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New research to cut animal testing

...hey have passed through the body's liver. "This grant will help us develop new non-animal experiments to identify these other toxic compounds and so reduce the need for animal testing." The funding ?awarded by the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC...

Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases

...ickness. The journal, supported by a $1.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will begin accepting submissions in 2007. "PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases will promote science, policy, and advocacy for diseases of the poor, and give a voice to the community of physicians and scien...

Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection

... the support of a recently announced $4.25 million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). "This research is opening up a new front in the battle against cancer and other diseases," said Jamal Deen, the lead applicant, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Canada Research C...

Tiny bones rewrite textbooks

...earch Council recently awarded the team a $500,000 grant over the three years to further explore the St Bathans site....

Boston University biomedical engineers win major grant for pursuit of the '$1,000 Genome'

...ve won a major National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to continue groundbreaking research aimed at reducing the cost of sequencing individual human genomes to about $1,000. Boston University Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physics Amit Meller was among nine researchers chosen for the ...

UVa researchers seek to unlock broccoli's cancer fighting secret

...partment of Pathology have received a $1.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study how specific nutrients in healthy vegetables like broccoli work to prevent cancer. Cross and Templeton found that nutrients in broccoli unexpectedly bond with a specific enzyme in cells. This enzyme...

World's smallest cancer detection device

...e of Yeshiva University have received a $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study tumor ...is. "This five-year Tumor Microenvironment Network grant will allow Einstein to influence the way research is carried out in this emerging and important fiel...

PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma

...to study 150 patients per year throughout the Glue grant infrastructure. The glue grant is an open access endeavor as well. The results are posted publicly and hundreds of researchers have...

Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

...company formed by the same team through a previous grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., will test the device under field conditions. He has a team of six graduate students and technicians working on this device. "They are the heart of the project as well as the scientists being trained for...

Researchers examine why food tastes bad to chemotherapy recipients

... Sciences, Dietrich is the recipient of a $200,000 grant from the Institute of Public Health and Water Research (IPWR) to examine the problems of foul flavored water. The interdisciplinary investigative team combines proficiency in food oxidation and off-flavors, water chemistry, cell biology, and human p...

Spike in testicular cancer is focus

...year, $5.5 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant to Yale Public Health researcher Tongzhang Zheng. Testicular cancer is increasing for unknown reasons and this study will provide important information on possible environmental, genetic and other risk factors,?said Zheng, professor and head of the ...

Gene therapy research switches off joint inflammation; switches on genetic process of joint repair

...gen has been supported by the US government with a grant from the National Institutes of Health. "Glucosamine is currently a gold standard in the natural product approach to joint health with $1 billion in annual sales but recent studies have questioned its effectiveness. There are no therapies on the m...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

...ty's Center for Biofilm Engineering a $2.9 million grant to find new ways to heal chronic wounds. The mon...ks. In that case, the biofilms are removed." The grant is in partnership with Wolcott, who offers an important clinical perspective, and the division of de...

Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms

...d Victoria VanderNoot have been awarded a research grant to develop a technology that can successfully detect deadly toxins from harmful algal blooms (HABs). The funding is provided by the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET), a partnership of the National Ocean...

Fat stem cells being studied as option for breast reconstruction

...School of Medicine, recently received a three-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to further explore this unique approach. "The surgical options for breast reconstruction involve either the use of implants or a procedure whereby fat tissue taken from another part of the body is shaped into the...

Scientist works to improve treatment for brain tumors

With a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher will work to improve the effectiveness of a drug that he developed for the most deadly type of brain tumor. Waldemar Debinski, M.D., Ph.D., pioneered a ...

Iowa State researchers improving plastics made from corn and soy proteins

...s. The project is partially supported by a $68,758 grant from the Grow Iowa Values Fund, a state economic development program. Jay Van Roekel, the segment manager for Vermeer's ag product group, said the company will test hay wraps made from the plastics developed by the Iowa State researchers. Van Roek...

Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease

...tists is one of five nationwide to receive a major grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to refine and standardize the technologies for identifying biomarkers in the blood -- specific proteins, and the patterns they make -- for the early detection of cancer. The grants, which signal the NCI's st...

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

...round this month thanks to a $6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of a nanomedicine initiative within NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research. The initiative, which has funded eight Nanomedicine Development Centers around the country, including one last year at UCSF tha...

Tests may help answer questions about GMOs and allergies

...ience and human nutrition, has received a $447,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to valida...of genetically engineered foods. He'll use the EPA grant to examine whether the model works on a variety of proteins. If successfully validated, the testing ...

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