Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, of the Medical Research Council's National Institute For Medical Research, said the work was exciting, but work was required to end the reliance on viruses, and to tease out why two different techniques produced similar results.
One big beneficiary: the Picower Institute for Medical Research, run by noted biologists in Manhasset, N.
Dr Bryce Vissel, from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, said he was "excited" by the research.
"This isn't a one in a million case, " says Tracey, chief executive officer of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.
They also searched for demographic data on the public website of the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, a nonprofit in Camden, N.
However, Dr Jonathon Stoye, head of virology at the UK's National Institute for Medical Research, suggested the results should be interpreted cautiously.
Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, of the MRC National Institute for Medical Research, said it often took 15 to 20 years to develop a therapy.
But according to Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, of the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill London, people should not worry unduly over the germ-line alterations.
The study authors, Dr Jan-Paul Zock and colleagues from the Municipal Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona, said work was needed to determine the biological mechanism behind the increased risk.
But Dr. Robin Lovell-Badge, the head of the UK's National Institute of Medical Research, told CNN that the use of embryonic cells had huge advantages over using adult stem cells.
Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, a geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research, told the BBC it was vital scientists were able to import animals, so they could collaborate with colleagues abroad.
Dr Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes, head of the division of parasitology at London's National Institute for Medical Research, welcomed the research, presented at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in New Orleans.
Winfried Denk of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, estimates that it would take a graduate student (the workhorse of all academic laboratories) about 130, 000 years to reconstruct the circuitry of such a column.
Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research, said that in reality the number of imported animals such as mice that are used in research is very small because a pair are bred when they are brought into a lab.
Study leader Dr Andres Floto, research director of the Cystic Fibrosis Unit at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge and principal investigator at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, said the results had prompted them to completely rethink their infection control, despite already having strict policies in place.
Twenty percent of the proceeds from the Heritage Auctions sale will go to the new Francis Crick Institute in London, a medical research institute slated to open in 2015.
The Kenyan Medical Research Institute, under MOPH (Ministry of Public Health), also supported the ban based on this study.
The pond is about eight miles from the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, where Hatfill once worked.
The researchers from McGill, along with scientists from France's National Institute for Health and Medical Research, analysed DNA samples from almost 200 Vietnamese families who had a history of leprosy.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science: The Allen Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization, is a leader in large-scale brain research and public sharing of data and tools.
So far, working with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Diversa has used its patented protein-analysis technology to identify proteins in the organisms that cause plague and anthrax.
The connection with schizophrenia was originally suggested in the 1950s, but only really took off in 2003, when it was revived by Fuller Torrey of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, near Washington, DC.
Researchers, led by Dr Richard Beasley, of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, warn the widespread use of computers in so many aspects of modern life may put many people at risk of developing DVT.
Former Army bioterrorism researcher Dr. Stephen Hatfill -- who once worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland -- has been named a "person of interest" in the case by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.
In addition to his work at Scripps, he is vice chairman at the West Wireless Health Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to innovating, validating, and advocating for the use of technologies, including wireless medical devices, that aim to reduce health care costs by transforming medicine.
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Dr VP Sharma, a former director of India's Malaria Research Institute who now works with the Council for Medical Research, told the meeting that pilot projects in four states have met with remarkable success.
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Paul Han, a physician at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, said telling patients about a confidence interval in risk data introduces ambiguity that prompts many to decide not to make a decision or to decide against a proposed intervention.
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Its college of Architecture and Urban Planning bears his name, as does a research institute at the medical school.
The other American pilot, located in Indianapolis and managed by the Regenstrief Institute, a non-profit medical-research organisation, comes closer.
Professor Mark Haggard, at the Medical Research Council's Institute of Hearing in Nottingham, said the Pittsburgh study confirms the findings of research currently underway there.
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