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Free HIV tests cheaper than charging when goal is preventing AIDS

...ght additional funding to continue free testing in partnership with a community-based AIDS service organization in Moshi, Tanzania, said lead author Nathan Thielman, M.D. They have since tested more than 4,000 people, he said. The results appear in the January 2006 issue of the American Journal of Public Healt...

Largest computational biology simulation mimics life’s most essential nanomachine

... clinical data was collected from a public-private partnership between the Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative Partnership for HIV Research and Education (BHP) and the Infectious Disease Care Clinic (IDCC) at Princess Marina Hospital and funded through Bristol-Myers Squibbs' Secure the Futur...

New Therapeutic Target Identified In Inherited Brain Tumor Disorder

... clinical data was collected from a public-private partnership between the Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative Partnership for HIV Research and Education (BHP) and the Infectious Disease Care Clinic (IDCC) at Princess Marina Hospital and funded through Bristol-Myers Squibbs' Secure the Futur...

HIV-infected adults in Botswana respond positively to ARV therapy public treatment program

... clinical data was collected from a public-private partnership between the Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative Partnership for HIV Research and Education (BHP) and the Infectious Disease Care Clinic (IDCC) at Princess Marina Hospital and funded through Bristol-Myers Squibbs' Secure the Futur...

New book highlights world's borderless conservation areas

... A New Vision for Protected Areas" was produced in partnership with CEMEX, one of the world's largest cement producers, Conservation International and Agrupaci�n Sierra Madre, with the collaboration of IUCN�The World Conservation Union and the International League of Conservation Photographers. "Transboundary...

New insights into the software of life

... Hume who has been pivotal in developing the IMB's partnership with RIKEN over several years." As part of the collaboration with RIKEN, 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. ...

Scientists develop nanotech-laser treatment that kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

...terfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies, a research partnership among Stanford, IBM Almaden Research Center, University of California-Davis and University of California-Berkeley. ...

Dalai Lama, top scientists to discuss science & clinical applications of meditation

...ical well-being, the Mind & Life Institute, in partnership with the Georgetown University Medical Center, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will host "Mind & Life XIII: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation," November 8-10, 2005 at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. ...

US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome

...) of Nairobi, Kenya. That innovative U.S./African partnership has enriched the quality of African scientific res...fit scientific partners on all sides. "This unique partnership has given a boost to the goal of developing a vaccine against a disease that has had a severe impact...

Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell

...he Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2003, in partnership with the 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 fund...

Virginia Tech football player uses prototype cast

...ty School of Medicine. Virginia Tech spearheaded a partnership with this medical school in 2001, and formed the School of Biomedical Engineering and Science. Love said, "The resulting stiffness and strength of the laminated structures has not been fully evaluated, but qualitative testing has shown that these st...

Rutgers to lead $52.7 million protein research program

...aid. NESG is a Rutgers-led collaborative research partnership of more than 15 principal investigators and 120 scientists at nine universities and other research facilities. Approximately $20 million will fund research at Rutgers, which will be the central hub of the program. The remaining $30 million will suppo...

Experimental shingles vaccine proves effective in nationwide study

...e are extremely gratified that this public-private partnership has led to these exciting results, which have the potential to greatly benefit seniors in years to come." Approximately 12 percent of older people with shingles experience pain lasting for 3 months or longer (the definition of PHN used in the study)...

Digging in the dirt for life's biochemical foundations

...pert in root system functioning. The fungus-plant partnership is one of the planet's oldest and dates back more than 400 million years, when plants began to move out of the oceans and onto land. Plants trade a bit of their sunlight-made sugars for building block nutrients that fungi wring from the soil. Scienti...

Deep sea buffet for bone-devouring worms

...discovered group of marine worms is the only known partnership (or symbiosis) which uses sunken marine mammals as...ana Goffredi and her colleagues reveal this unique partnership between bacteria and the Osedax (bone-devouring) group of marine worms. Symbiosis, or the living to...

Past droughts geographically widespread in the West, according to tree-ring data

...Phoenix metropolitan area. The tree-ring study in partnership with The University of Arizona is the one of many initiatives taken by SRP in response to an ongoing drought that is in its 10th year. Even counting this past winter when 2,017,580 acre-feet of runoff ?the first above-normal runoff season since 1998 ...

Siberian tigers hang tough

... John Seidensticker, of the Save the Tiger Fund, a partnership between Exxon Mobil, U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, added, "Russia is a bright spot in the conservation of tigers in Asia, and is proof of our belief that a few dedicated individuals, with suf...

Six previously blind patients detect light, motion, identify objects with retinal prostheses

...an artificial retina-developed and manufactured in partnership with Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., of Sylmar, Calif. According to Mark Humayun, professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine and the lead investigator on the project, all six of the previously blind patients have been able to det...

Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health

...rsity's clinical research program in cardiology, a partnership with PeaceHealth's Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene. About 40 physicians volunteer their expertise by teaching and assisting with research in the human physiology labs. "The chamber allows us to monitor minute changes in the vascular and respir...

Moffitt-USF head toward first human trials of anti-cancer drug that targets protein AKT

...Cancer Center & Research Institute, working in partnership with the University of South Florida (USF), has discovered a new use for an old, previously discredited anti-cancer drug that could add another weapon in the arsenal against several cancers, including tumors of the breast, ovary, colon, skin and pros...

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