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National Institutes Of Health Agrees Chimpanzees Should Be Retired From Research

2013-01-23 07:31:24

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The National Institutes of Health (NIH) had recently made recommendations that all but about 50 chimpanzees should be permanently retired from research. On Tuesday (Jan. 22) the council unanimously agreed on the move, and government-funded scientists began removing chimps from their labs. The first primates to be removed from research facilities arrived at their new home in south Louisiana at a national sanctuary (Chimp Haven) for...

Pregnant Women Safe To Receive H1N1 Flu Shot

2013-01-17 13:42:32

NIH researcher assists in study of Norwegian women Norwegian pregnant women who received a vaccine against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus showed no increased risk of pregnancy loss, while pregnant women who experienced influenza during pregnancy had an increased risk of miscarriages and still births, a study has found. The study suggests that influenza infection may increase the risk of fetal loss. Scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public...

Scientists, Including Team at J. Craig Venter Institute, Sequence and Publish More than 10,000 Influenza Genomes as Part of NIAID's Influenza Virus Genome Sequencing Project

2013-01-10 12:24:02

Genomes are Deposited into GenBank and Available as Worldwide Research Resource to Better Understand and Combat Potential Influenza Epidemics and Pandemics ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), along with researchers at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and 44 academic institutions have sequenced and published more than 10,000 influenza virus genomes as part of the Influenza Virus Genome...

NIH Grant Moves Pathologists to the Forefront of Genomic Medicine

2012-12-22 05:04:42

A five-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds an innovative program established by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Training Residents in Genomics Working Group, with administrative and educational design support from the American Society for Clinical Pathology, to help pathologists understand genomics information and serve as primary consultants for physicians and patients in interpreting and acting on this data. Chicago, IL (PRWEB)...

The Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announces 2013 Innovator Awards Program $100,000 Grants For Transformative IBD Research Projects

2012-12-13 12:24:26

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today its 2013 Innovator Awards Program for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The Program supports "out-of-the-box" innovative research projects that are potentially transformative to the Foundation's efforts to diagnose, treat and/or cure IBD. The Program is open to tenure track professors (or the equivalent) at all levels from any scientific discipline and from any non-profit research...

Experimental Agent Briefly Eases Depression Rapidly In Test

2012-12-13 12:29:17

Works in brain like ketamine, with fewer side effects -- NIH trial A drug that works through the same brain mechanism as the fast-acting antidepressant ketamine briefly improved treatment-resistant patients' depression symptoms in minutes, with minimal untoward side effects, in a clinical trial conducted by the National Institutes of Health. The experimental agent, called AZD6765, acts through the brain's glutamate chemical messenger system. Existing antidepressants available through...

Stress-Resilience/Susceptibility Traced To Neurons In Reward Circuit

2012-12-13 12:23:05

Light instantly triggers or reverses depression-like states in rodents -- NIH-funded studies A specific pattern of neuronal firing in a brain reward circuit instantly rendered mice vulnerable to depression-like behavior induced by acute severe stress, a study supported by the National Institutes of Health has found. When researchers used a high-tech method to mimic the pattern, previously resilient mice instantly succumbed to a depression-like syndrome of social withdrawal and reduced...

Survey Shows Breakthrough Medical Research Relies Heavily on NIH Funding

2012-12-10 08:26:12

63% of American respondents presenting at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting used NIH funding to support their study ATLANTA, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A survey highlighting the correlation between today's cutting edge medical research and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding was released today at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the preeminent medical meeting for physicians and scientists in hematology...

Paragon Technology Group Awarded NIH/NHLBI Blanket Purchase Agreement

2012-12-10 08:25:53

VIENNA, Va., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Paragon Technology Group, a leading provider of strategic technology solutions to the public sector, announced today that it has been awarded an information technology services and solutions Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Government estimates, but does not guarantee, that the volume of purchases through the BPA is $184 Million over...

23andMe Scientists Receive More Than $500,000 In Funding from the National Institutes of Health

2012-12-04 12:24:59

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 23andMe has received grants totaling $573,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support three projects that utilize 23andMe's unique web-based research platform. These include projects to better understand the genetics of allergies; to assess accuracy of new sequencing technologies in clinical applications; and to develop tools that will take advantage of the genotypic and phenotypic information in the 23andMe...