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Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...genetic studies, will contribute enough laboratory resources to study two additional common diseases. On average, it costs about $3 million to carry out one study. "We've translated early information from genetic research into valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease and the prevention of organ rejectio...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...a Tech are gaining the processing power and system resources they need to make more accurate decisions in research and raise the profile of the Institute among the nation's most elite research facilities." "Only the most technologically savvy universities are able to compete in the field of drug discovery and...

Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits

...f educational programs on local regulations, local resources and protected areas, appropriate behavior, and species-specific guidelines and information. The St. Lucia Heritage Tourism Programme, a community-based initiative of the St. Lucia Ministry of Tourism, provides support to community activities that pr...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

...here the application of high-throughput sequencing resources would rapidly lead to significant medical advances; understanding of the human genome; and understanding the evolutionary biology of genomes. A coordinating committee then reviews the working groups' proposals, helping to fine-tune the suggestions an...

Watching the brain switch off 'self'

...during intense perceptual engagement, all neuronal resources are focused on sensory cortex, and the distracting self-related cortex is inactive. Thus, the term "losing yourself" receives here a clear neuronal correlate. This theme has a tantalizing echoing in Eastern philosophies such as Zen teachings, which e...

Curry and cauliflower could halt prostate cancer

...sed in past decades despite tremendous efforts and resources devoted to treatment. This is because advanced prostate cancer cells are barely responsive even to high concentrations of chemotherapeutic agents or radiotherapy. The authors noted that in contrast to the high incidence of prostate cancer in the Uni...

Ethiopian development raises birth rate

... reduced mortality. However, since food and other resources are already scarce, this comes at the cost of an increase in childhood malnutrition. Dr Gibson said: "This study is, to our knowledge, the first to demonstrate a link between a technological development intervention and an increase in both birth ra...

Study: Competition for sex is a 'jungle out there'

... medicine, food, nutrient cycling, and alternative resources for pollinators of domesticated crops world wide," said collaborator Tia-Lynn Ashman, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh. "The concern is that we are losing habitat really rapidly globally, especially in tropical areas, and losing pollinators th...

Attractive birds more immune against bird flu

... viruses, evolve more rapidly than the hosts whose resources they live off of. The host will therefore always be in an important evolutionary race against its diseases," explains Måns Andersson, who directs the research team. In earlier studies, Andersson and Professor Lars Gustafsson have shown that male Got...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

... complexes." This will enable "scalable computing" resources to be applied to a wide range of computational too...opment of new drugs and therapies from the ocean's resources to combat cancer and neurodegenerative and other diseases." Venter Institute will make available a ...

Virginia Tech helping to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties

...long-term public access to genetic information and resources for wheat breeders and researchers nationwide. Public sector researchers are primarily responsible for providing new wheat varieties to U.S. wheat growers. Public wheat varieties accounted for 78 percent of the 2001-2003 wheat production in the U.S....

World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise

...f developed nations just don't care; they have the resources but not the political will. And the governments of developing nations don't invest in alleviating hunger and poverty because they're only interested in short-term results for their own political careers." He notes that alleviating hunger and poverty...

Protecting endangered species helps reduce poverty

...ecies like the destruction of habitats and natural resources often contribute to poverty," said Hemley. Conservation and sustainable management of species and their habitats means better protection of forest, freshwater and marine habitats. As a result, the rural poor who depend on these areas have more acce...

Ahead of the game

...modern human life, allowing routine use of distant resources and more extensive division of labor, may be better indicators of why Neanderthals disappeared than hunting practices. "The establishment of larger social networks allowed the replacement of Neanderthals in the Caucasus," write the authors. "Our stu...

Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist

...sh. Says Dr. Pauly: "Reclaiming the ocean and its resources from excessive use will be a key task for humanity in the 21st century." ...

Screening blood for West Nile virus

...f disease certainly still exists, but with limited resources and other potential hazards to blood supply safety, there has been a real need for good, objective economic studies to determine what type and what degree of screening should be performed. " ...

Skin disease common among Hispanic farmworkers in North Carolina, research shows

...irect result of farmwork, it is likely a result of resources and living environment," said Arcury. He explained that workers often must share shower facilities and often have limited access to washing facilities and to stores for detergents. "The results suggest that services to diagnose and treat such dis...

Terahertz imaging may reduce breast cancer surgeries

... remove more tissue, involving additional hospital resources and increased risk of patient morbidity. Thus, there is a clinical need to accurately define the margins of the tumor during surgery. ...

Horseshoe crab decline threatens shorebird species

...so that we can learn how to better manage wildlife resources like the red knot and horseshoe crab." ...

Study shows AIDS drugs cost-effective, care underfunded

...rization of the Ryan White CARE Act with increased resources allocated for reimbursement of medical care, which is now under 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 themselves indefinitely, Dr....

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