UGA prof wins $600K stimulus grant Oct 30, 2009
The UGA grant is one of 22 one-year federal stimulus grant supplements awarded by the s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for iPS cell research. Dalton s research group, based in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology in UGA s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, previously had received a five-year $9. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Making a cellular menagerie Oct 24, 2009
When the National Institute of General Medical Sciences [in Bethesda, Maryland] came up with this grant opportunity, one of the categories was to establish an image library. The institute contacted our executive director and said "we noticed your society was trying to establish a library like this, why don t you please consider applying for this grant". (Scientific American)
U.S. tops Nobel prizes, thanks to science Oct 11, 2009
Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in Bethesda, Md. said ample federal money gives American scientists confidence they can tackle daunting, long-term problems without feeling pressured to produce fast results or lose funding. (MSNBC -- Environment)
2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize Oct 8, 2009
"Everyone recognized this was on the short list for the prize," said Jeremy Berg, director of the federal National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the that funded all three winners for parts of their research. "We're terribly pleased but not terribly surprised.". (USA Today -- Tech)
U.S. Trio Wins Medicine Nobel for Telomerase Oct 7, 2009
Dr. Jeremy Berg of the U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which funded some of the research, said this year's prize was not a surprise. "It was at the top of all lists this year," Berg said in a telephone interview. (MEDLINEplus)
Nobel Prize in Medicine shared by three U.S. genetic researchers Oct 6, 2009
director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences was pleased to see an example of general research chosen for the prize. He calls it "A great example of a curiosity-driven process. " The selection of telomeres research was not a surprise to many in the field, he says, as the research has "been moving along steadily under its own power; [and] everybody had known how important it was. " Nevertheless, there are some large questions that remain to be answered about the workings of... (Scientific American)
Building A Complete Metabolic Model: Comprehensive Understanding Of Bacteria Could Lead To New Insights Into Many Organisms Sep 22, 2009
This work was funded by grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Grambling gets funds for science, nursing programs Sep 21, 2009
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant is for training opportunities to students majoring in biology, chemistry, physics, math or computer science. M.A. Himaya, head of the university's physics department and director of the Minority Access to Research Careers program, said the number of minority researchers in the health field in the United States is "very, very small." For example, he said less than 1 percent of researchers are black and cited economic factors as contributing... (Nola.com -- Sports)
Building a complete metabolic model Sep 18, 2009
This work was funded by grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. About Burnham Institute for Medical Research. (EurekAlert!)
Vaccination Of 70 Percent Of US Population Could Control Swine Flu Pandemic Sep 12, 2009
They are part of the federal government's Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) Network, an effort funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. Funding for the study came from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (Science Daily)
Gene Variant Linked To Effectiveness Of Popular Anti-clotting Medication Plavix Aug 27, 2009
The research was funded in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore ... D., of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and director of the National Institutes of Health Pharmacogenetics Research Network. (Science Daily)
Princeton team learns why some drugs pack such a punch Aug 21, 2009
The work was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research, the Canton de Geneve and the Swiss National Science Foundation. . (EurekAlert!)
Drug-dispensing Contact Lens Jul 24, 2009
The study was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, a Fight for Sight Grant-in-Aid, a Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology/Johnson & Johnson Young Investigator Award and the Boston KPro Fund, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
Mice With Skin Condition Help Scientists Understand Tumor Growth Jul 9, 2009
Funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences supported this research. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
Why H1N1 Flu Spreads Inefficiently Jul 4, 2009
"One of the big payoffs of long-term investments in carbohydrate biology and chemistry research is an understanding of the relationships between cell surface carbohydrate structure and viral infectivity," said Jeremy M. Berg, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, which partly funded the research. "Tools developed in building such understanding help in the response to events like the recent H1N1 outbreak.". (Science Daily)
Fast, Affordable Tool For Finding Gene 'On-off' Switches May 22, 2009
The research was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in the National Institutes of Health, a New Technologies Award from the Sandler Foundation, and Agilent Technologies. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
SUMO protein guides chromatin remodeler to suppress genes Apr 28, 2009
This study was supported by an award from the Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch Endowed Research Fund (to Harvard Medical School) and a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. Ouyang J, Shi Y, Valin A, Xuan Y, and Gill G. Molecular Cell. (EurekAlert!)
Chemists synthesize herbal alkaloid Apr 16, 2009
" In the world of total synthesis chemistry, it is not enough to figure out a way to synthesize a naturally occurring molecule. The process has to produce large enough quantities of the molecule that it can be tested for biological activity. That means that the number of sequential steps in the process what chemists refer to as the longest linear sequence should be as small as possible to maximize production. For example, if a sequence has 30 steps and each step has an 80 percent yield, the... (EurekAlert!)
Long-lasting Nerve Block Could Revolutionize Pain Management Apr 16, 2009
"If these long-acting, low-toxicity formulations of local anesthetics are shown to be effective in humans, they could have a major impact on the treatment of acute and chronic pain," says Alison Cole, PhD, of the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the work ... The study was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. (Science Daily)
Prolonged anesthesia without toxicity Apr 16, 2009
"If these long-acting, low-toxicity formulations of local anesthetics are shown to be effective in humans, they could have a major impact on the treatment of acute and chronic pain. This slow-release technology may also have broader applications in drug delivery for the treatment of a variety of diseases," says Dr Alison Cole, of the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the work. Kohane's team are presently trying to optimise the formulation so that their... (India Times, India)
Novel way to turn skin cells into stem cells Mar 28, 2009
WASHINGTON: American scientists have made a significant advance in finding a way to endow human skin cells with embryonic stem cell-like properties without inserting potentially problematic new genes into their DNA. Dr James A Thomson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose team was supported in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, claims that this is the first time that any research group has endowed skin cells with the capacity to develop into any of the roughly... (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Scientists Find Safer Way to Make Human Stem Cells Mar 28, 2009
Other teams have used different methods to do the same sort of thing in mouse cells, but not in human cells, said Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. "What Dr. Thomson has done for the first time in human iPS cells is created methods which don't involve inserting DNA into the host genome at all -- using plasmids which go into the cells but never get incorporated into the DNA," Berg said in a telephone... (MEDLINEplus)
Dance By Protein Linked To Parkinson's And Alzheimer's Diseases Reveals Unprecedented Twists And Turns Mar 25, 2009
24, 2009) Researchers have demonstrated the "alpha-synuclein dance" the switching back and forth of the protein between a bent helix and an extended helix as the surface that it is binding to changes. Such shape shifting has rarely been so directly observed in proteins like alpha-synuclein, which are known to be unfolded in isolation, says the study's senior investigator Ashok Deniz, an associate professor at The Scripps Research Institute. (Science Daily)
Airborne Fungi Linked To Asthma Epidemic In Puerto Rico Mar 11, 2009
Alberto Rivera Rentas, now working at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, at the National Institute of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, working with Christian Velez of the Universidad Metropolitana of San Juan and Antonio Gonzalez of the Universidad del Turabo, in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, have now isolated and identified microbial fungi, which they suggest are linked to asthma. They point out that allergens and pollution are undoubtedly important factors in the development of asthma,... (Science Daily)
General-purpose Method For Detecting Trace Chemicals Developed Feb 28, 2009
D., who oversees enzymology grants at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institute's of Health, which partially funded the research. "There is tremendous potential for application of this technology in diagnostic, environmental, and chemical testing.". (Science Daily)
