PNNL science, technology help keep America safe
...the material or liquid contents. In addition to characterization and detection, AID can measure the level of liquid in a container. Airport scanner detects hidden plastics, metals The millimeter wave Holographic Imaging System is an innovative technology originally designed for the Federal Aviation Administr......owth is gradually being expanded by its additional characterization as a disease resulting from malfunctions in the process of cell death. Reductions in DAPK expression have been found in a variety of different types of human cancer. In this case, researchers will be searching for agents that can reactivate programme...Scientists identify molecular structure of cancer-related proteins
... most essential for the development of cancer. The characterization of the structure may eventually be used to design novel drugs that interfere with the normal function of these proteins and prevent cancer growth. The work is the result of a scientific collaboration led by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Tyr...'Wishful thinking' gene regulates neural development
... and his colleagues -- reported the discovery and characterization of the gene in fruit flies in articles in the February 15, 2002, issue of Neuron . The other team, led by former HHMI investigator Corey Goodman, discovered the same gene via a different route. Both research teams identified the gene, wishful thi...New light on molecular switch that turns genes off
...hl and co-authors described the identification and characterization of Set2, a novel histone methyltransferase that is site-specific for lysine 36 of the H3 tail. Set2 is responsible for methylation at this site. However, the researchers noted that in doing so "it helps to represses or silence gene transcription." Th...Office of Naval Research awards $8.4M to young investigators
...y of Akron will develop tools for the quantitative characterization of damage tolerance in structures using mechanism-based methods. The research will develop a probabilistic model that incorporates macroscopic behavior with microscopic failure mechanisms and a continuum damage model that captures the details of duc...Pitt researchers find men and women have different genes behind depression
...regions that are confirmed. The identification and characterization of these genes and their products will provide new opportunities for drug development and disease prevention, and new information about the biology of mood and its regulation, said Dr. Zubenko. Dr. Zubenko explained that these developments are time a...ORNL technology gets nod from EPA
...nterest in using this procedure to support on-site characterization and remediation." With direct sampling ion trap mass spectrometry, the person conducting the test introduces sample materials directly into an ion trap mass spectrometer through a simple interface. No chromatographic separation is required, and the r...Applied Biosystems introduces new system for protein and metabolite analysis
...mption, opening new doors for automated search and characterization of metabolites in biological matrices. Family of...dentification results necessary for use in protein characterization and expression. The 4700 Proteomics Analyzer, introduced in January 2002, is the first commercial in...Sex-specific genes for depression
...regions that are confirmed. The identification and characterization of these genes and their products will provide new opportunities for drug development and disease prevention, and new information about the biology of mood and its regulation," said Dr. Zubenko. These developments are time and resource intensive, and...Investigators use guilt-by-association strategy to track potential cancer causing genes
...ular tag that facilitates subsequent isolation and characterization of the genes adjacent to the viral insertion. The researchers infected groups of both normal mice and mice deficient in p27 with the virus, then used genome sequence information to determine the identities of the mouse genes adjacent to sites of vira...ASPB Annual Meeting, August 3-7, media tip sheet
... Kenneth Feldman, Ceres, Inc. -- addresses phenome characterization using knock-outs and knock-ins. Symposium: Transition to Flowering. 2 p.m. Saturday, August 3 in Plaza Ballrooms D, E & F. Abstracts and presenter contact information can be found at http://abstracts.aspb.org/pb2002/public/S01/ Presenters incl...Scientists use alfalfa plants to harvest nanoparticles of gold
...en essential - XAS is a powerful tool for accurate characterization of the metal environment in metalloproteins and fo...icles. Future work will involve the full physical characterization of the nanoparticles and the development of methods to extract them from the plants,'' Gardea-Torres...New enzyme pathway to nerve cell death discovered in stroke and neurodegenerative diseases
...ach called mass spectrometry, which allows precise characterization of proteins including enzymes, the scientists found that the MMP enzymes are not only activated by NO, but also that the MMPs are further affected by oxygen-related molecules to produce permanent and pathological activity of the enzymes, leading them...Tomorrow's super robots may owe their mobility to a cockroachs legs today
...imilar to that of the real cockroach leg, enhanced characterization of additional SDM materials is required. Knowledge of SDM material behavior, along with information about the aspects of leg behavior important to locomotion, will enable the issuance of general design guidelines for designing biomimetic legs. (It ...UT Southwestern researchers ID key protein for communication within central nervous system
...ally inducing synapses and performing a functional characterization using cultured neurons from laboratory mice. This is the first study in which a model was designed to artificially induce synaptic transmission, Biederer said. When SynCAM was overexpressed the researchers reported an increase in spontaneous synaptic...Rockefeller researchers provide the first functional evidence for mammalian pheromone receptors
...This in turn will stimulate research in functional characterization of the counterparts of these genes in human," concludes Mombaerts....UNC, other universities will help NASA develop space-age materials
...iate professor of materials science; will focus on characterization of conducting polymers, "smarter" nanotubes and composites....Key sensory proteins unveiled in mosquito genome found by Illinois entomologist
...the groundwork for going forward in the functional characterization of all of them, that is, determining which receptors detect which host chemicals." Soon after his 1999 discovery, Robertson contacted Laurence J. Zwiebel, a biologist at Vanderbilt, who studies mosquitoes and is the corresponding author of the Scienc...