NSF funding to advance research on interplay between biology and society
... vice versa. Topics to be studied include widely disseminating the letters and other correspondence of Charles Darwin; ways to foster scientific collaboration with Native American communities on issues of sustainability; how populations in Brazil have used scientific information to adapt water systems to climate...Blocking beta1-integrin to treat cancer
...egrin function in these mice, tumour cells started disseminating intolymphatic blood vessels because they were not attached to anything any more. However, thecells did not elicit metastasis and were unable to form tumours they stopped growing andbecame senescent. The authors suggest that the ablation of beta1-i...Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence
.... "It is now clear that in their travels, they are disseminating crucial genetic innovations around the genome." Other important findings to emerge from the analysis of the opossum genome include: The opossum has many genes involved in immunity, challenging the notion that marsupials possess only primitiv...Consortium for Functional Glycomics awarded $40.7 million 'glue' grant
...n exceptional job in this regard by developing and disseminating resources to the wider scientific community. We look forward to many exciting advances in the final five years of funding." While the consortium's first five years were spent building resources, the focus of the second five years will be on using t...Oxford Journals share evidence-based open access results with the community
...ith open access models, and an equal commitment to disseminating this information. Over 90 delegates from across the international academic spectrum attended the event, including researchers, librarians, publishers, editors, and representatives of several scholarly organizations. "Until recently there has been a ...HHMI awards $86.4 million for undergraduate science education
...fiscal 2005. HHMI is dedicated to discovering and disseminating new knowledge in the basic life sciences. HHMI grounds its research programs on the conviction that scientists of exceptional talent and imagination will make fundamental contributions of lasting scientific value and benefit to mankind when given the...New approach to ensure challenges to data access and management don't slow scientific progress
...rivate sector plays a greater role in amassing and disseminating data, there is a risk that market demand, not scientific priorities, will determine what is collected and preserved and who has access. The panel notes that commercial interest in data collections can lead to license and user fees and intellectual pr...1 million expected to join in on Cutler Global Disaster Lecture
...the lecture and an internationally known leader in disseminating public health information through GSPH's "Supercourse." To date, the Supercourse, which is designed to provide an overview on epidemiology and the Internet for medical and health related students around the world, has distributed more than 2,300 lect...Public collections of DNA & RNA sequence data reach 100 gigabases
... reached a significant milestone by collecting and disseminating 100 gigabases of sequence data. For a frame of reference, one hundred billion bases is about equal to the number of nerve cells in a human brain and a bit less than the number of stars in the Milky Way. These 100,000,000,000 bases, or "letters" of th...NTP roadmap for the future, celebration of 25 years
...other agents that may be toxic to human health and disseminating this information broadly to inform public health decision-making. For example, through its extensive testing program, the NTP has evaluated over 2500 agents. In addition, the NTP biannually issues the Report on Carcinogens, which in 2005 identifie...2005's highest engineering honors awarded
...f tomorrow's engineering leaders by developing and disseminating the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program." The prizes will be presented at a gala dinner in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 21. THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER PRIZE "The Corona project is notable not only for its many engineering breakthro...Flocking together: Study shows how animal groups find their way
... or other explicit systems that animals may use in disseminating information through groups. The new study showed that such complexity is not necessary: Large groups easily make accurate decisions about where to go even when no individuals are regarded as leaders and very few individuals have any pertinent informa...UT Southwestern researchers trace how virus that causes AIDS spreads following oral exposure
...T-cells and macrophages likely played key roles in disseminating the virus. Because SIV spreads so rapidly throughout the bodies of infected monkeys, it may help to explain why antiviral therapies can effectively protect a monkey or HIV infection of humans only if they are given within hours of exposure to the vir......omputer technologies for organizing, analyzing and disseminating large natural history data sets will be developed at Cornell University, with a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, in partnership with the university's Department of Computer Scienc...