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Study in Science holds promise for a new approach to drug therapy

..." Smrcka said. "Taken together, this arsenal would grant us precise control over one of the most important biochemical switches in the body. This area of study is so important because of the sheer number of drugs already on the market that could be made more effective by differential targeting." ...

NJIT engineer poised to take stem cell research a step forward

...closer to reality. Arinzeh received a $700,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Rese... that funds spinal cord research. She will use the grant to build a laboratory to test if stem cells taken from adult bone marrow can be made to turn into ne...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

...successful first phase. Subcontractors sharing the grant are: Ripple LLC ?a Salt Lake City company that makes devices to record nervous system data ?will get up to $1.28 million over two years and a total of $1.94 million over four years. The company, founded by former U bioengineering graduate student...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

...successful first phase. Subcontractors sharing the grant are: Ripple LLC ?a Salt Lake City company that makes devices to record nervous system data ?will get up to $1.28 million over two years and a total of $1.94 million over four years. The company, founded by former U bioengineering graduate student...

Infant transplant patients resist infections that kill adult AIDS patients

...is the work that it recently garnered a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support further research into the roles of T cells, B cells and antibody production in the outcomes of pediatric heart transplants. "We're very excited about this opportunity to expand the current understandi...

A salty tale: New bacterial genome sequenced from ancient salterns

...godin, first author on the PNAS study, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and United States Department of Agriculture. "S. ruber illustrates that even in a really extreme environment, bacteria can do what it takes to survive, including exchanging genes with other microbial species that ...

Open Source Biotechnology alliance for international agriculture

... reduction. The ventureis catalyzed by a 2.55M USD grant to CAMBIA from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. The BiOS Initiative ?Biological Innovation for Open Society- is often called Open Source Biotechnology. The BiOS model has resonance with the Open Source software movement, famous for such su...

Superconducting magnet attracts molecular research

...nance (MR) spectrometer was funded by a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a stiff competition among research universities. Since 2001, the NIH has funded only three such magnets nationwide, said professor of chemistry Tom Pochapsky, who spearheaded a group effort to bring the...

New study of the world's smallest elephant

...ities in Sabah during a previous Darwin Initiative grant to study orangutans. He said: "There is clearly an urgent need to undertake sound conservation action. Our work will provide information that is currently lacking, including identification of priority areas for the species that should be kept under ...

New, unique microscope for nanotech

...vis. Acquisition of the instrument was funded by a grant of $354,000 from the National Science Foundation, matched by $151,714 from UC Davis. The confocal microscope allows three-dimensional imaging of samples, such as cells, and picks up structures tagged with fluorescent dyes. Instead of cutting a sampl...

Largest computational biology simulation mimics life’s most essential nanomachine

...rst public sector ARV clinic, Harvard has used the grant received in 2000 through the Secure the Future program to: Ø Help build the initial HIV Reference Laboratory in Botswana; and Ø Initiate the groundbreaking "Adult Antiretroviral Treatment and Drug Resistance Study to examine the three main reasons ...

New Therapeutic Target Identified In Inherited Brain Tumor Disorder

...rst public sector ARV clinic, Harvard has used the grant received in 2000 through the Secure the Future program to: Ø Help build the initial HIV Reference Laboratory in Botswana; and Ø Initiate the groundbreaking "Adult Antiretroviral Treatment and Drug Resistance Study to examine the three main reasons ...

HIV-infected adults in Botswana respond positively to ARV therapy public treatment program

...rst public sector ARV clinic, Harvard has used the grant received in 2000 through the Secure the Future program to: Ø Help build the initial HIV Reference Laboratory in Botswana; and Ø Initiate the groundbreaking "Adult Antiretroviral Treatment and Drug Resistance Study to examine the three main reasons ...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...hnology was developed with a $2 million, five-year grant to CU from the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. The Flu Chip fits on a microscope slide and contains an array of microscopic spots, Rowlen said. Genetic bits of information that are complimentary to known, individual influenza strains are...

Mapping alcohol brain damage

...al Sciences has secured a five-year, $1.23 million grant from the United States' biomedical funding arm, the National Institute of Health (NIH) to find out. Chronic alcohol abuse kills brain cells in the front of the brain, which affect planning, and social interactions and inhibitions. The UQ team wit...

New study identifies key gene in development of connections between brain and spinal cord

...search, conducted by Stanford University through a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), could be critical for future understanding of the development of the human brain and possibly the treatment of spinal cord injuries. During fetal development, genes "instruct" nerve cells on how and wh...

MUHC investigators search for the root of sexual pain in women

... from McGill/MUHC and the CHUM have been awarded a grant of nearly $700,000 by the Canadian Institutes of H...n fewer women suffering in silence." The new CIHR grant will allow the team to initiate research with groups of women that suffer from genital pain associat...

Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants

... conducted his study with part of a $1 million NIH grant and a $2 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant that cover research related to genetic engineering in plants as a way to produce therapies for sever...

Federal grant funds research on novel HIV therapy

... leads a multi-center $6.7 million program project grant recently awarded by the National Institute of Ment...ies and clinical trials in adult patients, the new grant focuses on a potential Achilles' heel in the human immunodeficiency virus: sites on immune cells kno...

Researchers show key protein necessary for normal development of red blood cells

...ene expression. This research was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Lloyd collaborated with colleagues in the VCU Department of Human Genetics, and the VCU Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology; the Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology at the Univer...

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