ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 20, 2004 -- Laetitia Delmau of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named by Technology Review magazine as one of the world's top young innovators. Delmau joins the "TR100" group of 100 selected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's science publication.... ...Delmau, a researcher in ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division, specializes in st...Sensors at Watts Bar being evaluated by ORNL
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 24, 2004 -- Hundreds of barges, tow boats and recreational craft passing through Watts Bar on the Tennessee River will be monitored for nuclear material as part of an effort to thwart terrorists....... The project, scheduled to start in September, is a collaboration among the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S....Homeland security initiative takes Memphis' ORNL technologies to the nation
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 23, 2004 The Department of Homeland Security's recent selection of Memphis as a "best practices" model for high-tech security measures could speed the implementation of similar technologies in other cities.... ...As the third of four sites to be named under DHS' Regional Technology Integration Initiative, Memphis becomes a source of practical security "know-how," provid...ORNL nanoprobe creates world of new possibilities
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 14, 2004 -- A technology with proven environmental, forensics and medical applications has received a shot in the arm because of an invention by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory....... ORNL's nanoprobe, which is based on a light scattering technique, can detect and analyze chemicals, explosives, drugs and more at a theoretical single-m...ORNL adds three R&D 100s to DOE lab-leading total
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 1, 2004 -- Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 119 since the awards began in 1963.... ...The awards are presented annually by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations. ORNL's total places it first among DOE...ORNL's nanobiosensor technology gives new access to living cells molecular processes
OAK RIDGE, April 27, 2004 -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a nanoscale technology for investigating biomolecular processes in single living cells. The new technology enables researchers to monitor and study cellular signaling networks, including the first observation of programmed cell death in a single live cell. ... ...The "nanobiosensor"...ORNL earns four Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Mar. 1, 2004 -- Four of the 24 awards to be presented in May for outstanding work in the process of transferring a technology to the commercial marketplace will go to the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ......The awards will be presented at the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) meeting in San Diego. The FLC is composed of 711 federal laboratories and faci...NSF grant to ORNL is big step toward national cyberinfrastructure
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 29, 2003 -- Researchers from around the nation will have access to some of the world's finest scientific tools because of a $3.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to the Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ......The grant, announced today by NSF, is to establish a network hub and high-performance network connections to suppo...ORNL earns top Southeastern laboratory technology transfer award
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 19, 2003--Robust wireless technologies for extreme-environment communications--developed by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory--received the Excellence In Technology Transfer Award of the Year during the annual awards dinner of the Southeastern Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium Sept. 18 in Charleston, S.C....... The ORNL-developed wireless c...ORNL wins four R&D 100 awards, pushing total to 116
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 2, 2003 -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won four R&D awards from R&D Magazine, which since 1963 has given the awards for the 100 most significant innovations of the year....... "All of us at ORNL are extremely proud of our staff for winning these awards," said ORNL Director Bill Madia. "The award is among the most coveted in t...ORNL researchers expect big things from nanostructures
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 19, 2003 - Arrays of nanofibers able to deliver genetic material to cells quickly and efficiently have researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory excited about potential applications for drug delivery, gene therapy, crop engineering and environmental monitoring.... ...Tim McKnight of ORNLs Engineering Science and Technology Division and researchers from several other labor...ORNL, Georgia's Isotron develop promising new cancer treatment
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Jan. 30, 2003 Doctors treating incurable brain tumors and other cancers resistant to conventional therapies will soon have a new treatment available to them because of a development by Isotron of Alpharetta, Ga., and the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ......The advantage of the treatment, called neutron brachytherapy, is that physicians can deliver a highl...Stretch of I-40 part of ORNL, UT environmental lab initiative
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 19, 2002 -- Twenty-five thousand big rigs rumbling through Knoxville every day will help researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory get a better handle on real-world emissions and their effects on the environment. ......Two meteorological stations are operational and other equipment will be added as researchers from the Department of Energy's ORNL and the University of...ORNL groundbreaking celebrates landmark partnership
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 22, 2002-A groundbreaking ceremony held today at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory marks a first-of-its-kind partnership among ORNL, the state of Tennessee and the University of Tennessee.... ...Construction of the new facility to house the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences and the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies occurs as part of a lan...ORNL receives $21.7 million for DOE's Genomes to Life
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 23, 2002 - Oak Ridge National Laboratory is named on three of five Department of Energy awards for the Genomes to Life program and will receive about $21.7 million as part of a massive effort that promises payoffs for energy and environmental applications....... Through the Genomes to Life program, researchers hope to identify and characterize protein complexes, the molecul...ORNL technology gets nod from EPA
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 19, 2002 - Prospects for cleaning up contaminated sites around the country are better because of a technology and procedure developed at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory and recently accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency.... ...The technology, which consists of direct sampling and analysis of volatile organic compounds in water, soil, gas a...ORNL material could help pilots keep their cool
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Staying cool under fire could take on a new meaning with a personal cooling system being developed at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory....... The system takes advantage of high thermal conductivity graphite foam, an ORNL material that boasts thermal conductivity five times greater than aluminum. As envisioned by James Klett of ORNLs Metals and Ceramics D...ORNL conducting field test of instruments to detect lead
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., - Instruments and methods to detect lead in house dust will get a tryout at a field verification event conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nov. 5-9 in Hartford, Conn....... Representatives from six companies will be participating in the test, which will help them assess how well their field-portable gear detects lead in dust. Better and less expensive instruments can hel...New Knox company has big plans for ORNL technology
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 7, 2001 Knoxville startup company QGENICS Biosciences is looking for big things from a miniaturized platform technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to quickly diagnose disease, analyze DNA, proteins and other molecules.... ...The technology, a chemical separation method and device called the Molecular Comb, has numerous lab-on-a-chip applications, including...ORNL heads effort to build better supercomputer centers
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., - Supercomputers provide researchers with powerful tools, but operating them can also be a super hassle, says an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher who heads a team working to fix the problem....... Through a $15 million five-year project, ORNL and a team from universities and other Department of Energy laboratories will create the Scalable Systems Software Center. The c...ORNL technology puts power of lab into the field
.OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 14, 2001 A point-and-shoot portable instrument to protect people and the environment is a product of some 20 years of research by the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scientist Tuan Vo-Dinh. .Whats unique about the instrument, which analyzes chemicals in just seconds, is that it is the first battery-operated portable device with tunable filters a...ORNL instrument could spell doom for Asian beetles
.OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 27, 2000 An invasion of tree-destroying Asian Longhorned Beetles could be slowed or perhaps stopped with a larvae detection system being developed by researchers at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).. .Larvae from the beetles, which are native to China and Korea, are inadvertently imported into the United States nestled inside the wood of shi...Exposures to second-hand smoke lower than believed, ORNL study finds
.OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 7, 2000 Exposures to environmental tobacco smoke may be lower than earlier studies indicated for bartenders, waiters and waitresses, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).. ."While people who work as wait staff and bartenders may generally be considered to be more highly exposed to environmental t...Supelco Licenses ORNL Solid Sorbent Air Sampling Material
.The product, Sol-Gel Derived Sorbents for Analysis of Organic Contaminants,.is capable of sampling, retaining, concentrating and releasing organics.ranging from highly volatile to semi-volatile samples. The material,.recently licensed by Supelco, a Pennsylvania-b...ORNL Finds Common Genetic Cause For Epilepsy, Migraine
.OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- Migraine and epilepsy have more in common.than researchers thought, says Lisa Stubbs, a genetics researcher at the.Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).. .Stubbs and colleagues at ORNL recently completed a study in which they.isolated, mapped and studied effects of the chromosome 8 Cacnl1a4 gene found.in mutant "tottering" mice, which have been s...ORNL Microscope "Sees" Bumps That Reveal Partial DNA Structure
.And when they get the picture, they get excited about the "knots." The.reason: each knot is really a "protein bump" formed when a protein.recognizes and attaches to a specific site on a DNA molecule.. .These ORNL scientists are developing th...ORNL Mice Helping Researchers Isolate, Identify Causes Of Cancer
.OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- Mice may have a reputation for being.quiet, but they're telling researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE).Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) something about the causes of leukemia,.lymphoma and other illnesses in people.. ."Lymphomas that develop spontaneously in the mouse are very useful for our.studies because mouse leukemias and lymphomas are very similar to human...Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 6, 1996 -- Some of the barriers faced every day by people in powered wheelchairs may soon be removed because of an invention licensed to a new company in Florida by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORN.L). . .Cybertrax Innovative Technologies of Tampa plans to introduce.its revolutionary, omnidirectional wheelchair in the spring. These highl...