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Precision biochemistry tracks DNA damage in fish

...acy of pollution remediation efforts. The work was funded in part by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH). ...

Diabetes hits 275 Australians each day as pandemic spreads

A new national health study funded by the NH&MRC, industry and state governments released today by the International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne shows diabetes is hitting up to 275 new victims each day throughout Australia. The findings of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and...

WWF captures first-ever photo of wild rhino on Borneo

... from poaching. A full-time rhino monitoring team, funded by Honda Malaysia was established at the end of 2005 in Sabah to monitor the rhinos and their habitat, and keep poachers away. The team set up the camera traps in February. Camera traps are remotely activated by infrared triggers when animals walk by...

Airborne mold spores increase kids' risk for multiple allergies

...gy and Air Pollution Study (CCAAPS). The CCAAPS, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is a five-year study examining the effects of environmental particulates on childhood respiratory health and allergy development. Air samples were collected for a total of 48 hours in the ...

New study reveals signaling pathways required for expansion of pancreas stem cells

...ology. The overall goal of this five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, was to discover the roles of two proteins-BMP4 and Id-in causing proliferation or expansion of pancreatic progenitors. Hong Hua, a postdoctoral fellow in Sarvetnick's lab, was the lead author of this study. The ...

Pathway toward gene silencing described in plants

...in the July 14, 2006 issue of Cell. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Monsanto Company. Pikaard's collaborators include Olga Pontes, the first author of the study, other group members from his Washington University laboratory and the grou...

First-ever genomic test predicts which lung cancer patients need chemotherapy to live

... New England Journal of Medicine. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health. The genomic test can theoretically apply to any cancer, but the Duke team focused its effort on lung cancer because the survival rate is just 15 percent. Lung cancer now kills more Americans each year than br...

New light microscope sharpens scientists' focus

... conceptual work on the microscope were personally funded with $25,000 each from Hess and Betzig. Later, bot...pplied by HHMI ensured that the work would be well funded in the future since Betzig, at almost the same time, accepted a position as a group leader at Janeli...

Experimental RNA-based drug kills prostate cancer cells effectively and safely

...y, which is now available online. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Duke has filed a provisional patent application on the technology, according to the researchers. "Scientists have made numerous attempts to transform silencing RNAs into natural anticancer agents, but such de...

New findings offer more complete view of breast cancer gene mutations in US population

A large study funded by the National Institutes of Health today provided the clearest picture yet of the prevalence in the U.S. population of mutations in two genes associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. The genes are called Breast Cancer 1 (BRCA1) and Breas...

Heal thyself: Systems biology model reveals how cells avoid becoming cancerous

...Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the agencies which funded the study. "This new knowledge has great potential for the development of new therapeutic agents to combat a broad spectrum of diseases, including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and premature aging." Researchers involved in the study agreed th...

Tropical forest CO2 emissions tied to nutrient increases

...ademy of Sciences. The National Science Foundation funded the study. "One big question is how tropical rain forests are responding to climate change," said Cleveland, an INSTAAR research associate who led the study. "What we have demonstrated is that even small changes in nutrients could have a similarly p...

Bird flu study highlights need to vaccinate flocks effectively

...eeded to guard against silent spread. The study, funded by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, suggests that the most effective way of tackling silent spread of the disease would be to place unvaccinated 'sentinel' birds in poultry flocks. By monitoring birds carefully, silent spread ...

Neurons grown from embryonic stem cells restore function in paralyzed rats

... (ALS), and spinal muscular atrophy. The study was funded in part by the NIH's National Institute of Neurolo....D., the NINDS program director for the grant that funded the work. "It is a convergence of embryonic stem cell research with other areas of research that we'...

Virus has 'catastrophic' affect on red squirrels, research shows

...stry Commission, England (Kielder Forest District) funded the work. For the Epidemiology and Infection study, researchers analysed public records on red squirrel populations in Cumbria and Norfolk - both areas that suffered squirrelpox virus outbreaks. The team compared these figures with similar records...

Elephants, large mammals recover from poaching in Africa's oldest national park

...ecent census--conducted between 9-12 June 2006 and funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service--found that efforts to protect the park's wildlife seem to be reversing this trend of decline, and that most of the park's large mammals have increased in number since the last census in 2003. Elephants have increa...

UF scientists restore sight to chickens with blinding disease

...the National Institutes of Health, which partially funded the study. "An approach such as this could lead eventually to a vision-restoring therapy for children who suffer from blinding retinal diseases." Like people, chickens possess color vision and function best in daylight. The predominant photoreceptor...

Researchers develop flood-tolerant California rice

...d of UC Davis collaborated on the study, which was funded by grants from the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Agency for International Development. Fukao is the first author of the research paper....

Drug discovery team to explore newly discovered deep-sea reefs

... primary goal of the upcoming expedition, which is funded largely by the State of Florida's "Florida Oceans Initiative," will be to search for marine organisms that produce chemical compounds with the potential to treat human diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. "We've found incredible and surprising d...

Scientists aim to thwart use of flu as bioweapon

...on and to be prepared." The focus of Wu's center, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. When the flu virus infects the body, for instance, a cascade of complex events occur to fight the virus as it commandeers cells and begins churning out viral p...

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