New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
... "Innovative sequencing technologies are critical to our efforts to move advances in genomic knowledge into the clinic. The era of personalized medicine wi...Researchers probe risks, benefits of folic acid fortification
BOSTON Since the institution of nationwide folic acid fortification of enriched grains in the mid 1990s, the number of infants born in the United States and Canada with neural tube defects has declined by 20 percent to 50 percent. Concurrent with the institution of fortification, however, the rate at which new cases of colorectal cancer were diagnosed in men and women increased, report research...UCI launches effort to develop patient-specific stem cell lines
... Keirstead will use a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in which a patients DNA is transplanted into a donated unfertilized egg cell in order to generate stem cell lines with the same genetic...US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK
... "The data tells the story of the interaction between marine turtles and humans over the last hundred years,"...US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK
... ... The data tells the...AAAS, National School Boards Asso. join in historic effort to improve science, math & tech education
... While the findings focus just on one heartland metropolitan area, they likely parallel the interests and challenges prevailing in school districts nationwide, say officials for Public Agend...Trends in bird observations reveal species' changing fortunes
Data gathered over decades by the thousands of volunteers who participate in the North American Breeding Bird Survey have yielded a vivid portrait of trends in the abundance of birds in eastern North America. In an article in the April 2007 issue of BioScience, Ivan Valiela, of the Boston University Marine Program, and Paulina Martinetto, at Argentina's Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, des...Wilson Center and Pew Charitable Trusts expand efforts to examine risks/benefits of nanotechnology
... "The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies is engaged in something very rare in our rapidly changing, technology-driven world," said Wilson Center President and Director Lee H...The biggest bug in gut discomfort
... While most sufferers recover after a few unpleasant days, it can be life threatening to those with compromised immune systems. A rare but serious complication of C. jejuni infection is the triggering of the a...Intensified research effort yields climate-resilient agriculture to blunt impact of global warming
... ), in consultation with the global environmental...Fortified milk reduces morbidity in preschool children
... Some micronutrients have a crucial role in generation, maintenance and amplification of immune responses in th...New cost-benefit model will aid efforts to conserve wilderness: UBC researcher
... "Efforts to save wildlife often play out within a win-lose framework that pits conservation against economic opportunity," says Asst. Prof. Chan, who came from Stanford University to teach at UBC's Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. "But this framework overlooks the fact that ecosy...ASU discovery may aid counter-terrorism efforts
... Now, professor Joe Wang, director of the Center for Biosensors and Bioelectronics at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has developed a highly sensitive technology to rapidly detect liquid peroxide explosives in as little as 15 seconds. The results are published as a research communication online in this week's edition of the leading internatio...Orange juice beverage fortified with plant sterols lowers indicators of heart disease risk
... "This is the first study to show...... This relatively unsophisticated attack confirmed fears, already growing in the US, that with a bit more effort a determined bioterrorist could spread disease and mayhem across the nation. To combat the threat, the Bush administration launched an...unprecedented biodefence effort. To date it has spent $44 billion three-quarters of it a...Georgetown leads effort to study safety of 'alternative' tobacco products
... The sweeping grant, the first of its kind, will examine all aspects of the increasing number of "safer" tobacco or nicotine delivery systems, products which range from low nicotine cigarettes and cigarettes that heat tobacco instead of burn it, to nicotine mints that are now av...Powell River Project Symposium highlights coal mine reclamation efforts
... ... "The symposium will feature Virginia Tech researchers who are studying methods for restoring mined s...Draft environmental impact statement prepared for USAMRIID facilities at Fort Detrick
The Department of the Army has issued a Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) associated with the construction and operation of new U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) facilities and the decommissioning and demolition or re-use of the existing USAMRIID facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland. A Public Meeting for the DEIS will b...NIH selects Pittsburgh institute as leader for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
... ... Sharon L. Hillier, Ph.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and of molecu...Springer joins Katrina relief effort with eBooks donation worth more than $1 million
As New Orleans continues to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Springer Science+Business Media ( ), one of the world's largest science, technology and medicine book publishers, this morning announced a donation of eBooks to seven of the city's universities. Springer announced the donation, valued at more than $1 million, at the American Library Association conference in New Orleans....NIH launches effort to place more knockout mice in public repositories
BETHESDA, Md. As part of its ongoing effort to build a public, genome-wide library of "knockout" mouse models for the study of human disease, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today awarded $800,000 to two public mouse repositories to acquire genetically engineered mouse lines not yet widely accessible to researchers. ...... In the two decades since recombinant DNA technology was first use...Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center marks end of sequencing effort with chromosome 3
HOUSTON (April 27, 2006) The sequencing of human chromosome 3 announced in the current issue of the journal Nature represents a milestone for the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center the final stage of its multi-year project to sequence the human genome. ... ...Researchers at the BCM genome sequencing center in Houston are now using the information to discover the genetic...Hopkins genetics experts aid efforts to identify hurricane Katrina victims
Experts at Johns Hopkins are joining efforts to identify more than 70 bodies recovered after Hurricane Katrina, which struck last Aug. 29, killing more than 1,200 in Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of those killed have already been identified and buried by their families....... Using experience gained in DNA analysis of human remains after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Hopkins epidemi...Genetics experts join together to support efforts to identify remaining hurricane Katrina victims
A multi-institution team of experts, coordinated by geneticists from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is supporting efforts to identify more than 70 bodies still unidentified in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....... "I'm very proud of how the genetics community has joined together in this time of continuing need. It is insp...Efforts to replicate controversial diabetes therapy bring partial success
An effort by researchers at the University of Chicago to confirm the results of a high-profile study that brought extraordinary hope to diabetes researchers and patients worldwide has met with considerable, but not complete, success. The researchers were able to reverse type-1 diabetes in one-third of mice but were unable to find any evidence of insulin-producing beta cells derived from donated...Environmental impact statement planned for USAMRIID facilities at Fort Detrick
The Department of the Army issued today a Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) associated with the construction and operation of new U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) facilities and the decommissioning and demolition or re-use of the existing USAMRIID facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland. A Public Scoping Meeting will be conduc...Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases
WASHINGTON Wed. Feb. 8, 2006 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the creation of two new, closely related initiatives to speed up research on the causes of common diseases such as asthma, arthritis and Alzheimer's disease....... ......One initiative boosts funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a multi-institute effort to identify the genetic and e...Global effort needed to anticipate and prevent potential misuse of advances in life sciences
Biomedical advances have made it possible to identify and manipulate features of living organisms in useful ways -- leading to improvements in public health, agriculture, and other areas. The globalization of scientific and technical expertise also means that many scientists and other individuals around the world are generating breakthroughs in the life sciences and related technologies. Howeve...Baboons in mourning seek comfort among friends
When Sylvia the baboon lost Sierra, her closest grooming partner and daughter, to a lion, she responded in a way that would be considered very human-like: she looked to friends for support. According to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, baboons physiologically respond to bereavement in ways similar to humans, with an increase in stress hormones called glucocorticoids. Baboons ca...Five European laboratories forms a concerted effort to understand tumor-host interactions
An EU funded Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) entitled "Tumor-Host Genomics" has been launched at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The Tumor-Host Genomics project links together the resources of five European leading-edge laboratories studying major signaling pathways in mesenchymal and hematopoietic cells, forming a concerted effort to understand tumor-host interactions, and to ide...Crop development efforts get major boost
The long, arduous and expensive process of developing new crop varieties received a major boost this week with the joint launch in Mexico and the Philippines of a new scientific program and facilities that unite key databases and research on the planet's three most important crops, rice, wheat and maize....... A joint venture between two of the world's leading agricultural research centers the P...MBL leads effort to update E. coli genome
E.coli is one of the most important model organisms for molecular science today and is arguably the single organism about which the most is known. The genes of higher-level plants and animals, even humans, are often understood by their similarity to E. coli genes. As such, the accuracy and completeness of E.coli genome information is of great importance to the scientific community. ...... In an...NCI and NHGRI launch comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics
The National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute will host a press conference to launch a human cancer genome pilot project. The project will lay the foundation for exploring genomic changes involved in cancer, with the ultimate goal of developing new means of preventing, detecting and treating cancer.... ... ...Anna D. Barker, Ph.D., NCI deputy ... ... ....NIH launches comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today launched a comprehensive effort to accelerate our understanding of the molecular basis of cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, especially large-scale genome sequencing. The overall effort, called The Cancer Genome Atla...ORNL leading effort to help harness power of Shewanella
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 11, 2005 -- Tremendous amounts of data being generated about a microbe adept at bioremediation will be more efficiently organized and shared through a new $3 million project headed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.... ...The award by the Department of Energy's Office of Science builds upon advances made through a three-year consortium whose members have already sequenced th...Extreme challenges await electrical engineers' efforts to restore power on Gulf Coast
Electrical engineers will face "extreme challenges" in their role to restore power to the Gulf Coast ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, according to a September article in IEEE-USA Today's Engineer. Damage to the regional electric grid, which includes power plants, substations and transmission and distribution lines, is extensive....... "The challenge is to figure out what pieces of the regional elect...Controlling the spread of invasive plants: a national effort one-day symposium, Aug. 30
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 Kudzu, the Japanese vine introduced into the United States in the 1930s to help control soil erosion, worked so well that it eventually became known as the "vine that ate the South." Efforts to control Kudzu and more than 1,100 other invasive plants, which the National Park Service says are overtaking about 4,300 acres of public land every day, cost Americans at least $34.7...NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies
BETHESDA, Md., Mon., Aug. 8, 2005 The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it has awarded grants totaling more than $32 million to advance the development of innovative sequencing technologies intended to reduce the cost of DNA sequencing and expand the use of genomics in biomedical research and health care. ...... "Th...K-State part of effort to completely sequence common wheat genome
MANHATTAN, KAN-- Kansas State University and the Kansas Wheat Commission are spearheading the effort to create the Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, an international program focused on building the foundation for advancing agricultural research for wheat production....... The principal goal of the consortium is to obtain a publicly available, complete sequence of common (hexaploid) wheat since...Scientists take major step to improve river restoration efforts
PHILADELPHIA -- A group of the nation's leading river scientists, including Dr. David Hart and Jamie Carr of The Academy of Natural Science's Patrick Center for Environmental Research, has taken an important step to propel the country's $1 billion-per-year river-restoration movement from an art to a science. ...A policy paper, appearing in the April 29 edition of the journal Science, details key...