Weill Cornell pharmacologist receives prestigious NIH MERIT Award
...armacology, director of the mass spectrometry core facility and principal investigator on an NIH grant that supports the training of Ph.D. candidates in the Graduate School Program in Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "We are extremely grateful for the NIH's continued support for our translatio...Bigelow Laboratory Scientists develop new approach to study marine microbes
...005. "The availability of the first flow cytometry facility dedicated to ocean science, which is headed by Dr. Sieracki, was one of the reasons behind my move to Bigelow", said Dr. Stepanauskas. The paper is available online at: www.pnas.org ....Ocean observing contracts awarded to UC San Diego and University of Washington
...e (OOI), to construct a cabled underwater research facility off the Oregon and Washington coastlines. The firs...roughout the deep oceans. This underwater research facility will be the worlds first robot-sensor network to span a tectonic plate. "Today we are taking an i...Scientists seek useful traits in wild cottons
...n conducting their cotton research since 2004. The facility was completed and came on-line in 2003. "We have developed several reliable methods for screening obsolete and wild cottons for several positive, heritable traits," Gannaway said. "The data from these experiments should give molecular b...Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
...ute and Hospital, a leading research and treatment facility in the 1960s," he says. "Today, my son and I both take an inhaled steroid every morning. As consumers, we buy into the idea of escape. Drugs let us get on with our lives without regard to the environment. Taking the drug is much easier than moving to...Scientists offer new view of photosynthesis
...le flop. Wang was able to use the ultrafast laser facility (funded by the National Science Foundation), which acts like a high-speed motion picture camera that can capture data from these lightning-fast reactions. "He tried a really hard experiment, and he was actually able to measure the protein motion...Use of wind energy in US growing, but planning and guidelines are lacking
... eagles and hawks, near Altamont Pass, Calif. -- a facility with older, smaller turbines that appear more apt to kill such birds than newer turbines are. Too little information is available to reliably predict how proposed new wind projects in the mid-Atlantic highlands would affect bird populations, the ......ones." Their latest research, at an aquaculture facility in Bali, is exploring the possibility of applying the tag to coral trout a candidate for better management in waters where it is overfished for human consumption. If the tagging experiment proves successful the team hopes to conduct trials with co...Study to probe how healthy younger adults make use of genetic tests
... Disease Research (CIDR), a world-class genotyping facility that is jointly operated by NIH and The Johns Hopkins University. Once enrolled, participants will be asked to review information online about the multiplex genetic test and to decide whether they are interested in taking the test. Those who agree ...Tree rings show elevated tungsten coincides with Nevada leukemia cluster
...gov/HAC/PHA/fallonair/finalair.pdf ), Fallon has a facility that "houses offices, a laboratory and a tungsten carbide processing operation." The International Agency for Research on Cancer has declared cobalt and tungsten carbide together to be a probable carcinogen. ( http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Meeting......tion of a novel experiment. Plants were grown in a facility containing atmospheric carbon dioxide almost exclusively with a heavy form of carbon (13C). This makes the carbon released from the plants relatively easy to detect. Thus, if plants are able to emit methane, it will contain the heavy carbon isotope a...FSU pushing boundaries with environmentally friendly community
...-demand ones. An advanced wastewater treatment facility that protects groundwater by utilizing aerobic treatment units instead of traditional gravity collection systems. Such a system also would enable the treatment of effluent that then could be used within the community for agricultural or landscaping u...Protein fragments sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex
...John Asara, director of the mass spectrometry core facility at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School and HMS instructor in pathology, who sequenced the protein fragments over the course of a year and a half using highly sensitive mass spectrometry methods. "This allows you to get the chance to say, Wait, they ...Cure for cancer one step closer
...y Research Institute is a leading medical research facility with a commitment to patient care, ethical conduct and quality research that aims to improve quality of life through better diagnosis and treatment. ...ESA open-source software supports Germany's TerraSAR-X
...erations Centre, located at DLR's Oberpfaffenhofen facility near Munich. Open-source model provides business opportunities Under the open-source licensing scheme, ESA's SCOS-2000 software is available to European industry who can offer the product for free in combination with value-added installation, s...Latest advances in DNA sequencing highlighted at DOE Joint Genome Institute User Meeting
...GI) User Meeting. DOE JGI is the world's only user facility dedicated to making high-throughput DNA sequencing available to a diverse research community and individual investigators who otherwise would not have access to such a resource to advance the frontiers of their disciplines. The meeting will be held i...UT Southwestern leaders to receive national award for medical research accomplishments
...stern Medical Center into the world-class research facility it is today." Dr. Kern Wildenthal, president of UT Southwestern, said, "This recognition reflects the decades-long dedication of Drs. Donald Seldin, Mike Brown and Joe Goldstein in championing UT Southwestern's commitment to excellence in biomedica...PNNL becomes DOE flagship for incentive-based waste management practices
...ce of Science. He noted that PNNL is the first DOE facility to receive such an extension. Only members of EP...a strong and effective culture in our research and facility management operations of pollution prevention, continuous improvement of our environmental performan...Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
...ealand government's AgResearch agency experimental facility was located protested that this would cause a spiritual imbalance within the community. All living things have their own "whakapapa" a genealogical descent from the gods to the present time. Mixing human and animal cells violates that natural order.......roval is a tremendous example of a public research facility cooperating with a private entity to gain results that will benefit the propagation of finfish for public good, including fisheries restoration and enhancement. USGS scientists completed target animal safety studies on many freshwater fish species, ...