Good news: As you age, leg blood vessels adapt so you can still exercise without fainting
...xygen delivery to exercising muscles. Research is supported by the National Institute on Aging. ...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
...ly chemosensory clinical research center currently supported by the NIDCD. Monell's Director, Gary K. Beauchamp, Ph.D., who is Principal Investigator of the grant, remarks, "The Monell-Jefferson CCRC applies molecular, cellular, and sensory research to address important clinical problems. Funding of this gra...Yale scientists find cooperative RNA switches in nature
...so from the University of Washington. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Yale Liver Center and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation....US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...he world, organizations, and private sector groups supported Virginia Tech's application. OIRED is part of Outreach and International Affairs (OIA) at Virginia Tech, which links the university to businesses, government agencies, individuals, and communities in the Commonwealth, nation and the worl...Drought in the West linked to warmer temperatures
...s website, www.sciencemag.org . This research was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Analyzing aridity in the western U.S. over the past 1,200 years, the study team, which also included scientists from the University of Arizona, U...Estrogen protects male rats from aortic aneurysms
...cts the process of AAA formation. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Jobst Vascular Research Fund, the Lifeline Foundation and the University of Michigan. Gorav Ailawadi, M.D., a U-M resident in surgery, was first author of the ATVB paper. Additional U-M collaborators included...Technology award presented to Weizmann Institute scientist
...rancisco's Fairmont Hotel on Oct. 7-8. The WTN is supported by, among others, Nasdaq, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science, Fortune and Microsoft.......sychiatric Disorders Research Consortium, which is supported by the Pritzker Family Philanthropic Fund and by the National Institute of Mental Health. The research team consisted of scientists from the University of Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute and Department of Psychiatry, working in close coll...Stony Brook University medical researcher developing new medication to prevent colon cancer
...nitric oxide-donating aspirin, or nitroaspirin--is supported by a $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer I...e prevention of colon and pancreatic cancer, being supported by five NIH grants. He also pioneered the application of infrared spectroscopy to biology with empha...DFG research training groups become increasingly international
...earchers from different branches of engineering is supported in the Research Training Group "Harbours for Container Ships of Future Generations: Interaction of Ship, Fluid, Structure and Soil" at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH). Researchers from shipbuilding, mechanical and ocean engineering...Mitochondrial mutation linked to blood pressure and cholesterol problems
...dical Institute and the American Heart Association supported this research. ...Mouse study: 'Critical' Down syndrome region isn't
...ab is now testing another long-standing but poorly supported tenet of Down syndrome research by using the mouse models to study the involvement of neural crest cells, precursors to structures affected in Down syndrome, including the face, heart and the nerves that serve the intestines....Clues to improving TB treatment
...ht of the Institut Pasteur de Lille. The study was supported in part by Rgion Nord-Pas de Calais, INSERM, CNRS and Institut Pasteur de Lille. ...Clues to the puzzle of 'talking' root cells
...cience and Technology in Japan. Their research was supported by the National Institutes of Health. In their studies, the researchers sought to understand details of how a protein made by a gene called Short-Root travels from one cell to another in the developing plant root. In previous studies, Benfey and h...Sick kids researchers unmask the potential of stem cells found in adult skin
...Network. "The Stem Cell Network is pleased to have supported this work in Dr. Miller's laboratory." The co-lead authors of the paper were Dr. Karl Fernandes, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Miller's lab who holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canadian Neurotrauma Research Program fellowship, and Ian Mc...Research team discovers possible genetic mechanism behind congenital heart defects
... Johnathon Walls from Sick Kids. This research was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, the National Cancer Institute of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Innovation Trust, the O...Researchers discover transport molecule that allows boron into cells
...eizhong Zeng, assistant professor. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health. ...High-predator environment has unexpected impact on aging in fish
...heir predictions have been widely accepted and are supported by some experiments. Now, a study by UC Riverside researchers comparing fish living in high- and low-predator environments has found that these classically held theories of aging fail to predict how aging has evolved in nature. The research findi...International marine survey of coral death
...argeted Research and Capacity Building project and supported by the Global Environment Fund and the World Bank. With funding of about $28.8 million for the first five years of an anticipated 15-year project, the assessment aims "to fill critically important information gaps in the fundamental understanding of ...Sex-determining genes of infectious fungus resemble human Y chromosome
...dentity and virulence, Heitman added. The work was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Sexual identity is governed by sex chromosomes in plants and animals. In humans and other mammals, males have one X and one Y chromosome, while females have a pair of X's. In fung...