Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines
... April, WWF's International Smart Gear Competition awarded a prize to a promising gillnet design concept using glowing ropes and stiffer nets that may help cetaceans see gillnets in order to avoid them and to escape if they do accidentally swim into the net. Species and populations designated in the report ...Novel targets found for the development of drugs to complement, or replace, statins
... April, WWF's International Smart Gear Competition awarded a prize to a promising gillnet design concept using glowing ropes and stiffer nets that may help cetaceans see gillnets in order to avoid them and to escape if they do accidentally swim into the net. Species and populations designated in the report ...Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe
... April, WWF's International Smart Gear Competition awarded a prize to a promising gillnet design concept using glowing ropes and stiffer nets that may help cetaceans see gillnets in order to avoid them and to escape if they do accidentally swim into the net. Species and populations designated in the report ...Use of high hydrostatic pressure to inactivate Hepatitis A virus in oysters studied
NOAA/Virginia Sea Grant has awarded Virginia Tech $119,000 to study whether high hydrostatic pressure will inactivate Hepatitis A virus in both shucked and unshucked oysters. The project, led by Daniel Holliman, an M.D. with the High Pressure Processing Laboratory, and Laura Douglas, ...MSKCC researchers uncover structure of key protein complex in cells
...scientists -- two Israelis and an American -- were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work showing that ubiquitin marks other proteins for destruction. SUMO-1 does not appear to label other proteins for destruction. It instead appears to alter their function in different ways, perhaps even ...NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies
...Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it has awarded grants totaling more than $32 million to advance the development of innovative sequencing technologies intended to reduce the cost of DNA sequencing and expand the use of genomics in biomedical research and health care. "The efforts are aimed at spe...New insights into the software of life
...th RIKEN, Professor Hume's group has recently been awarded a grant from RIKEN to continue the translation of this work into the next phase, the Human Genome network project. ...Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function
...nd FES Center today announced that they have been awarded a five-year, $4.4 million contract from the Nation...ve Officer of Cyberkinetics. "As a result of being awarded this contract, Cyberkinetics now has expanded resources to further develop applications of the Brain...Virtual microscopy project wins educational technology award
... Informatics Research Group of the university. The awarded project utilizes advanced digital imaging and network technology to digitise, store, and view microscopy specimens over the internet. 'Virtual specimens' incorporated into educational applications on a web server can be viewed by students on an ord...Federal grant funds research on novel HIV therapy
...center $6.7 million program project grant recently awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to explore a novel approach to HIV treatment. Encompassing basic science research, animal studies and clinical trials in adult patients, the new grant focuses on a potential Achilles' heel in the hum...MUHC investigators search for the root of sexual pain in women
...esearchers from McGill/MUHC and the CHUM have been awarded a grant of nearly $700,000 by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to continue their groundbreaking research on pain suffered by some women during sexual intercourse. The new funding will allow the team, consisting of psychologists, gyne...Satellites show Amazon parks, indigenous reserves stop forest clearing
... articles and books on the Amazon. In 1994, he was awarded a Pew Scholars Fellowship in Conservation. ...Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist
...ks to rebound." This past October, Dr. Pauly was awarded the prestigious 2005 International Cosmos Award. The award recognizes exemplary research that "promotes the harmonious co-existence of nature and mankind." Dr. Pauly, 59, has authored or co-authored more than 500 scientific articles, book chapters an...The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest
... articles and books on the Amazon. In 1994, he was awarded a Pew Scholars Fellowship in Conservation. ...Cheaper and simpler keyhole surgery
...r than with existing surgical robotics. Jaspers is awarded his doctorate on Wednesday 22 March at Delft University of Technology. Endoscopic operations (or keyhole surgery) are much less stressful for the patient and give a better cosmetic result than 'open' surgery. But on the other hand, it is very diffic...Virginia Tech helping to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties
...ublic wheat breeders and scientists that have been awarded $5 million from the USDA to enable routine use of modern breeding technologies to produce higher quality, disease-resistant wheat. "For the past two decades, an intensive amount of molecular research has been conducted wherein chromosome specific DN...UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure
...ampus." The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $24.5 million over seven years to create the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA). Scientists will use CAMERA for metagenomics research--analyzing microbial genomic sequence data in the co...How can we protect patients with weakened immune systems from influenza?
...in conjunction with the Department of Defense, has awarded the grant to researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, led by pediatric immunologist Kathleen Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D., chief of Allergy and Immunology at Children's Hospital. "Our research focuses on th...Bone and cartilage growth to blame for heart valve disease
...es had changed," she says. Dr. Rajamannan has been awarded over $750,000 in grants from the NIH and the American Heart Association to pursue this research. Dr. Rajamannan's laboratory was the first to treat animals with calcifications in heart valves with medications called statins, the same drugs that are...... the NAU principal investigator of a grant jointly awarded to NAU and the Arizona Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. Louise Canfield is the principal investigator on the grant for the Arizona Cancer Center. Collectively, these two grants comprise the Native American Cancer Research Partnership, ...