Muscling in on a deadly cancer
... The American Cancer Society says that out of 1.37 million new cancers in the United States this year, 9,200 would occur in children age 14 or younger, and 313 of those would be rhabdomyosarcomas. The American Cancer Society says 78 percent of children with cancer survive at least five years....NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...NIH), today announced it has awarded more than $38 million in grants to spur the development of innovative te...human genome. However, it still costs at least $10 million to sequence 3 billion base pairs the amount of DNA found in the genomes of humans and other mammals...Surgeon General's report underscores the importance of new thinking on bone health
...nes that break easily. Bone loss affects nearly 44 million in the United States, 80 percent of them women. Bone deterioration is responsible for 1.5 million fractures each year, resulting in as many as 300,000 deaths due to complications, yet two simple mea...Arctic mystery no longer: Dinosaurs walked Canada's great north
...riety of plants lived in the High Arctic 240 to 65 million years ago." These were Larsson's first Arctic expeditions. He has also visited Western Africa five times to seek out elusive dinosaur fossils. He says the work isn't easy. Artic digs meant hours of walking with heavy equipment, while African digs cam...The CF Foundation urges all states to include newborn screening for cystic fibrosis in test panels
...ing CF screening programs. From 1990 to 1999, 1.46 million babies were screened for CF and 372 were ultimately diagnosed with CF. CF is one of the most common disorders identified in the newborn screening programs that include it in their testing....The long road to a promising malaria vaccine started at NYU School of Medicine
...ts hundreds of millions of people, causing up to 3 million deaths every year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Many of its victims are young children. In a study reported today of more than 2,000 children in Mozambique, the vaccine reduced life-threatening attacks of malaria by 58 percent, and reduced ...Nov. 18-21 nanotechnology conference in Irvine, Calif.
...rence attendees will be eligible to compete for $1 million in research grants. DETAILS: Nov. 18-21 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, 100 Academy Drive, Irvine, Calif. CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE IS BY INVITATION ONLY. SESSIONS LISTED BELOW ARE OPEN TO MEDIA. SPACE IS LIMITED AND MEDIA MUST REGISTER IN...Researchers redrawing the Tree of Life
Blacksburg, Va. A $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Tree of Life grant is enabling researchers from Virginia Tech and six other laboratories to lead the way in reclassifying the 270,000 species of flowering plants that include all our food plants. The NSF grant allow...Hepatitis C virus linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...cases per year is around 25,000. Approximately 3.8 million Americans have been infected with the virus. The most common means of infection in the past was blood transfusion, and in recent years is among drug users who share needles. Approximately 53,000 patients were diagnosed with NHL in the United States...Rutgers is on the 'NIH Roadmap'
...nstitutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $4 million in three grants to partnerships involving institut...ctural Bioinformatics/Protein Data Bank (PDB). Two million dollars over five years will support the training of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in ...Small business at NJIT's business incubator takes two awards
...ical problems that affect the urethra. "About 4.5 million men in the U.S. are believed to suffer from these problems," said Homan. For more information about Urovalve, please visit: http://www.urovalve.com...Peakadilly nv biopharmaceutical firm created
... to the patient Today, it takes an average of 800 million euro and about 12 years to develop a new drug. Amo...rge that R&D collaborations at a value of around 2 million euro were quickly established with 3 well-known firms. These collaborations made it possible t...Dr. Harris receives NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
... memory. However, Dr. Harris requested nearly $1.4 million over the original five-year period. "This is a terrific honor for Dr. Harris and for the university," said Dr. David M. Stern, dean of the MCG School of Medicine. "In her near 30-year career, Dr. Harris and her team have made fundamental discove...ASPB opposes proposed ban of GMOs in Humboldt county ballot measure M
...ically engineered cotton eliminated the use of 156 million pounds of pesticides in 2001. Reduction in the release of pesticides into the environment, including our lakes, rivers and streams, cut down dramatically on exposure to harsh chemical pesticides by farm workers and millions of Americans. Genetically...Gene linked to greater risk of heart disease in type 2 diabetes
...ck and stroke in these patients." An estimated 18 million people in the United States have type 2 diabetes. People with diabetes are two to four times more likely to have cardiovascular disease, and are at increased risk for stroke, blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage. In a two-part study published ...$2.8 million NIH grant awarded to UH for bionano training
HOUSTON, Oct. 19, 2004 A $2.8 million National Institutes of Health grant awarded to the University of Houston is not only expanding research, but also preparing the next generation of scientists among Houston universities and medical schools. The T90R90 grant, earmarked specifically f...Study in Royal Society journal on how relationship status influences sex ratios
...The atmosphere of the Sun is incredibly hot (a few million degrees centigrade) and permeated by magnetic field lines emerging from the much cooler solar surface. There is considerable debate among scientists over the process by which the atmosphere is heated. In this article we investigate one of the more li...Stony Brook University medical researcher developing new medication to prevent colon cancer
...g aspirin, or nitroaspirin--is supported by a $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. Basil Rigas, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cancer Prevention at Stony Brook's School of Medicine, will report the findings of his trials on laboratory animals at the third annual I...Mice thrive despite massive genetic makeover
...." Through molecular techniques, a total of 2.3 million letters of DNA code from the 2.7-billion-base-pair mouse genome were deleted. To do this, embryonic cells were genetically engineered to contain the newly compact mouse genome. Mice were subsequently generated from these stem cells. The research tea...Genetically modified parasite lets researchers probe immune system's memory
...ia major, a parasite that infects approximately 12 million people worldwide, causing significant death and disfigurement. It may also help efforts to develop vaccines for other pathogens including AIDS and tuberculosis. Scientists have known that successful recovery from Leishmania infection immunizes humans...