Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants
...rch in public health. The grants, aimed at health promotion and public health protection, give Children's an o...ograms. Under the first grant, focusing on health promotion in the workplace, CHIP will test a scheme for improving control of influenza outbreaks in two popula...'Junk' DNA may be very valuable to embryos
...some role in the regulation of gene expression and promotion of genetic diversity. Dr. Barbara B. Knowles and colleagues from The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, found that distinct retrotransposon types are unexpectedly active in mouse eggs, and others are activated in early embryos. Surprisingly, b...Establishment of an International Council for Science Regional Office for Africa
...e ICSU Regional Office will be responsible for the promotion of increased participation of scientists from Sub-Saharan Africa in ICSU programmes and activities. It will also assist ICSU and its Unions in their strategic planning to ensure that African priorities are taken into account in setting the internati...New report offers recommendations to spur interdisciplinary research
...eople with valuable interdisciplinary backgrounds; promotion criteria should include methods to evaluate interdisciplinary faculty and programs as well. The committee concluded that the process by which institutions evaluate interdisciplinary research programs is often imperfect. The peer-review process for ...Study gives US a 'C' for lagging support of international reproductive health and population efforts
...V/AIDS efforts are also undercut by its increasing promotion of abstinence-only approaches. "The HIV/AIDS pandemic is finally getting some long-needed attention from the international donor community," says Sally Ethelston, lead author of the new report and a vice president at PAI. "The challenge now is to ens...Bush's DOE secretary nominee good for science, say APS leaders
...the Office of Science greatly through his tireless promotion of the Department's strategic report on science and the Facilities for the Future of Science plan. Dr. Bodman, with his experience in academia, finance and industry, will be at least as strong of a supporter of DOE's S&T portfolio," Richter conclude...Three Nobel laureates to speak at 06 AACBNC Meeting
... scientific misconduct, intellectual property, and promotion and tenure. The second round-table discussion will be moderated by Susan H. Ehringhaus, J.D., General Counsel for the AAMC, who is an expert on conflict of interest. Additional participants will be Chris B. Pascal, J.D., who is the Director of the Of...Fred Hutchinson announces 2005 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awardees
...lished to foster intellectual exchange through the promotion of programs for graduate students, fellows and visiting scholars. Editor's note: A complete list of 2005 Weintraub awardees follows. To receive a faxed research summary and CV of any of the recipients, please contact Kristen Woodward in Fred Hutchins...Tumor individuality useful for guiding rational chemotherapeutic decisions
...on. The H-ras/MAPK pathway is intimately linked to promotion of cell survival and is often abnormally activated during tumorigenesis. The researchers conclude that combinatorial chemotherapy using proteosome inhibitors to enhance chemosensitivity to paclitaxel in tumors where the H-ras/MAPK pathway is activate...NIH should take decisive steps to promote independence, originality
...ated as a change in career track -- accompanied by promotion to a "staff scientist" position with employee benefits and appropriate levels of responsibility, the report says. In most cases, biomedical postdocs are paid through "R01" research grants that are made to principal investigators (PIs). Consequently...Components in grapes inhibit enzyme key to proliferation of cancer cells
...a said. "Some have high inhibitory activity in the promotion and progression stages of cancer and have a high probability to work against the disease."...Latest gene therapy research to be presented in St. Louis, June 1-5, 2005
...nd related cell and nucleic acid therapies and the promotion of professional and public education in the field. Established in 1996, the ASGT has grown to nearly 3,000 members. For more information, contact John Gardner at 414/278-1341 or visit www.asgt.org...50,000 for German-Polish cooperation in the promotion of young researchers
...lish research cooperation, especially in the joint promotion of young researchers. The prize money of 50,000 wi...the focus should be on further advancing the joint promotion of young researchers. Nominations will be accepted from 13 May through 15 October 2005. The first a...Winners of first Trieste Science Prize announced
...stitutions that have played a critical role in the promotion of science in the developing world....JCI table of contents July 1, 2005
...1 is a protein that has both tumor suppression and promotion effects. Although it is clear that the TGF beta t...egarding to the role of in TGFbeta1-mediated tumor promotion remain controversial. In a study appearing online on June 2 in advance of the print publication of ...Opiate cocktail may spare cells from morphine's dark side
...e tolerance and dependence. This suggests that the promotion of MOP-receptor internalization might prevent such... Moreover, past work has not indicated whether the promotion of MOP-receptor internalization could prevent the development of morphine dependence, but in the new...Public release of pig genomic sequences
... is a leading genomics research institution in the promotion of genomics in agricultural research. In the past 5 years, in addition to its contribution to the international Human Genome and HapMap Projects, BGI has sequenced the genomes of rice, chicken, silkworm, and many microorganisms of importance for agri......inistry of Education and Research from its project promotion fund. Through research in the field of theoretical and computer-assisted biology, the new research facility will complement the highly experimental range of issues covered at the SIBS in Shanghai, as well as a number of projects at Max Planck Institu...UQ leads $10m study to fight dengue
... genetics, dengue transmission and control, health promotion and education. The project is to be carried out in Australia, Vietnam and Thailand. Scientists will collaborate with local communities and various government agencies in each of these countries from the outset. The Grand Challenges initiative was l...Oxytocin raises aggression, cuts anxiety during lactation; similar effects on virgin rats
...ticity, autoregulation of OT neuronal activity and promotion of maternal behavior, including maternal aggressive behavior to protect offspring," Inga D. Neumann of the University of Regensburg, Germany, notes. "Thus in lactating rats from a line bred for high-anxiety behavior, or HAB, OT release within both th...