From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
...and has proved to be a very useful non-destructive evaluation tool," said Howard Aderhold, reactor supervisor who designed and built Cornell's neutron radiography facility a decade ago. "We think faculty from many different disciplines could benefit from this technology." Indeed, its utility already has bee......e 20 to 30 years of careful breeding, testing, and evaluation before a variety is ready for release. New grapes that have been bred for the climate are eagerly anticipated. Under the leadership of Bruce Reisch, Professor of Grape Genetics in Cornell University's Department of Horticultural Sciences at the Gene...Supelco Licenses ORNL Solid Sorbent Air Sampling Material
...f Technology Transfersupported the development and evaluation of this material. It was initiallyfunded by ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development seed funds. ORNL, one of DOE's multiprogram national research and developmentfacilities, is managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation. Written ...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...illness were brought to thehospital for treatment, evaluation and data collection. Follow-up continued until age 2. Although the vaccine was only 48 percent efficacious against a first episode ofrotavirus diarrhea of any severity, the vaccine reduced the incidence of severerotavirus diarrhea by 88 percent and ...Penn State Erie's Sea Grant To Focus On Ecology, Economic Development
...f non-native plants in PresqueIsle State Park. An evaluation of the effect of increasedclarity in the Bay is also planned. "Presque Isle is a unique environment in Pennsylvania," says Light, whoalso has a Ph.D. in ecology. "There are myriads of plants and animals on theIsle and in the Bay and at l...Peutz-Jeghers Disease Gene Identified: Enzyme Loss Causes Polyps And Cancer
...ied and located 21 new genes. Computer assisted evaluation of their sequences in comparison to related genes of known function led them to consider two genes as strong candidates for the Peutz-Jeghers disease. Finally, the gene for the serine threonine kinase 11 (STK11) was found to carry nonsens...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...telephone operator workstations. Had this test and evaluation not been conducted and the proposed, presumably mo... the value of doing careful human factors test and evaluation before you buy (Gray, et al., 1993). Macroergonomics Petroleum distribution company. Several years ...NIAID Doctor Successfully Treats Longest Case Of Malaria Infection On Record
...r, a resident of Baltimore, brought her mother for evaluation to a Johns Hopkins University clinic where Dr. Vinetz works part time. On examination, the woman did not complain of any symptoms but did have an enlarged spleen. The enlarged spleen, her medical history indica...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...urgery, of course, is whether results from initial evaluation experiments will translate into comparable performance figures under actual intraoperative conditions. In the experiment reported here, the measurement error quantified was well within acceptable limits for most surgical procedures. It is important...National Toxicology Program Meets On Transgenic Animals
...issues to be addressed are: Is the NTP approach to evaluation and validation of transgenic models sufficient and appropriate? How can existing models be best utilized? What are their limitations? What new models are needed? Should NTP seek to develop organ- specific tumor models? Are the scientific needs o...Jefferson Researchers First To Create Genetically Engineered Mouse To Study Photoaging
...transgenic model adds a molecular component to the evaluation ofsunscreen efficacy," added Dr. Gasparro. "Prior to this look at molecularassay, efficacy was based solely on physiological responses. Molecular assaysare important because they can provide information about the possible fate of acell." Th...Genetic Test For Alzheimer's May Improve Diagnostic Reliability
...st forAlzheimer's coupled with a thorough clinical evaluation may help to confirm thediagnosis. The study reported, in the Feb. 18 issue of The New England Journal ofMedicine, emphasizes that results from the ApoE-4 genetic test--which detectsthe presence of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene in the DNA ......The researchers suggest that, following a thorough evaluation by a trainedphysician and using recommended criteria and other diagnostic tests such asMRIs, a test for the E4 form of ApoE might be a helpful supplemental tool forphysicians trying to make clinical diagnoses of different types of dementias.According......e yes-or-no decisions are much shorter and data evaluation is faster. As reported by the authors, analysis times of one second per sample and less were achieved with endonucleolytic assays; sample volumes could even be reduced to submicroliters without decreasing the signal strength. RAPID FCS......ent for measuring triglyceride levels as part ofan evaluation to determine an individual's risk for heart disease. "The growing attention to high levels of triglycerides and increasedcoronary heart disease risk is encouraging to veterans of the 'triglyceridewars,'" says Gotto, dean of the Cornell Univer...New Study Of BRCA1 Shows No Need For Widespread Screening Of American Women
...s, such as the Jewishcommunity in America, genetic evaluation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 (the second genefound with dise...sting or interpreting results." A similar evaluation of inherited BRCA2 mutations in the same patientsis in progress. The study was supported in...Kaposi's Sarcoma Caused By Virus Usually Transmitted Through Homosexual Sex, According To UCSF Study
...l histories, blood samples and a 10-year follow-up evaluation of menliving in the city's Castro district, an area with a high incidence of HIV(human immunodeficiency virus) infection. The investigators focused on 400 men who were infected with HIV from thestart of the San Francisco Men's Health Study, a...Evaluation Of The Two Types Of Cardiac Pacemakers Indicates Only Modest Differences In Value
...ntil recently there had never been acomprehensive evaluation made of the quality of life associated with the twodifferent forms of the therapy. As a result, discretion on which to use has been left to individual institutionsor physicians. Now, in the April 16 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, resea...System Offers Breath Of Relief To Workers
... Pacific Northwest's system offers a more complete evaluation bymeasuring exhaled breath. The Exposure-to-Risk Monitor can track dosage ofcompounds that enter the body through ingestion, skin absorption and/orinhalation. Other monitoring systems generally measure exposure from chemicalsin the air. And the mo...University Of Cincinnati Geologists Analyzes Evolutionary Impact Of Mass Extinctions
...here in the middle of those extreme views.Miller's evaluation ofglobal marine diversity patterns through the Phanerozoic, in light of recentresearch, indicates thatmass extinctions are simply the most globally extensive of a continuum of abrupttransitions thatcombine to affect overall global diversity. The Phan...