NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
The Scripps Research Institute announced today that it has been awarded a $14.5 million, five-year grant from The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant, which is titled "JCSG Center for Innovative Membrane Protein...Don't stand so close to me: A new view on how species coexist
...iversity of London, writing in the journal Science today (1 October). The researchers suggest a new basis for explaining how communities of species assemble: they have to give up being good at everything and 'trade off' their life histories. 'Life histories' is ecological jargon for the important measures...US researchers show cottonseed drug is cancer treatment booster
... professor at the University of Michigan, reported today (Friday 1 October) to the EORTC-NCI-AACR[1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva that gossypol has been shown by many groups to have anti-tumour activities. But his team, under the leadership of Dr Marc Lippman and Dr Sha...32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
... Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program today announced 32 new cost-sharing awards for research on highly innovative industrial technologies. A total of 43 companies, including seven joint ventures, are involved in the new projects, which were chosen on the basis of difficulty, technical innovat...Amgen investigational therapy, AMG 162, increased bone mineral density with twice yearly injection
... AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced that at all doses studied, twice yearly injections of AMG 162, the company's investigational therapy for bone loss, significantly increased bone mineral density (BMD) at the total hip compared with placebo at 12 months. AMG 162, at all dose......fessor of biology at the University of Utah. "Kids today have head lice that evolved on two species of cavemen. One species led to us. The other species went extinct." Alan Rogers, a co-author of the study and professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, says: "The record of our past is wri...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
...erica and Eastern Australia. A report published today in the October 4 issue of The Public Library of Science, includes findings that may give important new clues concerning this pathogenic organism's behavior in the wild, and a step towards understanding how it spreads. The paper, written by Arizona ...Use of aspirin or other NSAIDs increases survival
...rding to a Fox Chase Cancer Center study presented today at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Atlanta, Ga. "NSAIDs have been associated with reductions in the risk of developing various gastrointestinal cancers and improvement in their treatment outco...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today it will fund the first national center for high-throughput genotyping dedicated solely to large-scale SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) analysis at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A five-yea...New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
...makes this a very powerful sensor. No other sensor today can do that," he said. The sensor also is selective enough to recognize cells of L. monocytogenes when other types of foodborne contaminants, such as salmonella or E. coli, are present. Known as an "optical biosensor," the device uses lig...Most promising clinical uses for stem cells from fat agreed on by international society
...at, a group of researchers and clinicians convened today in Pittsburgh at the Second Annual Meeting of the International Fat Applied Technology Society (IFATS) agreed that research should move forward with the ultimate goal of performing human clinical trials to test the cells' therapeutic potential for sp...Does a time delay between prostate cancer diagnosis and start of radiation treatment matter?
...y researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center presented today at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Atlanta, Ga. "The time between initial diagnosis and external-beam radiation therapy can be delayed for various reasons," explained the study's lead author, ...'Immediately open access' option for the leading journal Genome Research
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press announced today that authors of papers in its journal Genome Research can now choose to have their papers made freely available online immediately upon publication. This option will incur a publication surcharge of $1,000. As a founder member of the DC Principles Co...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...04-The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that Avram Hershko, a summer researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation." Dr. Hershko, a professor of bioche...Viruses found in untreated city water
...o its chlorination, according to a study published today in the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Although the city's treated water meets or exceeds state and federal standards for drinking water, researchers and public health officials agree that more study is needed to pinpoint s...Researchers find chemosignal that encourages women's sexual desire
...ith a scale indicating "the degree you felt desire today for sexual intimacy." They also recorded their sex... whether they experienced "any fantasies/daydreams today of a sexual or romantic nature."Among women exposed to the breastfeeding substance, "The effect beca...Bugs in the gut could play key role in understanding human disease and drug toxicity
...ege London and Astra Zeneca. In a review published today in Nature Biotechnology , researchers describe how microbes in the gut form the second largest metabolic 'organ' in the body and play a key role in disease processes alongside genetic and environmental factors. Microbes in the gut can weigh up to on...Obese women with early-stage breast cancer more likely to die than women of normal weight
...e Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pa. and presented today at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Atlanta, Ga. The study compared the outcome data of obese, overweight and normal-weight women with early-stage breast cancer treated with conservation surger...The PSA bounce Does it have clinical significance?
...result of a multi-institutional analysis presented today at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Atlanta, Ga. The PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test is a blood test used for routine prostate cancer screening. The "PSA bounce" is a rise and then decli...ASPB opposes ban of GE crops in Butte County Ballot Measure D
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), today urged Butte County, California voters to vote "no"...d in a letter to Butte County Board of Supervisors today that "Passage of Measure D would mark a historic step backwards for science and agriculture for Butt...