UC Irvine Advanced Power and Energy Program awarded $3 million grant by California Energy Commission
...raduate and undergraduate student researchers will assist with all. The Advanced Power and Energy Program is an interdisciplinary research program at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering encompasses the departments of civil and environmental engineering, chemical ...Protein could help rejuvenate oxygen-starved cardiac tissue, heal wounds
... generates the growth of robust blood vessels will assist ongoing therapeutic studies. There are various possible explanations for why the new blood vessels in the UCSF study were robust despite the elevated expression of VEFG, says Elson. In the current study, over-expression of HIF-1α caused the in...Columbia team finds treatment that corrects cellular defect at the root of heart failure
...patients in heart failure receive left-ventricular assist devices (LVADs), which are implanted in the chest to help pump the blood and give the patient's own heart a rest as he or she waits for a heart transplant. Patients in heart failure may also be given drugs to improve symptoms. But heart transplant is...NSF invites media to report on Antarctic GLOBEC research cruise
...(e.g.temperature and salinity) measurements and to assist scientistsas required. Proposals from print, television, and radio journalists as wellas from on-line news operations are welcome. U.S. mass media thatserve primarily language-minority audiences are also encouragedto apply. Expenses: Reporters or the......National Park units," said James-Pirri. "This will assist in the long-term management, restoration, and protection ofthese diverse ecological systems and will allow resource managers to make objective decisions for research prioritization and resource protection." The URI Graduate School of Oceanography i...Team identifies promising alternative to waste incineration
...d recently tested surrogate waste types for DOE to assist the Department in its effort to find effective and affordable alternatives to incineration. "We jumped at the chance to test this technology because the pilot plant is already built," said Vince Maio, INEEL's manager of the TMFA's Alternatives to Inc...Subjects lying face up reveal a reduced ability for 'nasal air conditioning'
Compensating for this physiological finding may assist those with a heart condition January 3, 2002 -- Bethesda, MD -- The nose warms and humidifies air. Previous research efforts have led to an ability to measure how the nose conditions cold, dry air (CDA). The consensus is that the two most importan...URI oceanography models migration and foraging strategies of North Atlantic right whales
...s, either for directional cues or for a locomotory assist in one or both directions. On a regional scale...alinity, water stratification and chemistry, could assist whales in finding previous feeding grounds. Once whales are in the general area of their Gulf of...Gondwana split sorts out mammalian evolution
...rts of the world. Our findings are also likely to assist genomicists in determining which organisms they should sequence genomes for in future."...... aims to provide support on a competitive basis to assist well-trained young investigators to contribute to health care advances in their home countries." The GRIP will provide partial salaries to the junior researcher returning home, equivalent to similar professionals in the home country, and will provide...Braille reading strategies may enhance stimulation of the brain responsible for vision
...brain compensates for loss of vision, and works to assist the sightless individual in learning Braille. Background The ability read Braille depends on remarkable adaptations that connect the somatosensory (sensation relating to the body's superficial and deep parts as contrasted to specialized senses suc...New high-tech center aids medicine, energy, environmental research
...sts can view actual formations within the earth to assist in oil and gas exploration. Other University of Houston-based projects benefiting from the use of this technology focus on the environment, medical imaging and interpretation of seismic data. TLC2 will connect the University of Houston with the most...Genetic link to endometriosis unique Icelandic study provides further proof
... of a DNA-based diagnostic test. Such a test would assist in diagnosing the disease and in identifying women at particular risk of endometriosis, without the need for invasive procedures." Assisted by Professor Reynir Geirsson, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the National Univ...Study to help solve health problems by understanding gene, protein behavior in cells
...n Ramakrishnan, who are creating software tools to assist modelers and experimentalists. "To understand how ...ns by hand. Electrical engineers have programs to assist in the design of integrated circuits. BioSPICE will do the same for genetic engineers who want to u...New gene identified: Involved in both intellectual disability and epilepsy
...provide feedback to the affected families and thus assist them in making informed reproductive decisions. It is estimated that up to 2% of the population suffer from intellectual disability and 2% from epilepsy....Human running on surfaces of different stiffnesses
...mines running on different surfaces could possibly assist in the development of advanced prosthetic devices that change stiffness in response to speed and ground variations. A Harvard research team conducted the study, entitled Energetics And Mechanics of Human Running on Surfaces of Different Stiffnesses...Failure of critical protein connection at heart of cardiomyopathy
... by using a mechanical device called a ventricular assist device or VAD allows dystrophin to resume its func...athy who were being treated with these ventricular assist pumps. They compared the patient samples to normal samples taken from transplanted hearts and found ...International rice genome project progressing ahead of schedule
...n August 2000, and Monsanto scientists continue to assist the IRGSP with physical map information. According to the IRGSP, the information shared by Monsanto currently supports approximately 30 percent of the publicly available rice genomic sequence data. This percentage continues to grow as the project n...APS announces its 2002 Young Investigators Awards
...espiratory neural networks. This information will assist with understanding how these neural networks control blood pressure and breathing, as well as how changes in neural network activity may be involved in cardiovascular and respiratory disease. James D. Stockand, Ph.D. University of Texas, San Antonio......y are the first cells to recognize antigens and to assist in the production of an immune response by helping to produce antibodies to fight disease. In the current study, University of Pittsburgh researchers found that prostate cancer tumors produce factors that inhibit the growth and proliferation of dendr...