Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...oposed coral reef systems research project will focus on corals and reef fishes and provide critical information for the protection and sustainable use of coral reef ecosystems along the Saudi Arabia coast in the northern central Red Sea. The project will assess a range of threats to coral reef hea...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...h community. Sharing information about key Cyber focus areas between organizations allows the AirForce to streamline and concentrate its research, said Mr. Brian Spink, of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The AFRL is responsible for facilitating the majority of Air Force-sponsored research. The Air F...Gilbert Foundation and American Fed for Aging Research award grants on Alzheimer's disease
...he treatment of Alzheimers disease. The study will focus on the removal of the accumulated proteins by manipulating a class of proteins called molecular chaperones. These chaperones help in the processing of proteins within neurons and may represent an entirely novel class of candidates for therapeutic dev...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
... Breast Cancer DSA microarray. DSA research tools focus on the transcriptome of an individual disease, in this case breast cancer, and contain significant additional data, relevant to the disease of interest that is not available on other generic microarrays. The study will be conducted in collaboration ......ified. Gregory Asner (Carnegie Institution) will focus on recent progress in ecological and remote sensin...330,000 kilometers of six countries. Laporte will focus on management decisions as they relate to African tropical biodiversity and associated economic acti......hifts is that our management of them has tended to focus exclusively on improving one type of ecosystem ser...n Marie Douglas (University of Massachusetts) will focus on potential impacts on Indias Monsoon Belt, home to a large part of the globes population. India h...National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
...er cycle (rain or snow, permafrost, runoff). The focus of NEON complements the theme of the ESA/SER joint meeting, Ecological Restoration in a Changing World. Society depends on ecosystems in the same way it depends on weather, water resources, and agriculture. We currently have little understanding of t...Unlocking proteins from their cellular shell
...pecific cellular interactions. Future efforts will focus in part on folding of cytoskeletal proteins that are targets of gene therapies and also on clarifying signaling processes in cells that couple to protein folding. The latter processes often entail modification of proteins with phosphates and are ess...Chickadee, nutchatch presence in conifers increases tree growth, says CU-Boulder study
...look at the big picture of ecosystems and not just focus on trees when implementing regulations aimed at encouraging the growth of healthy forests." The study also has implications for large areas of the West ravaged by forest fires in recent years, he said. A number of once formidable stands of mature...Neurosciences and music meet in Montreal
...thy and pathologic conditions. The conference will focus on many topics such as: the importance of music in the biologic and cultural evolution of man, differences between musicians trained at an early or late age, congenital amusia, absolute pitch, the relationship between the study of music and intellect...Altering a protein makes mice less fearful
...ecific sites of action of ASIC1a in the brain, and focus on understanding the role of the ion channel in the amygdala. They also are interested in whether the protein is involved in other types of psychiatric illness. "Anxiety and other psychiatric illnesses, such as depression, are closely related. Som...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...quisition from Mapped Single DNA Molecules The focus of this project is to create a system capable of analyzing large amounts of human genome data that ties the location of sequence elements to longer-range map information. This would include information such as structural variations and aberrations as...JCI table of contents: August 1, 2007
...the regulation of food intake and energy balance a focus of many researchers. One aspect of such research is understanding how the brain controls these processes. Expression of the protein AMPK in neurons in the brain has been suggested to be important for regulating energy balance, but in which neurons it...2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...l allow them to create research teams in Europe to focus on cutting-edge science research. This year, the recipients include more female and younger researchers than any other year. EURYI is designed to attract outstanding young scientists from around the world to create their own research teams at Eu...Pets could be source of multiresistant bacteria infections in humans, MU researchers investigate
...ureus (MRSA), which can be fatal in humans, is the focus of a new research project led by MU veterinarians Stephanie Kottler, Leah Cohn and John Middleton. We used to think of these antibiotic-resistant infections as a healthcare issue that appeared in post-operative or long-term patients, said Kottler,...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
...on with regulatory T cells will now become a major focus of research on MS. The NEJM paper involved a hypothesis-neutral approach, in which the research teams scanned the entire genome of MS patients, their families and a control group for similarities and differences. By contrast, the Nature Genetics p...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
...evelopers identify the ideal compounds on which to focus their research. In addition, the model could help test the effectiveness of drugs for a wide range of diseases, including various kinds of cancer, arthritis and immune system disorders, according to Douglas Lauffenburger, MIT professor of biologic...Researchers find pathway that controls cell size and division
...ntrolled growth and aberrant division. A primary focus of the Levin labs research is a protein called FtsZ. FtsZ is an ancestor of tubulin, the protein that is responsible for distributing duplicated chromosomes between dividing human cells. In bacteria, FtsZ forms a ring at the future division site. The...Risk genes for multiple sclerosis uncovered
...on with regulatory T cells will now become a major focus of research on MS, says Stephen Hauser, professor of neurology at University of California San Francisco, and another author on the paper. This latest paper is among a series of recent whole-genome association studies that have begun to uncover the...UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute partners with Abraxis BioScience
.... The Abraxis/CNSI Research Collaboration Lab will focus on translational science, quickly translating scientific discoveries into practical applications. Abraxis BioScience has joined the CNSI Partners Program and is the institutes first partner in the area of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. The part...