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Crohn's disease gene identified

...rs represent the IBD Genetics Consortium, which is funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Cho said large study sizes made possible by the consortium offer more definitive conclusions. "This important discovery not...

Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters

... species on their reproductive patterns. Twice funded by the National Science Foundation, Karron's research centers on the reproductive biology of monkey flower, a wetland plant native to Wisconsin. Karron's lab uses several innovative methods of tracking monkey flower mating, and all hinge on where the...

African wetland managers armed with new technology

...articipating in the project, GlobWetland ?which is funded by ESA's Data User Element (DUE) ?hosted a five-day training seminar, developed jointly by Wetlands International and Vexcel, last week from 24-28 April in Lake Naivasha, Kenya, for users to understand and integrate the EO-derived products and servic...

Combination therapy shows promising results in patients with advanced lung cancer

...in lung cancer at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer, a program funded by the National Cancer Institute at top research institutions nationwide to find better and more effective ways to prevent, detect and treat lung cancer. "This trial is an important early step in utilizing combination targeted therapies in lung canc...

Nice guys do finish first in lizards' evolutionary race

...tched lizards of the Central Valley of California, funded by the National Science Foundation. Males break down into three throat colors, flagging different behaviors, which Sinervo has discovered follow "rock-paper-scissors" cycles of lizard lust. Orange-throated lizards are the big bullies, roaming far f...

Light-sensitive photoswitches could restore sight to those with macular degeneration

...ap for Medical Research. The initiative, which has funded eight Nanomedicine Development Centers around the country, including one last year at UCSF that involves UC Berkeley collaborators, is designed to "take cutting edge technology from one branch of science - nanotechnology - and apply it to another - m...

Electric fish in Africa could be example of evolution in action

... return to Gabon in June to conduct further tests, funded by the National Geographic Society. ...

Researchers discover how bacteria sense their environments

...es were the study's lead authors. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health. ...

Unique soybean lines hold promise for producing allergy-free soybeans

...esearch effort, he added. The research, which was funded primarily by the Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance, went through two stages. First, using a specially developed immunochemistry approach, Hymowitz's post-doctoral assistant Leina M. Joseph examined 100 lines of soybeans per day for nine month...

Newborn screening can cause unnecessary parental stress

...eening during the prenatal period." The study was funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration and the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) division of the Human Genome Project, National Institutes of Health. According to the CDC, over 4...

Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs

...ediscovered frog species while conducting research funded by the Darwin Initiative and the National Environmental Action Fund (FPAA). "This rediscovery is a momentous leap of hope for saving species across the Andes," said Alonso Quevedo, the Fundación ProAves president and an active herpetologist. "The ex...

Origen publishes in Nature a robust and versatile method for creating transgenic chickens

...itute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the research. "Beyond that, it will help researchers understand stem cell biology and development --something that holds great value for all sorts of basic studies. This is exactly the kind of result we hope for through our Small Business Innovation ...

Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly

...as initially supported by the Nathan Shock Center, funded by the National Institute on Aging, and the Upstate Coalition of Aging Research. Now, Bohmann will use $1.4 million in a new five-year study exploring the relationship between JNK and the insulin receptor, while Jasper will use $1.1 million in a four...

Wasps queue for top job

... more risks and wear themselves out. The study, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), reveals that those higher up the chain and therefore with a greater chance of being the next in line to breed are much lazier than their lower-ranked nest-mates: rather than use up their energy in f...

Dopamine drug leads to new neurons and recovery of function in rat model of Parkinson's

...d other neurodegenerative diseases. The study was funded in part by the NIH's National Institute of Neurolo....D., the NINDS program director for the grant that funded this research. Dr. Eckman and Dr. Van Kampen are now looking at how different doses of pramipexole ...

Report warns about carbon dioxide threats to marine life

... (PMEL) in Seattle. The report follows a workshop funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and hosted by the U.S. Geological Service Integrated Science Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. Slowing skeletal growth Experimental studies, such as thos...

Reversing 'hibernating' heart muscle focus of UB researchers

...Emission Tomography) clinical trial, which also is funded by NHLBI. "Identifying the basic mechanisms responsible for incomplete functional recovery after revascularization hopefully will lead to new therapies that will improve the outlook and symptoms of these patients who are at high risk for adverse c...

The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

... John Polak at Imperial College London, is jointly funded by the EPSRC and the Department for Transport. It will develop e-Science and grid technologies to enable data from a network of mobile sensors to be gathered and interpreted. The e-Science technologies developed will be generic enough for use in ot...

Biofuels researcher searches for new sources

...e for Biobased Products at MSU. The institute has funded Chen's research after receiving a line-item appropriation through Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont. "One of our goals is to make the new ethanol production methods from biomass competitive," Peck said. ...

Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'

...the way we do." Sjogren's research endeavors were funded by a grant from the DoD's Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program. Congress created the program in 1999 to promote research in health issues the military faces. Since its inception through 2005, the program has spent almost $300 million to fund nearly...

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