Major Plant Genome Research Project Underway
...e study of Arabidopsis genes will be immediately applicable to economically important plant species, according to Mary Clutter, NSF assistant director for biological sciences, and will lead to the creation of new and improved plants and plant-based products. "Because plants are vital to our existence, increa...Study: Device Prevents Epileptic Seizures, Doesn't Damage Hearts
...nd havefrequent seizures," Vaughn said. "It may be applicable to thousands people inthe United States." Possible side effects include slight voice alterations and occasionaltight feelings in the throat, Vaughn said. Some patients report a tinglingsensation when the device discharges, but most patients s...Leftover Fetal Cells May Affect Development Of Scleroderma
...n adds. "But this paradigm certainly ispotentially applicable to some otherautoimmune diseases as well." NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports biomedicalresearch to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as AIDS, tuberculosis,malaria, asthma and allergies. NIH is an agency of th...Hultgren Receives Prestigious Eli Lilly Award
...succumb to disease. "This basicprinciple should be applicable to many infections, including meningitis,middle-ear infections, pneumonia, kidney infections and gonorrhea," Hultgrensays. The researchers also are testing inhibitors of the chaperone protein.Without this essential link in the assembly line, ...Dog Blindness Gene May Help Humans
...ethods for prcd in dogs -- which eventually may be applicable to human RP17 patients," says veterinaryophthalmologist and geneticist Gregory Acland, the lead author of the report and a senior research associate in thelaboratory of Gustavo Aguirre at the Baker Institute, a unit of Cornell's College of Veterinary...Microchip Sensor Detects Bacteria
...ven community-acquired infectious disease are also applicable to this new biosensor technology. "Bacterial contamination takes thousands of lives, sickens millions and costs the health care industry billions of dollars a year," says Batt. "If we had an early warning system, such as these biosensors ...Results Of Hog-Stress Study May Lead To Better Management Methods
...egrees Fahrenheit), is often uncontrollablein that applicable cooling systems are not entirely effective, and air-conditioningfor an entire pig facility is financially improbable, Johnson said. "Our data indicate that when the three stressors were imposed simultaneously,their detrimental effects to swine growt...First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...etween developmentin mammals the technique will be applicable to larger animals. For example,efficient and accurate cloning can improve the reliability and safety ofreproducing transgenic mammals, such as cattle, pigs and sheep, that canbe used in the economical production of lower cost protein-basedpharmaceuti......lation structure and movement patterns that may be applicable to most of Southwest Alaska. ("Alagnak Watershed Rainbow Trout Investigations," by E. Eric Knudsen, USGS, Anchorage, Ak., and Robert B. Benter, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Ak.)...Commercial Fish: Eat Up, Despite Low Levels Of Mercury
...e the children: "What wefound in the Seychelles is applicable to every woman, every man,and every child around the world who eats ocean fish." In the United States the green light applies only to fishbought and sold commercially, at grocery stores, supermarkets,fish shops, and in restaurants. Those fish ar...Did Fur Trappers Trigger Landscape Changes?
...ces the other. Hopefully, what welearn here willbe applicable elsewhere." Although the first six-year segment of the project just got under way, Brushand herstudents have already uncovered interesting signs that fur traders in the early1700s may haveinadvertently altered the terrain. "The beaver popul......Officer of Targeted Genetics. "The REM process is applicable tobroad-based technologies such as genomics and to the identification of newproteins or small molecules with therapeutic potential. This patent, in concertwith Targeted Genetics' other patents and intellectual property, forms apowerful core technolo...Tracking A Killer's Progression
...y underway in Straley's labbecause several broadly applicable principles have been discovered from suchstudies in the past. Moreover, plague still poses a public health threat and continues to be a globalproblem. If a drug-resistant strain should emerge abroad, Americans are only aplane ride away from potentia...Measurements Of Protein Surface Verify Electrostatics Model
...o probingthe electrostatic features of proteins is applicable to investigations of anyperturbation that alters the electrostaticcomposition of the surfaces of immobilized macromolecules," Leckband said. The researchers announced their findings in the October issue of the Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sc...Experimental Therapy Makes HIV-Infected Cells Commit Suicide
...try. "This Trojan horse approach should be applicable to many other infectious diseases, such as hepatitis C, malaria and herpes," says Steven F. Dowdy, Ph.D., who led the research. "We also hope that future modifications will allow us to selectively kill cancer cells." Dowdy is an assistant inv...Penn State Engineers Develop New Simulation For Ultrafine Particle Growth Process
...le size growth and distribution that ispotentially applicable to processes ranging from powdered milk production toceramic membrane development to air pollution control. Dr. Themis Matsoukas, assistant professor of chemical engineering andleader of the project, says the new simulation is not only simple...Aluminum Wastes Could Soon Be Converted To Commercial Use
...ically, economically,and environmentally sound and applicable to industry needs. Several MichiganTech departments will be involved, along with industry representatives fromAlcan, IMCO Recycling, Marport Smelting, TIMCO, Master Builders Inc., BesserCompany, Golder Associates, Inc., and Down Stream Systems Engine...New Cell Isolation Method Will Aid In Studying Tumor Development
...ibed in the April issue of Nature Medicine, and is applicable to almost allepithelial tumors, which constitute about 80 percent of human cancers. "The new method is rapid and simple and can be used by any surgical pathologyservice to prepare samples for molecular profiling," said Gazdar. "Once sampleshave been ...Alzheimer's Disease And Developmental Biology Linked Through Single Molecule
...presenilin on the cleavage ofNotch may be directly applicable to better understanding APP processing, leadingto new insights into the causes of Alzheimer's disease," says Virginia M.-Y.Lee, PhD, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and codirector ofPenn's Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Researc......tionwill assemble a dozen or more scientists with applicable expertise to evaluatethe substances in public sessions, according to a center announcement in theFederal Register. The sessions are tentatively planned for August in theWashington, D.C., area. The center asked scientists to share their lat...