CIRM awards $5.9 million to Burnham Institute
...ence. By giving priority to SEED funding, CIRM is supporting early-stage science that could not be funded under current stem cell funding guidelines at the National Institutes of Health. CIRMs SEED program is intended to bring new ideas and new investigators into the field of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)...Is biodiversity the future of farming?
...rn farms are almost diametrically opposed to those supporting industrial agriculture. They may need to: Be energy conserving Feature both biological and genetic diversity Be largely self-regulating and self-renewing Be knowledge intensive Operate on biological synergies Employ adaptive management Fea...Iowa State researchers improve soy processing by boosting protein and sugar yields
...ogram. Cargill and other major food processors are supporting the research project with materials and supplies. ...nd the Iowa Biotechnology Byproducts Consortium is supporting the nisin portion of the project with a grant of $155,711. Khanal said the technology has boosted ...Smithsonian receives $8M HSBC grant
...epends on a stable environment. We believe that by supporting this research we will more fully understand the risks and business opportunities presented by climate change, and the Smithsonian Institution is the best-equipped and experienced organization of this kind to help us understand how our global environm......which she described a test tube experiment further supporting this claim. Fraser's presentation, titled "Reovirus as a Potentially Immunogenic as well as Cytotoxic Therapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer," reported how cells taken from a colorectal cancer liver metastases were more susceptible to death many we...Major society publisher announces support for public access to scientific literature
...e compromise between the financial requirements of supporting a journal and the need for access to current research. For these reasons, the ASCB supports efforts to require that the results of federally funded biomedical research be made freely available to the public, no more than six months after they are pub...Green payments are the future of agricultural support
...zing the limits of the soil conditioning index supporting small farms by establishing a base pay minimum creating a universal application to streamline the bureaucracy enhancing conservation by welcoming new practices lengthening the sign-up period to avoid conflict with farm responsibilities ...World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
...a, have discovered the first direct field evidence supporting this theory. The study shows carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere could have sustained surface temperatures above freezing before 3.75 billion years ago according to the researchers, led by University of Chicago Assistant Professor Nicolas Dauphas...Central and peripheral signals set the circadian liver clock
...hut off. However, when Dox was added to the medium supporting the liver tissue, circadian rhythms matched those seen in livers from mice with fluorescent mPer2 and unimpeded Bmal1 expression. The mPer2 expression patterns in the liver explants together with in livers taken from the transgenic offspring show tha...NIH gives PITT $13 million grant for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease research
...enter are: Seeking peripheral markers of COPD supporting a hypothesis that the disease is not uniform in its presentation, but rather heterogeneous. Researchers believe these differences are definable by anatomic, physiological, molecular and cellular processes to determine disease manifestation and progre...Alpine bird numbers on the slide due to high-altitude ski runs
... of birds. Areas next to ski pistes also suffered, supporting lower numbers of birds. They found fewer arthropods on the ski pistes, suggesting that a shortage of food may be responsible for so few birds occurring on these sites. "More than one-quarter of the 26 bird species in this study - including the rock ...There goes the neighborhood: Vascular niche nurtures brain tumor stem cells
...ere reduced and tumor growth was arrested, further supporting the importance of the vascular microenvironment to CSCs. "Our data identify a possible role for niche microenvironments in the maintenance of CSCs and identify a mechanism by which antiangiogenic drugs inhibit brain tumor growth," concludes Dr. Gi...Donald H. Sebastian receives award from SMART
... "This award recognizes Dr. Sebastian's leadership supporting SMART since its inception, including his chairmanship of the tech trends conference sessions in materials and composites, formation and support of the modeling and simulation cluster and hosting of SMART forums in Newark," said Thomas Kingston, manag...TIGR researchers reveal tricks of common sexually transmitted infection
...been controversial. The researchers found evidence supporting a common evolutionary origin for mitochondria, hydrogenosomes, and other organelles known as mitosomes. The researchers also found evidence that predicts a new function for hydrogenosomes: amino acid metabolism. ABOUT TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS AND TRI...Big-brained birds survive better in nature
... lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the evolution of large brains." The researchers made allowances for factors which may have accounted for variations in mortality rates, such as migratory behaviour, competition for mates a...AAAS applauds nationwide science and math standards based on existing guidelines
...ntelligent design" into science curriculum. While supporting a single, nationwide set of science and math standards, AAAS -- the world's largest general scientific organization -- urged policy-makers and educators to begin with existing guidelines, which already provide a model for the nation's best state-leve...A simple feedback resistor switch keeps latent HIV from awakening
...ced Tat transcription activation in cells, further supporting the role of Tat acetylation in controlling viral dormancy. Finally, simulations under noisy conditions predicted that this simple resistor system was better able to resist environmental fluctuations than hypothetical oligomer-dependent switches, and ...USC-led researchers use stem cells to regenerate parts of teeth
..., PhD, has successfully regenerated tooth root and supporting periodontal ligaments to restore tooth function in an animal model. The breakthrough holds significant promise for clinical application in human patients. The study appears December 20 in the inaugural issue of PLoS ONE. Utilizing stem cells harve...USC-led researchers use stem cells to regenerate parts of teeth
... PhD, has successfully regenerated tooth ro ot and supporting periodontal ligaments to restore tooth function in a swine (an animal) model. The breakthrough holds significant promise for clinical application in human patients. The study appears December 20 in the inaugural issue of PLoS ONE. Utilizing stem c...High levels of vitamin D in the body may decrease the risk of multiple sclerosis
...verge with a growing body of experimental evidence supporting the importance of vitamin D in regulating the immune system and suppressing autoimmune reactions, which are thought by most experts to play a key role in the development of MS," said Ascherio. Kassandra Munger, first author and a doctoral candidate i...