NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...successful only where scientists have overcome the technical challenge of producing and purifying the membranes. The Trouble with Membrane Proteins The main problem with using conventional techniques in structural biology to solve membrane proteins is simple and twofold-- membrane proteins are hard to pr...32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...cts, which were chosen on the basis of difficulty, technical innovation and the potential for significant benef...annot fully fund on its own because of significant technical risks. ATP awards are made on the basis of rigorous, competitive peer review considering scientific ...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
...nostic and therapeutic approaches. "Aside from the technical accomplishments, what's notable about these studies is the collaboration between multiple agencies--including the Department of Defense and the academic sector--to address the issues raised in the 1999 Institute of Medicine report on the need to reta...Interactive health information system to detect Japanese encephalitis in Asia
...JE cases or suspected encephalitis cases and share technical information and resources with health workers. The Voxiva system will allow health managers to work collaboratively on disease prevention and control with international experts working on diagnostics, vaccine development and introduction, and clinica...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...oustics ( pete.loeppert@knowles.com ) will discuss technical innovations that led to a low-cost, stable MEMS microphone for commercial applications (2aEA1). Michael Pedersen of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives ( Pedersen@mems-exchange.org ) will explain how MEMS microphones could be used for ...Health, food, new technologies featured during ACS meeting Oct. 17-20 in Peoria, Ill.
...otechnology and the training of future workers for technical careers. Open to the public. (Tuesday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m.) The following awards will be presented at the meeting: Sumita Mitra ACS Industrial Innovation Award for research at the 3M Company in St. Paul, Minn., that led to the invention of a ...Solutions to stop fishermen returning dead and dying marine animals back into sea - study
...munications, debate transcripts and scientific and technical texts. The team, from Newcastle University's School of Marine Science and Technology and the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, estimate that discarding will have severe long-term economic consequences. The discarding of juvenile fish has b...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
...e DNA molecules. However, a number of significant technical hurdles still need to be overcome before the idea ...hnology. With the goal of overcoming these technical challenges, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Healt...New AAAS report cites 'serious concerns' with electronic voting
...c Voting" is the result of a workshop that brought technical and cyber-security experts, election officials, social and behavioral scientists and other to AAAS for two days in September. The panel of experts concluded that research into new voting technology and the behavior of voters, election officials and p...Scientists raise concerns about second wave of 'mad cow' prion infection
...ncluded. Sam Coker, Ph.D., principal scientist and technical director at Pall Medical, presented the results of two new research studies with its Leukotrap Affinity Prion Reduction Filter, which is in late stage testing. The filter has been shown to reduce infectious vCJD prions from red blood cell concentrate...Researchers grow sperm stem cells in laboratory cultures
...rchers working with cells from mice has overcome a technical barrier and succeeded in growing sperm progenitor cells in laboratory culture. The researchers transplanted the cells into infertile mice, which were then able to produce sperm and father offspring that were genetically related to the donor mice. ...Global warming: Informal networking is the key to a swift response
... in social and relationship factors, as much as in technical efficiency and strong leadership. The researchers found that organisations that make use of informal contact networks to build mutual trust are more flexible and are better equipped to deal with surprise shocks than those that rely on a rigid and mor...How the battle of Waterloo could help doctors fight death from multiple organ failure
...n from life-threatening injuries. Yet with all our technical advances in medicine, mortality rates from conditions such as sepsis (bacterial infection of the bloodstream) haven't improved dramatically over the past century. "The question we need to ask ourselves is whether our present understanding of underly...Genetic discovery paves way to decode sense of smell in mammals
...dorant receptors function remains a mystery due to technical difficulties that have largely prevented the necessary experiments," Matsunami said. "The finding of these accessory proteins opens the door toward understanding the mechanisms underlying our sense of smell." Matsunami and his colleagues reported ...Russia- wide tiger count begins
...f the Russian Federation, as well as financial and technical support from the international conservation community." Tiger surveys in Russia are conducted in winter, when a complete blanket of snow allows fieldworkers to canvass the vast region of the Sikhote-Alin Mountain Range, which holds 95 percent of the ...Study urges caution in contaminant source tracking
...response and remediation," said Don Stoeckel, USGS technical lead for the project. "This could involve repairing sewers, modifying agricultural practices, or other efforts that are costly. The ability to trace back to the source is crucial in making sure the response actually fixes the problem." Within the...INEEL honors five scientists as Laboratory Fellows
...ering achievements, and national and international technical leadership. "Scientific discovery, engineerin...eloping a DOE fusion safety standard and providing technical leadership for fusion safety as part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)....Gene therapy reduces skin cancer to sunburn in mouse model
... Dr. Friedberg said he believes that with some technical refinement, this gene therapy technique may soon b...e the appropriate gene. Once some of the existing technical limitations are solved these studies can hopefully be extended to trials with human XP patients." ...Exploring ocean life and color on the internet
...onduct research with ocean color data. Use of such technical information was previously only possible for experienced scientists with advanced computer systems. Scientists and software developers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Md., designed Giovanni. The initial release of this Web to...NASA finds trees and insect outbreaks affect carbon dioxide levels
...lanting and insect control are the subjects of two technical papers, co-authored by Potter. Other co-authors of the paper related to tree planting, include Matthew Fladeland, also of NASA Ames, and Steven Klooster, Vanessa Genovese and Marc Kramer, all from California State University, Monterey Bay, Calif., al...