Tulane receives millions for international health and tropical medicine research
...the maintaining the work of the program led her to spend her own money during the interim," says Kendall. Brindley has been awarded $2.7 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious, NIH, diseases for a five-year cooperative study of liver cancer due to liver fluke infection. The researc...Researchers find gland that tells fruit flies when to stop growing
...owth by reducing insulin signaling caused flies to spend longer in each stage of development, allowing them to be larger than normal when they emerged into adulthood. "Normal larvae would never initiate metamorphosis before they were of a sufficient size to survive the process," Mirth said. This marks th...Reify Corporation's Visible Discovery(tm) technology showcased at ICSB conference
...prised at the amount of time and effort biologists spend tweaking image analysis toolboxes and developing custom algorithms to quantitate their assay results. Visible Discovery was developed to change all of that, and these posters give excellent demonstrations of how the same technology can be used to del...When do mosquitoes prefer a blood banquet, or a sugar feast? Three genes make the call
...matic metabolic shift," Denlinger said. "Then they spend the winter in culverts and caves, and basements of houses." These three genes are the first big discovery to come out of Denlinger's relatively new mosquito research program; his students ventured into the Columbus city sewers in September of 2000, t...Pillows - a hot bed of fungal spores
..." Professor Ashley Woodcock added: "Since patients spend a third of their life sleeping and breathing close to a potentially large and varied source of fungi, these findings certainly have important implications for patients with respiratory disease - especially asthma and sinusitis."...Flu virus reported to resist drug envisioned for pandemic
...Recent reports indicate the federal government may spend billions of dollars to stockpile as much as 81 million courses of Tamiflu to forestall a possible influenza pandemic. The government has already stockpiled an estimated 12 to 13 million courses. "This is the first line of defense," says Kawaoka, a pr...AAAS science literacy project 20th anniversary, Oct. 17-19
...ect in developing its biology curriculum. She must spend much more of her time dealing with students' behavioral problems now than she did eight years ago. In addition, classrooms are more crowded and some science lab space has been converted for classroom use. "You don't have control over those factors," ...Umzi Wethu Project announced at 8th World Wilderness Congress
...ild environments and a home campus. They will then spend a year as interns in a private game reserve or national park, before placement in secure jobs. The project creates a bridge beyond existing orphan support lines, introducing a strong underlying environmental ethic. Funds are currently being raised to...Satellite technology allows scientists to track warm sharks in cold polar seas
... darkness." As they move farther south, the sharks spend more time in deeper water, sometimes diving about a half-mile below sea level to avoid warmer temperatures at the surface. The capacity to summer in the plankton-rich seas of the temperate north or to overwinter in chilly Alaskan waters sets salmon s...Society of Nuclear Medicine/GE Healthcare offer new visiting physician/scientist program grant
...aging physician or scientist from North America to spend one to two weeks to lecture, consult and train at ...o-week period, a visiting physician/scientist will spend time lecturing, training and consulting on nuclear medicine/molecular imaging. "With this grant prog...Looks matter to female barn swallows
...n relate to -- think of how much time and money we spend on our looks and status long after we have establi...re grown, and perhaps the best males are those who spend more time preening and protecting their plumage." The paper's other co-author is Colby Neuman, Corne...University of Kentucky awarded $6 million for GDNF and related research
...enters of Excellence. Gerhardt and colleagues will spend the next five years investigating potential negati... still have much to learn about it. We're going to spend the next five years studying the technology and how to translate it into clinical use in patients," ...Researchers discover why melanoma is so malignant
...bility to spread--something that other cancers can spend decades trying to do. Weinberg's team demonstrated this through a number of experiments. In the first, they created models of various cancer types by introducing cancer-causing genes into normal human cells and then injecting the tumor cells underne...Caloric restriction won't dramatically extend life span in humans: UCLA research
...ffering necessary to achieve them. "Do you want to spend decades severely limiting what you eat to live a few more years? You will be unhappy and then your life will end shortly after mine ends," Phelan jokes. Scientists have known for six decades that cutting the caloric intake of rodents by 40 percent o...Blocking a premature aging syndrome with anticancer drugs
...rogerin has so inspired him that he has decided to spend another year in Collins's lab, with his next task being to test the effects of FTIs in their mouse model of HGPS....Otter adaptations: How do otters remain sleek and warm
... all familiar. Yet, unlike many other mammals that spend a considerable amount of time in the waterpolar bears, seals, dolphins, and whalesriver otters do not have a thick layer of body fat to keep warm. They rely, instead, on a few unique adaptations; namely, their fur and the densely packed layer of spec...The tastiest root There are many insects which spend part of their lives below ground, feeding on the roots of various plants. While much is known about their above-ground lives, less is known about what they do underground. Focusing on the clover root weevil (Sitona lepidus), an insect that attacks ...Coral reef fish larvae settle close to home
... settled just down the street.) Although clownfish spend a relatively short period of time as larvae (approximately 10 days), the results are significant because they document the smallest scale of dispersal known for a marine fish species. Clownfish are subject to a thriving aquarium-fish trade in many tr...Divergent life history shapes gene expression in brains of salmon
...hat the "default" life cycle, in which male salmon spend several years in oceans before returning to freshwater to reproduce, may actually result from active inhibition of development into a sneaker. Previous studies have found that the proportion of sneakers in various salmon populations varies wildly; it......a $250 billion industry in the U.S. Manufacturers spend 10 to 40 percent of their production costs on energy consumption. As much as 80 percent of that energy cost is spent drying the wood. If the process can reduce the amount of energy used in drying wood by 10 percent, then millions of dollars could be ...