New forest technologies for small-diameter timber
...ory. "Today, these densely-stocked stands cover 63 million acres or 44 percent of the inland Northwest." The workshop will showcase technology that effectively uses the wood material removed from overstocked forests to provide forest managers, planners, and community leaders with ways to improve both for...NC State gets $1.59M grant to map genome of parasitic worm
...rion Genomics LLC, have received a two-year, $1.59 million grant from the National Science Foundation/U.S. Department of Agriculture Joint Microbial Genome Sequencing Program to map the genome of one of the world's most common and destructive plant parasites the microscopic, soil-dwelling root-knot nematode...NIH provides $32.8 million to enhance biomedical informatics research network
...ealth (NIH), announced today it will provide $32.8 million in additional funding to enhance its Biomedical In...fornia San Diego Medical School will receive $18.8 million over five years, while Massachusetts General Hospital will be granted nearly $14 million for three y...Researchers compare chicken, human genomes
... National Institutes of Health, provided about $13 million in funding for the project, which involved researc...lved separately from mammals for approximately 310 million years. Chickens were first domesticated in Asia, perhaps as early as 8000 B.C. As might be expected...Chicken genome analysis unlocks secrets of mammalian and bird evolution
... first draft of the chicken genome sequence, a $13 million project funded by the National Institutes of Health, was completed at the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center in St. Louis, Mo. in March 2004 and made available online to researchers. The draft sequencing project, along with a whole-genome...Chicken genome analysis will benefit human health and agriculture
...e evolved separately from mammals for at least 310 million years. Chickens were first domesticated in Asia, perhaps as early as 8000 B.C. The consortium was made up of more than 175 scientists from China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United ...US researchers warn of possible fertility risk to men using laptop computers on their laps
...t the University, said: "By 2005, there will be 60 million laptop computers in use in the USA and a predicted 150 million worldwide. Continued improvements in power, size and price of LC have favoured their increased use i...New tuberculosis antibiotic may shorten treatment time, fight drug-resistant strains
...from infectious disease, causing approximately two million deaths per year. The tuberculosis and HIV epidemics fuel one another; at least 11 million adults are infected with both pathogens, according to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. ...Dream home: Malaria parasite renovates to suit its tastes
...alia. P. falciparum, which infects several hundred million people each year and kills one to two million, causes the most severe form of malaria in humans. Once in the blood, the parasite's continuous asexual multiplication inside the red blood cells is responsible for the clinical symptoms of malaria and th...Genetic defect confers risk of major depression, resistance to SSRI drug therapy
...for major depression, a condition which effects 20 million people in the U.S., according to Duke University Medical Center researchers. The mutation in the gene -- whose protein product plays a primary role in synthesizing the brain chemical serotonin -- could lead to the first diagnostic test for genetic pr...International HapMap consortium widens data access
...opulation from which they were collected. The $130 million project, which was launched in October 2002 and is...s already have publicly released data on about one million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the individual DNA samples that have been genotyped for th...DFG establishes three new clinical research units
...n is still a serious health problem. More than 170 million people worldwide, and 500,000 in Germany alone, are infected with this virus. The success rate of the therapeutic methods available to date is only around 50 to 60 percent. The Clinical Research Unit "Mechanisms of Resistance Development and Optimisa...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
San Francisco, Calif. A $42.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to ...cessible cure for malaria, which kills more than a million children each year. OneWorld Health, which announced the grant today (Monday, Dec. 13), will work i...University of Vermont heads translatlantic cardiovascular research network
BURLINGTON, Vt. A new $6 million grant will help researchers at the University of Vermont College of Medicine direct an innovative transatlantic network linking scientists who study blood-clotting disorders at three U.S. and three European universities. The five-year grant is amon...MIT team engineers new approaches to understanding malaria, more
...es and stickiness. Malaria kills some two to three million people every year. "I'm hopeful that this work will provide a deeper scientific understanding of how malaria affects cells by bringing cutting-edge engineering methodology to study medical problems," Suresh said....Study in Royal Society journal on first evidence for magnetic field detection in sharks
...s have not shared a common ancestor for almost 300 million years, new findings show that the brain areas that activate during social interactions in birds are strikingly similar to those in mammals. This suggests that fundamental features of the "social brain" remained constant during the evolution of mammal...UT Southwestern researchers locate gene family involved in determining potential for acquiring lupus
...ting autoimmune disease that affects more than one million Americans. "Our findings indicate genetic suscepti... Foundation of America estimates approximately 1.5 million Americans have the disease, which affects all age groups. It is 10 to 15 times more likely in adult ...Genes tied to abnormal immune response in mice with lupus
...s (SLE), a devastating disease that affects over 1 million Americans. The research, published in the December issue of Immunity, significantly advances the understanding of the pathology of lupus-like autoimmunity in mice and may facilitate the design of future therapies for lupus in humans. A normal imm...Three Yale scientists receive Ellison Medical Foundation awards
...l of Medicine. Each scholar will receive nearly $1 million in research support over four years. "The Ellison Senior Scholar Awards are greatly coveted, both for their prestige and for their generous terms of support," said University Provost Andrew Hamilton. "I am absolutely delighted by the success of our f......ne at Cardiff University, UK, have secured over 15 million UK pounds to study cancer and DNA damage. These awards put Cardiff at the very forefront of international research in this area and will fund the design of new therapies to combat cancer. DNA is the genetic material that enables living things to func...