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• Got any ideas? NSF offering $50,000 per year for up to 100 new projects

  Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new effort to help develop scientific and engineering discoveries into useful technologies, products and processes.

  The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, a public-private partnership, will connect NSF-funded scientific research with the technological, entrepreneurial and business communities to help create a stronger national ecosystem [...]

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• Torrey Pines Dr. Jay McLaughlin receives $2.2 million grant for HIV-related Mood Disorders

  Working under a 5-year, $2.23 million grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Jay McLaughlin, Associate Member, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies will study how the HIV virus produces related neuropathology and mood disorders.

  The prevalence of mood disorders in people with HIV is [...]

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• Florida researchers say mutated gene may play a role in the buildup of proteins in the brain

  Researchers have discovered a new gene mutation they say causes Parkinson’s disease. The mutation was identified in a large Swiss family with Parkinson’s disease, using advanced DNA sequencing technology.

  The study, published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics, was led by neuroscientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida and [...]

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• Bacterial resistance to antibiotics: The more they resist, the more they divide

  The number of multiresistant strains of bacteria in hospitals is increasing. Bacteria acquire resistance to antibiotics through mutations in their chromosomes and by incorporating new genes, either from the surrounding environment or from other bacteria. Now, a research team at the Portuguese CBA research (University of Lisbon) and the Instituto [...]

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• First antibody to neutralize both group 1 and group 2 influenza A viruses

  A paper in the journal Science, describes a novel, proprietary monoclonal antibody (FI6) discovered in a collaboration between Humabs BioMed SA, the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (“IRB”) and the UK Medical Research Council (MRC). FI6 is the first neutralizing antibody that targets all 16 hemagglutinin subtypes of influenza A and [...]

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• Scientist Converts Human Skin Cells into Functional Brain Cells

  A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has discovered a novel way to convert human skin cells into brain cells, advancing medicine and human health by offering new hope for regenerative medicine and personalized drug discovery and development.

  In a paper published in Cell Stem Cell, Sheng Ding, PhD, reveals efficient and [...]

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