Speed Limit To The Pace Of Evolution? Nov 3, 2009
The study was funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant and the National Science Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Golgi Apparatus: Simple Explanation For How Baffling Structure Works Oct 17, 2009
The work was supported in part by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the NIH; an American Cancer Society Fellowship; the Burroughs Wellcome Fund; the V Foundation; and an NIH New Innovator Award to Seth Field. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Estrogen Link In Male Aggression Sheds New Light On Sex-specific Behaviors Oct 3, 2009
The research was supported by grants from Genentech Graduate Fellowships, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Scholarship, National Institutes of Health Institutional Training Grant, National Institutes of Health, Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, and McKnight Foundation for Neuroscience. The researchers... (Science Daily)
Sandfish Tucks Legs And 'Swims' Like A Snake Under Desert Sand Sep 1, 2009
With funding from the National Science Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the research team used high-speed x-ray imaging to visualize sandfish -- formally called Scincus scincus -- burrowing into and through sand ... This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award No. PHY-0749991 and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. (Science Daily)
Some skin cancer may be mediated by primary cilia activity Aug 24, 2009
The research was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Packard Foundation and the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation. UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. (EurekAlert!)
Mutations in gene linked to ciliopathies Aug 10, 2009
The research was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Italian Ministry of Health, the Telethon Foundation Italy, the American Heart Association, the National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the March of Dimes and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. . (EurekAlert!)
Finding Key To Cancer Drug Gleevec's Limitations Aug 8, 2009
Funding for the study came from the National Institutes of Health, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. A clinical trial is not currently open and will not likely happen for several years. (Science Daily)
Report offers principles for maintaining the integrity and accessibility of research data Jul 23, 2009
The report was sponsored by the National Research Council, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Energy, Eli Lilly and Co., Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Nature Publishing Group, the Rockefeller University Press, New England Journal of Medicine, American Chemical Society, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, and... (EurekAlert!)
Through sand, desert lizard swims like a snake Jul 17, 2009
If something nasty was buried in unconsolidated material, such as rubble, debris or sand, and you wanted to find it, you would need a device that could scamper on the surface, but also swim underneath the surface," Goldman said. The study was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. 2009 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved. On Newsvine Rate Story:LowHighMORE FROM SCIENCEScience Section FrontAdd Science headlines to your news... (MSNBC -- Environment)
Scientists Tackle Viral Mysteries Jul 1, 2009
ScienceDaily (June 30, 2009) Scientists know that some cancers are triggered by viruses, which take over cellular systems and cause uncontrolled cell growth. Doctors and patients who get shingles late in life have also known for many years that some viruses, particularly the herpes virus, can lie dormant in a person's cells for long periods of time and then reactivate, causing disease. (Science Daily)
Stem cell protein offers a new cancer target Jun 2, 2009
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Children's Hospital Boston is home to the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries have benefited both children and adults since 1869. (EurekAlert!)
Viruses Are Sneakier Than We Thought May 28, 2009
This research was supported by a Howard Temin Career Development Award and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award to BG. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
International study identifies potential treatment targets for hypertension May 11, 2009
Support for the study came from nearly 100 governmental, charitable, and commercial organizations in the U.S. and Europe, including the National Institutes of Health, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Massachusetts General Hospital, established in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. (EurekAlert!)
Penn biologists discover how 'silent' mutations influence protein production Apr 10, 2009
The study was funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, James S. McDonnell Foundation, Penn Genome Frontiers Institute, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Foundation for Polish Science and Wellcome Trust Centre. . (EurekAlert!)
How The Retina Works: Like A Multi-layered Jigsaw Puzzle Of Receptive Fields Apr 8, 2009
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Chapman Foundation, the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and the McKnight Foundation. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
Ambati study published in PNAS Apr 7, 2009
Ambati is a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Distinguished Clinical Scientist and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist in Translational Research. His laboratory is also supported by the National Eye Institute of the NIH, Research to Prevent Blindness, and American Health Assistance Foundation. (EurekAlert!)
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)
Cause For Severe Pediatric Epilepsy Disorder Identified Mar 23, 2009
The study was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Epilepsy Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Scripps research scientists 'watch' as individual alpha-synuclein proteins change shape Mar 17, 2009
"It starts off in an unfolded state, and as we increase the concentration of the lipid mimics, the protein reacts to what is in effect a different binding partner, even though it is the same small molecule at different concentrations. It switches back and forth into different states. "This is perhaps the most complex protein folding-binding system that has been studied to date using single-molecule FRET," he says. This ability of alpha-synuclein to be switched into alternative shapes could play... (EurekAlert!)
Why People Often Get Sicker When They Are Stressed Mar 11, 2009
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Ellison Medical Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Stretching boundaries for training new biophysicists Feb 20, 2009
5 million, came in 2001 from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Next came a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Common gene variants increase risk of hypertension, may lead to new therapies Feb 16, 2009
Support for the Nature Genetics study included grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the American Heart Association. Co-authors of the paper are Kenneth Bloch and Sekar Kathiresan, MGH Cardiology; Martin Larson, Ramachandran Vasan, Daniel Levy, Emelia Benjamin, and Xiaoyan Yin, Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and Boston University; Aarti Surti, Candace Guiducci, and Joel... (EurekAlert!)
Researchers Learn Why Robots Get Stuck In The Sand -- And How To Keep Them Going Feb 11, 2009
This project was funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The physics of movement on granular media has been largely unexplored systematically, so Goldman and his team set out to systematically investigate the performance of a small six-legged device called SandBot. (Science Daily)
The Hsp90-Antifungal Combo, please: Compromising fungi in the immunocompromised Feb 10, 2009
This research was supported by Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a Genzyme Fellowship, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, and a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Grant. Susan Lindquist's primary affiliation is with Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where her laboratory is located and all her research is conducted. (EurekAlert!)
