DFG research training groups become increasingly international
...he programme has become increasingly attractive to international groups of applicants. The large number of new proposals from the engineering sciences is particularly encouraging. The DFG currently funds a total of 270 Research Training Groups, 34 of which are international. In 2004 the DFG is providing approximat...Researchers discover gene mutations for Parkinson's disease
An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered a gene, which when mutated, causes Parkinson's disease in some families. Although Parkinson's disease is usually not inherited, the discovery of this gene and f...Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
...of these high-biodiversity areas in support of the international Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. Images from the in...IS images have also been acquired on behalf of the international Charter for Space and Major Disasters, an international agreement to makex space resources available...Gene for common form of Parkinson's pinpointed
...halting the molecular events that lead to PD." The international research team reported finding the gene in a mutant form in five families from Spain and the United Kingdom. They have named the protein "dardarin" after the Basque word for tremor. The researchers, led by Jordi Prez-Tur, Nick Wood, and Andrew Sing...Cars, not crops, should be chief targets in reducing greenhouse gases
... climate change issue is not going to go away. The international community is going to make sure that it doesn't go away. This country is going to have to come up with solutions, and our paper aims to begin to identify some of the changes that can be made without vastly changing the lifestyle of the citizens of th...Moffitt doctor's talk on ovarian cancer receives international first place award
...heir expertise by presenting their research before international leaders. Lancaster's presentation was one of 18 chosen from 1,000 submitted for presentation. The IGCS is a scientific and medical organization that educates its members in the areas of prevention, treatment and study of gynecologic cancer. The...Government development policies, not communities, main threat to forest conservation projects
...rt, says her report, this situation arises because international funding, which is relied on to mount operations in new protected areas, is mostly in the form of lavishly funded short-term projects. What is missing are the resources for low-level, continuous management activities. Meanwhile, since March, 2002, Pe...Mail-order drugs exposed to extreme heat become less effective
...new study presented at CHEST 2004, the 70th annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), formoterol, a common inhaled asthma medication, delivered less than half of its expected dosage and showed significant physical changes after being exposed to 150F for 4 hours. "...Global climate change threatens reindeer, caribou
...ck and timing of snowpack," Kofinas said. "This international network of government agencies, resource managers and users, community representatives and university researchers will work together to monitor the health of Rangifer populations in response to the significant climate and environmental changes occurr...BU chemist to map DNA's surface, uncovering details that will show how structure abets function
...ology-related research that will contribute to the international research effort known as ENCODE, the National Human Genome Research Initiative (NHGRI) is supporting a Boston University-based effort to map the topography of the DNA molecule. Prof. Thomas Tullius, chairman of Boston University's Department of Chem...Deciphering the Arctic Ocean climate puzzle
...The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international marine research drilling program dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the Earth by monitoring and sampling sub seafloor environments. Through multiple platforms, pre-eminent scientists explore IODP's principal themes: the deep biosphere...International Rice Functional Genomics meeting in Tucson Nov. 15-17
...f Arizona in Tucson and the chair of the meeting's international organizing committee. The meeting will bring together rice researchers from all over the world to discuss how to tackle the next step: figuring out what all those rice genes do. Right now researchers know the function of only about 500 rice genes-- ...NASA & partners create new worldwide coral reef library
...es of worldwide coral reefs. The archive is a tool international researchers will use, as they track reef health. ...e National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, international agencies and other universities, shared data, so natural resource managers could have a comprehensiv...Indiana University one of the nation's 'best places to work,' scientists say
..."Best Places to Work in Academia," according to an international survey of 1,456 researchers by The Scientist magazine. An accompanying article in the magazine's Nov. 8 issue, "Best Places to Work: What's Important to the Academic Scientist?" reveals that American researchers are primarily interested i...Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats (SECEBT) presents infectious disease conference
National and international experts in the prevention, control, and treatment of food and waterborne infectious disease threats will share their knowledge, identify best practices for preventing disease, and develop research strategies for the Southeastern region at a day-long ...Cranfield collaborator receives multi million dollar financing
...s D preferred stock financing with several leading international investors. This brings the total financing into the company up to $46.2 million since its founding in 2001. Pelikan's first product, which is expected to be launched in the spring of 2005, is the Pelikan Sun lancing device. Based on the company's "on...International marine survey of coral death
.... The researchers are conducting the largest-ever international assessment of ocean disease, called the Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building project and supported by the Global Environment Fund and the World Bank. With funding of about $28.8 million for the first five years of an anticipated 15-year...Genetically engineered corn poses no immediate threat to Mexican crops
...enefits and risks of GM corn. Encouraging better international coordination of regulatory policies, so GM crops that are released in our country are also evaluated for safety in other countries that import viable GM seeds....First Max Planck Partner Institute in China
...d of the Partner Institute have been advertised in international journals. A joint commission of experts that has been monitoring the founding and start-up phases of the Partner Institute will select the heads from among the applicants during the Shanghai symposium scheduled to take place in December 2004. For the......blished today (Nov. 12) in the journal Science, an international team of scientists describe work in which the ocean mud and the many animals that live there are used to forecast how the extinction of species alters important ecological processes that sustain life at the bottom of the ocean. The team's work wa...