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First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness

...ers at UCL (University College London). The trial, funded by the Department of Health, is the first of its kind and could have a significant impact on future treatments for eye disease. The trial involves adults and children who have a condition called Leber’s congenital amaurosis (LCA), which is a type ...

Healthy coral reefs hit hard by warmer temperatures

...ndation (NSF) Chemical Oceanography Program, which funded the research through the joint NSF-National Institutes of Health Ecology of Infectious Diseases Program. For 6 years, the international research team, led by University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, tracked an infection called white syndro...

Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence

...approximately $25 million. The sequencing work was funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the NIH, and carried out at the Broad Institute Sequencing Platform, which is a member of NHGRI's Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network. "The opossum genome occupies a unique posi...

Researchers develop way to calculate speed of bacterial sex

...as sand and soil grains. The UC-Davis research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The new model was then used to re-interpret previously published conjugation data. The findings revealed that bacterial transport and colonization of surfaces is as important a controlling factor for gene spread...

Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

... of the journal Molecular Psychiatry. The work was funded by the Stanley Medical Research Institute and NARSAD, both national mental health research associations. Kaddurah-Daouk thinks this technology could lead to earlier diagnosis of schizophrenia. It may also begin to explain what makes some people mo...

Spreading viruses as we breathe

...iately fall to the ground." She said the study, funded by the Australian Research Council, was motivated by an outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong where more than 300 people were infected within the space of a few hours. "We wanted to know how this virus was able to travel from building to building in such ...

Leeches ferry infection among newts

...f blood under the skin. Raffel, whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation, says "when a leech sticks its proboscis into an infected newt, either the mechanical action of the probe or the anti-inflammatory chemicals injected by the leech, could be used by the parasite as a cue to release i...

Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production

...uate students Michael Newcomb and Chun-Yu Chen, is funded by the U. S. Department of Energy....

Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic

...e difference, according to two independent studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was no... of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which funded one of the studies. “While researchers are working very hard to develop pandemic influenza vaccines ...

Scientists genetically engineer tomatoes with enhanced folate content

...ision of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, which funded the research. "This research provides the proof-of-concept for the natural addition of folate to diet through enhancement of the folate content of fruits and vegetables." The vitamin is commonly found in leafy green vegetables like spinach, but fe...

Horse genome assembled

...rs in the genome of the horse (Equus caballus) was funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (N..., Germany. Production of the BAC end sequences was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the State of Lower Saxony. Sequencing of the domestic horse gen...

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

...ing information from a worldwide research database funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provides an important tool for scientists seeking to develop vaccines and therapies against both seasonal and pandemic influenza str...

Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise

...ell line drawn from caterpillars. In the study funded by the company of 460 healthy people ages 18 to 49, one-third of the participants received a smaller dose of the vaccine (75 micrograms), one-third received a larger dose (135 micrograms), and one-third received a placebo shot that didn’t include vac...

Smithsonian scientists discover new marine species in eastern Pacific

... as part of the crustacean Tree of Life, a project funded by the National Science Foundation, which aims to determine the relationships among all families of crabs and shrimps. Even soft corals, a relatively well-studied group, yielded 15 new species over 3 years in a complimentary project organized by STR...

Scientists uncover link between ocean's chemical processes and microscopic floating plants

...century and the middle of the next one. The study, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), New Mexico Tech and the Comer Foundation, sheds light on how chemical processes that occur throughout the world's oceans help regulate Earth's climate. Other recent scientific studies have shown that ocean ...

How trees manage water in arid environments

...vide this understanding. Her research is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation. __IMAGE_2 In a forthcoming paper in the Journal of Arid Environments, which is available on the Web at http://authors.elsevier.com/offprints/YJARE1769/0dee34d6306f9059b870583e03a193bd , she reports the first ...

Misclassified for centuries, medicinal leeches found to be 3 distinct species

...ion (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research. "Taxonomists have been studying the diversity of life on Earth for hundreds of years. In this case, the discovery of previously unknown species diversity has very significant legal and commercial implications." Since the time of Hipp...

UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic

... Sweden. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the 6,000 mile trip which was designed to allow scientists to collect data aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden during transit from Punta Arenas, Chile to the United States' McMurdo Research Station on the Antarctic continent, south of New Zealand. T...

In-shell vaccine for chick disease

...lity and hatchability of eggs. The researchers, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Intervet UK, used a 'reverse genetic' system to produce new vaccine strains. Existing strains, which are usually ...

Biologists develop large gene dataset for rice plant

...ich along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, funded the research. "This work will contribute to an understanding of the role of small RNAs in gene expression not only in rice, but in all plants." ...

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