Interactive health information system to detect Japanese encephalitis in Asia
...ese encephalitis is made possible by a 5-year, $27 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. One of the cornerstones of the JE Project is to improve clinical surveillance of Japanese encephalitis so health officials can fully understand the magnitude of the problem and target resources strategi...Bovine genome sequence available
... Livestock Industries is a partner in the U.S. $53 million dollar international effort to sequence the genome of the cow (Bos taurus). "CSIRO has invested in the research to increase understanding and utilisation of the bovine genome which is a major focus for our livestock portfolio development both now...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
...f chemosensory dysfunction. Approximately six million Americans suffer from sensory loss or alteration related to the senses of taste, smell, or both. Although changes in taste and smell perception can significantly impact human quality of life, nutrition, and safety, current treatment options remain li...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
... for Disease Control, each year the world sees 1.5 million new cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis, which infects the skin, causing scarring boils, and 500,000 new cases of visceral leishmaniasis, which infects internal organs, causing death if left untreated. Particularly vexing to res...HHS awards $232 million in biodefense contracts for vaccine development
...nounced four new contracts totaling more than $232 million to fund development of new vaccines against three ... NIAID awarded two contracts totaling up to $177 million for advanced development of MVA vaccines against smallpox. The three-year contracts were awarded to ...Taking the next step toward growing our own fuel
...t focus and provide the need for an additional 200 million bushels of corn for the production of butanol and acetone alone. "The boom in construction of dry-mill based ethanol plants that has tripled the production of ethanol in a five-year period is evidence of the biobased opportunities in this area," he s...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...ade Program in the form of two grants totaling $34 million over 5 years. The work will enhance food security ...g nations around the world. Of the $34 million, $5 million for each of the two projects will be garnered from the USAID missions around the world. The USAID...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...ases." Global Genomics Initiative "Every year 11 million children die before reaching their 5th birthday," ...nomics and Health estimates that approximately 330 million disability-adjusted life years (one disability-adjusted life-year is defined as the loss of one year...New Jersey Institute of Technology professor to develop supersized virtual library
...arians received last month a total of more than $2 million in federal funding to develop computer software to create such a tool. "We're developing a supersized library," said Bieber. "Our meta information engine will automatically add links within Web pages to related documents and services, customized to ...Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants
... Investigator Dr. Kenneth Mandl will lead the $1.5 million project. At its center is a secure, electronic health record system, developed at Children's over the past decade, which allows information-sharing among healthcare entities, but is under the patient's personal control. CHIP will link these personal...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
...s new three-year initiative, which received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of its Roadmap for Medical Research, a series of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the la...Cooperation to create a new tuberculosis vaccine
...inadequately treatable diseases. With more than 2 million deaths and 9 million new infections annually, TB, along with malaria and HIV/AIDS, is responsible for the greatest number...Defense provides additional $4.9 million for pathogen research tool
...Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has received $4.9 million in additional funding from the United States Depar...pathogen-environment interactions. With almost $42 million in extramural research funding awarded to date, VBI researchers are working on many human, crop, and...FSU scientist links iron imbalance to Parkinson's disease
...tion affecting movement and balance in more than 1 million Americans each year. But excessive iron levels are worse -- much worse. The findings from a study by Florida State University scientist Cathy Levenson are described in "The Role of Dietary Iron Restrictions in a Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease"...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...tering, a condition suffered by an estimated three million people in the U.S. alone? Finding the exact answer could help speech therapists develop improved strategies for treating those who suffer from the disorder. Previous studies have identified components of words (such as stressed syllables) and even p...Rutgers-led research offers new clues in the genetic mysteries of maize
...ed ancestral species that no longer exist. About 5 million years ago the species crossed and, in doing so, doubled the number of genes. Through mechanisms not yet revealed, many of these genes were shed and then others duplicated through gene amplification as this process is termed. When compared to closely ...Study in Royal Society journals presents evidence for inherited factors in homosexuality
...buzzes during prey capture, as do bats which are a million times smaller. As creaks indicate feeding events, acoustic tracking may be used to monitor the health of sperm whales in increasingly human-impacted oceanic ecosystems. Contact: Dr Patrick Miller, Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews ...Texas universities expanding new information network
...d Dewhurst recently announced the approval of $9.8 million in funding to build the high-speed Lonestar Education And Research Network (LEARN) for Texas higher education institutions, and to construct the Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) to enable these institutions to access and share r......University of Rochester that has received an $11.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The ...s weekend the University broke ground on a new $30 million building to house the Department of Biomedical Engineering as well as office and laboratories for th...