NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...ore, structural biologists have been moving beyond focusing on one technique or another to focusing on the problems that they can solve. The problem, to a certain extent, may determine the technique u...Most promising clinical uses for stem cells from fat agreed on by international society
...University of California, Los Angeles. The session focusing on scientific methods was led by Jeffrey Gimble, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University. Discussions on clinical applications and opportunities were moderated by Keith March, M.D., Ph.D., d...Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants
...lth surveillance programs. Under the first grant, focusing on health promotion in the workplace, CHIP will test a scheme for improving control of influenza outbreaks in two populations employees at a U.S. company and hospital patients in Canada. CHIP Investigator Dr. Kenneth Mandl will lead the $1.5 million...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
...ntrol and attacking our own tissues? The group is focusing on white blood cells known as neutrophils, which are the body's first responders to inflammation and infection, and how those cells interact with the blood vessel lining known as the endothelium. The cells float along in the bloodstream and make the ...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...nary interactions in nature, with much of his work focusing on interactions between plants and the insects that pollinate flowers and feed on plant parts. Both the ecology and the genetics involved in these natural systems are highly complicated, however, and even long-term studies can only address a limited ...Research into the sense of touch in worms wins Eppendorf/Science Prize
...tarted his own lab at Stanford University in 2003, focusing on understanding molecular mechanisms of synaptic target specificity. Qin Shen, for her essay "Preventing Aging In Neural Stem Cells: Regulating Asymmetric Versus Symmetric Cell Divisions." Dr. Shen earned her Bachelor's degree in Pharmacology from S...Time-lapse movies show brain cells move like a two-stroke engine
...o action. "Scientists have spent the last 15 years focusing on adhesion as the most important aspect of cell migration," says Hatten. "These experiments illustrate that we've been looking in the wrong place. Adhesion is necessary, but not sufficient for neuronal migration." In humans, the migration of young n...Identifying genes that contribute to a low level of response to alcohol
...pensive and time-consuming," he said. "We will be focusing on several chromosomal regions, several specific genes, and continue to collaborate with people doing animal research."...International human genome sequencing consortium describes finished human genome sequence
...racy needed to perform sensitive analyses, such as focusing on the number of genes, the segmental duplications involved in disease and the "birth" and "death" of genes over the course of evolution. "Only a decade ago, most scientists thought humans had about 100,000 genes. When we analyzed the working draft ...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
... of medical care. The ASU researchers said that by focusing on the relatively tiny fraction of human DNA that comprises the individual genes, a single sequencing slide could read out all of the information for genes now known to play a role in hereditary human diseases and diseases such as cancer that arise f...Tiny paddle oscillator senses the mass of a virus
...ency, the paddles began to vibrate, as measured by focusing a laser on the paddles and noting the change in reflected light, a process called optical interferometry. The natural resonant frequency at which something vibrates depends on, among other things, its mass. A thick, heavy guitar string, for example,...National Eye Institute funds search for genetic key to corneal disease
HOUSTON (Nov. 5, 2004) A new federal grant focusing on painful inherited visual disorders that scar the cornea will allow researchers to narrow the genetic cause of one type of corneal dystrophy and to offer improved diagnosis of this family of diseases. The $1.1 million, three-year award by the Natio...International marine survey of coral death
...rs in diseases carried by flying birds -- they are focusing on dying organisms that can't move: the world's co...t the World Bank and Global Environmental Fund are focusing on coral reefs because of the organisms' highly threatened condition worldwide and because of their ...Reduced fish stocks linked to increased bushmeat trade, wildlife declines in W. Africa
...icult. "Many conservationists in Africa have been focusing on small-scale interaction of people near parks and say the solution lies in local development projects for local people," Arcese says. "It's an ethical and good approach, but if the larger problem of wildlife decline is mainly a result of large-scal...NIEHS to develop new RNAi library to help fight disease
...nes," said Dr. Kenneth Olden, NIEHS Director. "By focusing on the environmental response genes, we're buildin...IEHS project differs from what others are doing by focusing on genes related to environmental health and toxicology. Researchers will be able to more rapidly d...Scientists achieve self-assembly of spider silk fiber in insect cells
...y of the Hebrew University and German partners are focusing on commercializing the research. Participants in the research, which has been conducted over the past two years, are the developmental biologist Dr. Uri Gat, doctoral student Shmulik Ittah and research assistant Shulamit Cohen of the Department of Ce...Scientists generate human islet precursor cells in culture
...f islets needed for transplantation. The NIDDK is focusing its research on understanding the beta cell and its regeneration and on efforts to develop alternative sources of beta cells. The researchers hope that future studies will corroborate their findings and address some of the unanswered questions. For ...Efforts to clone primates move forward
...ed stem cells. Dr. Schatten and his colleagues are focusing much of their research on strategies to derive embryonic stem cells from nonhuman primates. Such cells could be used as a template for human embryonic stem cell study, and answer many questions about how embryonic stem cells work and whether they can...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...rline the importance in developing countries of 1) focusing on local health needs ("necessity becomes opportunity"), 2) the role of the private sector in commercialization, 3) widespread collaboration, 4) specializing in a niche, and 5) long-term government support. "The study offers a varie...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
...st pharmaceuticals in developing countries. "We're focusing our groundbreaking technology on producing a known pharmaceutical -- the most effective antimalarial out there -- so that it reaches the people who need it most. This is just the beginning of drug production using synthetic biology," said Jack D. Ne...