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Genetic analysis of cavefish reveals more about evolution

...rtment of Biology. The research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The replicated experiment is a powerful tool for experimental science, but typically unavailable in the study of evolution. Cave adaptations have evolved in many species independently, however, and each cave spe...

University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome

...BIO5 Institute have received a $29 million federal grant as part of a consortium to unlock the genetic code...rm the storage units of genetic information. The grant further strengthens and expands Arizona's leading position in genomics research, which is considered...

The shape of things to come: Morphology database going global

... to expand the database, thanks to a $2.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation. "It used to...ieve images deposited by their colleagues. The NSF grant will allow the FSU team to develop commercial quality software to make the system more user friendly...

Study Unlocks Insects?Secret for Love in the Dark

... Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury glue grant team injected healthy volunteers with bacterial en...n patients over longer periods of time. The glue grant team includes scientists from Stanford Genome Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif.; University of ...

Study reveals genomics of inflammation from severe injury

... Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury glue grant team injected healthy volunteers with bacterial en...n patients over longer periods of time. The glue grant team includes scientists from Stanford Genome Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif.; University of ...

Chemical compound inhibits tumor growth, size in new mouse study

...products," he says. The study was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES). Polyphenols are a large family of naturally occurring plant components that have been associated with a wide variety of health benefits. ...

Toasty oat aroma influenced by presence of health-linked polyphenols

...products," he says. The study was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES). Polyphenols are a large family of naturally occurring plant components that have been associated with a wide variety of health benefits. ...

New insights into the software of life

...Professor Hume's group has recently been awarded a grant from RIKEN to continue the translation of this work into the next phase, the Human Genome network project. ...

New study to explore cellular circuitry

...power future drug designAs part of a $4.88 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), molecu... Institute of Applied Life Sciences, the principal grant recipient, will lead a team of biochemists and computer scientists in an attempt to diagram Saccharo...

Research team receives $7.5 million to study cassava

...cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State . The grant runs for five years. Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is the primary food source for more than 250 million Africans ?about 40 percent of the continent's population, Sayre said. And the plant's starchy root is a substantial portion of the diet of nearly 6...

DOE's Office of Science sets up program to aid scientists displaced by Hurricane Katrina

...Education to match displaced individuals with host grant recipients. The Office of Science will consider o...le to indicate their interest in being hosted by a grant recipient and complete their request for assistance forms on-line at a clearinghouse website. Inter...

Vaginal gel may provide a new approach to HIV prevention

...IV. Under the agreements, Merck and BMS each will grant the non-profit group a royalty-free license to develop, manufacture and distribute their compounds for use as microbicides in resource-poor countries. Announced on the eve of the TIME Global Health Summit, this agreement marks the first time any pha...

Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell

...National Institutes of Health, with a $200 million grant to the FNIH and is a major international effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries. It is funded with a $450 million commitment from Gates Foundation, $27.1 fro...

Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative funds Yale project

...ine Dean Robert Alpern, M.D., said, "This generous grant from the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative provides a boost to Yale's ongoing initiatives in basic science and clinical research. It will advance research on diseases that have an effect on communities worldwide." The goal of this award i...

New book expands biological classifications to account for 'alien' life

...ram, the first of its kind, started in 1998 with a grant from the National Science Foundation and has since been bolstered by funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Students work in a variety of areas, such as astronomy, microbiology and oceanography, to prepare themselves for the ...

Researcher at UGA College of Veterinary Medicine identifies new way of combating viral diseases

...rol and Prevention. The study is being funded by a grant from the Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology. In the September issue of the Journal of Virology, Thomas Hodge, research professor of infectious diseases at the veterinary college, and his colleagues report that blocking a protein that helps tra...

UW-Madison scientists zero in on drugs' sweet spots

...as recently formed with the help of a $5.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The new work by Thorson was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the NCI. Thorson's collaborators include Joseph Langenhan, a former UW-Madison graduate student and post-doctoral fellow and now...

Birds and bats sow tropical seeds

...ar test, funded initially by a five-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Co-investigators include Christina Martinez-Garza, a biologist on the faculty of the Autonomous University of Morelos in Mexico, and a former doctoral student of Howe's at UIC; Martin Ricker, director of the biol...

Acid water in East Java threatens biodiversity and local welfare

...d river water. Lohr has recently received a second grant to help the Javanese population. Lohr's Ph.D. stu...n. The biologist recently received a dissemination grant from NWO-WOTRO to support this. ...

Researchers develop gene therapy to reverse pulmonary arterial hypertension

... program in cardiovascular disease, and a training grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. ...

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