Scientists find that the human nose is more complicated than a jumbo jet
...ngs and the other seasonal scents. Now researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have not only discovered how air moves through the nose bringing you those smells but their work may lead to new ways of unblocking it and helping you to breathe more easily. They ...Cleft palate research receives 200,000 award
...She was one of just 21 successful applicants to be funded by the scheme, which provides support for clinical and non-clinical researchers in their first steps towards establishing themselves as independent principal investigators. In the first part of the project, Dr Dixon will analyse whether cleft palate ...New comparative toxicogenomics database
...prototype is a community-supported public resource funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health. The scientific community is invited to participate in its development by providing feedback or submitting data sets via the website ( ctd@mdibl.org ...NJIT astrophysicist who revived earthshine named fellow of American Physical Society
...he field's evolution. Goode's study of earthshine, funded by NASA, has also been notable. He and his team of researchers have published two important and controversial scholarly journal articles. In the May 28, 2004, issue of Science, Goode and solar physicists from NJIT and Cal Tech argued that by obser...Satellite data to track wildlife: Elephants in space
...our planet's biological diversity. The project was funded in part by a grant from NASA in support of the Agency's mission to improve life here, extend life to there, and to find life beyond....UCSD medical researchers discover molecular pathway that turns a juvenile heart into an adult heart
... females with mutated ASF/SF2. The UCSD study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additional authors were Xiangdong Xu, B.S., UCSD Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Dongmei Yang, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging, NIH, co-first authors; and Jian-Hua Ding, Ph.D., Huan-Y...Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections
..., CA, sequenced the second strain. The project was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Numerous collaborators helped to interpret and analyze the genome sequence data. C. neoformans , an oval-shaped yeast, is an opp...Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development
...ties to humans. Reinisch's work on BCE is funded by a STAR grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Science supported by the STAR program is rigorously peer reviewed. Study Background and Research Methods When MBL researcher Carol Reinisch first heard news stories about Br...Researchers map genome of deadly fungus
... CA, sequenced the second strain. The project was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Numerous collaborators helped to interpret and analyze the genome sequence data, including Maureen Donlin, Ph.D., research assistant pro...Thinking small: Texas A&M team creates lab-on-a-chip
...red in several science journals. Their research is funded by The Robert A. Welch Foundation and National Science Foundation grants. "It might be possible to do the same thing with a large number of fluids, chemicals or even a virus," Naugle explains. "The Texas A&M team has managed to move and levitate seve...Study identifies the most common genetic cause of Parkinson's disease
...d arthritis. The Cincinnati Children's study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health. Cincinnati Children's conducted this research in conjunction with Dr. Singleton of the National Institute on Aging, and Tatiana Foroud, PhD, of India...New evidence indicates biggest extinction wasn't caused by asteroid or comet
...dden changes associated with an impact. The work, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Astrobiology Institute, the National Science Foundation and the National Research Foundation of South Africa, provides a glimpse of what can happen with long-term climate warming, Ward said. In ...Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds
...octoral fellow Alysson Muotri, Ph.D. The study was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, the Lookout Fund, and by the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation of New York. In addition to Varki, authors of the related study in JBC inclu...Novel approach yields predictions validated by experiments
...ult, or impossible, to perform." The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and largely completed at MUSC, where Voit was a professor before joining the Georgia Tech faculty this past fall. Voit is continuing this research in his new position. His co-authors on the Nature paper are Yusuf ...Calcium may protect women from cancer
...ess than 800 mg/d from supplements. This study was funded by NCI. In addition to Andrew Flood, researchers on the study were Ulrike Peters, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle; and Nilanjan Chatterjee, James Lacy, Jr., Catherine Schairer and Arthur Schatzkin, all with NCI in Bethesda, MD...Recognizing new aneurysm syndrome can save lives
...ese patients." The Johns Hopkins researchers were funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the National Marfan Foundation. Authors on the paper are Loeys, Dietz, Junji Chen, Eni...Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks
... and the Society for Neuroscience and is currently funded under a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health grant through 2007 as the principal investigator on "Genetic analysis of zebrafish circadian rhythmicity," under which this latest study falls....Blocking cell signaling can stymie viral infections, study shows
...de array of acute viral conditions." The study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), as part of an effort to strengthen the country's defenses against bioterrorism, and from the Dana Foundation. Smallpox has been identified as a potential terror weapo...Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
... biostatistician at the USDA's ARS. The study was funded by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Agriculture Research Initiative of California State University.......pus program called Tissue Engineering at Michigan, funded in part by the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research. TEAM aims to provide an interdisciplinary, research-intensive environment for those pursuing careers in the oral sciences, with a focus in the area of restoration of oral-craniof...