Internet data-mining of natural history
...ation. In recent years, the lab's researchers were granted $2.25 million for Citizen Science Online, an initiative to develop online tools to engage the general public, including schoolchildren, in the collection of bird observation data. One project resulting from that effort, eBird, an online checklist pro...Novartis receives European marketing authorization for Emselex(R)
...ifenacin hydrobromide), 7.5 mg and 15 mg, has been granted Marketing Authorization by the European Commission for the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB) in all 25 European member states as well as Norway and Iceland. "The approval of Emselex will provide many people in Europe who experience OAB symptoms a...NIH provides $32.8 million to enhance biomedical informatics research network
...ears, while Massachusetts General Hospital will be granted nearly $14 million for three years of support. BIRN is an NIH initiative involving a consortium of 15 universities and 22 research groups that fosters collaborations in biomedical science by utilizing information technology innovations. BIRN's init...AACR recognizes women in cancer research
...merican Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has granted scholarships to outstanding women in cancer research through the AACR-Women in Cancer Research (WICR) Brigid G. Leventhal Scholar Award in Cancer Research program. So far this year, 17 women have received a total of $17,000 in scholarships, enabling ...Startling results from new biomedical research international conference
...r. Graeme Laurie says, "How can property rights be granted over genes which, after all, seem to be no more than mere discoveries?" He goes on to ask "How appropriate is it to grant a monopoly over the building blocks of life or indeed life itself in the guise of genetically engineered organisms?" Laurie quot...Winners of Tyler Environmental prize announced
...shed research so seminal as to be taken almost for granted by scientists and laypeople today. Many reasonably informed people have heard that tropical glaciers are shrinking and that the famous ice cap on Kenya's Mt. Kilimanjaro may vanish altogether in the near future. Few know the name of the man most res...ANU medical researcher wins national award
...h Foundation. In 2001, the Commonwealth government granted $11.5 million to establish the Australian Phenomics Facility, which operates in partnership with The Australian National University, Monash University, The Garvan Institute, and the University of Queensland....Geneticists oppose singling out Jewish women in European breast cancer patent
...001 and 2003, the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted several patents to Myriad Genetics Laboratories in the US on familial breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. The breast cancer gene patents relate to research done in the early nineties which led to the identification of these genes in 1994 and 1995 re...Interim data suggest major response with Aranesp(R) in anemic patients with MDS
...hemotherapy-induced anemia. Aranesp was initially granted marketing authorization by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) in 2001 for the treatment of anemia associated with chronic renal failure in adults and pediatric subjects 11 years of age or older. In 2002, the EMEA approved Aranesp for the treatment ...Stephen P Goff awarded inaugural Retrovirology Prize
...ievements. The Retrovirology prize, which will be granted annually, recognises a mid-career retrovirologist aged 45 to 60. The inaugural prize, named the M. Jeang Retrovirology prize, is supported through a donation from the Ming K. Jeang Foundation, an educational foundation based in Houston, Texas. Step...Melbourne scientists dominate international Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards
... in Melbourne and at WEHI in particular. The funds granted will accelerate our search for more effective drugs and vaccines for malaria, which infects and debilitates about 10% of humanity and kills around 2 million people every year." Melbourne's newly-announced HHMI International Research Scholars: Profes......re released at the active zone -- that's taken for granted now." The function of shotgun neurotransmitter release is unknown, said Sejnowski. "There's just nothing solid on our radar screen right now," he said. "There is speculation that ectopic release represents some sort of spillover that neurons use unde...Beyond genes: Lipid helps cell wall protein fold into proper shape
...n Health & Science University. Dowhan recently was granted a MERIT award by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. These rare awards provide long-term grant support for scientists whose research competence and productivity are distinctly superior and who are...Patents for protein biomarker Discovery
...es of the United States of America and Canada have granted patents for Peakadilly's core technology, COFRADIC. COFRADIC allows the identification and quantification of proteins in any biological sample and represents the most important component of the company's MASStermind biomarker discovery engine. Peakad...NFCR - Prostate Cancer Foundation unite with Burnham Institute to expedite cancer drug discovery
...ntially far-reaching work without the seed funding granted by our partners, which includes individual donors who contribute to NFCR and the Prostate Cancer Foundation." The NFCR and Prostate Cancer Foundation each provided $100,000 for the project ($200,000 total). Seed funding, such as the grants provided...NIEHS awards $37 million to train emergency and hazardous waste workers
... to hazardous materials." Some of these awards are granted under the newly created Hazmat Disaster Preparedness Training Program. The new program was developed in the aftermath of the World Trade Center Disaster, and is the result of the lessons learned by NIEHS-funded workers who participated in the subsequ...Experts urge reform of international patent system at eve of WIPO assembly
...ollows: 1. IP rights are economic rights. They are granted not as an end in themselves, but only as a means to specific goals: the promotion of creativity and innovation, culture and science. However, IPRs can have a negative effect not only on economic and social welfare, but also on innovation itself. 2. ...Burnham Institute to collaborate in NCI funded Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
...f the National Institutes of Health. The award was granted in June of 2005 for designing nanotechnologies to detect, monitor, treat and eliminate vulnerable plaque, the probable cause of death in sudden cardiac arrest. Dr. Ruoslahti, former President and CEO of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, was...Yale environment school professor receives research award
...ce" of that budget worldwide. "The Cronin Award is granted to an estuarine scientist who has shown great promise in work that is carried out within the six years after obtaining a doctorate," said Linda Schaffner, president of the Estuarine Research Federation. "We are pleased to recognize and honor the brea...Improved blood safety measures from Pall can increase platelet availability
...cteria detection." This month Pall Corporation was granted FDA clearance to market the Pall AcrodoseTM PL System, which provides a therapeutic dose of leukoreduced platelets that are tested for bacteria contamination with the integrated Pall eBDS technology. The new system enables blood centers to pool whol...