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Nanopore method could revolutionize genome sequencing

...ces additional sources of error." The study was funded by the National Science Foundation and by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. The NIH funds are from a program launched in 2004 to encourage researchers to pursue a wide range of ideas to sequence a mam...

Inside rocks, implications for finding life on Mars

...or scientist Anatoliy Kudryavtsev. The research is funded by NASA. Schopf is editor of "Earth's Earliest Biosphere" and "The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study," companion books that provide the most comprehensive knowledge of more than 4 billion years of the earth's history, from the formati...

Study finds 60 new genes controlled by DNA snippet

...ates for protein construction. The current study, funded through a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, sought to survey the human and mouse genome databases created by the Human Genome Project to find all CArG boxes that regulate genes. The sheer amount of information involved requires...

Stem cell transplants improve recovery in animal models for stroke, cerebral palsy

...scular disease, stroke, cancer and other diseases, funded the research in which previously frozen human or rodent multipotent adult progenitor cells, which the company calls MultiStem TM , were thawed and injected directly into the brain. Researchers believe that MultiStem TM cells are able to deliver a ...

HIV vaccine takes different tack to boosting immune response

... natural anti-HIV immune response." In the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Chen and colleagues examined a molecule, SOCS1, which regulates how antigens are handled by dendritic cells, specialized white blood cells that activate the immune system. The researchers previously found that ...

Molecular force field helps cancer cells defend against attack

...lubovskaya, Ph.D., also were involved in the work, funded by the National Cancer Institute. "We take our patients, we look at their tumors and we try to find clues to why their tumors grow, why their tumors spread, and we look at the various genes and proteins that make their tumors what they are," Cance s...

All placebos not created alike

... have initiated other National Institute of Health funded studies that will explore the placebo phenomenon in clinical trials for different illnesses and in laboratory experiments that focus on underlying neurobiological, biochemical, genetic and psychological mechanisms. Though the results of this study a...

Faults in newly discovered breast stem cells may lead to tumours

...torian Breast Cancer Research Consortium, which is funded by the Victorian state government through the Cancer Council Victoria. ...

Nobelist discovers antidepressant protein in mouse brain

...has been discovered by a Nobel Laureate researcher funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). "Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepr...

Genetically engineered mosquitoes show resistance to dengue fever virus

...ssentially be benign. Joining James on the study, funded by a 2001 grant from the National Institutes of Health, were researchers from Colorado State University and from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. James and his colleagues performed tests on a family of mosquitoes descended from o...

Blood flow in brain takes a twist, affecting views of Alzheimer's

... blood flow in brain tissue. The current research, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, relies on a sophisticated laser system developed by Nedergaard to study the activity of astrocytes in living organisms. The team used a fluorescent dye to light up the blood vessels, the...

Paleontologists learn how not to become a fossil

... University of California, San Diego. Their study, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, appears in the April 10-14 Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings will help scientists link the recent fossi...

New study reveals promising osteoporosis treatment

...escribes initial results of her research, which is funded by a four-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health. Osteoporosis is a silent, progressive, and debilitating disease characterized by bone loss and the thinning...

Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned

...Moore's work and the UW's Alaska Salmon Program is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Alaska salmon processors. The rototilling effect probably happens wherever salmon are found in high densities, such as British Columbia, Alaska and even some individual st...

U of S researchers develop new vaccine candidate against hepatitis C

...s month's Journal of General Virology. The team, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Network for Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics (CANVAC), produced a vaccine candidate that decreased the amount of a carrier virus expressing hepatitis C virus (HCV) protein in mice b...

How can we protect patients with weakened immune systems from influenza?

...n looks to broader and longer-term benefits of her funded program. "Even if the worst-case scenarios of flu pandemic or weaponized flu attack do not occur in the next few years, we will have greater understanding of how to protect vulnerable patients." ...

The secret life of algae

... that make the vitamin for them. The researchers, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), found that no algae have the necessary genes to produce vitamin B12. Those that do not require a supply are like higher plants; they have an alternative metabolic process that doe...

Mice lacking social memory molecule take bullying in stride

...in a brain circuit for social learning, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered. Mice engineered to lack this memory molecule continued to welcome strangers in spite of repeated social defeat. Their unaltered peers subjected ...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...ment will be worked out with Affymetrix. Federally funded genotyping for GEI will be managed by an NIH coordinating committee under the usual government rules, subject to competition between research facilities, and begin in FY 2007. The research will lead directly to the identification of major genetic s...

Climate change drives widespread amphibian extinctions

...F)'s ecology of infectious diseases program, which funded the research. "This study demonstrates the complex nature of global climate change, including how climate affects the spread of disease, and why these must be integrated if we are to understand and reduce threats to species extinctions." But the mes...

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