Von Liebig Center awards funding to six projects to commercialize UCSD faculty research
... processing algorithms can be used to estimate and characterize the dynamic sound propagation to optimize the development of noise cancellation algorithms. The primary goal of this project is to show proof of concept for ANC in various commercial systems and to address the complexities in ANC by developing new da...JCI table of contents, July 15, 2003
...sing endogenous surfactant production. In order to characterize this system, researchers at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, identified culture conditions that stimulate lipogenesis in type II cells. Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) increased synthesis of surfactant phospholipi...Rutgers receives $22.6 million to investigate genetics of mental disorders
...sources, and implement state-of-the-art methods to characterize the genetic basis of mental disorders. We expect that the center's activities will greatly accelerate the identification of disease-vulnerability genes and the development of new drug therapies," said Moldin, who is also director of the Office of Hu...The area where carcinogens settle may be a key factor in developing lung cancer
...urvatures. Only symmetric branching was applied to characterize the most general relationships of the local deposition patterns. In the model, aerosol particles were randomly selected at the inlet cross section with a random-number generator, in accordance with the assumed inlet air velocity profile. The inlet nu...Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2003 Annual Meeting
...osive growth and dramatic new findings continue to characterize the field of functional brain imaging - the method by which brain activity can be observed in awake, behaving organisms, including human beings. The latest developments in this field will be presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Hu...UCLA scientist wins prestigious award
...atory effects of the gene in laboratory models and characterize its correlation with brain cancer prognosis and survival. "This award will allow me to pursue a new avenue of research into a novel gene that has yet to be characterized. Investigating unknown genetic pathways in cancer is a riskier approach to my wo...Gene clustering helps rice plants fight pathogens
...ies and institutes worked together to sequence and characterize chromosome 10. The Science paper chronicles a high degree of collinearity between rice and two other major cereal crops sorghum and maize providing further evidence that rice can be a model for cereal crop research....Popularizing precision agriculture
... take the optimum number of soil samples that will characterize the patterns in soil properties within a field, information is first obtained through the use of a global positioning system (GPS). Using statistical software developed by Scott Lesch of the Salinity Laboratory, maps of soil properties are then creat...Drug design expert sets his group's sights on SARS
...r School of Arts and Sciences. "It is necessary to characterize very precisely the SARS-associated coronavirus protease to validate its value as a drug development target." "This basic characterization is necessary because the SARS-associated coronavirus protease belongs to a different family of proteases than th...Study shows molecular analysis of early breast cancer lesions may be key to choosing best treatment
...es occurring in early stages of breast cancer that characterize the aggressive potential of the tumor. Thus, earl...accurate gene expression signatures that precisely characterize tumor cells and that these signatures can be used to determine the molecular origin of the criteria ...Muscle-repair defect underlies two muscular dystrophies
...e try to isolate dysferlin-containing vesicles and characterize the proteins involved, were hoping to discover other genes involved in muscular dystrophies, he said. Campbells team is also interested in exploring role of dysferlin in heart and brain. Further studies may reveal the proteins role in those tissues,...Scientists discover unique source of stem cells
...a are just the start," said Shi. "We're trying to characterize more fully which cell types can be generated from these stem cells. Can they be switched into nerve cells only? We need to find this out. We're also interested in determining the difference between adult dental pulp stem cells and those in deciduo...News tips: Genetics research builds on legacy of double helix
...sawing episodes of depression and mania that alone characterize bipolar disorder. The researchers carefully evaluated and took blood samples from 65 patients with bipolar disorder and from their extended families. Out of 65 bipolar disorder families studied, the 10 families in which three or more members ha...High-speed images show how cells mobilize for immune response
...otif. "Our clinical goal," explains Petty, "is to characterize the immune cell's signaling function so that we can interrupt it or somehow intervene when it begins to misfire." The process has implications for treating autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and the eye disorder uveitis. Thro...Heart disease among some Japanese may be due to sequencing variation inside a gene
...tudy strongly demonstrates that it is important to characterize sequence variations of any disease genes, since there are ethnic differences in sequence variations among genes. Utilizing this approach can lead to better understanding of ethnic differences in the genetic pathogenesis of human disease....Brain gliomas progress as function of crucial gene is lost
... more serious prognosis. McGary led the effort to characterize how cancer develops when the AP-2( gene, which normally protects against cancer development, is lost. They have found that other tumors such as melanoma become increasingly deadly when the gene is no longer active, and have described its role in brea...New research tool allows perimenopausal women to assess their ovulation status
...Health Across the Nation (SWAN). SWAN attempts to characterize the reproductive hormone patterns as women approach and traverse the menopausal transition. Included in this effort is the Daily Hormone Substudy that collects and analyzes cycles of daily urinary hormones annually, thus providing both cross-section...Study provides new insights into the functional neuroanatomy of motor imagery
...-course analysis). The time course analysis helped characterize the functional property of each set of areas from a different perspective, suggesting a functional gradation from more "executive" to more "imaginative" areas. Methodology Ten healthy volunteers [mean age, 32 + 11 (SD) years; seven males, three fem...Natural Science and Public Health: Prescription for a Better Environment
...st from EPA and U.S. Public Health Service to help characterize and map the dusts deposited by the World Trade Center collapse. Once commercial aviation resumed, USGS scientists boarded the first available flights to New York. Within a week of the attacks, they had acquired state-of-the-art satellite imagery ove......lls and force them to make more virus. "We have to characterize the functions of individual viral proteins and how they interact with cellular proteins to understand this process," she noted. Guarino and Wu studied MTase1 (methyltransferase) in the polyhedrosis virus of Autographa californica, a common moth speci...