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Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology

...tional Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has awarded $13 million in new grants to nine universities and...s any group to get there first." Huang's group was awarded $275,000 for one year with the possibility up to an additional $3 million over three more years if s...

First Quantum Grant to fund stem cell repair of damage from stroke

...n, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Funding was awarded to only one grant application out of more than 100 submitted. Karen Hirschi, deputy director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center within the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at BCM, is the principal investigator for the "Neuro-Vascula...

Train your brain to hear your friends at a party

A major science prize was today awarded to a researcher who is looking for the region of t...ness Research UK, the leading medical charity, has awarded the 2007 Pauline Ashley Prize to Sam Irving, a young researcher at the MRC Institute for Hearing Res...

New bird discovered on unexplored Columbian mountain

...rvation Programme Awards. This year, the programme awarded 27 winning teams from 21 different countries with ... environmental issues. This year, 19 teams were awarded "Future Conservationist Awards" and eight awards were granted to teams to continue and further their...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...g and analysis technologies. Since 2004, NHGRI has awarded $83 million to investigators to develop both "near term" and revolutionary sequencing technologies. "It is very important that we encourage and support the development of innovative sequencing technologies. Many of these new approaches have shown si...

New approach to BSE successful in lab

...s Craig Mello and Andrew Fire, for which they were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine. Scrapie is a variant of the cattle disease BSE and the human equivalent Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. However, it will take years for the method to be introduced to medicine, the researchers warn. Their findings are ...

ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays

...tes of Health (NIH) program directors agreed. They awarded a $438,970 grant over two years to Williams and Haydel for the study of clay mineral alternative treatment for Buruli ulcer. What makes this award even more interesting is the rarity for a geochemist to net a NIH grant. National Center encourages ...

Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine

...iming Zhang and his collaborator Jian Gu have been awarded a $897,000 grant under this program for an ambitious DNA sequencing project that combines physics, chemistry and nanotechnology with engineering. The researchers have been charged with the daunting task of shrinking down the 13 year, $2.7 billion Hu...

Breathing easy: When it comes to oxygen, a bug's life is full of it

...rfusion in mammalian capillaries, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1920. But the advent of synchrotron x-rays, an advanced form of x-ray scan, has recently allowed scientists to learn much more about how insects breathe. The new imaging technology allows scientists to observe the respiration of li...

Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test

...biological and environmental engineering, has been awarded an initial $386,000 (subject to annual renewal for four years) from the consortium to determine a way to simply assess the critical HIV/AIDS immune system factors -- CD4 T-cell count, or CD4+ T-lymphocytes count -- in the blood. "When patients are ...

Williams College biologist explores photosynthetic apparatus

...ilson Foundation also has recognized Ting. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty for 2006-07 for her effectiveness as a college teacher and for her scholarship. Her teaching was previously honored, twice by the Outstanding Graduate Te...

Research to spotlight carbon monoxide benefits

...he University's Department of Chemistry, have been awarded the funding by the Leverhulme Trust for a three-year study into the use of metal compounds for the controlled release of carbon monoxide into the bloodstream. Carbon monoxide is an anti-inflammatory, and they want to explore its potential in treat...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

... project, an undergraduate research abroad program awarded to UCSD. "The next step for PRAGMA is a pragmatic one ?to demonstrate that international team science can address pressing challenges in a way that might not be possible in one institution or just one country," said Arzberger. "We expect that this...

MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle

...tial for human health. Four Nobel Prizes have been awarded for research related to B12, but one fragment of the molecule remained an enigma-until now. The researchers report that a single enzyme synthesizes the fragment, and they outline a novel reaction mechanism that requires cannibalization of another ...

Instruction manual for creating a molecular nose

...ptors that were inaccessible until now. Sinner was awarded the Engelhorn Foundation's 2007 Research Prize for the Promotion of Biotechnology and Gene Technology for the development of this procedure. ...

New molecular pathway could reveal how cells stick together

... these findings earlier this year and was recently awarded an individual investigator research grant to extend her work from cells in a Petri dish to an organism. The grant, from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, is for $ 1.4 million over five years. "We're trying to figure out how it wo...

Why aren't humans furry? Stone-Age moms could be the answer

...he journal. The £1,000 prize, launched in 2004, is awarded annually and named in honour of Dr. David Horrobin, the renowned researcher, biotechnology expert and founder of Medical Hypotheses ( http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/623059/description#description ), who died in 2003. H...

Chlamydia vaccine a step closer to reality

... International vaccine company Sanofi-Pasteur has awarded QUT a funding boost of more than $300,000 to continue its research into Chlamydia and work towards developing a vaccine specifically targeting adolescent women. Professor Peter Timms, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI)...

LIAI completes world's most comprehensive analysis on influenza virus data

... infectious agents -- under a $25 million contract awarded by the NIAID in 2004. The database places particular emphasis on emerging infectious diseases, such as West Nile virus, along with those diseases considered potential bioterrorist threats. The database's influenza research was analyzed first due...

New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza

...Resources Program, which began in 2004 after NIAID awarded LIAI a $25 million contract to create a single repository of immune epitopes from critical disease-causing microbes, including agents that might be used in a bioterrorist attack. Influenza epitopes comprise only a portion of the extensive database, w...

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