Scientists discover how plants disarm the toxic effects of excessive sunlight
...e, Kristin Warczak. The project was supported by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Distinguished Fellowship Program, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hilldale undergraduate research scholars program. Cells that grow by photosynthesis...National Academies news: Conference on genomics revolution set for November 2005
...ate in the focus groups. Funded by a $40 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the National Academies Keck FUTURES INITIATIVE is a 15-year effort to catalyze interdisciplinary inquiry and to enhance communication among researchers, funding agencies, universities, and the general public -- with the...Brown wins major award to improve environment, protect RI health
...IEHS, has awarded Brown a four-year, $11.5-million grant to help scientists identify health threats posed b...waste and come up with new tools to remove it. The grant is one of Brown's largest research awards in the last five years. It establishes Brown as one of 18 ...UW-Madison gains two new stem cell programs
... biology of stem cells. Supported by a $1 million grant from the NIH, the program will enable three fellows per year for the next five years to receive intensive training in stem cell biology -- from basic embryology to clinical trials -- before embarking on research careers. The program is the first of i...Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs
...fortunes of salmon runs and their management. The grant boosts research into climate and other factors aff...s quality." The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant is for three years and is part of its Wild Pacific Salmon Ecosystem Initiative. The initiative focus...Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers
...ent Cynthia Collins at Caltech. It was funded by a grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In previous work, including a paper published March 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences along with Sara Hooshangi and Stephan Thiberge, Weiss showed the feasibility of inse...Improved cancer treatments aim of new biology research program
...eceived an iCORE Chair and Professor Establishment grant of $850,000 per year for five years, plus a $300,000 startup grant, for a total of $4.6 million. The Institute of Biocomplexity and Informatics is being supported by the University of Calgary, in collaboration with the University of Alberta. Additi...Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
...ve, the Fish and Wildlife Service has a variety of grant and technical aid programs to support wildlife recovery. "These programs are the heart and soul of the federal government's commitment to cooperative conservation. They are perfectly tailored to recover this magnificent bird," Secretary Norton said...Project shows need for better monitoring of river restoration
...n. Suggestions to fix the problem include: framing grant proposals so they allow for long term monitoring funds; moving from a locally focused restoration approach to a more integrated vision to include more areas; and implementing some sort of systematic data collection. Another parallel between the nati...ASU researcher creates novel 'bioelectronic signatures' to detect DNA mutations
...1/ja043780a ).His research was supported through a grant from the National Science Foundation....Why are coyotes getting more aggressive?
... and suburban areas of New York state, thanks to a grant of $428,000 from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Additional funding from DEC through an existing study with Dan Decker, director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station and associate dean of the College of Ag...VIB top scientist receives major research grant & VIB presents 2004 results
...rch and economic relevance, and the BMS Foundation grant - a research grant of USD 500,000 - recognizes the research excellence of the institution. The grant is being presente...Rutgers' Tabasco Sauce connection
...esses. An $8 million, five-year botanical research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will ...botanical products. With $1.4 million from the NIH grant and matching funds from Rutgers, research will be conducted in the laboratory of Ilya Raskin at the ...OneWorld Health awarded Sapling Foundation grant
...company in the U.S., today announced it received a grant from the Sapling Foundation (Woodside, Calif.) to ...fit developing countries. This is the second such grant from the Foundation in support of fostering collaborations with executive and scientific talent from...Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines
...I) researcher at Cornell University has received a grant to help assemble a unique database of DNA mutations in maize (corn). The project not only will allow researchers to study the effects of knocking out the function of single genes, one at a time, but also will create seeds for each mutation, or disru...Society of Nuclear Medicine to offer $10,000 William L. Ashburn, M.D., Pilot Research Grant for 2006
...lar imaging/nuclear medicine. This new competitive grant is funded by Digirad Corporation in memory of Will..." said SNM President Mathew L. Thakur, Ph.D. "This grant will help investigators in the early stages of their careers research new ideas, a fitting tribute t...Killer dinosaurs turned vegetarian
...James M. Clark. The study was funded by a $100,000 grant from the Discovery Channel to the Utah Geological Survey, which provided a matching $100,000. A Place to Eat and a Place to Die Falcarius means sickle-maker, so named because later plant-eating therizinosaurs had 3-foot-long, sickle-like claws. Th...NIH funds DOE lab for cellular studies
...ial findings for NIH within a year. The second NIH grant will fund research of the epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR, family, which is involved in cellular growth and differentiation. This research is expected to aid in understanding what causes tumors to form. The EGFR family of receptors has fou...Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine gets $4 million to make 'smart nanoparticles'
...re hemophilia, viral infections, and cancer." The grant was announced by Ohio's Lt. Gov. Bruce Johnson as part of a $75 million grant package handed out throughout the state. More than half the funding will go to Northeast Ohio. In a......stitute of General Medical Sciences. The five-year grant involves more than 30 researchers at 18 universities, medical research institutes, and companies across the United States. The Director of the LIPID MAPS initiative and senior author of the manuscript Dr. Edward A. Dennis, Distinguished Professor of...