Researchers make 'embryonic-like' stem cells from umbilical cord blood
...at was proving to be a fruitful collaboration. "We plan to use this technology to engineer pancreatic tissue as we work towards our goal of developing a cure for type 1 diabetes," he added. The team's report will be published in the Cell Proliferation Journal on 18 August....A national plan for the R&D needed to protect U.S. critical infrastructure is released
... key resource areas.* The research and development plan in place is structured around nine ways to examine and deal with each. For example, we know that our enemies are hard at work developing new ways to threaten and hurt us. In the area of New and Emerging Threats (which could be anything from ne...Seeing the trees for the forest: WHRC scientists creating National Biomass and Carbon Dataset
...eatly enhance the Forest Service's capabilities to plan and conduct their survey and manage forest lands." He adds, "Overall, this project presents an opportunity to compile a more complete inventory of our national forest resource and to advance the science of accurately measuring and monitoring this res...Sandia researchers to study techniques for arsenic removal from drinking water
...o 505-844-0948 by 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, if you plan to attend. "The Desert Sands project will supplement a full-scale demonstration by the U.S. EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] for evaluation of a removal technology that uses granular iron oxide to filter arsenic from water," says Malcolm Siegel,...Brain activity in youth may presage Alzheimer's pathology
...s often in our default states. This may help us to plan and solve problems. Maybe it helps us be creative. But it may also have metabolic consequences," Buckner explained. The newfound correlation may also have future clinical implications as Alzheimer's is typically diagnosed when it is too late to inte...A step closer to a malaria vaccine
...human problems in the real world." The researchers plan to build on this research by attempting to identify compounds that will fit into the trough and could prevent the malaria parasite from binding to red blood cells. They will also try to determine if there are non-polymorphic regions of AMA1 that coul...New tool to study elusive DNA structure could help reveal better understanding of cancer, diabetes
...s, which she asserts requires fostering a national plan and a national will to succeed. McGown's presentation, "Detection of cellular proteins using genomic-inspired DNA," took place at 3:45 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, in room 152B of the Washington Convention Center....Study shows humans have ability to track odors, much like bloodhounds
... biophysics graduate student Jess Porter and Sobel plan to train volunteers to track odors in the field and test the limits of odor localization in humans. Porter, Sobel and their colleagues reported the results in the August 18 issue of the journal Neuron. In a review appearing in the same issue of the j...International stem cell meeting in Kobe, Japan
...he world in the 21st century. The drafters of this plan recognized the great potential for contributions by developmental and regenerative biologists in addressing the health challenges confronting an aging society, and so the concept of a national center for developmental biology was born. Through its br...Conference to highlight new biometric technologies
...go to http://www.nist.gov/bc2005 . Reporters who plan to cover the conference should send an e-mail to Jan Kosko ( kosko@nist.gov ) by close of business Wednesday, Sept. 14, and must show credentials (a news media badge with a photo or a photo ID with a business card) to gain admission to the conference...Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees
...d's closest relatives from disappearing. An action plan drafted by more than 70 primatologists and other e... that share the same habitat in six countries. The plan represents an urgent appeal to the international community for immediate action, before the damage i...Consortium seeks comment on gene expression roadmap
...s Consortium (ERCC) has issued for comment a draft plan for the selection and qualification of candidate RNA sequences, to be used as controls for assessing the performance of gene expression experiments. The ERCC is an ad hoc group of about 50 companies, universities and federal laboratories joined to de......ormation about rewarding flowers. Worden and Papaj plan to conduct more research to determine when bees copy others and when they learn on their own....Institute of Medicine news: Quarantine stations at ports of entry
...ers needs strategic leadership and a comprehensive plan to meet the challenges posed by emerging diseases ...overnment, the report notes. A national strategic plan devised by CDC quarantine personnel is needed to provide the best possible framework for protecting ...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...e release of radioactive dust; A comprehensive plan to dispose of tons of high-level radioactive waste at and around the Chernobyl NPP site, in accordance with current safety standards, has yet to be defined. Alongside radiation-induced deaths and diseases, the report labels the mental health impac...UQ researcher awarded top international honour
...ly honoured to have received this Fellowship and I plan to use it to meet with leaders in the areas of stem cell research, research translation, business leadership and ethics." Sir Leo Hielscher, Chairman of the Queensland Treasury Corporation, is the previous Queensland recipient, having been awarded a......k Malaria Partnership will report on a coordinated plan to reduce malaria deaths in Africa and worldwide. Journalist site visits to research projects and malaria endemic communities will be organized prior to the conference . This assembly offers a unique opportunity to find in one venue the world's lea...University of Kentucky awarded $6 million for GDNF and related research
...end of this five-year funding cycle UK researchers plan to be ready to move GDNF or a related compound once again into human clinical trials a timetable considered ambitious by industry standards, but realistic to Gerhardt. UK's research into GDNF made headlines recently when the CBS news show "60 Minute...Tobacco industry weakened pesticide regulations, UCSF study shows
...ions problems. The PM employee wrote, "...the test plan and methods will provide, literally, no informatio...irector, to prepare a report challenging the EPA's plan to impose stricter exposure limits for workers and the community. Anderson obtained additional fundi......t. In future studies, Harrison and his colleagues plan to explore the steps that occur after the spike protein attaches to the receptor. The researchers know that the spike protein undergoes a conformational change that enables the virus to fuse with the host cell. "When there's a conformational change,...