Study links ozone, mortality in urban areas
...the American Medical Association. The study, funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was conducted from 1987 to 2000 and drew a connection between short-term changes in ground-level ozone, a common outdoor pollutant, and mortality in 95 large urban areas, covering 40 percent...Researchers discover new way to boost grain crops' drought tolerance
... UCR Biochemist Daniel R. Gallie led the research, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation and the California Agricultural Experiment Station. The findings will be published in the December issue of The Plant Journal in a paper titled ACC Synthase Expression Regulates L......life living in other wild places. The project was funded in part by a grant from NASA. According to members of Dr. Sanderson's team, the detail of the images taken from so far away has been particularly impressive. "We're counting individual gazelles in the zoo's African Plains ...Genetic science inspires opera
...t of this project', he added. The project has been funded by a 15,000 grant from the Wellcome Trust's Engaging Science Programme, which aims to raise awareness of biomedical research and its social implications. Scientists at Newcastle University and at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for H...Isotron licenses ORNL cancer treatment technology
...ear cooperative research and development agreement funded entirely by Isotron. The license grants Isotron rights to two patents detailing how to make miniature californium-252 sources for neutron brachytherapy and how to attach them to small-diameter wires. The work was performed in ORNL's Californium User ...Fragmented habitats no ultimate refuges for forest-dwelling tropical birds
...tensive work in tropical areas. Their research was funded by the American Philosophical Society. "Deforestation is rarely total or completely permanent," the two authors wrote in their "Conservation Biology" paper. "Small patches of original habitat remain and, in time, secondary forests, gardens or plantat...Salt-water minnow research helps explain human cardiology
...ment program, and biological oceanography program, funded the work. "These scientists found a genetic set of keys that begins to unlock the mystery of why certain people can eat fatty foods and not suffer from heart disease, and why some medical treatments work more effectively in some people than in others...UT Southwestern researchers trace how virus that causes AIDS spreads following oral exposure
...ons to tissues throughout the body. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Other UT Southwestern authors include graduate students Jeffrey Milush and David Kosub; laboratory manager Frederick Scott; and research associate Aneta Wozniakowski....Free radicals and fertilization: Study reveals egg protection secret
...utes of Health and the National Science Foundation funded the work....Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...dustries." Results of the study, funded by Genome Canada and others and published Dec. 6 in a supplement to Nature Biotechnology, documents the development of successful health biotechnology sectors in detailed case studies of seven countries. It identifies factors that led to their succes...Chicken genome will help our understanding of humans and improve agriculture
...y and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funded team which worked on the annotation of the genome within the international chicken genome project. "The chicken has also been used extensively as a model by developmental biologists for over a century and the availability of a gene catalogue for the ...Carbon sink or carbon source? Aerosols play role in shifts
...ts square with the field studies. The research was funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and an NC State Faculty Research and Professional Development Award....Chicken genome analysis unlocks secrets of mammalian and bird evolution
...the chicken genome sequence, a $13 million project funded by the National Institutes of Health, was completed at the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center in St. Louis, Mo. in March 2004 and made available online to researchers. The draft sequencing project, along with a whole-genome sequencing con...Chicken genome analysis will benefit human health and agriculture
... of cancer. Dodgson, whose research is also funded by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station at...s part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the chicken genome sequencing project. "Located between mammals and fish on the tree of life, the ch...Children's Hospital Boston launches major genetic study of autism
...early implicated. The Children's study, partially funded by the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, will bring together researchers in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and developmental medicine to try to solve the puzzle. Autism is a complex behavioral syndrome defined by developmental deficits, parti...University of Vermont heads translatlantic cardiovascular research network
...rks of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research to be funded by Fondation Leducq, a French institution that supports European-American collaborations in cardiovascular research. Edwin Bovill, M.D., professor and chair of pathology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and an international expert in ...Mutant gene linked to treatment-resistant depression
...ients than in control subjects, report researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Patients with the mutation failed to respond well to the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressant medicatio...Europe's fishermen should have marine 'stewardship' role, says study
...nvironment, or ecosystem. The scientists, who are funded by the European Union, have produced the North Sea Fisheries Ecosystem Plan (FEP), which shows how an 'ecosystem approach' could be introduced to manage the North Sea fisheries and highlights the importance of consulting stakeholders, like fishermen,...False positive screening for cancer found to be frequent and costly
...to women with all negative results. The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute and is part of a larger trial of the effectiveness of screening for prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancers. "The results of this smaller study add to the growing body of evidence highlighting the importance ...Three Yale scientists receive Ellison Medical Foundation awards
...stimulate new, creative research that might not be funded by traditional sources or that is often under-funded in the U.S."...