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Recovery Act Funding Seeks to Help Understand Basic Secrets of Aging [NIH]
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced two major awards to advance exciting areas of basic research on aging. Grants for studies to determine the potential healthy aging effects of rapamycin, a compound involved in regulating cell growth, and to understand the causes of protein misfolding -- when a protein is either not formed correctly or damaged afterwards -- that lead to age-related disease are made possible through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. These grants are part of the $5 billion that President Obama announced Sept. 30 on the National Institutes of Health campus.
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Recovery Funds Advance Alzheimer's Disease Research [NIH]
American Recovery and Reinvestment Funds are being used to promote the national research efforts to better understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer's disease. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has targeted promising areas of research in granting the awards, such as new and ongoing studies to identify additional risk factor genes associated with Alzheimer's, improve diagnostic tools, find biomarkers, develop therapies, conduct clinical trials and explore preventive measures.
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RIT School of Print Media Releases Annual Publication Featuring Collaborative Research [RIT]
The scholarship of current and emerging print technologies is the theme of the latest edition of Test Targets 9.0, published by Rochester Institute of Technology. RIT students, faculty and staff from RIT’s School of Print Media submit research papers for the annual publication. Topics covered in Test Targets 9.0 include color management,...
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NIH Awards $20.4 Million for Biomedical Research in Rhode Island and South Carolina [NIH]
Providing adequate research infrastructure, mentoring and training opportunities for biomedical researchers in the fields of regenerative medicine and stem cell biology are the goals of two new Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) awards announced today by the National Institutes of Health. Administered by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), the five-year grants totaling $20.4 million have been awarded to Rhode Island Hospital and Clemson University.
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NASA Updates Time of Tuesday News Conference with Space Station [NASA]
The 12 crew members aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station will hold a news conference Tuesday at 7 a.m. CST, 13 minutes earlier than previously announced.
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NASA Chooses Small Business High Tech Projects for Development [NASA]
NASA has selected for development 368 small business innovation projects that include research to minimize aging of aircraft, new techniques for suppressing fires on spacecraft and advanced transmitters for deep space communications.
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Every GM Vehicle Sold Costs Taxpayers $12,200 [RIT]
According to a recent report by the National Taxpayers Union, American taxpayers have paid $12,200 for every General Motors vehicle sold through the beginning of 2011, and $7,600 for every Chrysler vehicle sold. The Auto Bailout—A Taxpayer Quagmire, written by Thomas Hopkins, professor of economics at Rochester Institute of Technology, analyzes what...
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Science Magazines Honor Cutting-Edge NASA Programs [NASA]
NASA's revolutionary planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been honored with the 2009 Best of What's New Grand Award from Popular Science Magazine and a 2009 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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RIT’s Venture Creations Showcases its Business Services to Rochester Community [RIT]
Venture Creations, Rochester Institute of Technology’s high technology incubator, will showcase the resources and services available to area entrepreneurs and start-ups at an open house 2-5 p.m. Dec. 8. The event, located at 125 Tech Park Drive, will feature current incubator participants discussing their experiences, as well as experts who can...
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Evolution of Evolution: A National Science Foundation Webcast [NSF]
Please join the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, Nov. 23, at 10 a.m. ET for a live webcast featuring Darwin-Wallace Medal recipient Mohamed Noor of Duke University, who will answer media questions about current evidence for evolution and modern evolution theory. Among the topics: - Does modern genetic evidence favor the existence of a missing link?
- What's the single most important evolution discovery in the last 50 years?
- Is the current understanding of ...
More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115990&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
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Anniversary Edition of Evolution Special Report Released [NSF]
What questions are more profound and provocative than: - How did life begin?
- How have humans evolved?
- How are climate change and other ecological stresses currently forcing evolution?
- Could the process of evolution have worked the same on other planets, even to the point of evolving life?
- What will be science's next big evolution discovery?
These and other questions--which are as timely, controversial and news-worthy as ever--are addressed ...
More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115998&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
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Ice Cold: Cooler Than Being Cool [NSF]
Water expands when it freezes. Anyone who has ever left a can of soda or bottle of water in the freezer too long has witnessed this first hand. So how do plants and animals survive severe temperatures? Insects exposed to subzero temperatures can adapt to the extreme climate to survive freezing temperatures, but until now, antifreeze molecules had not been isolated from freeze-tolerant animals. The NSF-supported study, published in the November 24 issue of Proceedings of the ...
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