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CHAVI announces international search for genes affecting HIV response

...nology (CHAVI), established at Duke in 2005 with a grant that could total as much as $300 million over seven years from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. CHAVI's initial mission is to find out what the immune system does during HIV infection -- including in the rare individual...

Neurons grown from embryonic stem cells restore function in paralyzed rats

...d Owens, Ph.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've funded, including work that uses combination therapies such as rolipram and dbcAMP, growth factors, and cells to facilitate the repair ...

It's all in the genes

...llion Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research grant from the National Science Foundation. The project includes scientists from a multitude of disciplines because, as Whitham says, "No one person has all the skills to do this." "This is an exciting project with global impact, drawing on the expertise ...

Finding a better way to make biodiesel

...t is being supported by a $1.8 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a $120,000, two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and a $140,000 grant from the Grow Iowa Values Fund. "This is a ...

Parasitic worms used to fight bowel disease

...ore than $10 million National Institutes of Health grant supporting the Food and Waterborne Diseases Integr...ladies. Also, she is waiting for word on a new NIH grant that will support efforts to learn how the treatment works. "The bottom line right now is that we k...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

...n while accomplishing worthwhile things." With a grant from the Department of Defense, Finegold has taken...ld's research endeavors were funded, in part, by a grant from the DoD's Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program. Congress created the program in 1999 to promo...

Ultrasound may help regrow teeth

...aborated and eventually along with Tsui received a grant from NSERC's "Idea to Innovation," program to expand on their prototype. Dr. El-Bialy first discovered new dental tissue was being formed after using ultrasound on rabbits. In one study, published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofa...

Researchers win money to develop breath test to detect breast cancer

... cancer. "We are very excited about getting this grant without having had too much real exposure to breast cancer research," said Joerg Lahann, assistant professor of chemical engineering and principal investigator. Lahann's team was funded for $446,731 over three years. Lahann also has appointments in b...

Study finds 60 new genes controlled by DNA snippet

...construction. The current study, funded through a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, sought to survey the human and mouse genome databases created by the Human Genome Project to find all CArG boxes that regulate genes. The sheer amount of information involved requires that such studi...

Study may help slay 'Yellow Monster'

...es. Stearns is the NAU principal investigator of a grant jointly awarded to NAU and the Arizona Cancer Cent...uise Canfield is the principal investigator on the grant for the Arizona Cancer Center. Collectively, these two grants comprise the Native American Cancer Re...

Restoring seagrass beds: Is it for the birds?

...cane Ivan in 2004. Drs. Heck and Dindo received a grant from the Gulf of Mexico Program to restore both the dune habitation and the prop-scarred grassbeds of this popular location. Dune restoration will begin on Tuesday, April 11, from 10am to 1pm as Dr. Dindo and volunteers from AmeriCorps plant 1,000 s...

Genetically engineered mosquitoes show resistance to dengue fever virus

...ign. Joining James on the study, funded by a 2001 grant from the National Institutes of Health, were resea...s research. In 2005, he received a $19.7 million grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health to lead an international effort to develop...

Bone and cartilage growth to blame for heart valve disease

...an Heart Association Grant-in-Aid (0350564Z) and a grant from the US National Institutes of Health (1K08HL073927-01). Dr. Rajamannan's research will be featured at the American College of Cardiology's 2006 Heart Valve Summit being held June 15-17 in Chicago, which will bring together several of the world'...

Evolution follows few of the possible paths to antibiotic resistance

...ive-step mutational paths that theoretically could grant antibiotic resistance, only about 10 actually endow bacteria with a meaningful evolutionary advantage. The research is published in the journal Science. "Just as there are many alternate routes one might follow in driving from Boston to New York, o...

New study reveals promising osteoporosis treatment

...search, which is funded by a four-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health. Osteoporosis is a silent, progressive, and debilitating disease characterized by bone loss and the thinning of cortical bone leading to bone...

How can we protect patients with weakened immune systems from influenza?

...n chemotherapy. A five-year, $10.7 million federal grant to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will su...on with the Department of Defense, has awarded the grant to researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, led by...

Polymer aids in blood clotting, pointing way to new treatment

...ady has landed the U. of I. a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to establi...the research will be continuing through the Carver grant to the U. of I. "It's theoretically possible to use this discovery to find ways to help the body's o...

Illinois pig to make history as source of first complete swine genome

... completed with the help of a two-year $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced ...o-human transplants and disease treatments. "This grant represents the efforts of many colleagues around the world," Schook said. "We were very fortunate to...

World first research to speed up cure for ear infections

...ee-year research project after securing a $238,600 grant from the Garnett Passe and Rodney William Memorial Foundation. "With this funding we can start our studies to understand how wounds in ear drums heal themselves by examining the cells and molecules in the replacement tissue," Dr Ghassemifar said. "...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

...on Resources (NBCR), and lead author of the CAMERA grant proposal. "CAMERA will build on the NBCR software tools and user portal to explore the metagenomics data." NBCR has links to the UCSD School of Medicine, and co-investigator John Wooley is affiliated with the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceut...

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