New risks for bladder cancer identified by MIT team
...IT are Tannenbaum, Paul L. Skipper, a BE principal research scientist, and Jinping Gan, a former graduate student. Their colleagues Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Kazuko Arakawa, Ronald K. Ross, and Mimi C. Yu are at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 1993 Tannenbaum and Skipper teamed up ...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...he world. PacGen has developed a multidisciplinary research team to investigate exceptional survival in the Ho...um will present an overview of HGPS and the latest research on the disorder, as well as cover funding opportunities. November 22 at 10:30 a.m . M...Taking the next step toward growing our own fuel
...rn byproducts is one of the goals of a newly named research theme at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Eight research laboratories will pool their expertise, attacking the problems from different directions to improve ...Sedentary overweight people get insulin boost from short term exercise; CVD risks trend down
...n pre- and type 2-diabetes One aspect of the research was to establish the role of energy balance in med... function and endothelium inflammation, which some research has shown to correlate with certain heart problems. Mitchell noted that the study involv...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...the management entity for significant agricultural research and assistance programs designed to improve crop y...inable agriculture and natural resource management research and education," said S.K. De Datta, associate provost for international affairs and director of the ...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...and developing countries alike to support genomics research and learning worldwide. The GGI would give develop... example, has invested heavily since the 1980's in research infrastructure and manufacturing in biotechnology. The country has produced several successful prod...Drought in the West linked to warmer temperatures
...linked to climate warming trends, according to new research led by scientists from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Ob...ce magazine's website, www.sciencemag.org . This research was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Science...Emory chemists develop bacteria that may help decaffeinate coffee
...ey 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 needs a particular molecule to survive, it...New technique targets pesticide-resistant insects
...uding horticulture and field crops. Results of the research including details of scientific trials conducted in Australia, Spain and South Africa, are being presented today (Friday October 8) at the 2nd European Whitefly symposium in Croatia. NSW DPI Principal Research Scientist, Dr Robin Gunning, said the te...Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants
... a first-ever CDC initiative to sponsor innovative research in public health. The grants, aimed at health pro...ncies." This the first time that the CDC is making research grants to academic scientists analogous to those awarded by the National Institutes of Health, notes...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
...iatives designed to transform the nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the laboratory bench to the bedside. While compliance with traditional prenatal car...Cooperation to create a new tuberculosis vaccine
...ngst the leading groups in Tuberculosis immunology research world wide. MOLOGEN focuses on proprietary DNA technologies to develop treatments for non- or inadequately treatable diseases. With more than 2 million deaths and 9 million new infections annually, TB, along with malaria and HIV/AIDS, is responsible...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
...ls may not always be necessary. ORNL conducted the research in collaboration with Tuskegee University 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 . . . Nanosc...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
... method could be particularly important for cancer research because it gives scientists a clearer idea of what is really going wrong in tumors and thus points to possible treatments. The researchers already used their system to identify previously unrecognized immune system genes that are deleted in breast ca...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
... minutes." Bionanotechnology is a new frontier of research that combines two seemingly incompatible materials...n detection in foods, which is a huge issue." The research team includes former UF scientist Xiaojun Zhao, now an assistant professor at the University of Nort...Workshop on Responsible Stem Cell Research
...ent provides funding for human embryonic stem cell research only to scientists working on approved lines of pre-existing stem cells. Privately funded researchers at many businesses and academic institutions, however, are pursuing studies on stem cells derived from donated embryos and not included in the appro...Rice engineer wins prestigious Annunzio Award
...ng, is internationally recognized for cutting-edge research in two of bioengineering's most competitive fields...ic elite," said Rice President David Leebron. "Her research -- especially her use of revolutionary technologies in the treatment of disease --holds extraordinar...Defense provides additional $4.9 million for pathogen research tool
...ia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech has a research platform centered on understanding the "disease tr...nteractions. With almost $42 million in extramural research funding awarded to date, VBI researchers are working on many human, crop, and animal diseases....FSU scientist links iron imbalance to Parkinson's disease
...t FSU's Biomedical Research Facility. "Our primary research objective is to better understand how trace metal imbalances, which are associated with neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, affect the molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression." Levenson performed the mouse model por......dispel longstanding misconceptions in sports. New research suggests that the spot on a baseball bat that feels the best to a hitter (i.e., transmits the least vibration to the hands) may not really be the spot that can send the ball the farthest distance. Dan Russell of Kettering University in Michigan ( dr...