32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...ts projects that industry cannot fully fund on its own because of significant technical risks. ATP awards are made on the basis of rigorous, competitive peer review considering scientific and technical merit of each proposal. In addition, awards are based on the potential for broad-based economic benefit...Amgen investigational therapy, AMG 162, increased bone mineral density with twice yearly injection
... to mimic the effects of OPG, enhancing the body's own process to specifically inhibit the effects of RANK Ligand. Observations from pre-clinical studies confirm that inhibition of RANK Ligand activity demonstrates significantly greater effects on blocking bone resorption compared to other therapies. ...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Oct. 5, 2004
...red preventable. For 83 of these, the patient's own actions may have contributed to death: not taking necessary preventive medicines; not following the prescribed regimen for the medications, or not seeking medical attention promptly (within two days) when symptoms occurred. For 70 of the 105 death...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...ay: Humane treatment of animals. When he got his own laboratory, Pavlov designed and built animal housing and surgical areas incorporating the latest aseptic and recovery techniques used for humans. "Chronic experiment" technique. Pavlov realized that performing long-term experiments on healthy, aler...Most promising clinical uses for stem cells from fat agreed on by international society
...ogy should be to develop therapies using patients' own cells, as opposed to cells that might be donated by other individuals. Because adipose is both abundantly available and easily accessible, it offers a practical source of stem cells. A key question the group answered was simply what to call the ce...University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
...s how we as professionals can make best use of our own learning in order to offer disabled children the most effective help. The conference should point the way forward for us to promote and extend research in all aspects of childhood disability." She added: "Conference delegates comes from all over Euro...Researchers find chemosignal that encourages women's sexual desire
...the saliva from their infants in addition to their own perspiration and milk was collected. They also wore pads secured by underarm shields to collect perspiration. The pads were collected, cut in pieces and frozen. Other studies in the McClintock lab have shown that the procedure is effective in...New Military Biomaterials R&D Center to hold first meeting
...ressing designed to enable soldiers to treat their own small gunshot wounds, burns, abrasions or cuts, so that they may complete a three-day mission and rapidly return to duty. The sprayable dressing technology will then be expanded to provide pain relief, mitigate bleeding and reduce infection. Biocur...Yale scientists find cooperative RNA switches in nature
...f riboswitch that are ribozymes and catalyze their own feedback loop. The work received the highest all time rating of a peer-reviewed scientific paper by the Faculty of 1000 , an on-line web resource where top researcher from around the world rank scientific publications Breaker's research, testing the...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...bers of the press may register and customize their own schedule by visiting http://www.eshow2000.com/geron/about_the_meeting.cfm . Promoting The Health of an Aging Population: Experts Present New Research on Hot Topics in Aging at GSA's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, November 19-23 Civic Eng...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...heir standard talks describing the status of their own research. In formats designed to enhance discussion, they will identify, debate, and summarize the key developments in physics over the past 25 years; they will assess the current status of the physics fields; and they will envision the course of ph...Emory chemists develop bacteria that may help decaffeinate coffee
...ally synthesize only molecules they need for their own survival, says Gallivan. His research team is interested in making bacteria synthesize molecules that they would otherwise not make on their own, resulting in molecules that may someday benefit humans. The Emory team reasoned that if a bacterium need...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...otein degradation as one major way to regulate its own activity, to rid itself of proteins no longer needed, including the tumor suppressor protein p53," said Xiong. This protein stops the cell from growing or kills it, he added. "If the cell is growing happily, it would not want p53 around. So it places...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
... in Alabama, a state that recently experienced its own high water problems associated with Hurricane Ivan. [Contact: Bill Cabage, 865-574-4399; cabagewh@ornl.gov ]. BIOLOGY -- Mimicking nature . . . Nanoscale synthetic cell membranes developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory move researchers one ste...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
...The technique helps to show how cells modify their own genetic makeup and may allow cancer treatments to ...curs when cells delete or multiply chunks of their own chromosomes. Cells can simply snip strings of genes from the chromosome, or make many extra copies o...Rice engineer wins prestigious Annunzio Award
... West is developing techniques to use a patient's own cells to grow replacement blood vessels in the lab -- blood vessels that can be used in procedures like coronary artery bypass grafting for patients with advanced heart disease. To achieve this, she is synthesizing so-called scaffold materials, novel...Texas universities expanding new information network
...N, as well as enable each institution to share its own resources. Computing, visualization, storage systems, data collections, databases, large-scale scientific instruments and sensor networks will all be available and linked by TIGRE over LEARN. TIGRE access to the state's rich set of distributed res...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
...ells from getting out of control and attacking our own tissues? The group is focusing on white blood cel...lupus happen when our white blood cells attack our own tissues somehow our cells have gained admittance and are allowed to congregate and operate where th...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...ithout disturbing the soil beneath or damaging its own parts. GEOPS' hull can take more than 50 g of acceleration and 30 tons of direct push -- the equivalent of surviving a high-speed car crash while having four grown elephants on top of it. Since GEOPS will withstand forces of a direct installation, wo......k to create a single piece of thick skin, with its own unique blood supply, that would allow for microvascular tissue transfer. Surgeons removed the scarred facial skin, harvested the skin flap from the back, and transferred it to the face. The skin flap was large enough to cover the face completely wi...