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New push for public health, AIDS spending at African Union summit

...he costs for which the WHO hopes will be offset by national resources, international agencies and private or government donations. Efforts to provide low-cost drugs to African HIV sufferers received a major boost this month when the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first ARV cocktail, which could...

Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon

... of the Royal Society B (a publication of the UK's national academy of science) shows that the transfer of parasitic sea lice from salmon farms to wild salmon populations is much larger and more extensive than previously believed. This quantitative analysis of parasite transfer is a scientific milestone in a...

Taking Aim With Nanoparticle PEBBLEs

..., Physics and Applied Physics at U-M. At the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, Calif., March 17, Kopelman will describe the research that he and his collaborators have been doing over the past seven years, including encouraging preliminary results using PEBBLEs to treat a v...

Probing The Promise And Perils Of Nanoparticles

...gpyo Hong will discuss their research at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego March 13-17. In collaboration with other researchers at U-M's Center for Biologic Nanotechnology, Banaszak Holl's lab has been studying nanoparticles known as dendrimers, tiny spheres whose width...

Nano-Probes Allow an Inside Look at Cell Nuclei

...ters. Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California. Visit our Website at www.lbl.gov. ...

The Shapes Of Life: NIGMS Project Yields More Than 1,000 Protein Structures

The Protein Structure Initiative (PSI), a national program aimed at determining the three-dimensional shapes of a wide range of proteins, has now determined more than 1,000 different structures. These structures will shed light on how proteins function in many life processes and could lead to targets...

Newly Discovered Compound Blocks Known Cancer-Causing Protein

...stitutes of Health (NIH) grants that will create a national network of publicly accessible small molecule facilities and make them available to researchers nationwide. Duke University has filed a patent application for cysmethynil, Casey said, and intends to shepherd it through the first steps of drug develo...

NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step

...e the science of stem cell research has gained her national recognition. In the fall, she earned the highest honor given to a young researcher by President Bush: The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. What is it about Arinzeh's research that has caught the eye of the White House? ...

South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

...s them into priorities and a manageable agenda for national governments? "So far, however, most work on Inter...n undertaken at the global rather than regional or national levels. Recognizing the importance of cooperation at the regional level between Brazil, Bolivia and ...

Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients

...ailure-Heart Rate Variability Registry, an ongoing national study. ...

Chemists identify key gene in development of type 1 diabetes

...ions and possibly gene therapy, today at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worl...explored. In a study presented last year at an ACS national meeting, the researchers reported they were able to prevent diabetes in a group of mice by using a s...

Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles

...ions and possibly gene therapy, today at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worl...explored. In a study presented last year at an ACS national meeting, the researchers reported they were able to prevent diabetes in a group of mice by using a s...

Scientists discuss improved biopesticides for locust control in West Africa

...rs of agriculture from other West African nations, national plant protection directors and locust control personnel, military officers in charge of locust control campaigns, representatives from regional and international organizations, and locust scientists. Vaughan spoke about the potential for operational...

Probing the promise and perils of nanoparticles

...gpyo Hong will discuss their research at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego March 13-17. In collaboration with other researchers at U-M's Center for Biologic Nanotechnology, Banaszak Holl's lab has been studying nanoparticles known as dendrimers, tiny spheres whose width...

Researchers devise way to mass-produce embryonic stem cells

...ted their findings in San Diego on March 15 at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society. They grew some mouse embryonic stem cells in a flask ?a conventional way to grow stem cells ?while other stem cells grew upon strands of polymer threads inside a bioreactor. The bioreactor used in this stud...

Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges

...ential for abuse, was described today at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. "Test animals injected with methamphetamine actually developed antibodies to the drug, which is highly unique for a molecule of its relatively small size," says study ...

Fleshing out the genome

...oom, to link genomic features to cell function. A national consortium of scientists led by BIATECH, a Seattle based non-profit research center, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a Department of Energy research institution in Richland, Wash., now suggests a way to put this house in order. They...

Polymers with copper show promise for implanted sensors

...erhoff will discuss the work March 15 at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, Calif. "The idea we had, when we started working on this problem about eight years ago, was to try to mimic what occurs in the human body to prevent clotting on the walls of your own blood vesse...

WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas

...e been reported in Jakarta, since December and the national authorities have installed control measures for th...malaria cases, WHO is strengthening its support to national authorities to implement effective vector-borne disease prevention and control activities", said Dr ...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...Alert and Response Network, and the cooperation of national authorities and experts. Tools and methods develo...ills and responsibilities for outbreak response to national staff, and training efforts are under way with this goal in mind. ...

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