- even in the absence of external funding....Brain research to help in fight against cardiovascular disease
...- which lines the walls of arteries in the brain - contracts to force the arteries to become narrower and reduce blood flow. These cerebral arteries are no bigger than the width of human hair and are the most important in regulating blood flow. Dr Quayle explains: "Blood is supplied to the brain through blood...Can money grow on trees? Win-win strategies for 'sustainable bioprospecting'
...ining procedures. "In this context bioprospecting contracts that provide an environment for mutually beneficial exchange with fair distribution of benefits can only be enabled by well-defined property rights propped up by an enabling contractual environment, enforceable in a transparent and accountable regula...Junk DNA shapes social behavior
... and due to the way microsatellite DNA expands and contracts over time, microsatellites may represent a previously unknown factor in social diversity." Hammock and Young's finding extends beyond social diversity in rodents to that in apes and humans. Chimpanzees and bonobos, humans' closest relatives, have th...NIH funds eleven High-End Instrumentation grants
...tions, technical personnel, and post-award service contracts for instrument maintenance and operation. FY 2005 High-End Instrumentation Grants: Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) Kennedy Krieger Institute, Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland) Uni...Spiders help scientists discover how muscles relax
...osin filaments slide along one another, the muscle contracts or relaxes. Padrn's study focused on the long, rod-shaped myosin of the thick filaments. The heads of these myosin rods project outward from the thick filament to connect with and move actin filaments during contraction of a muscle. The structural ...UC Davis external funding passes half billion dollars
...s. These figures represent all external grants and contracts awarded to UC Davis, including "indirect" costs that are awarded to the campus to support research programs, but do not include internal awards or gifts. Examples of recent grants include $540,000 from the National Science Foundation to purchase equi...Defense center at NJIT draws satisfied customers at annual signing
...elped each of them obtain government and corporate contracts in 2005 using DPTAC's free counseling services. "...as resulted in awards of more than $966 million in contracts in New Jersey. Chaplin will receive an award of excellence, "Outstanding Achievement in Support of ...Researchers to gain wider access to knockout mice
...ational Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced contracts that will give researchers unprecedented access to...brary of knockout mice. Under terms of three-year contracts jointly funded by 19 NIH institutes, centers and offices, Deltagen Inc. of San Carlos, Calif., and L......l sheath, a tube-like smooth muscle structure that contracts every seven seconds during ovulation, squeezing out eggs so they can be fertilized by sperm. The intestines, which must pressurize and then release so the worm can defecate every 45 to 50 seconds. When the scientists disabled the vav-1 gene, th...Whooping cough vaccine not just for kids anymore
...hat an estimated one in 300 adolescents and adults contracts the illness each year. The results also demonstrate that an effective vaccine is now available for this population and its use should be strongly encouraged." Barenkamp's comments are based on results of a large, multi-center clinical study of more ...Satellites support businesses working for sustainable development
... supplied by satellites. EOMD is now starting six contracts to work on the application of Earth Observation to...port CSD assessment, with more in preparation. All contracts involve partnering between a number of specialist value-adding companies and large corporate players...A look at the Conservation Security Program for the 2007 farm bill
...nd organic and conventional vegetable farms. These contracts represent typical New England farm types and crops...alyzed the few New England farms that already held contracts through CSP. In order to include more farms and the desired range of farm types, they also chose to ...Eight Stanford scholars elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
...y. He teaches and writes about constitutional law, contracts and the law of cyberspace. He also chairs the Creative Commons project and serves on the boards of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Public Library of Science. Before coming to Stanford in 2000, he was on the la...NIH launches effort to place more knockout mice in public repositories
...2005, NIH laid the foundation for the project with contracts that provided NIH and the research community acces...rt to deposit existing knockout mouse lines or the contracts with Deltagen and Lexicon. For more details on the techniques used to make knockout mice, visit htt...Researchers devise new tools to help pinpoint treatments for heart failure
...rol system. During heart failure, the heart muscle contracts weakly, which causes the body to compensate by releasing more hormones and neurotransmitters to try to make the heart cell contractions return to normal strength. However, like an exhausted athlete being exhorted by a screaming coach to run faster, t...