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International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

... add that information to the map. As a result of a grant competition last summer, Perlegen received a $6.1 million award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to add data on 2.25 million additional SNPs to HapMap. The new development, en...

Bird Brains Show How Trial and Error May Contribute to Learning

...ysiology at UCSF, whose lab is funded in part by a grant from HHMI. "It makes sense that one part of the brain has as part of its job introducing that kind of variability." Kao began with an experiment to stimulate the region of the forebrain called LMAN (lateral magnocellular nucleus of the anterior nido...

NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step

...ew Jersey, Newark. Arinzeh has received a $100,000 grant from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation to support the team's research. "People suffering from diabetes have impaired bone healing," Arinzeh said. "So the question is how to treat patients suffering from bone fractures and other defects that ...

Newly Discovered Compound Blocks Known Cancer-Causing Protein

...l models of cancer. The research was supported by grant from the NIH and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral fellowship to Casey graduate student Ann M. Winter-Vann, the first author of the study. "This is the first selective small molecule inhibitor of Icmt, a protein that has been shown to be...

Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery

...The center was created at Purdue in 2003 through a grant from the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, established by the state of Indiana to promote high-tech research and to help commercialize innovations. The vessels discussed in the research paper are cylindrical cavities that are open a...

Study identifies predictors of HIV drug resistance in patients beginning triple therapy

... humans.Reinisch's work on BCE is funded by a STAR grant from the United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency. Science supported by the STAR programis rigorously peer reviewed.Study Background and Research MethodsWhen MBL researcher Carol Reinisch first heard news stories about BrickTownship, New Jersey--...

Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development

... humans.Reinisch's work on BCE is funded by a STAR grant from the United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency. Science supported by the STAR programis rigorously peer reviewed.Study Background and Research MethodsWhen MBL researcher Carol Reinisch first heard news stories about BrickTownship, New Jersey--...

Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue

...ng Investigator Award. The honor carries with it a grant for $20,000 to help expand his research. Schwarz is also founder and president of the Rochester-based biotechnology company LAGeT, a company Schwarz spun off from his university research. The firm seeks to commercialize Schwarz's research findings o...

Scientists seek answers on what activates deadly anthrax spores

...ss." The research is being paid for by a $152,687 grant from the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infections, based at Duke University, one of eight such regional centers funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The other institutions in Claib...

Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug

...hers at the University of Bath have won a £261,000 grant to use the latest software to produce a blueprint ...om replicating in humans. The announcement of the grant comes at a time when fears are rising that an influenza outbreak developing from Asian chickens coul...

Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds

...pursued under existing rulesfor the use of federal grant dollars," Varki said.The first author of the Nature Medicine study is Maria J. Martin,Ph.D., a post doctoral researcher in Varki's lab at UCSD. An importantadditional author is Gage's post doctoral fellow Alysson Muotri, Ph.D.The study was funded by ...

W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...t normally live on and in us. Now a $1.45 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to researchers at th...of medical research, science and engineering. The grant supports a project led by Jeffrey Gordon, M.D., director of the Center for Genome Sciences (CGS) at ...

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