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5/16/2011 | News
In
one of the stark realities of the budget crisis, scientists' chances of
winning research dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
for any condition have dipped to a new low. According to the Institutes
director, Francis Collins, for every six grant applications that NIH
receives, five are rejected.
11/16/2010 | News
University of California, San Diego NanoEngineers won a grant from
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop the tools to
manufacture
biodegradable frames around which heart tissues—functional blood vessels
included—will grow.
10/29/2010 | News
The Georgia Tech-led Nanomedicine Center for Nucleoprotein Machines has received an award of $16.1 million for five years as part of its renewal by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The eight-institution research team plans to pursue development of a clinically viable gene correction technology for single-gene disorders and demonstrate the technology’s efficacy with sickle cell disease.
10/4/2010 | News
Robert Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on in vitro
fertilization as early as the 1950s. He developed the technique
together with British gynecologist surgeon Patrick Steptoe, who died in
1988. Since then 4 million people have been born using IVF, in which
eggs are removed from a woman, fertilized outside her body and then
implanted into the womb.
6/18/2010 | News
The National Institutes of Health's Center for Scientific
Reviewthis week released a new video to show new applicants and others
how NIH
assesses over 80,000 grant applications representing a majority of the
institute’s $31 billion budget.
12/7/2009 | News
Our eyes would tell us that funding for medical research finds itself now at a kind of triple witching hour. Financial, political and social assumptions that have held sway for the last half century are expiring simultaneously and the world economy is in a deep recession. Biomedical investigators are left wondering where new funding will come from in a financial system that may be years in recovery.
11/18/2009 | News
Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. However, inferring such evolutionary relationships from rearrangement events is computationally intensive on even the most advanced computing systems available today. Research recently funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aims to develop computational tools that will utilize next-generation petascale computers to understand genomic evolution.
