Winning combination to build bone density in children
...take on bone mass in children. Recommendations for optimizing bone mass should reflect this synergism....Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...heir herds. However, technical questions regarding optimizing the actual amount of water saved, evaluating the nutritional value of the forage, as well as determining optimum light for best growth, have yet to be determined. Conditions for economic viability also need to be more fully explored. Thus, Mexi...Protein vaccine fully protects mice from lethal aerosol challenge with ricin toxin
...hod that is robust and reproducible. This involves optimizing the fermentation process, developing a process for purification, and refining the analytical methods for characterizing both the manufacturing process and the final product. In addition, USAMRIID is conducting pre-formulation studies to produce a for...LSU vet school professor uses gene therapy to destroy cancerous tumors
...on larger animals suffering from tumors allows for optimizing techniques and smooths the translation to human treatment, he said. Li said that one of his existing NIH grants supports his work on the treatment that involves injections directly into the tumor, while another supports research into a method in wh...Biocompatibility to widen scope of biomaterial applications
...s the world are working toward biocompatibility by optimizing interactions that occur between implanted biomaterials and the host living tissue. Overcoming this significant technical challenge is likely to broaden the scope of biomaterials' applications. "Thrombosis involving blood coagulation and adhesion of b...UC San Diego faculty receive funding from von Liebig Center to commercialize academic research
...mpatible constituents. This project will focus on optimizing the conversion process to develop this new material while maintaining the architecture structure required for high-performance bone substitutes....RNA inner workings partly unveiled in Stanford study
... done in the past. "It saves a lot of time while optimizing the quality of the data," said SSRL scientist Mike Soltis, PhD, head of the macromolecular crystallography group. "With the new system, the Kornberg group screened 130 crystals in seven hours without losing any. Two weeks earlier, they had manually m...'Elves' makes protein crystallography easier
...P4. "We tend to spend a lot of time running and optimizing the programs that analyze diffraction data," said Holton, who now operates an X-ray beamline devoted to protein crystallography at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). "So, I just wrote a program that does what the program manuals tell you to do to get t...Brookhaven Lab develops 'ThraxVac' to clean up anthrax
...e commercialization will be making a prototype and optimizing it for field use. The researchers do not actually work with anthrax at Brookhaven; they work with a genetically identical bacterium called Baccilus cereus. This model bacterium does not contain or produce the dangerous toxins that anthrax produces....UT Southwestern researchers receive $15.1 million in federal grants to study biothreats
...nned biosafety level 3 facility. "We are currently optimizing production, formulation and storage of the vaccine," Dr. Vitetta said. "We will then gather all the data to file an IND (investigational new drug) application with the Food and Drug Administration. We hope to start field trials of the intramuscular v...Research suggests a new method to protect groundwater quality
...n management requires farmers to carefully balance optimizing yield and protecting groundwater quality. Some states even require farmers to use crop production practices to minimize nitrate leaching to groundwater in environmentally sensitive areas. One such practice is using a nitrification inhibitor when appl...Experimental Biology 2003 meets in San Diego April 11-15
...s; cognitive function and nutrition; challenges to optimizing bone health in infants and children; aging and nutrition; functional foods and herbal dietary supplements; and at least a dozen presentations on the metabolism of individual vitamins and minerals, from B to zinc. The American Society for Pharmacolog...Computer program reveals optimum microstructure for new materials
...ple example of amathematically rigorous method for optimizing the design of multifunctionalcomposites, which are an increasingly common kind of material. The approach could help bring to man-made materials the efficiency of design that characterizes so many biological materials. "Biological materials are inhere...Sauerkraut contains anticancer compound
...Jokioinen, Finland. "We are now working on ways of optimizing the fermentation process to make it even healthier so that consumers will eat more [sauerkraut]." In the current study, the researchers analyzed a variety of biologically active compounds in sauerkraut. Their samples were derived from white cabbage ...Researchers isolate key part of cells death signals
...ing the cells to death. Future work will focus on optimizing the behavior of the peptides, said the scientists, as well as testing candidate molecules in their assay systems for BCL-2 inactivation. "Our peptides are not cancer drugs yet, but they are prototypes for how drugs using this strategy should behave."...Bioinformatics: The quest for new drugs finds significant profits
...ling of molecular structure can aid researchers in optimizing a potential drug lead, by allowing them to observe the effects of structural changes without expensive wet-lab experiments. If two or three targets result in marketable drugs, it will be a very profitable investment for pharmaceutical companies. Suc...Applied Biosystems launches Assays-on-Demand SNP genotyping and gene expression products
...enomic data, developing, designing, validating and optimizing our own assays. With Applied Biosystems' approach, we can begin performing our association studies within two to three weeks from the time of ordering these new validated and ready-to-use Assays-on-Demand SNP Genotyping Products. With this strategy w...Nitrogen: Too much of a good thing?
...ponder as the conference moves towards its goal of optimizing nitrogen management on local, regional, and global scales. Stay tuned for an upcoming release that will highlight the last two days of the conference....'Why isn't the neural tube defects rate lower?,' asks March of Dimes
...st that how estrogen is administered is the key in optimizing the beneficial effects of estrogen replacement therapy on blood pressure, said Dr. Wanpen Vongpatanasin, assistant professor of internal medicine in hypertension and lead author of the study. "Prevalence of hypertension is very low in young p...New technique will improve delivery of drugs and gene therapy for cystic fibrosis patients
...he United States) and in the future, to a means of optimizing the delivery of gene therapy. "Aerosolized drugs often don't reach peripheral lung areas, where the disease begins, because the aerosol particles that contain the drug are too large to pass beyond airways that are partially obstructed by thick...