Biological clock may shut down long-term memory at night
... memory and about modulation of memory." For the grant on circadian modulation of long-term memory format...ofessor at UH, is the primary investigator on this grant and is already investigating molecules involved in memory formation that might be activated during t...Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue
...ng Investigator Award. The honor carries with it a grant for $20,000 to help expand his research. Schwarz is also founder and president of the Rochester-based biotechnology company LAGeT, a company Schwarz spun off from his university research. The firm seeks to commercialize Schwarz's research findings o...University research ethics committees: A look from behind closed doors
...xist in the U.S. Funded by a dissertation research grant from the National Science Foundation, Eliesh O'Neil Lane, who recently completed her Ph.D. at the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, studied seven top-tier universities' IRBs. She conducted 37 in-depth interviews with IRB...Advocate for gender equity in the sciences honored by the Association for Women in Science
... $3.45 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant to bring about institutional transformation in gender equity, making UCI one of only 19 institutions nationwide, and the only one in California, to receive this award. Three years after establishing the program, 44 percent of the tenure-track faculty...AGI publishes 43rd edition of the Directory of Geoscience Departments
...Of the 903 U.S. geoscience departments listed, 879 grant degrees. This edition also lists 266 non-U.S. departments in 51 countries. In addition to information about geoscience departments, their faculty, and the faculty specialties, the DGD includes listings of U.S. state geological surveys, field-camp inf...Virginia Tech patents advance microprocessors, vaccines, vision, vibration control, more
...ildren," Vernon said. She received an NSF planning grant in January 2005 to create a life-size traveling exhibit of the first book in the series....Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters
...structures. Supported by a five-year $2.37 million grant from the National Science Foundation, and supplemented by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the research team at Illinois is attempting to draw inspiration from the collaboration patterns that honeybees and ants use, and the spread patt...Gladstone scientists announce new version of bioinformatics software program
...reting biological data. GenMAPP was developed with grant support from the NIH. Any scientist can use it to modify MAPPs to fit other hypotheses, to design new pathways, or to share the data with others in the research community. The GenMAPP site has logged over 10,000 registrations to download the program,...Researchers investigate 'whole farm' approach to reduce dairy pollution
...he region's dairy industry. Funded by $800,000 in grant monies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency, the project pools the efforts of experts from the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas Cooperative Extension and Tarleton State University. At stake is n...Fine-tuning calf nutrition could reduce nitrogen pollution
...e has applied for a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant in order to scale up the study. "Our ultimate goal is to allow producers to maintain current rates and efficiencies of calf growth, while continuing to place emphasis on environmental stewardship" Lambert said....Florida Tech earns $260,000 environmental grant to protect coral reefs
...Bank funds for coral reef research. Initially, the grant will help to establish coral reef study sites in P...er Florida Tech faculty members received a $50,000 grant from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to set up a Coral Database (CoralData) node for the ...Two chemicals boost immune cells' ability to fight HIV without gene therapy
...ne-therapy drugs." The research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a University of California Discovery Grant. Geron provided additional funding and the chemical compounds for use in the laboratory. Effros' team included doctoral student Steven Fau...Incubator company at NJIT develops lifesaving MRI coil for small animals
...II grant. This money follows an earlier $2 million grant in 2003 from the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) at the US Department of Commerce. Erzhen Gao, PhD, director of research and development for the company will lead the effort. The tests will be conducted through a series of ani...Norovirus found to cause traveler's diarrhea
...periencing Traveler's Diarrhea" was supported by a grant from the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Amy R. Chapin was also supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Biological Sciences. Co-authors of the study were Colleen M....New drug shows promise as powerful anticancer agent
... the Fels Foundation. This work was supported by a grant from Onconova Therapeutics Inc. drug discovery program, and E.P.R. and M.V.R.R. are stockholders of Onconova Therapeutics Inc. E.P.R., S.C.C., and M.V.R.R. are consultants to Onconova Therapeutics Inc....Florida Tech scientist earns $1.7 million NSF grant
MELBOURNE, FLA.--A National Science Foundation grant to Florida Tech of nearly $1.7 million over three ...ofessor of biological sciences who applied for the grant and will serve as the program's director. The project, Integrated Science Teaching Enhancement Part...New 6m biocentre to revolutionise the production of safer medicines
...orld centres for systems biology research." The 6m grant has been awarded by The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and will be used to develop new methods of computational and mathematical analysis, validating these methods by testing them in yeast. These methods will then be ...Scottish scientists win 800,000 to boost research into fighting killer viruses
...f University of Glasgow scientists have received a grant of 800,000 from the Wellcome Trust to research a m...n by related disease-causing retroviruses. The new grant will boost the study of how an 'endogenous' retroviruses (ERV) named enJS56A1 interferes with a path...National Academies Advisory: March 18 public briefing on biomedical investigators
...which researchers received their first independent grant from the National Institutes of Health was 42. BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE: FOSTERING THE INDEPENDENCE OF NEW INVESTIGATORS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council, explains how NIH and other stakehold......t of his research, which was financed in part by a grant from the Connaught Foundation, will be published later in the year by Massey College at U of T....