The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) invite investigator-initiated research applications to elucidate the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis (CF) and its complications and to develop and characterize new therapeutic approaches for the treatment and ultimate cure o...

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There have been two Text REtrieval conferences frRECs); TREC-1 in November 1992, with 28 participants, and TREC-2 in August 1993, with 31 participants. This conference was inspired by the very successful MUC effort, and by the availability of the new large English test collection built for TIPSTER. Whereas an important goal for ARPA was to investigate a broad range of detection (retrieval) tech...

T here is always a frisson of anticipation when heading to a conference. It is an opportunity to renew acquaintances, to share your latest results—or at least those that you think are safe to talk about—and to find out what progress has been made on recent exciting work. Increasingly, however, the reality is that conferences are more like Rock concerts where the main act is clearly lip-syncing ...

Programmed cell death is a highly regulated form of cell death, mostly distinguished by the activation of a family of cystein-aspartate proteases (caspases) that cleave various proteins resulting in morphological and biochemical changes characteristic of this form of cell death. Several recent studies have addressed the role of programmed cell death in inflammatory and chronic pain states. Casp...