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Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function

...ing-edge neuroscience research at leading academic institutions such as Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emory University, and the University of Utah. Cyberkinetics has received FDA clearance to market the NeuroPort TM System, a neural monitor designed for acute inpatient applicatio...

Center releases new public survey on stem cells

... This outcome is not acceptable to individuals and institutions that believe human life at all stages of development deserves protection and should not be destroyed. Much current debate focuses on whether other sources of stem cells - blood from the umbilical cord removed at birth, for example - might be as usef...

University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome

...ndation has selected a consortium of four research institutions to sequence the maize genome: The University of Arizona, Washington University in St. Louis, Iowa State University in Ames and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The UA team previously collaborated with Washington Universi...

Breaking the mold: Research teams sequence three fungus genomes

...he work was carried out collaboratively at several institutions in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Japan, France, Brazil, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. David Denning of the University of Manchester coordinated the projects. Unlike most fungi, A. fumigatus likes it hot--and hotter. The fungus enjoys an unusual rang...

Yale participates in global human genome initiative

...ery. The other Global Initiative founding member institutions are the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cance...pand further as additional not-for-profit research institutions from North America, Europe and Asia join in the coming months. Its first meeting will take place in ...

Polio vaccination strategies assessed as eradication nears

...the Food and Drug Administration and various other institutions throughout the United States revisited the issue using two doses of the newer, enhanced vaccine. They found that two doses of IPV did produce immunity in the digestive tract. The researchers used shedding of virus after treatment with a dose of OPV...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

...general, without the cooperation and help of local institutions like the Commissariat Régional au Développement Agricole (CRDA) in Gabes and Medenine and the Institut des Régions Arides (IRA) in Medenine providing guiding experts and lab facilities the performance of ground measurements would have been very limit...

The bioweapon is in the post

...usly easy to fake. And even orders from legitimate institutions may not be what they seem. Alfred Lasher, who manages Picoscript in Houston, Texas, says that he turned down one orderplaced by an individual at a US biotech firm, after Picoscript's enquiries revealed the gene was being ordered on behalf of a friend...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...esearchers from Stanford University and four other institutions base their conclusion on the feeding behavior of modern and early condors and their potential prey. Writing in the Nov. 7 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the research team concludes that whales and seals ...

Study shows AIDS drugs cost-effective, care underfunded

...te-practice HIV clinics are closing. Most academic institutions within the United States, including ours, are abso... discussion in Congress," Dr. Saag said. Although institutions are developing ways to bring down HIV treatment costs, they won't be able to cover those costs thems...

Free access to a digital library for developing countries

...ry for developing countries. Public and non-profit institutions in underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe will have free access to the peer-reviewed scientific literature of Springer and other leading international publishing houses. Springer's Environmental Onli...

Underdogs in the understory: Study suggests nature favors rarer trees

...observatories," maintained and studied by research institutions in Borneo, India, Malaysia, Panama, Puerto Rico and Thailand, under the coordination of the Center for Tropical Forest Science of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, based in Panama. Christopher Wills, professor of biology at the University ...

Horse antibodies against the bird flu virus H5N1 are effective as treatment in mice

...sity in Guangzhou, China and colleagues from other institutions in China infected dog kidney cells in vitro with a lethal dose of H5N1 and simultaneously exposed the cells to horse antibodies against H5N1. Lu et al.'s results show that horse antibodies to H5N1 protected cells against H5N1 in vitro ?the cells simu...

Growth hormone is made in the brain, report scientists

...cademy of Sciences. The researchers -- from three institutions –?found that growth hormone is produced within the hippocampus, a structure deep inside the brain that is involved in memory and emotion. The scientists also found that more growth hormone is produced in females than in males, and more in adults. M...

New RNAi tools enable systematic studies of gene function

...C), a unique collaboration among academic research institutions and leading life science companies with the mission to build comprehensive RNAi libraries and make them available to scientists worldwide. "Switching off a single gene through RNAi reveals how that gene functions in a particular biological process. ...

Mouse to man: The story of chromosomes

...road Institute of MIT and Harvard were the primary institutions involved in the sequencing effort. However, scientists at Sanger dubbed a portion of chromosome 17 the Lupski segment because he has spent so much time dealing with that portion of the genome in his effort to identify gene mutations that result in di...

On a fly's wing, scientists tally evolution's winners and losses

...road Institute of MIT and Harvard were the primary institutions involved in the sequencing effort. However, scientists at Sanger dubbed a portion of chromosome 17 the Lupski segment because he has spent so much time dealing with that portion of the genome in his effort to identify gene mutations that result in di...

U-M scientists identify major psoriasis susceptibility gene

... and patients from dermatology departments at many institutions ?including the U-M, the University of Kiel in Germany, Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, and the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System." ...

The critical importance of mangroves to ocean life

...tmar and his colleagues at several German research institutions analyzed the carbon output from a large mangrove forest in Brazil and suggest that the plants are one of the main sources of dissolved organic matter in the ocean. The researchers note that the organic matter that is dissolved in the world oceans co...

New genetic test for breast cancer

...t 10,000 women with breast cancer at more than 900 institutions throughout the United States and Canada. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women, with an estimated 235,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer expected in the United States and Canada in 2006. Nearly 140,000 of these women w...

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