Innovative projects help ORNL win 3rd straight DOE Pollution Prevention Award
...ave landfill space, an avoid disposal costs. "The university paid for the disassembly and transportation of the accelerator, and that meant we did not have to pay for processing and disposal," Wadsworth said. "Not only did they get a good piece of equipment, but the laboratory saved more than $2.5 million and ...Promising new research on hereditary diseases
...bia as well as smaller groups from nearly 50 other university and research centers around the world. In addition there were participants from biotech and pharmaceutical companies including, Novartis, Merck, Alnylam, Medtronics, Cambridge Laboratories, Trophos, EnVivo, CombinatoRx, Metabolon, Psychogenics, BioFo...New company will seek drugs against diabetes and cancer
... group formed to help spawn biotech companies from university research, Medros will soon begin operation in the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis. The company arose from a collaboration between Cagan and Baranski, who is also an endocrinologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Cagan showed Baranski a me...Northwestern receives Gates Foundation grant for medical diagnostics
...sers and clinicians. The team also plans to engage university students and researchers in low-income countries to collaborate on product design, test prototype concepts and provide market information. Richard Joseph, director of Northwestern's Program of African Studies and principal investigator on the first...Insect 'noses' the key to cybernose collaboration
... funding from the Flagships Collaboration Fund and university partners. "This is the first time that we've had a real opportunity to collaborate with CSIRO to build on basic science to generate a potentially extremely useful technology," says Cluster leader, Professor Mandyam Srinivasan from ANU. "It is ver...Gabriela Cezar's stem cell research targets birth defects and cancer
...he University of Wisconsin-Madison. Not just any university could lure such a talented researcher away from th...te biotech industry. But Wisconsin is not just any university when it comes to stem cell research, Cezar points out. "I left Pfizer because it was Wisconsin," s...Top researcher-educators receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
... models that will be tested on his campus and at a university having a large minority population. His education activities include an outreach program that partners the College of Education at UIUC with several local area schools, bringing enhanced science education to classrooms that are otherwise disadvantage...U of M researchers discover genetic key to treating deadly fungal infections
...ofessor of genetics, cell biology and development, university researchers have discovered that C. albicans can neutralize an antifungal drug by modifying one of its own chromosomes. The cell duplicates one arm of chromosome 5 and deletes the other, replacing it with the duplicate arm. The altered chromosome is ...... Raymo and colleagues for these inventions and the university is in the process of finding an industrial partner capable of commercializing these inventions. Quantum dots, one of the smallest nanoscience research tools, range from 2 to 10 nanometers in diameter; nearly 3 million quantum dots would be needed to ...Researchers find cause of frontotemporal dementia
...he group worked intensively with neurologists from university memory clinics in Antwerp, Leuven, and Ghent. Genetic analyses of the DNA from FTDU families identifies defects that cause a shortage of progranulin. Progranulin is known in cancer research, where a surplus of this protein leads to tumors. What it do...Agreement to increase the flow of ideas from laboratory to clinic
...sity of Manchester is the UK's largest traditional university and has an impressive track record of research in the fields of Physical and Biomedical Science. This alliance will pool areas of expertise within our respective organisations to further our shared goals of delivering safe and effective medicines to ...PIMCO founder and wife donate $10 million to stem cell research at UCI
... at UCI. The remaining $8 million will come to the university as a matching gift in support of the construction ...rch in Southern California. Earlier this year, the university recruited Peter Donovan, a developmental biologist renowned for pioneering research into the basic p...Planning for stewardship an important part of successful ecological restoration
...eal-world solutions and creating bonds between the university and the public," the co-authors write in Science. Other co-authors are John Banks, associate professor, UW Tacoma; Martha Groom, associate professor, UW Bothell; Tom Hinckley, professor, UW Seattle; David Secord, associate professor, UW Seattle; and ...Eighty below and loving it: Montana State University scientists to get new cold lab
...Montana State University. Earlier this year, the university secured $1.8 million in grants from the National Science Foundation and the Murdock Charitable Trust for what has tentatively been dubbed the Subzero Research Facility, a one-of-a-kind group of eight cold-research laboratories that has received suppo...Springer joins Katrina relief effort with eBooks donation worth more than $1 million
...e of the nation's leading universities." "As the university continues to struggle with recovery efforts after the hurricane, and we deal with loss of collections, staff, facilities, and financial resources, we are overwhelmed and inspired by Springer's incredibly generous gift," said Sharon Mader, Dean of Lib...Iowa State plant scientists tweak their biopharmaceutical corn research project
...arch plot is located on less than one-half acre of university land in Marshall county. It is about a half mile away from and was planted 28 days later than the nearest commercial corn. A fence will keep out wildlife. The research exceeds APHIS requirements for field trials of regulated plants. The seed harveste...'LEGO-Like' building blocks to halt cell growth wins Hebrew University prize
... on June 13, during the 69th meeting of the Hebrew university Board of Governors. Qvit has shown through his research that it is possible to greatly increase drug delivery efficiency by designing specific molecular structures made up of known pharmaceutically effective peptides (small protein molecules) that ...Supercomputers to transform science
...HPC has ascended to a new level of importance. Any university that aspires to be world-class must have this basic research infrastructure. In future HPC will be an indispensable tool in every good researchers' toolbox. The University of Bristol is leading the way." ClusterVision will supply, deliver, install th...FDG PET takes its place as a valuable tool in diagnosing fevers of unknown origin
...xhaustive and invasive tests, say researchers from university and community hospitals in the Netherlands. Their findings were presented during SNM's 53rd Annual Meeting June 37 in San Diego. "PET has the potential to make an enormous impact in providing earlier diagnosis and risk stratification, in delivering ...Lehigh receives $1.8 million from Howard Hughes Medical Institute for bioscience education
...osal. Simon says the new HHMI grant will allow the university to offer a new introductory survey course that inc...logy Lab for modeling physiological processes. The university will boost its capabilities in bioimaging through equipment acquisitions and a remote connection to ...