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UMass Harvests $1.5M from USDA for Food Science Bioresearch

Posted by Robert Larkin on Tue, May 12, 2015

vegetablesResearchers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst are reaping the rewards of breakthrough food science research, in the form of USDA grants totaling over $1.5 million.

As part of an ongoing effort to improve the quality and safety of food products in the United States, researchers at UMass, Amherst have received three-year grants to continue work on innovative projects.  Read More

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Harvard Receives $1.1M in NIH Funds for Cancer Therapy Research

Posted by Robert Larkin on Mon, May 11, 2015

HMSScientists at Harvard Medical have made a recent breakthrough in cancer therapy research with the help of three separate grants from the National Institutes of Health, totaling over $1,153,000.

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UCSF Bioresearch Unlocks NIH funding, New Understanding of Parkinson’s

Posted by Robert Larkin on Fri, May 08, 2015

dbsIn an effort to better understand the reason that deep-brain-stimulation (DBS) seems to work so well in Parkinson’s cases, researchers at University of California, San Francisco have recently conducted NIH-funded research, with illuminating results.

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UC Berkeley Collects $5.8M from NIH for Pathogen Research

Posted by Robert Larkin on Wed, May 06, 2015

syringe1Each year in the United States, more than 2 million people develop antibiotic-resistant infections and at least 23,000 people die as a result, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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UC Davis gets $10M in NIH Grants for Schizophrenia Research Center

Posted by Robert Larkin on Tue, May 05, 2015

neuronAccording to the National Institute of Mental Health, schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that affects about 1% of Americans. Schizophrenia often causes paranoia, hearing voices other people don't hear, and believing other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. 

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Mayo Researchers Develop New Predictor for Breast Cancer

Posted by Robert Larkin on Fri, May 01, 2015

dnaMayo Clinic researchers have compiled a set of common genetic variants that they say contribute to a person’s risk for developing breast cancer.

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UA Researchers get a Helping Hand from $6.1M Grant

Posted by Robert Larkin on Wed, Apr 29, 2015

handsThe University of Arizona’s Arthritis Center is getting a helping hand in identifying treatments to slow the spread of osteoarthritis.

A five-year, $6.1 million grant was given to researchers at UA by the Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, and will help them continue working to identify key risk factors for the development of osteoarthritis (OA), the structural progression of the disease and ways to prevent OA.

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UI Researchers Receive Big Funding for "Small" Chemistry

Posted by Robert Larkin on Tue, Apr 28, 2015

idahoUniversity of Idaho is getting big funding to think small in 2015. Thanks to recent funding, UI scientists will soon be better equipped to study chemistry at a molecular level using specialized, and expensive, new equipment.

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UCSF and OHSU Team Up to Tackle Childhood Leukemia

Posted by Robert Larkin on Mon, Apr 27, 2015

Scientists from UC San Francisco and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have teamed up to tackle acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a blood cancer that typically affects children from two to five years old.

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OHSU Isn't "Monkeying" Around, Gets $7M+ for HIV/AIDS

Posted by Robert Larkin on Wed, Apr 22, 2015

monkeyHIV and AIDS have been a conspicuous concern worldwide for several decades now; research into its treatment regularly gains national attention and benefits from billions of dollars in research funding. What many people may not realize, however, is that simian immunodeficiency virus, (or SIV, a nonhuman primate form of HIV that causes AIDS in monkeys) may hold the keys to unlocking the mysteries of how HIV can be treated in humans.

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