New England Research Institutes (NERI) Announces Additional $45M NIH Grant to Support the Pediatric Heart Network

     

    Total funding for all NERI work related to pediatric heart disease swells to $87M
    WATERTOWN, Mass., Oct. 25, 2011 — New England Research Institutes (NERI) today announced that it has received a $45 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the continuance of its work on the Ped…

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    Free Online Library of Cell Images Wins ‘The Labby’

     

    ASCB’s “The Cell: An Image Library” celebrates one-year anniversary, now passes 300,000 page views; online image resource to spur discoveries and education in human health
    BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 1, 2011 — An online library of cellular images freely available to biomedical r…

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    Research Unlocking Mysteries Surrounding Lyme Disease

     

    WALL, N.J., March 15, 2011 — Researchers recently developed novel diagnostic tools able to distinguish between the various strains of bacteria responsible for causing Lyme disease. For more than a decade, only one strain of B. burgdorferi (Lyme bacteria) had been sequenced (mapped), and altho…

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    Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission to Host Third Annual Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium

     

    2010 symposium held in partnership with NIH and NIST to focus on facilitating state and national collaboration to advance groundbreaking life science research
    COLUMBIA, Md., Sept. 3, 2010 – The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) will host the Third Annual Maryland Stem Cell R…

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    Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Announces 42 Projects for Funding

     

    12 projects feature academia/for-profit company collaboration
    COLUMBIA, Md., May 20, 2010 — The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) has completed its evaluation of the 141 applications in response to its three official Requests for Applications (RFAs) during the FY 2010 fun…

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    Immune Defense – the Earlier, the Better: Expert Cites Supplement from Pure Research Products

     

    BOULDER, Colo., June 12, 2009 — Viruses infect all forms of life, are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth, and are among the most abundant types of pathologic entities on the planet, according to Wikipedia.org. Recently, scientists discovered that the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus is more like th…

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