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CCBAR Newsletter - March, 2006

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• Registration for 2006 Chicago Biomarker Workshop is now open. Please contact Alicia Frasier <frasier-alicia@norc.org> for details.

News From the Nature Journals, Science, BMJ and PNAS

[Population_Biology] Secondary sex ratios and male lifespan: Damaged or culle... 
Population stressors reportedly reduce the human secondary sex ratio (i.e., the odds of a newborn's being male) by, among...

[Anthropology] Cortisol levels and very early pregnancy loss in humans
Maternal stress is commonly cited as an important risk factor for spontaneous abortion. For humans, however, there is little physiological...

[Psychology-BS] Maternal care effects on the hippocampal transcriptome and an...
Early-life experience has long-term consequences on behavior and stress responsivity of the adult. We previously proposed that early-life experience results...

[Psychology-BS] Maternal mediation, stress inoculation, and the development o...
The stress inoculation hypothesis presupposes that brief intermittent stress exposure early in life induces the development of subsequent stress resistance...

Cell biology. Ageing nucleus gets out of shape
In certain premature-ageing syndromes, the architecture of the cell nucleus is abnormal. An animal model shows similar malformations during normal ageing, corroborating the idea that genome instability underlies ageing.

[PERSPECTIVES] BEHAVIOR: Who Are More Helpful, Humans or Chimpanzees?
Humans, including infants, are more willing than closely-related chimpanzees to cooperate and behave altruistically and cooperatively, probably in part accounting for their evolutionary success.


Biomarkers and Aging in the News Media

 

NIH Press Releases

NIH Announcements

Change in Funding Opportunity Announcements That Use R03, R21, R33, and
R34 Grant Mechanisms: Transition to Electronic Submission Using SF424
(R&R) Grant Application Package 

Health Research with Diverse Populations (R01)
Program Announcement from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts

Sociobehavioral Data Analysis and Archiving in Aging (R03)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-102.html

Diet Composition and Energy Balance (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-173.html

Heterogeneity of Fat Depots: Underlying Basis and Association with Morbidity (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-186.html

Announcing the NIA Primate Aging Database
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AG-06-006.html

Establishment of Multiple Principal Investigator Awards for the Support of Team Science Projects
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-036.html

Expert Meeting on the Future of the National Long-Term Care Survey: Data Needs for Disability Policy Making and Research for the Future
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AG-06-003.html

Research on Pathways Linking Environments, Behaviors and HIV/AIDS (R01)
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/funding-opps_pa.htm#PAR-06-114

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/funding-opps_pa.htm#PA-05-029

Research on Mind-Body Interactions and Health
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/funding-opps_pa.htm#PA-05-027

Events

Population Assocciation of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles March 29 - April 1, 2006
Session 106: Using Biomarkers to Validate Alternative Measures of Health in Developing Countries
Session 124: Collection and Methods for Analysis of Biomarker Data for Demographic Studies

2006 Chicago Biomarker Workshop, Chicago, June 8-9, 2006

C2S Summer Biomarker Institute, Chicago, June 19-21, 2006
Application deadline: April 7, 2006

2007 NICHD-NCES Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) First Release Conference to be held March 31-April 1, 2007 in Bethesda, MD.

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This Newsletter  is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (Grant No. 5 P30 AG012857)


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