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New weapon in battle against osteoporosis

...nn-based Life & Brain Center has recently been awarded the Osteology Prize of the German Society for Endocrinology, which entails a cash award of 8,000 euros. Her study will now be published in the renowned "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PNAS). Working together with colleagues from ...

FSU biologists uncover mechanisms that shape cells for better or worse

...polarity -- the National Institutes of Health have awarded Deng a highly competitive "R01" (Research Project Grant) for health-related research and development. Just after joining the FSU faculty in 2004, Deng led a Drosophila oogenesis study that revealed mechanisms of cell-to-cell signaling along other k...

Smooth sailing: 'cruise ship virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine

...E) for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases awarded a two-year $280,000 grant to a pair of University of Houston professors who are studying what has commonly been dubbed the "Cruise Ship Virus." This RCE is part of a national network of 10 other centers that support research focused on countering...

How healthy is that marsh? Biologists count parasites

...land ecology, NOAA's California Sea Grant recently awarded support to parasite mavens Armand Kuris of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Kevin Lafferty of the Biological Resources Discipline at the U.S. Geological Survey to collect Cali...

Even a little cooling helps after cardiac arrest

...land ecology, NOAA's California Sea Grant recently awarded support to parasite mavens Armand Kuris of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Kevin Lafferty of the Biological Resources Discipline at the U.S. Geological Survey to collect Cali...

Defense peptide found in primates may block some human HIV transmissions

...ve a lot of lives," Cole said. Cole was recently awarded about $4 million of National Institutes of Health grants through 2011 for the HIV-1 research and similar studies. The grants were provided through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; National Institute of Child Health and Human...

Research links protein to breast-cancer migration

...re, also in the Faculty of Life Sciences, has been awarded a grant of £146,000 to examine in more detail a pr... standard treatment." A further £143,000 has been awarded by the charity to Dr Keith Brennan, again in Life Sciences, to uncover how a group of proteins calle...

New bird flu drug promises to beat the problem of resistance

... McKimm-Breschkin from CSIRO (Australia) have been awarded over £408,000 from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to develop a new class of inhibitor they have discovered into a new kind of antiviral influenza drug. The search for an alternative flu drug has become all the more pressing as the full extent o...

The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

...ch Council (EPSRC) and other funding partners have awarded more than £13m to three, 3-4 year projects covering each of these topics in the third round of the EPSRC's e-Science programme. e-Science is opening up to scientific scrutiny challenging problems that had seemed out of reach, or even impossible to t...

Joslin discovers signs of residual islet cell function in people with long-term type 1 diabetes

... Since 1970, Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston has awarded medals or certificates to people with type 1 diabe...there have been approximately 2,400 50-Year Medals awarded and 17 distinctive 75-Year Medals. The Medalist Study began in April 2005 to identify physiological,...

Eminent inventor of DNA fingerprinting gains new recognition

... Professor in the Department of Genetics, is to be awarded the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Bi...ir Alec is no stranger to awards. Last year he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research and has previously been awarded the Davy Medal...

Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms

...rchers Todd Lane and Victoria VanderNoot have been awarded a research grant to develop a technology that can successfully detect deadly toxins from harmful algal blooms (HABs). The funding is provided by the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET), a partnership of t...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Montana State University's Center for Biofilm Engineering a $2.9 million grant to find new ways to heal chronic wounds. The money will allow the center to fund undergraduate research, hire more doctoral-level researchers and purchase equipment for ...

Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

...ost effective. Earlier this year, Hashsham was awarded $966,608 from the 21st Century Jobs Fund to develop and commercialize the device. Hashsham, James Tiedje, University Distinguished Professor of crop and soil sciences and director of the Center for Microbial Ecology, and Erdogan Gulari, professor ...

Tiny bones rewrite textbooks

...Archer. The Australian Research Council recently awarded the team a $500,000 grant over the three years to further explore the St Bathans site....

Detecting microalgae in coastal waters

...nd colleague Richard Cox of Kaitech Inc. have been awarded $270,274 to develop a tool for improved detection of microalgae by the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET). Microalgae are the foundation of the aquatic food web. However, 'blooms', which are very dens...

New research to cut animal testing

...earchers at The University of Manchester have been awarded £130,000 to develop new techniques to reduce the need for animals in drug testing. Current checks to establish whether a new drug is carcinogenic can be inconclusive and require further testing on live animals to establish whether they are harmful o...

Stem cells found in adult hair follicles may provide alternative to embryonic stem cells

...essential for proper neuron function. She has been awarded a grant from the Biomedical Technology Alliance, a Milwaukee inter-institutional research group, to determine in collaboration with Brian Schmit, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering at Marquette University, if the grafts lead to an i...

Funding to tackle hospital superbugs

...ool of Medicine's Institute of Nephrology has been awarded £800,000 by the Wellcome Trust to commercially develop a protein based therapeutic to help treat infectious diseases. Professor Nicholas Topley said: "Infectious diseases are a significant problem and the number of new antibiotics entering the mar...

Using nature's most primitive anti-viral defense system to find new approaches to cancer research

...erek Napier, AICR's Chief Executive says the grant awarded to Dr Baum and worth £136,000 has been given in line with the charity's policy of funding the most exciting and novel approaches to research worldwide. "We believe it important to fund work that pushes the boundaries of science, and Dr Baum and his t...

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