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Evolution of life on Earth may hold key to finding life in outer space

...ry. Fox is finishing work on a three-year research grant from NASA's Exobiology Program that seeks to under...s an important NASA objective." The goal of Fox's grant ?"The Origins of Translation and Early Evolution of Life" ?is to understand when and how the ribosom...

Use of high hydrostatic pressure to inactivate Hepatitis A virus in oysters studied

...al ecosystems through a competitive, peer-reviewed grant proposal process. In addition to its core programs, Virginia Sea Grant coordinates research in oyster disease and toxics in the Chesapeake Bay. ...

Biota makes major antiviral discovery

...search has been supported by a $2.7m R&D Start grant from the Australian government. The RSV development follows on the heels of the company's recent decision to advance its common cold (human rhinovirus, HRV) drug candidate into clinical development following a similarly successful in-house research p...

UIC developing drug for SARS

...ccess, the researchers have received an $8 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop protease inhibitors that would block key enzymes in the SARS virus and hamper its advance. Protease inhibitors, a class of drugs capable of disrupting enzymes that digest prote...

Old drug, new tricks: Prospects for slashing the impact of malaria

...se. The project is supported by a AUD$3. 7 million grant to PNGIMR from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Fansidar is a 20-year-old malaria drug. As with many other such curative drugs, its effectiveness has declined over time with increased resistance by the malaria parasite. But initial clinical e...

Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals

...for nearly 20 years. The research was funded by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The authors extensively reviewed the locations and movements of both purebred and hybrid panthers that researchers had tracked by radio. In 1995, separate pairs of Texas female panthers fitted with radio ...

Beyond genes: Lipid helps cell wall protein fold into proper shape

...es of Health. These rare awards provide long-term grant support for scientists whose research competence a... 10-year renewal to 2015 on his longstanding NIGMS grant "Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins" by providing back-to-back five-year grants of $2.4 mil...

MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions

...State University researchers will use a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to uncover th...mplished with any plant or animal. The $4 million grant begins Dec. 1 and will continue for four years. The project will create eight full-time jobs for tec...

Secrets of the deep may hold key to life on other planets

Leeds researchers use NERC grant to understand extreme sea creaturesExtraordinary c...een awarded a natural environment research council grant to design and build seafloor fossilisation experiments to investigate this fundamental process. "We'...

Why are coyotes getting more aggressive?

... and suburban areas of New York state, thanks to a grant of $428,000 from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Additional funding from DEC through an existing study with Dan Decker, director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station and associate dean of the College of Ag...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

...Gen) today announced the receipt of a $7.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to co...ogies. This award is part of a greater $25 million grant that TGen will share with three other microarray centers that are part of the NIH Neuroscience Micro...

Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines

...I) researcher at Cornell University has received a grant to help assemble a unique database of DNA mutations in maize (corn). The project not only will allow researchers to study the effects of knocking out the function of single genes, one at a time, but also will create seeds for each mutation, or disru...

First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology

...e spirit of our Small Business Innovation Research grant program," said Matthew E. Portnoy, Ph.D., program director at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. "This new technology has the potential to drive down drug manufacturing costs, which could make me...

One hit of crystal meth causes birth defects

...ved in this study. The research was supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The doctoral candidates received awards from the CIHR/Rx&D Health Research Foundation, the American Society of Toxicology and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada....

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk

...euticals Partnership, NY, provided an unrestricted grant in support of CRUSADE. ...

Genome study of beneficial microbe may help boost plant health

...University of Arizona. The project was funded by a grant from the USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. The article in Nature Biotechnology presents the first complete genome sequence of a biological control agent for combating plant diseases. P. fluorescens Pf-5 was discove...

Key to elephant conservation is 'in the sauce'

...ley, and in 2003, the trust was awarded a $108,000 grant from the World Bank. The trust also formed two companies, the African Spices Company in Zambia, and the Chilli Pepper Company in Zimbabwe. Due to social and economic unrest currently raging in Zimbabwe, the trust's operations there have ceased, optin...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...upporting the project with a five-year, $1 million grant it awarded to UNC in 2002. "This is a unique resource for scientists trying to understand the genes contributing to variation in traits of economic importance in crops," Vision said. ...

Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV

...urvey was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Digene Corporation. ...

Lipids get new comprehensive classification system

...stitute of General Medical Sciences. The five-year grant involves more than 30 researchers at 18 universities, medical research institutes, and companies across the United States. The Director of the LIPID MAPS initiative and senior author of the manuscript Dr. Edward A. Dennis, Distinguished Professor of...

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