Main Category: Flu / Cold / SARS Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry VaxInnate Corporation, a biotechnology company pioneering breakthrough technology to develop novel seasonal and pandemic ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces funding for the new NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Program. Epigenetic processes control normal growth and development, and epigenomics is a study of epigenetic processes at a genome-wide scale. The NIH will invest more than $190 million over the next five years to accelerate this emerging field of biomedical research. The first grants will total approximately $18 million in 2008.

Humans living in communities often rely on friends to help get what they need and, according to researchers in the lab of Cameron Currie at the university of Wisconsin-Madison, many microbes, plants and animals benefit from 'friendly' associations too. The Currie team's study, which was funded by the National science Foundation (NSF) and published in the Oct.

Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper* by researchers at Yale university and the national institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) takes it to a cellular level. Applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life, they argue that artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them.

A fresh discovery about the way water behaves inside carbon nanotubes could have implications in fields ranging from the function of ultra-tiny high-tech devices to scientists' understanding of biological processes, according to researchers from the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The findings, published in the Oct.

Charles Darwin is best known for his theory of evolution and other natural history achievements, but little is known about his enduring and insightful work with plants and the important role they played in ...

A link between reduced levels of the "stress hormone" cortisol and antisocial behavior in male adolescents has been discovered. Levels of cortisol in the body usually increase when people undergo a stressful experience, such as public speaking, sitting an exam, or having surgery.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 02 Oct 2008 The Scripps Research Institute on Monday received a $30 million, five-year grant from the International AIDS ...

Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and flame retardants (PBDEs) are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals. A special section in the October 2008 issue of Environmental Research, "A Plastic World" provides critical new research on environmental contaminants and adverse reproductive and behavioral effects.

(Washington university School of Medicine) scientists report online this week in Nature that they have linked the health of specialized gut immune cells to a gene associated with Crohn's disease, an often debilitating and increasingly prevalent inflammatory bowel disorder.