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The Epilepsy Foundation of America is the national voluntary agency dedicated solely to the welfare of the almost 3 million people with epilepsy in the U.S. and their families. The organization works to ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; to improve how people with epilepsy are perceived, accepted and valued in society; and to promote research for a cure. :Typical of the Foundations national programs are its Jeanne A. Carpenter Epilepsy Legal Defense Fund, the H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People with Epilepsy) Mentoring Program, a Public Policy Institute, Seniors and Womens Health Initiatives, the Kids Speak Up advocacy program, a school personnel training program, outreach to youth and to the Hispanic community, employment programs and a research grants program. Services commonly provided in local communities are information and referral, counseling, patient and family advocacy, school and community education, support groups and camps for children. Its Web site offers the most comprehensive, medically approved consumer information about epilepsy and seizures on the Internet and is the trusted source for millions of people who seek reliable information about epilepsy. : Each year the Foundation also invites research investigators to apply for grants and fellowships to test new ideas and follow new research leads. The applications, more than a hundred in an average year, are ranked according to merit by a blue ribbon panel of research scientists, and funded according to available resources. Additionally, the Epilepsy Foundation offers a series of training fellowships in basic, clinical and behavioral science to scientists at the start of their careers. These fellowships, awarded to young people at the nation's leading research institutes, have in many cases been the first steps on a lifetime commitment to solving the medical and scientific puzzle of why epilepsy develops and how it can be treated or prevented. Specifically, the Gowers Fellowship is awarded annually to a physician/scientist who is embarking on a career in academic clinical medicine and who wishes to undertake a specific project in epilepsy research. Sponsors: The Epilepsy Foundation is funded primarily through individual donations from the general public and receives restricted grant support from the federal government, foundations and private industry.

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Software package that defines general purpose containers for storing genomic intervals as well as more specialized containers for storing alignments against a reference genome.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 16,2023.Offers services in peptide synthesis, peptide modification, purification and quality analysis, N-terminal protein sequencing by Edman degradation, biomolecular interaction analysis and equilibrium and kinetic measurements.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. A haplotype inference program.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 10, 2016. A consortium that created universal descriptors to describe functionally similar gene products and their attributes across all organisms. In 2004, the PAMGO interest group joined the GO consortium to extend the GO to include terms describing various processes related to microbe-host interactions. The organization uses a controlled vocabulary to set a process in place to describe plant associated microbes and their interactions with their plant-hosts. These higher order terms can describe gene products of all types of symbionts (e.g. parasites, commensals, and mutualists), including prokaryotes and eukaryotes that associate with plant or animal hosts. This initiative is a multi-institutional collaborative effort to pool information and research in: the bacteria Dickeya dadantii, Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the fungus Magnaporthe grisea, the oomycetes Phytophthora sojae and Phytophthora ramorum, and the nematode Meloidogyne hapla.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 16,2023. Collection of podcasts which features experts of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital talking about their research, along with important issues and current events regarding it.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. The projected cluster includes the LBIs for Applied Cancer Research, Clinical Oncology and Photodynamic Therapy, Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation and Surgical Oncology. The aim of the projected cluster Translational Oncology is the cooperative investigation of genetic and molecular biological characteristics of the tumor cells involved in minimal residual disease (MRD) in vitro and translation of the experimental and diagnostic results into the clinical practice involving therapeutic modalities with the newest generation of antitumoral drugs. Minimal residual disease is the designation for the occurrence of a low number of tumor cells remaining clinically undetected following curative therapy that give rise to tumor relapses. MRD is a central question in cancer therapy, since a major subpopulation of patients which underwent curative resection and therapy ultimately relapse and would have received more aggressive adjuvant therapy, provided that residual disease had been clearly proven. Otherwise low-risk patients would have not been treated aggressively in an adjuvant setting. MRD can be detected by methods in bone marrow or by extremely sensitive PCR (polymerase-chain-reaction)-based methods in peripheral blood. PCR-based methods allow for the characterization of tumor-specific gene expression in circulating tumor cells and thereby provide additional information in regard to malignity of cells and prognosis. The different participating institutions have extensive experience in patient care, organization of clinical studies and laboratory investigation. In particular, expert knowledge in stem cell transplantation and histological detection of MRD, multicentric clinical testing of new anticancer drugs, specialized treatment of various selected tumor entities such as neuroendocrine tumors, gene expression analysis of circulating tumor cells and tumor signatures, and in vitro characterization of chemosensitivity as well as tumor cell biology have been acquired at the individual LBIs in the past and are complementary to each other to be combined in a larger cluster structure. The detection of circulating tumor cells will be supported by ongoing EU (OVCAD OVarian CAncer Diagnosis) and GenAU projects aiming at identification of ovarian cancer cells in the blood. The assessment of methylated DNA sequences (suppressor genes) in peripheral blood as an indicator of MRD can be performed with the help of OncoLab Diagnostics GmbH. Cooperative action in this cluster, using a common tumor bank/clinical data collection and the combined clinical and experimental efforts are the base for the execution of the presented MRD project.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Steve Silberman's personal blog highlighting science, culture, politics and neurodiversity. Steve is an investigative reporter for Wired and other national magazines.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

An organization that specifically operates in Kansas and the the western half of Missouri, and provides help with connecting the community to organ and tissue procurement, as well as generates general public awareness. This organization is a federally certified non-profit Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) that is meant to help in several facets of transplant and procurement services.

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A lightweight, high-performance graphical viewer for next generation sequence assemblies and alignments.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. Software application that maps transcription factor binding sites from ChIP-seq data to high resolution using a blind deconvolution approach.

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Software application for viewing and editing sequence trace files.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 16,2023. Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders (CCNMD) at the University of Pittsburgh offers a highly interactive scientific environment for the study of the neurobiology of schizophrenia. Integrates the laboratory and clinical research activities of investigators from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Arts and Sciences and the adjacent Carnegie Mellon University.

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Software statistics and alignment pipeline that performs the alignment of bisulfite sequence reads and tabulates read-level methylation measurements.

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Offline spike sorting software. This software tool for viewing and classifying action potential waveforms (spikes) previously collected from single electrodes, stereotrodes and tetrodes accepts file types from many data acquisition companies and software programs.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. Microscope that enables bright field and fluorescence imaging options.

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Annotated index for computational neurobiology, focusing on compartmental modeling and realistic simulations of biological neural systems. Has resources to find modeling software and software for computational morphology, phase plane and spike train analysis, and web based neuroinformatics. Provides links to major laboratories, researchers, conferences, education and funding for theoretical neurobiology.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Software package that provides netCDF storage based methods and functions for manipulation of flow cytometry data.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31, 2025. Facility that conducts wide variety of research programs ranging from cell biology to community-based participatory research. Research is conducted through four academic departments including: the Cancer Research Center, the Prevention Research Center, the Public Health Preparedness Center, the Cardiac Quality improvement initiative and the Center for Health Workforce Studies. This facility also hosts research projects and faculty scholarships to aid Master's and Doctoral students in course work, laboratory rotations and internships.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Commercial antibody supplier that provides research materials for projects such as: protein purification, protein analysis, protein estimation assays, DNA purification, plasmid DNA isolation and transformation, protein quantification assays, and coupled assays for methylation. This supplier also provides buffers, reagents, education programs, and training programs.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous