UMHS researchers find clues to growing new jawbones in cancer patients after radiation therapy
...ormities. Surgeons next began to wonder about its applications after cancer. Radiation often destroys or compromises the soft tissue in the head and neck. That makes bone grafts difficult after radiation therapy because the bone graft needs a new blood supply, which the irradiated tissue can't supply. Free tissu...Re-engineered blood vessels show promise for bypass surgery, grafts, UMHS researchers find
...and Brown are plastic surgeons, perhaps the widest applications for this technique are in cardiac surgery. For example, patients undergoing coronary artery bypass might benefit from tissue engineered donor vessels. For people receiving bypass surgery or a tissue transfer after an injury, surgeons often harvest bl...MIT engineers report new approach to tissue engineering
...er to their ultimate goal: tissues for therapeutic applications and replacement organs. The technique could also help answer questions in cell and developmental biology. The team "seeded" human embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to differentiate into a variety of specialized cells, onto a biodegradabl...UC Riverside to convene conference on genetically modified organisms, Oct. 14-17, 2003
...broad-ranging, visionary approach to the practical applications of biotechnologyRIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ( www.ucr.edu...broad-ranging, visionary approach to the practical applications of biotechnology. A GMO is an organism, such as a plant, produced from genetic engineering technique...Research grants program closing
...s of Health would see biomedical engineering grant applications as being too engineering oriented, while the National Science Foundation would say they focused too much on medicine. As the field became more widely accepted and young investigators found it easier to obtain federal grant support, the Whitaker Resea...DuPont and NREL to develop world's first integrated 'bio-refinery'
...ny's newest polymer platform which can be used in applications such as textile apparel, carpeting, and packaging. Through metabolic engineering, DuPont recently developed a fermentation-based process as the basis for the manufacturing of bio-PDO. This process earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's P...NSF awards $68 million for new engineering centers
... the development of compact soft x-ray sources for applications in biomicroscopy and in chemical spectroscopy. Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC) NSF has awarded $17,000,000 to support the initial five years of a ten-year cooperative agreement. The ERC intends to tr...Purdue researchers solve decades-old corn, sorghum problem
...g tall - a finding that has future crop production applications since some grains produce greater yields if plants are kept short. Guri Johal, assistant professor of botany and plant pathology, and his colleagues have identified the process that generates dwarfed corn and sorghum plants, which grow to roughly hal...Zengen, Inc. receives patent application approval for proprietary peptide technology
...nal yeast infection. Zengen's peptides have broad applications as anti-inflammatory and anti-infective prescription pharmaceuticals and are based on the larger melanocortin peptide, alpha-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone (a-MSH). About CZEN 002 A synthetic octapeptide, CZEN 002 was developed from more than 25 ye...University of Toronto professor turns hemp into auto parts
... interior parts like instrument panels, structural applications for buildings and sports equipment and, ultimately, for medical devices such as cardiac devices and blood bags," says Sain. In the studies, Sain treated stalks of hemp with chemicals to break down the "glue" that holds clumps of fibres together. The ...Packard Children's Hospital gift creates new biotech research center for children's health
...g ways to translate basic knowledge into practical applications for patients - so-called translational medicine - is a cornerstone of the school's strategic plan, "Translating Discoveries." "There has been a vast amount of knowledge that has emerged in recent years from the field of biotechnology," said Pizzo, th...Improving fertilizer efficiency
... Many producers currently base nitrogen fertilizer applications on the results of soil nitrate tests. According to a recent article in the Soil Science Society of America Journal, farmers can reduce in-season nitrogen use for irrigated crops without sacrificing yield potential by using commercially available nitr...The American Academy of Microbiology releases report
...e ways. Yet, many of these functions and potential applications involve microbes about which we know little, that have never been cultivated, and that operate differently than individual microbes or single species do. The participants emphasized the need to develop a few appropriate model communities to assist re...Respiratory-pacing device found beneficial in heart failure
...od pressure, we are constantly perusing additional applications for our Low-Frequency Respiratory-Pacing technology" said Erez Gavish, CEO of InterCure, inTone's & RESPeRATE's manufacturer. "We are encouraged by the promising outcomes of these first two heart failure studies and are looking forward to study inTon...NSF news tips - September 22, 2003
...nal origami," esoteric mathematics with real-world applications such as unfolding a telescope lens in space, folding proteins and stowing air bags. NSF supported Demaine's postdoctoral fellowship (DMS-0102015), and he is now a co-PI on an NSF Information Technology Research award to design a network architecture...Data privacy, emergency response, weather prediction to benefit from information technology advances
...processes; and simplify the way scientists develop applications for grid computing. "This year's ITR awards demons... new and unanticipated technologies, revolutionary applications or new ways to perform important activities. Further details on this year's eight large ITR awards ...UC San Diego researchers receive $14 million from NSF for 10 new information technology projects
...to simplify and accelerate the development of grid applications and services. It will also look at novel schedulin...development of 'designer' electronic processes for applications in the emerging fields of spin-based electronics and quantum information processing. New courses on ...As autumn approaches, this chickadee's brain begins to expand
...nha stresses that his studies are new and that any applications lie far in the future. "Maybe in the very long term, we can understand how to prevent and restore memory loss in patients with Alzheimer's," he says. "Often times, the best way to fix something that's broken is to figure how it works when it's not br...New chemical process can separate, manipulate carbon nanotubes
...ugh carbon nanotubes have been proposed for myriad applications - from miniature motors and chemical sensors to molecule-size electronic circuits - their actual uses have been severely limited by an inability to isolate and manipulate nanotubes having different characteristics. Now, researchers at the University ...Fe-TAML(R) activators developed at Carnegie Mellon remove recalcitrant sulfur from automotive fuels
...reby extending tremendously the range of potential applications of these catalysts....