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Researchers Find New Technique To Identify Fetal Genetic Material From Amniotic Fluid

...com) Editor's Note: This study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Co-authors Drs. Larrabee, Johnson, and Bianchi have filed for patents for the methodology described in this article. ...

Next Generation Body Scanner Launched By The University Of Manchester

...ing to purchase the scanner was provided through a grant from the North West Science Review (via the Medical Research Council and the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council), in 2000. ...

Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters

...tructures. Supported by a five-year $2.37 million grant from the National Science Foundation, and supplemented by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the research team at Illinois is attempting to draw inspiration from the collaboration patterns that honeybees and ants use, and the spread patt...

Research into how prions act in the brain could hold the key to defeating diseases

...ny particles known as prions, thanks to a £300,000 grant from the Medical Research Council. So far, there have been 148 deaths from confirmed or probable variant CJD (vCJD) in the UK. This is the human disease thought to be caused by eating food contaminated with prions that is also responsible for the ep...

Two chemicals boost immune cells' ability to fight HIV without gene therapy

...e-therapy drugs." The research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a University of California Discovery Grant. Geron provided additional funding and the chemical compounds for use in the laboratory. Effros' team included doctoral student Steven Fauc...

Stem cell research - new cell lines

...r Bernie Tuch, the Director of DTU have received a grant for US$140,000 for two years from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in the United States to continue their work. The research comes as the Federal government's moratorium limiting the use of excess embryos ends. ...

Rhesus monkeys can assess the visual perspective of others when competing for food

...wship to J.I.F. and the Yale University Moore Fund grant to L.R.S. The Cayo Santiago Field Station was supp... of Health (National Center for Research Resources grant CM-5-P40RR003640-13 award to the Caribbean Primate Research Center) and the University of Puerto Ric...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

..., including HIV. Jacobs has received a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop an effective post-exposure vaccine for smallpox. The research is one of ten projects funded under Project Bioshield, w...

Norovirus found to cause traveler's diarrhea

...periencing Traveler's Diarrhea" was supported by a grant from the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Amy R. Chapin was also supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Biological Sciences. Co-authors of the study were Colleen M...

After a time-shift, mixed signals from the circadian clock

...rch was supported by National Institutes of Health grant and by Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum Excellent Student trajectory. Henk Albus, Mariska J. Vansteensel, Stephan Michel, Gene D. Block, and Johanna H. Meijer: "A GABAergic Mechanism Is Necessary for Coupling Dissociable Ventral and Dorsal Regiona...

Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus

...h provided Osterrieder with a $50,000 unrestricted grant to conduct research of his choosing. Pfizer is the only company that makes MLVs for equine herpes virus. Osterrieder's preliminary study compared the effectiveness of MLV vaccines to another more widely used vaccine for equine herpes. Owners and vet...

New understanding of DNA repair may pave way to cancer treatments

...v University, Israel. The study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. ...

New drug shows promise as powerful anticancer agent

... the Fels Foundation. This work was supported by a grant from Onconova Therapeutics Inc. drug discovery program, and E.P.R. and M.V.R.R. are stockholders of Onconova Therapeutics Inc. E.P.R., S.C.C., and M.V.R.R. are consultants to Onconova Therapeutics Inc. ### Kiranmai Gumireddy, M.V. Ramana Reddy, Ste...

Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks

...under a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health grant through 2007 as the principal investigator on "Genetic analysis of zebrafish circadian rhythmicity," under which this latest study falls. ...

Products containing specific probes for detecting alternative splice forms protected

ExonHit Therapeutics, today announced the grant of a major patent, US # 6,881,571, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on microarray products allowing the specific detection of mRNAs produced by alternative splicing, covering microarrays optimised for the discovery of alternative RNA ...

Scientists discover how plants disarm the toxic effects of excessive sunlight

...e, Kristin Warczak. The project was supported by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Distinguished Fellowship Program, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hilldale undergraduate research scholars program. Cells that grow by photosynthesi...

Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs

...fortunes of salmon runs and their management. The grant boosts research into climate and other factors aff...s quality." The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant is for three years and is part of its Wild Pacific Salmon Ecosystem Initiative. The initiative focus...

Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert

...ma project is funded with a $3 million, three-year grant from NASA to Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute ...tection instruments, which has a separate $900,000 grant from NASA. ...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

...chers are well positioned to compete for stem cell grant funding, Witte said. UCLA researchers have proven their skill at ushering scientific discoveries from the lab to modern medicine. Several targeted therapies were developed based on UCLA research, including Gleevec and the breast cancer drug Herceptin...

Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers

...ent Cynthia Collins at Caltech. It was funded by a grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In previous work, including a paper published March 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences along with Sara Hooshangi and Stephan Thiberge, Weiss showed the feasibility of ins...

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