Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease
...tages it was supported by an Academic Links Scheme funded by the British Council and the Indian University Grants Commission. Professor Williams commented: "All cases of diarrhoea look the same to start with, and children are usually given oral rehydration therapy, which is cheap and puts back fluids lost...Male circumcision reduces HIV risk, study stopped early
...investigator of the study. The clinical trial, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Canadian Institute of Health Research, enrolled 2,784 HIV negative, uncircumcised men between 18 and 24 years old in Kisumu, Kenya. Half the men were randomly assigned to circum...Brain regions do not communicate efficiently in adults with autism
...atment and the Perry Research Fellowship Endowment funded the research. Autism, a spectrum of developmental disorders, is the most common developmental disorder in the United States. It is estimated to affect one in every 166 children. Autism is characterized by an inability to communicate and intera...Molecular structure reveals how botulinum toxin attaches to nerve cells
... botulinum neurotoxins. Now a group of researchers funded in part through two of these RCEs has provided a rare atomic glimpse of the initial step one of these toxins takes to gain entry into human neurons. In an advanced online publication of the journal Nature, the scientists show structurally how b...Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis
... Sciences, now available on line. The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute. Until now, scientists have believed that cancer cells must transform permanently from stationary epithelial cells into migratory mesenchymal cells in order to metastasize. The Duke team discovered that highly malig...World's smallest cancer detection device
...nstein and the principal investigator of the newly funded program, and his Einstein colleagues will team up with researchers at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany to develop a next-generation microchip that, when placed in a cancerous mass, can gather informa......ocesses. Scientists at the University of Sussex, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have shown precisely how the ant's visual navigation strategy works. On a wood ant's first trip to a food site it follows a chemical trail left by earlier ants. This is a slow way...Stem cell activity deciphered in the aging brain
...he journal Neurobiology of Aging. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Previous studies by Shetty and others had demonstrated that as the brain ages, fewer new nerve cells, or neurons, are born in the hippocampus, the brain's learning an...Quality not quantity important for immune response to HIV
... comes to an immune response against HIV, research funded by the Wellcome Trust in the UK and the National Institutes of Health in the US has found that bigger is not necessarily better, contrary to conventional medical wisdom. The research may have a profound impact on the development of a vaccine against ...Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food
...nal’s January 2007 print edition. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the two universities. The study is the first in a series of studies on food allergy “desensitization?that are under way at Duke and the University of Arkansas. The goal, Burks said, is to offer food allergy...'Fruit fly dating game' provides clues to our reproductive prowess
...25 October. The results of her research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, will be discus...ival story before, she said. Keller's research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The story that seems to be taking shape is that Chicxulub, tho...Far more than a meteor killed dinos
...25 October. The results of her research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, will be discus...ival story before, she said. Keller's research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The story that seems to be taking shape is that Chicxulub, tho...MIT finds most complex protein knot ever seen
...Kardar, an MIT physics professor. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation. ...Recycled paper and compost could both be key tools to control plant disease
...t plant diseases by as much as 72%. That research, funded by the UK government's Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP), found that the replacement of around 20% of the volume of soil or peat by compost gave major disease control benefits. Professor Ralph Noble's latest research appears to add another...Scientists work to identify genes that contribute to early heart attack risk
...rosis), will build on research from two previously funded NHLBI projects. The study will also benefit from a unique collaboration with Perlegen Sciences Inc., a company that specializes in techniques to uncover the genetic causes of diseases. Atherosclerosis is the development of fatty deposits in arterie...Trotting with emus to walk with dinosaurs
...ociety of America in Philadelphia. Theresearch was funded by the Bureau of Land Management and National Science Foundation. Among the emu revelations was one that helped resolve a mysterious "crossing over" track pattern seen at Red Gulch. Researchers had found that sometimes a dinosaur's tracks became ...Found -- the apple gene for red
...tion between CSIRO and the DAFWA, which has partly funded the project with a voluntary contribution. The pro...td (HAL) in partnership with industry and has been funded as part of HAL's 'across industry program'. The Australian Government provides matched funding for a...Three-in-one virus killer prevents common, often fatal infections
... posted the findings online. The phase 1 trial, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health, tested the first multivirus killer of its kind, called Trivirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), which control infections caused by three commonplace ...AIDS study challenges conventional treatment guidelines for HIV patients
...enter AIDS Cohort Study, a long-standing federally funded study composed largely of Caucasian men who have sex with men. The investigators sought to estimate how much of the person-to-person variation in the rate of CD4 cell loss could be accounted for on the basis of each patient's initial viral load, i...... this release. The Environmental Protection Agency funded the research. Bt cotton controls only one of Arizona's three major cotton pests. To control the other two pests, sweet potato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) and the western tarnished plant bug (Lygus hesperus), growers use broad-spectrum insecticides and...