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2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible

The Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today that it has achieved a major milestone. The entire genetic blueprints of more than 2,000 human and avian influenza v...

1/3 of sexually active older adults with HIV/AIDs has unprotected sex

...in a study examining support groups. The study was funded by a three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Nursing Research. Lovejoy presented the findings at the annual conference of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in March....

Ocean's 'twilight zone' may be a key to understanding climate change

... change." Buesseler was the leader of a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) called VERTIGO (Vertical Transport In the Global Ocean). The twilight zone acts as a gate that allows more sinking particles through in some regions and fewer in others, complicating scientists' ability to ...

Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test

... Initiative, led by Imperial College in London and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Antje J. Baeumner, Cornell associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, has been awarded an initial $386,000 (subject to annual renewal for four years) from the consortium to determine a w...

New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology'

...enomics research community will include scientists funded by many government agencies working on many different habitats. These scientists should be encouraged to work together to disseminate advances, agree on common standards, and develop guidelines for best practices, the committee said. Such collabora...

'Hidden-hero' microbes in soil, water may help naturally clean toxic sites

...During the course of a forthcoming five-year study funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, FSU researchers ... at U.S. DOE sites." In addition, the ORFRC has funded Kostka's FSU lab to develop and maintain a genetic database of genes of organisms that are present i...

New test helps identify hepatitis C patients at high risk of developing cirrhosis

...heung is a paid consultant for Celera, which also funded the study. "Current therapy for hepatitis C unfortunately is very expensive, has multiple side effects and a suboptimal response rate for most patients," said Cheung. Treatment includes weekly injections of alpha interferon along with the drug ...

NIH neuroscience microarray consortium launches high-throughput genotyping services

...t http://arrayconsortium.tgen.org . Initially funded in 2002 by the National Institute of Neurological ...ogical disorders." About 10,000 investigators funded through the 15 different NIH institutes are part of the NIH Neuroscience Blueprint and have access t...

UCLA: How does your brain respond when you think about gambling or taking risks?

...an to possible gains. The research is federally funded by the National Science Foundation's Human and Social Dynamics program (http://www.nsf.gov). What happens in our brain when we think about potentially losing money? Some of the same areas that get turned on when we think about winning money get tu...

MIT bioengineer advances survival, promise of adult stem cells

... the scientific community. Currently, federally funded research is only allowed on certain established lines of embryonic stem cells, although a few states, including California and Connecticut, offer state funding for broader embryonic stem cell research. There are no legal restrictions on funding to st...

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

...e than $2 million in other DNA sequencing projects funded at ASU. "There are currently only 36 grants in...e Biophysics, is engaged in a different separately funded $1,000 genome project. Lindsay is threading DNA through a molecular ring, in this case a sugar calle...

Nonvenomous Asian snakes 'borrow' defensive poison from toxic toads

...pecies of toad, according to a team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS). Herpetologists Deborah Hutchinson, Alan Savitzky of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., and colleagues published results of research on the snake's dep...

Common cold virus may kill breast cancer cells

...iversity of Newcastle researcher Kathryn Skelding, funded by the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Viralytics Ltd, has been working on a new treatment which only affects cancer cells ?this would be an improvement on conventional chemotherapy and radiation treatment, which also impact on normal body cell...

Salmonella survives better in stomach due to altered DNA

...ased in many parts of the world. This research was funded by NWO and contributes to knowledge about the characteristics and behaviour of this dangerous Salmonella....

Microbes compete with animals for food by making it stink

... of an interdisciplinary graduate training program funded by the National Science Foundation, Hay, two of his faculty colleagues and four Ph.D. students tested this notion with a field and lab study they began at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography near Savannah, Ga., in summer 2002. They were prompted b...

Researchers to study why dead zone returned to Lake Erie

...tutes and is administered by the SNRE. The grant, funded by NOAA's Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, provides scientists $506,190 for five years. A dead zone is an area of oxygen starved water that cannot sustain aquatic habitat, said Scavia, who is also the director of Michigan Sea Grant. In ...

Plant studies reveal how, where seeds store iron

...NSF's Division of Biological Infrastructure, which funded the research. "The discovery that iron localizes in specific parts of a seed opens the possibility of developing seed crops such as grains and beans with increased content of this important nutrient." The findings reveal how essential it is to loo...

End-of-life care can be improved

...re in the ICU: Interventions that Work," which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and hosted by the Society of Critical Care Medicine on February 17-19, 2006, in Miami, Fla. ...

Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows

...disease caused by aquaculture?" The research was funded primarily by the National Research Council of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Further support came from the David Suzuki Foundation, the Canadian Sablefish Association, and the British Columbia Wilderness T...

UCSF study will test new vaginal microbicide for herpes and HIV

...nsmitted Infection Clinical Trials Group, which is funded in part by NIH and CDC. Development of the gel has been given fast-track status by the FDA. Fast track status is granted when a drug has the potential to treat a serious or life-threatening condition and demonstrates the potential to address unm...

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