NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...lexes will be soluble and stable. In addition, the costs of the detergents alone can easily add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. "The preparation of membrane proteins in the quantities and qualities needed to do structural studies is an unsolved problem," says Wthrich. "And we hope to solve it." ...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...medications resulted in a significant rise in drug costs in the North Carolina Medicaid program. Analyzing ... researchers found that prescription drug coverage costs rose 22.8 percent annually during the study period, from $503 per person per year in 1998 to $759 in...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...ols, and limited use of pesticides, to reduce both costs and ecological impacts. In the last 11 years, Virginia Tech's program has increased farmers' profits from California to the Philippines, and has reduced poverty and pollution. For example: IPM research has identified key pests in Uganda (coffee wilt ...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...ockianus enzyme could end decades of environmental costs from industrial bleaching. Chlorine, used for more than a century, forms toxic and carcinogenic chemicals called dioxins as byproducts. Industries switching to greener hydrogen peroxide have developed wastewater treatment options -- though all have c...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...ch person's unique genetic profile. DNA sequencing costs have fallen more than 100-fold over the past decad...rt to sequence the human genome. However, it still costs at least $10 million to sequence 3 billion base pairs the amount of DNA found in the genomes of hum...Peakadilly nv biopharmaceutical firm created
...s gap and thus substantially lower the development costs and time. Bio-markers will also make it possible to target therapies specifically to the patients for whom they are successful. Most drugs in the field of oncology, for example, help only a limited number of patients. Bio-markers will ena...ORNL system eliminates perchlorate, helps scientists trace source
...resin so it can be reused many times. The process costs up to 80 percent less than conventional methods and is one of R&D Magazine's top 100 inventions for 2004. But Gu and ORNL colleagues Jusuke Horita and Gilbert Brown along with others from Louisiana State University, University of Illinois, and U...Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
... to simplify its construction as well as reducing costs - Proba was constructed as much as possible with existing off-the-shelf components, rather than customised space-hardened parts typical for satellites. The good news is that these systems have continued to work well throughout Proba's 1096 days in sp...Solutions to stop fishermen returning dead and dying marine animals back into sea - study
...ntial solution to a problem fishing activity which costs the industry millions of pounds and has a major impact on the marine environment worldwide. A team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, writing in the academic journal Marine Policy, say fishermen should be given incentives not to return unwa...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...and cost $1 billion to complete in 2002. Today, it costs up to $50 million to sequence 3 billion base pairs. That may soon change as the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $1.7 million grant to a team of researchers led by Peter Williams, professor of ...First Max Planck Partner Institute in China
...ase the CAS will assume two thirds of the required costs while project funding from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research will account for the remaining one-third totaling 2.5 million euros. The new research institute will not only complement the wide range of experimental topics at the SIBS in S...HIV, diagnostic health care tools top of list for UH researchers
...ner, more efficient energy supplies, reducing both costs and environmental consequences. Full details of these focus groups and research presentations will be available online, following the conclusion of the conference. ...Delays in cutting greenhouse gasses could harm environment
...studies, however, had not looked at the ecological costs of delay. "There are large uncertainties, but giv... can be confident there are substantial ecological costs associated with delays in reducing greenhouse emissions," Oppenheimer said. Using simplified compute...A puzzle posed by black-headed ducks yields to persistent biologists
...elves. The researchers carefully investigated the costs of duck parasitism to the hosts and found few costs that could be prevented by rejection of the duck eggs. In contrast, the intraspecific (within the sa...Diamonds are a urologist's best friend
...he German health care system this means additional costs of 500 million Euros annually. 'Up to now there has not been any effective way of preventing bacteria from entering the urinary tract via the catheter and thereby triggering urinary tract infection,' the Bonn researcher Dr. Norbert Laube explains. Se...Novel biotoxin being studied for use in opioid withdrawal
...nal environments are all affected, with associated costs reaching billions of dollars each year. "There's a need for new treatments for heroin dependence and for opiate abuse, and this is one potential new approach, directed at modifying the physical dependence that occurs with repeated use of drugs like ...Plant pathologists offer soybean rust identification and management tips
... disease identification, potential yield loss, and costs associated with managing the disease. Plant pathologists do not expect soybean rust to affect all soybean growing areas next year. "Growers should not assume that every soybean field will be in danger," said Jardine. "Based on our models, the diseas...Menssana research at NJIT receives kudos for FDA-approved breath test
...ed as an adjunct to biopsy. The Heartsbreath test costs $500, compared to thousands for a biopsy. More importantly, it is non-invasive and has no risks. Phillips has also published research in peer-reviewed journals-including the prestigious medical journal, Chest-showing that the breath-test concept work...Studies in Royal Society journals include stress in birds and depletion of medieval fish stocks
...ructure that can reduce or eliminate the long-term costs of impulsiveness.In addition, impulsive rules have a discrimination advantage over far-sighted rules. This may have practical implications because scientists believe that impulsiveness limits cooperation and may cause addiction. Contact: Dr David St...Study in Royal Society journal on possible genetic factors in social responsiblity
... Distance-dependent costs and benefits of aggressive mimicry in a cleaning symbiosis by Dr I Cote and Dr KL Cheney We have analysed how teeth form in the trout, an animal with a complex dentition where teeth are not only associated with the jaws but are found at other sit...