$4.4 million NIH grant renews Echinacea and St John's wort research at Iowa State
...'s wort) has received $4.4 million in continuation funding from the National Institutes of Health. The renewal is for three years. The Iowa Center for Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements at Iowa State University was created in 2002 by the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. In addition to Iowa State, ...Manchester to spearhead 8.3 million particle physics project
... The new CONFORM* project has received 7.5 million funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The research is being led Professor Roger Barlow from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, in collaboration with Science and Technology Facilities ...More recycling on the farm could reduce environmental problems
...ts could be expected. Pearson argues that existing funding programs for farmers could be modified to encourage more regenerative agriculture, and suggests that philanthropists and professional bodies could stimulate its uptake....Tree rings show elevated tungsten coincides with Nevada leukemia cluster
...of Environmental Health Perspectives. A list of funding sources and the complete citation for the article is at the bottom of this release. In a 2003 U.S. Health and Human Services report investigating possible causes for the leukemia cases in Fallon ( http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/PHA/fallonair/finalair...Seeing the trees for the forest: WHRC scientists creating national biomass and carbon dataset
...nd coincides with the formal receipt of additional funding from NASA's Terrestrial Ecology Program. All NBCD2000 data products will be made available for download on a zone-by-zone basis and free of charge from the Seamless Data Distribution System operated by the U.S. Geological Survey as well as from an N...Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
...e done this long-term research without substantial funding and are very grateful to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation for supporting our research," Eisenberg said....Famous Galpagos tortoise, Lonesome George, may not be alone
...is a harsh environment with no local resources and funding such an operation will be costly." According to Powell, "These findings offer the potential for transforming the legacy of Lonesome George from an enduring symbol of rarity to a conservation success story." ...Yale biophysicist Thomas Steitz receives Gairdner Award for medical research
...h (CIHR), the major federal agency responsible for funding health research in Canada that supports the work of 10,000 researchers in universities, teaching hospitals and research institutes across Canada. Three additional Yale faculty members have received Gairdner International Awards in the recent past. ...Researchers identify new genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes
...y the Center for Inherited Disease Research, using funding from NIH and The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The research was carried out in conjunction with the work of two other teams: the Diabetes Genetics Initiative, which is a collaboration of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridg...Army research mission focused on autism
... Materiel Command has been administrating research funding for several specific diseases through the Congress... and mission of the ASDRP and how they might craft funding mechanisms to get the research answers to improve the lives of persons with autism. Reynolds discus...NIH awards $7.39 million to Burnham neurobiologists
...lopment of the National Institutes of Health. The funding will support a five-year, multi-project study entitled "Neuron-Glia Communication in Development." Glial cells are at the center of most functions of the nervous system. They outnumber neurons (nerve cells) in the brain and spinal cord by a facto...FSU researcher's award will fund study into cardiovascular grafts
...ligible to receive up to three years of additional funding at $100,000 per year. A postdoctoral researcher at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering since 2003, Zhaos main area of research is tissue engineering the creation of synthetic or natural materials that can be used to replace part of a living system...Clemson bioengineer gets national boost
... research has led to international recognition and funding from such organizations as the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Wen's work as a prolific inventor has generated commercial interest. "Dr. Wen's research couples the possibility of improving lives with significant commercial potential," said Matt ...Why some aphids can't stand the heat
...f Health. Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides funding for the UA's Undergraduate Biology Research Program. Aphids reproduce asexually, so juveniles are clones of their mothers. The symbiotic bacteria are passed on from mother to child. Moran's lab maintains colonies of aphids, each descended from a s...Renewable hydrogen energy -- an answer to the energy crisis
...ed. The Colleges Energy Futures Lab receives the funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The programme will develop both biological and chemical solar driven processes to develop renewable and cost effective methods of producing hydrogen which can be used to operate f...Bioluminescence at the service of a novel cerebral imaging technique
... exist for any animal species, including man. A funding application has been made to the ANR in order to build up functional maps of the Drosophila brain. These maps are a prerequisite to producing a mass of data on the global activity of the entire brain which will then serve as a reference to compare...Ebola outbreaks killing thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees
...alsh and collaborators are currently searching for funding to implement a vaccination program using one of the several vaccines that have now successfully protected laboratory monkeys from Ebola....A new study of living cells could revolutionize the way we test drugs
...raph showing the workings of a human heart. With funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Professor Andre Geim at the University of Manchester and his team have set out to make the first measurement of a cellular heartbeat. "Once we know the average or usual pattern of...Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation salutes passage of Senate stem cell bill
...historic vote in the U.S. Senate to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research with the passage of S. 5, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007. "The Senate passage of this bill marks another important step in the road to find a cure for type 1 diabetes and related complications," sa...ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5M biofuels research program at Iowa State
...racted more than $57 million in sponsored research funding since 2002. The ConocoPhillips research program will add to that total. "Iowa State University, with its central location in the agricultural belt and rich traditions of research and service, is uniquely positioned to set the standard for biorenewa...