Leading scientists to discuss research applications for therapeutic cloning
...d simply move the science offshore or to privately funded efforts not subject to U.S. regulation. Responsible clinical trials also need to be held soon, perhaps by 2008, Dr. Schatten adds....DFG research training groups become increasingly international
...d/University of Paris Panthon Sorbonne The DFG has funded Research Training Groups for particularly highly qualified doctoral students from all scientific disciplines since 1990. Between 15 and 25 researchers per Research Training Group work in a research and study programme that is usually interdisciplinar...For inferring the biological tree of life, simple is better
...uster of Apple personal computers. The project was funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant to the UO to train graduate students like Kolaczkowski in interdisciplinary research in evolution, development and genomics. Thornton, who joined the UO faculty in 2002, is an assistant professor of biol...Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
...u Ground Station in Belgium. Its CHRIS instrument, funded by the British National Space Centre (BNSC), has been built by the UK company SIRA Space. Proba's unique capabilities also makes it a useful resource in the development of ESA's proposed SPECTRA (Surface Processes and Ecosystem Changes Through Respo...Reductions in blood oxygen levels in newborns could contribute to ADHD development
...University's School of Medicine. The research was funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and conducted by the Program in Sleep Medicine and the Department of Neurology at Emory University. Apnea of prematurity occurs in up to 85 percent of all prematurely born human infants, and obstructive ...Psychologist finds instance where 'two wrongs do make a right'
...er issue of the journal PLoS Biology. Their study, funded by the National Science Foundation, challenged a dominant theory of how the brain processes vision. The theory holds that information from the eyes separates into two distinct streams: one to simply represent where we see things in the environment, a...Emory study details dolphin brain evolution for the first time
...sted for at least 15 million years." The study was funded by the National Science Foundation and the SETI Institute. Marino's previous research has shown how dolphins have the capacity for mirror self-recognition, a feat of intelligence previously thought to be reserved only for Homo sapiens and their close...Immune system in a bottle could help prevent flu vaccine shortage
...ense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded a consortium of research institutions for $10 million to grow the immune system in a bottle. Scientists can study the artificial immune system to see how it reacts to biological hazards and their countermeasures, and use the data to make more effect...Chimpanzee 'workshop' discovered in Congo
...ferent ways than previously observed. The study, funded in large part by WCS and National Geographic, relied on remote video cameras recording chimps using heavy sticks to punch holes in termite mounds, then using a lighter stick known as a "fishing tool" to extract termites. For underground termite moun...Munching microbes could cleanse arsenic-contaminated groundwater
...entist Thomas Holm. The U.S. Department of Energy funded the work....Government development policies, not communities, main threat to forest conservation projects
...protected areas, is mostly in the form of lavishly funded short-term projects. What is missing are the resources for low-level, continuous management activities. Meanwhile, since March, 2002, Peru has auctioned off almost 7.5 million hectares of forest in private logging concessions, in a system that exclu...Humans and dolphins: If brain size is a measure, we're not that different
...irector in NSF's division of earth sciences, which funded the research. "Brain size, it turns out, increased significantly in two critical phases in the evolution of these animals." The first brain size increase occurred with the origin of Odontocetes from the ancestral group Archaeoceti nearly 39 m...Common household fragrances may be harming aquatic wildlife, study finds
...s Marine Station in Pacific Grove, Calif., and was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the California Sea Grant College and the California State Resources Agency. By Mark Shwartz ...Red wine mist? Resveratrol shows potential effects against COPD, asthma, arthritis
...rd E.K. Russell and Peter J. Barnes. Research was funded by grants from Pharmascience Inc., Pharmacia (part of Pfizer Inc.), the British Lung Foundation and the National Asthma Campaign (UK)....UCLA and Univ. of Utah researchers identify how a hormone regulates iron
...nemia worldwide. The National Institutes of Health funded the study. Other authors include: Marie S. Tuttle, Julie Powelson, Michael B. Vaughn and Diane McVey Ward from the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Utah; and Adriana Donovan, Department of Hematology, Children's Hospital, B...'Broken' gene reveals evolution of salt retention and possible ties to hypertension
...ctive pressure." The National Institutes of Health funded this study through the Pharmacogenetics Research Network. Additional authors include E. E. Thompson, H. Kuttab-Boulos and D. Witonsky of the University of Chicago, and L. Yang and B. A. Roe of the University of Oklahoma....Stress impairs thinking via mania-linked enzyme
...ity of protein kinase C (PKC), suggests the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute on Aging (NIA), and the Stanley Foundation. It explains how even mild stress can worsen cognitive symptoms, as occurs in bipolar disoder, w...Antibiotic-resistant bacteria increased after clindamycin use for common vaginal infection
...all of the University of Pittsburgh. The study was funded by an unrestricted grant from 3M Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of MetroGel-Vaginal, a metronidazole-containing treatment for bacterial vaginosis, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health....Researchers grow sperm stem cells in laboratory cultures
...er, M.D., Director of the NICHD. Their research, funded in part by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health, will be published online this week in an upcoming issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Led by Hiroshi Kubota, D.V.M...ORNL project earns top honor from Southeast tech transfer group
...ng Science and Technology Division. The project is funded by DOE's Laboratory Directed Research and Developm...an existing technology. Isotron, of Norcross, Ga., funded the research through a cooperative research and development agreement. The californium-252 was prov...