US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...ntry institutional partners, the NGO community and private sector, the donor community, and our research part...rch Centers all over the world, organizations, and private sector groups supported Virginia Tech's application. OIRED is part of Outreach and Inte...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
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... influence health care disparities. Government and private organizations have provided money to fund prenatal programs, but these have made little difference in the overall problem. In this new study, an interdisciplinary group of U-M researchers, led by Lynn Wooten, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the U-M ...Surgeon General's report underscores the importance of new thinking on bone health
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.... "Lacking effective water treatment and testing, private wells are more at risk of arsenic poisoning." There is good news, however. The researchers' findings suggest that groundwater contaminated with arsenic might be easily identified and remediated. "Unlike detecting the presence of arsenic which gener...Government development policies, not communities, main threat to forest conservation projects
...ioned off almost 7.5 million hectares of forest in private logging concessions, in a system that excludes local communities and threatens their lands. Currently, this is the main threat to forest conservation, and reflects a global trend towards privatisation of forests for commercial exploitation. In Peru,...NSF gives 'teeth' to biomaterials research
...th. "By bringing together academic researchers and private industry, this grant will help put in place a foundation that will support the transfer of knowledge from academia to industry, thus helping meet the state's goals of increasing economic development by stimulating job growth in the emerging knowledge...Global warming: Informal networking is the key to a swift response
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... went on behind the scenes. The program provides a private look at a public project and shows the decision-making process while it is happening. Radio Cynthia Graber, a freelancer reporting for National Public Radio's Living on Earth , with Christopher Ballman, reported on Iceland's ambitious plan to wea...Cardiovascular and neurological benefits of high antioxidant foods and beverages
....D., L.D. Ms. Carey is a nutritional consultant in private practice. She has extensive expertise in the areas of sports nutrition, nutrition for fitness, cardiovascular nutrition and weight control....New bulls may revive the Texas state Bison Herd
... federal herds and most any of the other state and private herds," he said. This led them to conclude the herd was suffering from inbreeding depression. Since the herd was confined on the Goodnight Ranch and then at the state park, no new genes had been brought into the herd in 120 years. With the assistan...Acid-resistant bug doesn't give in to alcohol either
...omising enough to have been award both federal and private funding. Kappock is a little surprised that relatively few others have studied Acetobacter, given the common and widespread nature of the organism. "It's literally garden-variety," he said. "Acetobacter clings to plant surfaces in the wi...Injured whooping crane recovering at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
...ederal and state programs, conservation groups and private individuals. However, it is still gravely endangered and is the rarest of all cranes. The injured whooping crane was part of the last remaining wild flock, which numbers around 200 birds. There are about 400 whoopers in the world today, almost half o...Isotron licenses ORNL cancer treatment technology
...example of how collaborations between ORNL and the private sector can result in technology to make our lives better," said Alex Fischer, director of ORNL's Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development. "Through this work with Isotron, thousands of people can perhaps be cured of cancer and go on to ...MBL scientists embark on international effort to uncover microbial diversity in world's oceans
... additional support from governmental agencies and private foundations. "The scope of ICoMM's activities by 2010 will be proportional to available resources from foundations and governmental funding agencies," Sogin noted. "The dynamic range of resource requirements for science to be promoted by ICoMM will...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...ecessity becomes opportunity"), 2) the role of the private sector in commercialization, 3) widespread collabo... be linked to how well they can engage and sustain private sector growth and commercialize scientific discoveries as products," says Abdallah Daar, MD, Directo...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
...is an extraordinary partnership between public and private institutions that combines cutting-edge science with a commitment to affordability and accessibility for those people in need," said Regina Rabinovich, M.D., M.P.H., director of infectious diseases at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "I hope that...Lilly Endowment gives Indiana University $53 million for life sciences
...bring useful laboratory discoveries to the Indiana private sector. Scientific investigation by members of the Indiana METACyt Initiative will be focused on five areas: microbial systems, cell signaling and differentiation, molecular neurosciences, molecular evolutionary and developmental biology, and analyt...