$7.3 million NIH grant establishes Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Research Center at the UI
...pies in mouse models of muscular dystrophies. Core facility A, directed by Campbell, is an administrative core, which will coordinate and oversee the center's work. Core B, directed by Moore and Rita Barresi, Ph.D., UI research associate, is a muscle tissue/cell culture/diagnostics core that will serve as a n...Researchers debut new X-ray resources for studying molecules
...me at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE user facility at Argonne offering the most powerful X-ray beams in the Western Hemisphere. To help meet the needs of structural biologists, who make up nearly half of all synchrotron users, NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and National...First high-tech incubator at a women's college says girls can do science
...ies. Located at Russell Sage College in Troy, this facility will be the first of its kind nationally at a wome... for women in the nation." "The impact of this facility will be far-reaching," said Jeanne Neff, president of The Sage Colleges, "as it enriches our educati......al and computer-assisted biology, the new research facility will complement the highly experimental range of issues covered at the SIBS in Shanghai, as well as a number of projects at Max Planck Institutes in Germany. Moreover, cooperative ventures are planned with the Shanghai-based Institut Pasteur of Shang...Columbia University launches multi-year campaign to support stem cell research
...new stem cell center, construct a state-of-the-art facility to produce cells for experimental and therapeutic use, and establish a separate laboratory dedicated to growing new human embryonic stem cells for new studies. It will also support the recruitment and retention of internationally renowned stem cell ...GINA collaboration to boost response to summer fires
...Professor of Remote Sensing Buck Sharpton. GINA, a facility at the Geophysical Institute, was established in 2001 as the University of Alaska's mechanism for organizing and sharing diverse geospatial data and technological capabilities....Study of high-pressure process to inactivate Norwalk virus underway
...nd Extension Service to study. The laboratory is a facility of the Department of Food Science and Technology, devoted to improving food safety and food processing. Virginia Tech will collaborate with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Microbial Safety of Aquaculture Products Center of Excellence in ...American Indians and Alaska Native veterans have higher mortality rate after surgery than Caucasians
... had surgery between 1991 and 2002 were matched by facility to an equal number of randomly selected Caucasian patients. Alvord and colleagues found a significant difference in mortality rates after surgery, with 3.1% of American Indians dying compared to 2.2% of Caucasian patients. "We want to be sure that d...Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models
... 1,000 seasonal ponds at the 280,000-acre military facility in southeastern Georgia, 483 have been identified as potential candidates to support this particular salamander, technically known as Ambystoma cingulatum. Until April 21, however, none had been found over a stretch that spanned four years. Researche...ORNL nanoscience center 'jump starts' medical compound device
...nching pad for me deciding to do this was the CNMS facility being built here," Matteo said. "Certainly, without that I would not have done this. It is absolutely the cornerstone." Jump Start participants are in Oak Ridge this week for the inaugural CNMS User Meeting, which seeks to help prospective users lea...Stem cell research at Weill Cornell, The Rockefeller University, and Sloan-Kettering
...em cell lines, and Weill Cornell plans to launch a facility to develop and maintain the appropriate embryonic stem cells for research. Weill Cornell's Belfer Gene Therapy Core Facility and its soon-to-be-opened Gene Therapy Clinical Trials Unit will be vital assets in the translation of basic stem cell biolo...Scientists team up for multiyear studies of microbial mysteries
...nce its inception in 1997, the 200,000-square-foot facility has played host to more than 5,500 visiting scientists, professors and other individuals who requested use of the facility's resources through a peer-review proposal process. These individuals--commonly referred to as "users"--come to EMSL from acade...Scientists take aim at virulent bacteria by decoding machinery of key control enzyme
...ease-causing potency. Using the X-ray diffraction facility at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Xiaodong Cheng, PhD, professor of biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and John Horton, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, have now solved th...Columbia dedicates new 300,000 sq. ft. Irving Cancer Research Center
... Cancer Research Center, a new 300,000 square foot facility located at the medical center's campus in northern...he leading institution to conduct it." "This new facility enhances the Cancer Center's capacity to develop interdisciplinary 'team science'," said Dr. von Esc...Mosaic mouse technique offers a powerful new tool to study diseases and genetics
...ists "one step closer to the enviable experimental facility available to invertebrate geneticists." There are "many potential applications of this powerful approach," Anthony and Heintz wrote, including the "opportunity for in-depth studies of molecular mechanisms that underlie the dynamic properties of speci...From photovoltaics to solar thermal collectors: Evaluating and improving green design
...advanced design such as this one." By using the facility as an example, and providing real-time data, the C... In its first year, the Woods Hole Research Center facility has performed near expectations. Even with a facility that is nearly twice the size of the Center's ......A's Genomic Analysis and Technology Core (GATC), a facility providing genomic research services to public and private research institutions. GATC has the capacity to process up to 10,000 samples each month. The actual work load will depend on how many people join in the multi-national effort. "For the first t...Wind turbine to stir up renewable energy research
...ocalized fertilizer production. In the future, the facility will conduct research and demonstration projects o...earch, building Minnesota's first ethanol research facility in the early 1980s. The state's ethanol industry is now a national leader, with 14 plants producing ...Society of Nuclear Medicine offers program to meet patients' current, future needs for radionuclides
...issouri Research Reactor (MURR), the only research facility in this country that provides reactor-produced radionuclides for therapeutic applications. In addition, the NRPE national program calls for developing the capability to produce large quantities of radionuclides to maintain existing technologies and s...