For inferring the biological tree of life, simple is better
...as 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 biological sciences in the UO Department of Biology...UF scientist: 'Brain' in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer
...DeMarse has a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to create a mathematical model that reproduces how the neurons compute. These living neural networks are being used to pursue a variety of engineering and neurobiology research goals, said Steven Potter, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech/E...NIH funds rare childhood disease to provide insights into the origins of adult cancer
...f a $1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expand research into a rare blood disease calle... and a high rate of birth defects. The five-year grant from the NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute will be used to broaden the DBA Registry of ...NSF gives 'teeth' to biomaterials research
...MSON -- Clemson University has received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Partnerships ...erate new products and jobs. "The purpose of this grant is to put in place the relationships and infrastructure that lead to economic development," said Car...Reed biology professor receives $227,500 for E. coli research
... using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a seed grant from the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, and a grant of $143,667, also from the NIH in 2001. The resources provided by these grants have allowed students...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...ional Institutes of Health, awarded a $1.7 million grant to a team of researchers led by Peter Williams, pr...earch and health care. Goal of the three-year ASU grant is to develop a system that can read DNA sequence up to one thousand times faster and costing only a...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
...itutes of Health has awarded a $550,000 three-year grant to Lindsay to further develop a nanotechnology pro...I's "Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies" grant program, which the Institute says is aimed at "the development of breakthrough technologies that wil...UGA scientist Moran receives $2.6 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for marine research
...marine scientist Mary Ann Moran has been awarded a grant of more than $2.6 million by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to continue her research on marine bacteria that are important in the cycling of carbon and sulfur in the coastal ocean. Moran, a professor...Electronic records to improve care for children with asthma
... University has received a $1.2 million three-year grant from the United States Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research for the ERICCA Project (Electronic Records to Improve Care for Children with Asthma). Funding will help Yale and a group of community partners implement a shared electronic health re...Researchers tracking sources of arsenic contamination in water
...duates are being added, thanks to a supplement NSF grant to support undergraduate researchers (REU)....Antibiotic-resistant bacteria increased after clindamycin use for common vaginal infection
...ittsburgh. 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....Stem Cells: Saving Lives or Crossing Lines?
...ter. The conference is also sponsored in part by a grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. For a complete list of speakers and the conference agenda, go to http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~neal/stemcell/ . News media who want to attend should R.S.V.P. to B.J. Almond at balmond@rice.edu or 713-348-6770. ...Joslin Diabetes Center awards 1st Mary K. Iacocca Faculty Fellowship
... $100,000 stipend, was made possible by a generous grant from the Iacocca Foundation endowment at Joslin, and is designed to attract senior scientists to Joslin to study broad areas of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and related complications. "With this new faculty fellowship position, our goal is to reach ...Economics and ecology combine at UGA in NSF-funded study of evolutionary game theory
... of Ecology, have been awarded a $100,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation for their proposal, "On Long-Term Consequences of Selfish Behavior: A Game Theoretic Approach to Host-Pathogen Co-evolution." The cross-campus partnership was aided by Matt Bonds, who completed his Ph.D. in econom...BU chemist to map DNA's surface, uncovering details that will show how structure abets function
...emistry, has received a three-year, $870,000 NHGRI grant to map the bumps, dips, and turns that characterize the surface of "naked" DNA. Tullius's research will give scientists a finely detailed picture of how the most fundamental aspects of naked DNA -- DNA without proteins bound to its surface -- influ...National Eye Institute funds search for genetic key to corneal disease
HOUSTON (Nov. 5, 2004) A new federal grant focusing on painful inherited visual disorders tha...o a short portion of DNA on chromosome 10. The NEI grant will fund an intensive effort to pinpoint the culprit variation among possible genes on that strip o...New source for heart bypass replacement blood vessels: Fibrin-based TEVs
...elios Andreadis, the team is preparing to submit a grant application to the National Institutes of Health "to improve vessels' mechanical strength." They will also seek to make the matrix stronger using recombinant DNA techniques and "engineer vessels from bone marrow-derived stem cells to provide a source...Grants target better predictors for type 1 diabetes
...diabetes to see how the 100 genes change. A grant from the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes & Di...human genome. "We want to look at everything. This grant will allow us to look at every gene we have," says Dr. She. The grant from the NIH's National Instit...New program examines stem cells' potential to repair, replace damaged tissue
...g weekly, preparing to apply for a Program Project grant from the National Institutes of Health which already has a name: "Molecular Mechanisms of Tissue Repair With Aging." Stem cells are relatively few in number and difficult to track in the body, so researchers will isolate cells from umbilical cord bl...Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research focuses on early mechanisms
Blacksburg, Va. - A $1 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health will fund research at Virginia Tech to identify the cell-level mechanisms that start Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive and fa...