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Protein's role in regulating cell death sets direction for cancer research

... could save your life." Supported by an operating grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research the first study, published online and to appear in print on June 9, showed that calpain promoted programmed cell death after cells were damaged by chemicals that disrupt the endoplasmic reticulum, which ...

Researchers to develop ultra-miniature implantable sensors to measure blood flow

...esearch received a boost in the form of a $255,000 grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). NYSTAR grants help academic research institutions and businesses move high-tech innovations from the laboratory to the marketplace. Transonic Systems ?itself a hig...

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

... Murphy, Ph.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 and similar drugs affect neurogenesis. Once they identify the most effective doses in animals, researchers might be able to test comparab...

Reversing 'hibernating' heart muscle focus of UB researchers

... at Buffalo have received a $2.5 million five-year grant to develop new strategies to reverse a heart dysfu...eas of the heart that contract poorly. The new grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute builds on pioneering work of scientists in UB's Cen...

Triple threat polymer captures and releases

...y life.. She and her group received a research grant from Imperial Chemical Industries/National Starch to continue their study, with a goal of taking the guest molecules in and holding them. Using the technology of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Gerald O. Brown, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research ass...

Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'

...o." 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 200 projec...

Speeding the search for elusive chromosomal errors

...in 25 percent of the cases. He also has received a grant to investigate chromosomal rearrangements in bipolar disease, a complex disorder thought to involve interactions among multiple genes. Dr. Shaikh is currently collaborating with other researchers at Children's Hospital to evaluate other, higher-dens...

Scientific issues associated with carbon-neutral energy sources such as cellulosic ethanol

...ice of Science's Basic Energy Sciences competitive grant awards program for Energy Biosciences research and member of the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC). He was the speaker on "Biofuels and the [DOE] Biofuels Workshop Report" at the July 11, 2006 mee...

Pitt phage hunter takes on tuberculosis

...e way, however, with a new five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to Graham H...entical counterpart in M. tuberculosis. The NIH grant will allow Hatfull and Jacobs to explore whether the Bomber also affects the groEL1 gene in the TB-c...

Research links protein to breast-cancer migration

...n the Faculty of Life Sciences, has been awarded a grant of £146,000 to examine in more detail a process called "anoikis." Anoikis is the process whereby the body ambushes and kills roving cells that have gone "AWOL" and are moving around the body without permission ?like breast-cancer cells that spread f...

Stem cells found in adult skin can be transplanted and function in mouse models of disease

...British Columbia have obtained a $1.5 million team grant from NeuroScience Canada's Brain Repair Program to determine whether human SKPs can be used to repair the injured spinal cord in rodents. The mission of NeuroScience Canada's Brain Repair Program is to fast-track neuroscience research in order to dev...

Mapping the protein world

...oftware will now expand even further - thanks to a grant of over 800,000 US Dollars from the U.S. National ...ore so once the new features planned under the NIH grant have been implemented." ARP/wARP transforms 'electron density maps', produced in experiments that b...

Adult stem cell research at UB targets damaged hearts

...University at Buffalo has received a $1.98 million grant from National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of bone marrow-derived adult stem cells to treat the serious heart malfunction known as hibernating myocardium. Hibernating myocardium is a condition in which heart cells that have expe...

Acidity in the brain could hold the key to stroke treatment

...mage caused by stroke has been boosted up by a £1m grant to scientists at The University of Manchester. Professor Gareth Morris of the School of Chemistry and Professor Risto Kauppinen of the University of Birmingham are to lead the development of a new non-invasive technique which measures acidity (pH) in...

Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...ick HRI have received a £295,000 Darwin initiative grant to develop a butterfly farming industry in Guyana that will help support 5000 people in 16 rainforest communities and help save the rainforest itself. The University of Warwick team will work with the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Co...

Beekeepers work hard for the honey, despite changing tupelo forest

...ney is produced commercially. Watson has a $15,000 grant from the U.S. Community Forestry Fellowship for Dissertation Research to work with beekeepers and study the tupelo forests surrounding Wewahitchka, Fla. "Wewa," as the locals say, is a small town adjoining the Apalachicola and Chipola rivers and serv...

What's nature worth? New computer models tell all

... continent. Over the next year, with an $813,000 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Costanza and his team will create a set of computer models and tools that will give a sophisticated portrait of the ecosystem dynamics and value for any spot on earth. "Land use planners, county commissio...

Finding paves way for better treatment of autoimmune disease

... an Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation grant to pursue alcohol's potential for helping isolate desirous regulatory cells. However, he cautions that his research findings are not a green light for patients with autoimmune disease to drink because of the negative health effects of regular alcohol...

Protein-coated dental implants could improve bone regeneration

...ealing and tissue regeneration with a $1.4 million grant from Nobel Biocare, a leading manufacturer of dental implants and equipment. Finding the key to improved regeneration is like piecing together a puzzle, Dr. Wikesjö says. "For the past 20 years, there has been a quest to regenerate tissues around...

Smooth sailing: 'cruise ship virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine

...ng Infectious Diseases awarded a two-year $280,000 grant to a pair of University of Houston professors who are studying what has commonly been dubbed the "Cruise Ship Virus." This RCE is part of a national network of 10 other centers that support research focused on countering threats from bioterror ag...

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