HHS awards $232 million in biodefense contracts for vaccine development
...greatly expanded our partnerships with industry to spur the development of vaccines against the most deadly agents of bioterrorism," said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID. "These important new contracts reflect our commitment to develop medical tools to protect citizens against pathogens that co...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
... it has awarded more than $38 million in grants to spur the development of innovative technologies designed to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, a move aimed at broadening the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care. NHGRI's near-term goal is to lower the cost...Surgeon General's report underscores the importance of new thinking on bone health
... We believe today's report is an important tool to spur healthcare professionals, advocates and private industries on in our efforts to find effective ways to make osteoporosis prevention part of the everyday lives," said Neil Walsdorf, Jr., president of Mission Pharmacal. Osteoporosis is the gradual los...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...ing $38 million going to several research teams to spur the development of innovative techniques to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, a move aimed at broadening the application of genome information in medical research and health care. Goal of the three-year ASU grant is to develop a system...In a tiny squid, bacterial toxin governs organ development
...ive Hawaiian bobtail squid, the toxin was found to spur the development of a structure, a light-producing organ that acts as a sort of "Klingon cloaking device," mimicking starlight to confuse hungry predators lurking in the depths. In humans, the same toxic molecule, produced by different species of bact...International Polar Year preparations
...ational Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957. IGY helped spur an international reputation for the university through the deep involvement of Associate Director of the Geophysical Institute Sydney Chapman. Roger Smith, the Institute's current director, hopes the IPY of 2007--2008 will once again turn the interna...Research team discovers first evidence of microbes living in a rock glacier
...similar habitats in Colorado and Antarctica should spur other discoveries elsewhere in these environments," said Henry Gholz, director of NSF's LTER program. "The challenge now is to explain the role of these microbes in the ecosystem." Added Williams, "Rock glaciers are not biological deserts as had bee...Fundamental finding yields insight into stem cells, cancer; opens door to drug discovery
...nd facial deformities. In contrast, mutations that spur overactivity of the pathway lead to basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer, and medulloblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. About one in five childhood brain tumors are medulloblastomas. In their experiments, the researche...No blind mice, thanks to UF scientists
... addition of the protein would call stem cells and spur extraordinary blood vessel growth in the eyeballs of 10 laboratory mice. They succeeded, creating mice with retinopathy-like conditions. Then, as a treatment, scientists injected an SDF-1 antibody directly into the afflicted eyes. The antibody -- whi...Fat deficiency gene also spurs obesity
...racterized by a severe deficiency of fat--can also spur obesity, according to new research published in the premier issue of Cell Metabolism. The gene, which alters fat storage and metabolism, is the first found to adjust body fat content up or down, depending on its expression level in fat and muscle, ac...Study provides insights on why some prostate cancer becomes resistant to hormone withdrawl therapy
...or and the appropriate co-regulators is thought to spur cancer development. Analogous mutant receptors also have been found in human prostate cancers. Researchers wondered what would happen if they put the mutant receptors into otherwise healthy mice that also contained a normal version of the androgen re...Lupus Research Institute increases funding for innovative research
... to researchers in other specialties, the LRI will spur novel approaches and collaborations not previously applied to the lupus field." The 2005 grant application deadline is June 30, 2005 with financial support slated to start in October. For information on the LRI's 2005 grant program, visit www.lupu...Scientists propose new approach to estimating global ocean productivity
...t of validation work to do. A big motivation is to spur the marine science community to have a discussion. What other tools can we use to do it better . . . to understand how it (phytoplankton) is distributed, where it is, is it changing or not as a function of time?" In estimating phytoplankton growth r...Gene variations explain drug dose required to control seizures
...out the world, Goldstein said. Both drugs commonly spur adverse reactions. "Physicians have long recognized that patients with the same condition differ in their responses to the same drugs," said neurologist and epilepsy specialist Sanjay Sisodiya, M.D., leader of the University College London effort and...'Free-for-all' illegal logging of mahogany in Peruvian parks, says Duke-based monitoring group
...r-all in these forests. Hopefully this report will spur action." Just weeks after the expedition's conclusion, Fagan and Shoobridge learned that Peru was reclassifying the reserved zone as a national park. "This process would have required several years and involved many different organizations, so it was...An (ecological) origin of species for tropical reef fish
...ical speciation model for coral reef organisms may spur the development of a more synthetic treatment of speciation on land and sea. Coral reefs, like tropical forests, express an extreme of life's capacity for variation. Yet high biodiversity in tropical seas foil evolutionists' attempts to explain the s...Gene associated with breast cancer may play major role in prostate cancer recurrence
...ation creates too many HER-2 receptors. This helps spur rapid cancer cell growth. While treatment with the antibody drug Herceptin can be effective in slowing breast cancer growth, this is not the case in prostate cancer, researchers said. "The treatment with the antibody has been a uniform failure in pro...Washington University chosen as NIH Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology
...y is a vitally important research effort that will spur the development of novel technologies to diagnose and treat heart, lung, and blood diseases. The program brings together bioengineers, materials scientists, biologists, and physicians who will work in interdisciplinary teams. By taking advantage of ...NIH awards Georgia Tech/Emory $11.5 M for nano cardiology research
...y is a vitally important research effort that will spur the development of novel technologies to diagnose and treat heart, lung, and blood diseases," said Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. "The program brings together bioengineers, materials scientists, bio......erving as a trip-wire to raise the alarm. The TLRs spur the monocytes to differentiate into the two rapid response cell types. Why this matters became strikingly clear when the scientists studied different forms of leprosy for the presence of the two cell types. (One of the types, the microbe-eating macro...