Genetic links to schizophrenia focus of international study
...le genotyping will be performed at the high-volume facility of the Southern California Genotyping Consortium at UCLA....Research aims for more efficiency in harvest and handling
...is process, Shinners stresses, is to have a robust facility that can handle many types of biomass. "Until then, we're working on all different ways of harvesting, handling, processing and storing this material right up to the biorefinery gate. Hopefully, we'll drive the cost down and add enough value so tha...Open Science Grid receives $30 million award
...ny from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, OSG's facility coordinator. "Efforts such as the OSG work to democratize computing by lowering the barrier to individual scientists using distributed computing facilities."...The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource
...uenced and assembled by a single public sequencing facility and only the third plant to date to have its genome completely sequenced and published. The first, back in 2000, was the tiny weed, Arabidopsis thaliana, an important model for plant genetics. Rice was the second, two years ago. Populus trichocarpa i...Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support Project Suc-SEED at CIIT Centers for Health Research
...lth Research and Education Foundation has provided facility space, communications, and meeting support to the North Carolina section of Project Seed since 2001. CIIT will continue to serve as the administrative home for Project Suc-SEED. Mr. Kenneth Cutler, Director of Project Suc-SEED, said "The high leve...Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease
...k in every case. The Leicester test includes the facility to determine antibiotic resistance profiles quickly so that the correct antibiotics can be used. With basic equipment donated by the EACh-ChilD project, the test is now being piloted in four hospitals in south India, one of which, the Government Chi...University of Pittsburgh receives $1.3 million from NIH to develop promising avian flu vaccine
...duction. "It will take us a few weeks to get our facility ready. However, we hope to begin vaccine production by early fall," he said. Dr. Gambotto and his co-workers created their vaccine by genetically engineering a common cold virus, called adenovirus, to express either all or parts of an avian influ...One-two particle punch poses greater risk for astronauts
...d's team at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory, a facility built at Brookhaven Lab specifically for space radiation studies, first exposed normal human cells to a beam of protons. Then, anywhere from 2.5 minutes to 48 hours later, they exposed the cells to iron or titanium particles. After allowing the ce...An irregular heartbeat makes exercise deadly
...s a Ca2+-binding protein found in the Ca2+ storage facility of the muscle cells of the heart. Paradoxically, a...tantial increase in the volume of the Ca2+ storage facility in the muscle cells of the heart, such that under basal conditions the heartbeat was regular. Howeve...JCI table of contents: August 24, 2006
...s a Ca2+-binding protein found in the Ca2+ storage facility of the muscle cells of the heart. Paradoxically, a...tantial increase in the volume of the Ca2+ storage facility in the muscle cells of the heart, such that under basal conditions the heartbeat was regular. Howeve...UC Davis researchers move biotechnology closer to replacing electronic pacemakers
... animal models, utilize the only non-human primate facility in California and eventually partner with physicians at the UC Davis Health System to treat patients," he said. Li and his team previously generated the first genetically engineered human heart cells from human embryonic stem cells, and demonstrate...More carbon dioxide may help some trees weather ice storms
...earchers working at a Duke University outdoor test facility found that loblolly pines growing under carbon-dioxide levels mimicking those predicted for the year 2050 -- roughly one and a half times today's levels -- fared somewhat better during and after a major ice storm that hit the area than did loblollies...Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company announce cooperative research agreement
...to bring a Department of Energy-funded bioresearch facility to the San Francisco Bay Area. The DOE's Office of Science reissued a solicitation last week for two such facilities, with a focus on cost-effective, biologically based renewable energy sources to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. ...Three at MIT conceive cell-shaped building
...n province in southwestern China. The proposed new facility will contain 170,000 square feet of laboratory, re...The final plan calls for a research and laboratory facility with six floors and a crystal-shaped lecture hall with a crystal diffraction pattern ceiling, full o...EMBL-EBI and collaborators win bid to run UK PubMed Central
...nical infrastructure of the service, including the facility for ingesting articles, and will also begin to engage more widely with the user communities. Launch of the service is scheduled for January 2007....2.5M boost for marine biology in Liverpool
...ill provide the University with the largest marine facility of its kind in the UK. The system will enable research into areas such as the impact of cockling on sandflats and the effect of pollution on the ecology of offshore muddy seafloor systems. The University is investing in a new research vessel tha...PIMCO founder and wife donate $10 million to stem cell research at UCI
... "This gift will allow UCI to build an outstanding facility in which scientists from around the world may collaborate and propel forward this critical area of research." Over the last few years, Sue and Bill Gross have developed a keen interest in health care and advances in stem cell research. Aware of the...Food-crop yields in future greenhouse-gas conditions lower than expected
...ng. Ozone is toxic to plants. SoyFACE is the first facility in the world to test both the effects of future ozone and CO2 levels on crops in the open air. Older, closed-condition studies occurred in greenhouses, controlled environmental chambers and transparent field chambers, in which carbon dioxide or ozone...Eighty below and loving it: Montana State University scientists to get new cold lab
...llent low-temperature wind chambers. However, this facility will be unique in that it will bring so many thing...roup will drop to minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The facility will be housed in 2,700 square feet on the first floor of Cobleigh Hall in MSU's College of Engineer......s vice-president research. The $10.3 million VENUS facility offers the world's first interactive, real time portal to the ocean. Its underwater network of fibre optic cables and instruments, which is connected to the Internet, lets us all "enter" the ocean whenever we wish, and allows scientists to operate th...