Most older people with mild cognitive impairment have AD or cerebral vascular disease
...rticipate in the National Institute on Aging (NIA) funded Religious Orders Study. Since 1993 more than 1000 ...ett and his colleagues are involved in another NIA funded study at Rush, the Memory and Aging Project, trying to identify what keeps these individuals from be...University of Manchester pioneers study to support teenage mums' bone health
... a major part of its activity. The study has been funded by the National Osteoporosis Society, and is believed to be first into the long-term effects of early pregnancy on bone health. The findings will help inform opinion on whether calcium and other mineral supplements could be particularly beneficial t...NJIT researcher creates opportunities for studying chiral ionic liquids
... Since 2004, the U.S. Department of Energy has funded Malholtra's work. He is also collaborating on funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Recent published work by Malhotra and doctoral student Ying Xiao include "FriedelCrafts Alkylation Reactions in Pyridinium-Based Ionic Liquids," (...MUHC researchers make cancer target breakthrough
...work in humans," explains Dr. Rozen. The research, funded by Strida Pharma--a McGill University spin-off company--also indicated that the antisense was particularly effective in reducing cancer tumors when administered in low doses and in combination with established cancer drugs. "All drugs and antisense h...Biochemists report discovery of structure of major piece of telomerase; implications for cancer
...ical companies. The research, which was federally funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, could have applications for many kinds of cancers. The domain of telomerase whose structure the biochemists have determined is essential for telomerase to add nucleotides to te...Defenseless plants arm themselves with metals
... Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund funded this project, with support from the Bindley Bioscience Center in Purdue's Discovery Park....Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert
...escara, Italy). The Life in the Atacama project is funded with a $3 million, three-year grant from NASA to Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute in the School of Computer Science. William "Red" Whittaker is the principal investigator. Waggoner is principal investigator for the companion project in life-detec...UC Davis researchers discover new link between C-reactive protein, and heart disease and stroke
...o produce C-reactive protein, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in the April issue of American Journal of Pathology. C-reactive protein is a risk marker for heart disease and is known to be produced in the liver, but UC Davis School of Medicine researchers Ishwar...Harnessing microbes, one by one, to build a better nanoworld
...m a complex mixture. The work by Hamers' group was funded by the National Science Foundation. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a private, nonprofit organization that manages UW-Madison intellectual property, has applied for patents for the technology. The paper on this research, ANYL 424, will be p...ICPB locks in license to improve plastics with corn
...process for converting corn into isosorbide. ICPB funded its tasks under the CRADA with Iowa corn checkoff investment funds while PNNL's tasks were funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. "The...Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
...sed profitability enables on-board observers to be funded from cost-recovery programs, increased retention of marketable fish would usually increase the profits of fishers and there may be considerable economic value attached to more accurate and reliable stock assessments." Branch, who earned his doctorat...Vital step in cellular migration described by UCSD medical researchers
...Ph.D., UCSD Department of Medicine. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health....Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation
...nternational Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), funded by the U.S. and Swiss National Science Foundations as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).Drawing on diverse data sources, including assessment of contemporary mangrove assemblages in southern Sri Lanka, changing water ...Babies born preterm cost businesses big money: Hospital charges estimated at $7.4 billion annually
... brochure on premature birth's "Cost to Business," funded by Adeza Biomedical, which includes the Thomson Medstat findings....Components in grapes inhibit enzyme key to proliferation of cancer cells
...abeled flavonoids congregate in rats, in a project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "We are finding that these flavonoids are very bioavailable," de Mejia said. "By eating the fruit, we know that the bioactive component involved goes into your bloodstream and relocates to other regions. Before ...DFG awards 2005 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
...clear physicist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz. The prize is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Re...yo cells. As the leader of a junior research group funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and a member of a DFG's Collaborative Research Centre, Jiri Friml and h...'Color-blind' method opens new doors in DNA sequencing
...project on sequencing-by-synthesis (SBS), which is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute. SBS could lead to the ability to sequence an individual's own genome rapidly and inexpensively. Metzker and the major developers of this technology filed a patent on PME in 2001, which has been exclusi...Scientists seek answers on what activates deadly anthrax spores
...uke University, one of eight such regional centers funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The other institutions in Claiborne's project include a co-investigator at Virginia Tech and collaborators at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, ...Europe faces brain drain and declining patient care unless cancer research funding is doubled
... survey to analyse the way that cancer research is funded across Europe has revealed some startling findings...el; more than half of European cancer research is funded by the charitable sector; opportunities exist for greater collaboration and co-operation between fu...'Free-for-all' illegal logging of mahogany in Peruvian parks, says Duke-based monitoring group
...rom September 16 to October 15, 2004. The trip was funded by an anonymous donor, Fagan said in an interview. "Until our investigation, the only people who knew what was going on in this remote region were the loggers and drug traffickers and a relatively few local people," said Fagan, who until recently was...