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International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

The International HapMap Consortium, boosted by an additional $3.3 million in public-private support, today announced plans to create an even more powerful map of human genetic variation than originally envisioned. The map will accelerate the discovery of genes related to common diseases, such as asthma, cancer, diabetes and heart disease. When the project was launched in October 2002, th...

NIH neuroscience microarray consortium launches high-throughput genotyping services

The NIH Neuroscience Microarray Consortium today announced that it has added high-density genotyping on both the Affymetrix and Illumina platforms to its list of services. Stan Nelson, the principal investigator at UCLA, says that "adding ultra-high throughput genotyping for its user-base of ~10,000 investigators across the world keeps the Consortium current with the demands of the scientific com...

Autism gene identified by researchers at Yale working with a global research consortium

Yale School of Medicine autism experts Fred Volkmar, M.D. and Ami Klin are part of a global research consortium from 19 countries to identify a gene and a region of a chromosome that may lead to autism in children. The findings are published online today in Nature Genetics and also will be published in the journal’s March print edition. They are based on the largest-ever autism genome scan...
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E-business consortium evaluates 12 desktop search engines

Can't find your files? Desktop search applications bring some of the same technology used by Internet search engines to your hard drive, but the market is getting more crowded. The University of Wisconsin-Madison evaluated a dozen desktop search tools for usability, accuracy, versatility, efficiency, security and enterprise readine...

University Consortium Enables Transformation and Survival for Wisconsin Businesses

Madison, WI - Todays business climate is not for the faint of heart. Global competition and offshore manufacturing are striking a blow to Wisconsins economy, and this, combined with rising unemployment, the need to retrain workers, and a huge budget deficit is forcing Wisconsins business leaders to look for new ways to survive and grow. If youre in business, youd better start thinking a...

Research consortium aims to bring security and defense contracts to Wisconsin

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Wisconsin consortium aims for defense business

Congress has approved a $500,000 start-up grant for the recently announced Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, a non-profit group for classified, defense-related projects. The consortium, led by the Wisconsin Technology Council, will also initially include the UW System, the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, and the Milwaukee School of Engineer...

Doyle announces biobased energy consortium

The Consortium on Biobased Industry, composed of various experts in both the public and private sectors, will work with the State Departments of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Administration Department's Energy Office to determine what the state govern...
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NIH Funds the Development of National Consortium of Universities

A $100 million grant has been given to a dozen top universities on Tuesday by the government in order to set up a network// that would hasten scientific discoveries towards better health care thereby trying to transform how medical research is done. This idea came about because of the increased specialization in medicine which has made it more difficult than ever for scientists from d...

Autism Gene Identified by Yale and Global Consortium

Yale School of Medicine autism experts Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., and Ami Klin are part of a global research consortium from 19 countries that identified an individual gene and a// region of a chromosome that may lead to autism in children. The findings are published online in Nature Genetics and also will be published in the journal’s March print edition. They are based on the largest auti...
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Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Focuses on the Challenges of Care and Research in Multiple Sclerosis

WASHINGTON, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual meeting ofthe Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC), the largestmeeting devoted to the comprehensive care and science of multiplesclerosis (MS), is underway in the nation's capital today. Multiplesclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that affects400,000 people in the United States, challenges patients, carepartne...
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