Waging war on the deadliest superbug
...was officially launched in December last year as a national research centre to lead the way in the fight against killer super bugs. Its patron is Actress and TV personality Leslie Ash, who almost died and was left virtually paralysed after contracting MSSA, a strain related to MRSA, in a London hospital....American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...s media registration is now open for the 234th ACS national meeting, which will be held in Boston, MA on August 19-23, 2007 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and more than a dozen hotels across the city. More than 16,000 scientists and others are expected to attend this scientific extravaganza. T...Europe struggles to meet the challenges posed by PGD patients travelling abroad
...was know about the extent to which couples crossed national boundaries to gain access to treatment and what different regulatory frameworks for PGD existed in Member States. Mr Lawford Davies, who lectures in law and medicine at the Institute for Human Genetics at Newcastle University and is a visiting resear...Early fire risk for mountains near Los Angeles
... The researchers call it the worlds largest urban national park and one of the major areas of wildland-urban interface and intermix in Southern California, located near Malibu, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Newbury Park, Agoura Hills and parts of Los Angeles: Encino, Brentwood, Laurel Canyon an...SNM initiatives supported by inclusions in NAS Report on competitiveness of US chemistry research
...otracers in normal and aberrant cell physiologies; national impediments to the efficient entry of promising new radiopharmaceutical compounds into clinical feasibility studies and strategies to overcome them and impacts of shortages of isotopes and highly trained radiochemists on nuclear medicine research; an...Breast cancer prognosis runs in the family
...ancer diagnosed between 1961 and 2001 from Swedens national Multi-Generation Register. They found that a womans breast cancer prognosis predicts the survival of her first-degree relatives with breast cancer. Mothers surviving breast cancer after five years, had daughters with a 91 percent chance of survivi...Sukhishvili invited to serve on NIH's Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section
... well as a unique opportunity to contribute to the national biomedical research effort. Study sections review ...tions on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board and survey the status of research in their fields of science. These functi...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...on falls short. Or, designed and implemented at a national level, policies fail to translate into local action. Worse, some policies provide perverse incentives, exacerbating competition and conflict over the use of land and natural resources. Among many recommendations, the report urges governments and p...$125 million bioenergy initiative powered by Midwest ag industry, MSU research
.... The collaborations of academic, corporate and national laboratory researchers represented by these center...ment Station. Twenty years of research at the national Long-Term Ecological Research site (LTER) at Kellogg Biological Station, the only LTER site in the n...UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
...an. "The collaborations ofacademic, corporate, and national laboratory researchers representedby these centers...fidence in theBay Area's growing leadership in the national effort to develop newand cleaner sources of renewable energy," said Jay Keasling, directorof Berkele...ORNL-led team wins DOE bioenergy center
...rs. The collaborations of academic, corporate, and national laboratory researchers represented by these centers are truly impressive, and I am very encouraged by the potential they hold for advancing Americas energy security. In addition to ORNL, the DOE Bioenergy Science Center partners are the University ...Cord blood may preserve insulin levels in children with type 1 diabetes
...ype 1 diabetes, according to findings from a small national pilot study presented Monday (June 25) at the American Diabetes Associations 67th Scientific Sessions in Chicago. University of Florida researchers sought to determine whether it is feasible to use a patients own cord blood stem cells to neutralize...UGA scientists receive $20M in federal bioenergy initiative
...gia teamed with researchers at major universities, national research laboratories and industry colleagues to w.... The collaborations of academic, corporate, and national laboratory researchers represented by these centers are truly impressive and I am very encouraged by...Energy department selects 3 Bioenergy Research Centers for $375 million in federal funding
...d. The collaborations of academic, corporate, and national laboratory researchers represented by these center... 18 of the nations leading universities, seven DOE national laboratories, at least one nonprofit organization, and a range of private companies. All three Cent...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 20, 2007
...s media registration is now open for the 234th ACS national meeting, which will be held in Boston, MA on August 19-23, 2007 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and more than a dozen hotels across the city. More than 16,000 scientists and others are expected to attend this scientific extravaganza. T...World's first X-ray free electron laser is on course to completion
...ould not have done this without the partnership of national laboratories, universities and industry. The last of the 40 LCLS undulators was assembled and accepted by Argonne late last month, on time and within budget, from Hi-Tech Manufacturing in Illinois and Metalex Manufacturing in Ohio, said Argonne LC...DOE Joint Genome Institute secures long-term lease on production genomics facility
...determining the DNA code for the human genome to a national user facility for the DNA sequencing of many different important organisms. Our goal is to sustain our leadership in providing the information that will advance the nations interests in developing renewable sources of clean energy, tracking the fate...Kansas, Missouri School Board members to explore improvements in science-related education
...inar is the latest phase in an historic three-year national project that is developing plans and materials to help school boards nationwide develop policies and public support for state-of-the-art science, mathematics, and technology curricula. The project is co-sponsored by the American Association for the A...MU maps course for improving pre-college science education
...s. HHMI will support the MU program as part of a national initiative to improve connections between research institutions and their communities. Only 30 other institutions received similar grants through the initiative, and MU was one of just six to receive a maximum grant of $750,000. HHMI used a panel of ......the supervision of Jean-Louis Chapuis of the Musum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He studied the ecology and behaviour of mammals (mouflons, sheep and reindeer) introduced into the Islands. Ten years later, Renaud Kaeuffer, a doctoral student in biology at UQAM, supervised jointly by Denis Rale and...