Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...s research is to apply past lessons from design of computer chips to self-replicating molecular systems, such as biological cells. This research is at the forefront of a new discipline termed Synthetic Biology, which focuses on large-scale synthesis of biological systems. Recent advances in DNA synthesis and...New proteomics core at OHSU will speed discovery process
...ter and sample preparation workstation as he scans computer images of raw sample data collected the day before. "For us, it's absolutely great. If you were to do this manually, you're going to do about 20 a day." The 2DiDx workstation is one of several sophisticated devices occupying nearly every corner of...Better techniques needed to predict earthquake hazards, UC study finds
...aid Archuleta, "so we used nonlinear soil dynamics computer models to calculate the surface ground motions created by fault ruptures." Heuze and Archuleta praised the UC Office of the President, the participating campuses, and LLNL's University Relations Program for funding the study, one of the first projec...UF study: Barren Siberia, of all places, may be original home to animal life
...rilobites from different continents listed in a KU computer database. By grouping those with similar characters together, he determined where different groups originated and how closely related they were. While six inches is fast by comparison to today's continental movement of speed of one to two inches per...The American Academy of Microbiology releases report
... postgraduate levels in fields melding biology and computer science or mathematics. The report is based on an AAM-sponsored colloquium held in October 2002 in Longboat Key, FL, which brought together 27 scientists from academia and industry to discuss the current state of knowledge in microbial genomics. In f...USC awarded $3.5 million to study DNA enzyme
...t. The grant will fund structural, biochemical and computer studiesdesigned to reveal how the enzyme, DNA poly...delingof the enzyme's activity using sophisticated computer softwarehe's developed. When a cell divides, DNA polymerase copies the cell's DNA,using the sequence...Water molecules clump more loosely than previously thought
... became commonly accepted because, when applied in computer simulations, they gave results consistent with known properties of water, such as the unusually high amount of energy that is required to heat it up. ''Nobody had anything to object to the prevailing model, so it became the truth,'' Nilsson says. But...... became commonly accepted because, when applied in computer simulations, they gave results consistent with known properties of water, such as the unusually high amount of energy that is required to heat it up. "Nobody had anything to object to the prevailing model, so it became the truth," says Nilsson. But ...New software developed at Rensselaer predicts promising ingredients for new drugs
... Rensselaer researchers with skills in computer science, chemistry, and math allied to create the ...wo shortcuts in chemistry and math that enable the computer to search a vast molecular database rapidly. The first shortcut describes the molecule, its shape...Surgeons explore new treatment for Tourette syndrome
...ugh MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans and 3-D computer images. Their goal was to locate the safest and most direct route to reach the cells inside the thalamus portion of the brain, involved in controlling Jeff's movements. By placing electrodes around those cells to deliver continuous high-frequency e...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes 2004
...arch area is on the border between mathematics and computer science, and deals primarily with the task of find...port. Friedrich Eisenbrand studied mathematics and computer science at Saarland University and completed his doctorate there in the Computer Science Department ...Scientists seek cause for what makes good cell go bad
...combination of traditional genetic experiments and computer simulations contributed to the study."The methods ...he researchers also reproduced its components in a computer simulation and obtained the same results. In future studies, the team will apply similar approaches ...Laboratory rat gene sequencing completed
...posting. A large team of researchers, including a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, h...." Michael R. Brent, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, contributed to the analysis of the ge...Carnegie Mellon U. conducts first comprehensive proteomic analysis of developing animal
...eparates proteins by size and electrical charge. A computer program analyzes the gel to detect differences in the abundance and presence of all the proteins from the two samples and reports them back to the investigator. "Our study is really a starting point. Comparing the proteomes at different stages in a...Vascular access vital to pump up tissue engineering
...arrier. Desktop organ printing based on several 3D computer aided design (CAD) processes that can 'print' tissues layer by layer is another method being tested. The components of blood vessels are laid down within the various layers and the tissue constructs grow their own capillaries when the appropriate gro...Undergraduate research experience advances education
...to keep working. The first day we actually got the computer to run the solution was a good day." Two students working with Marshall chemistry professor Michael Norton may expand Schreiber's project, she says. After she graduated from Huntington High School, Schreiber worked with Norton on a robotics product ...Enlisting carbon nanotubes to unmask nerve agents
...he sensor. The detector is hooked up to a notebook computer for an instant reading of even traces of OP, to as few as 5 parts per billion....New paclitaxel analog kills more cancer cells than natural product
...ward by Jim Snyder of Emory University. Based on a computer model of the paclitaxel binding site, he proposed a particular orientation of the side chain. Kingston, his colleagues, and Snyder then designed molecules with bridges between the ring and the side chain. "We thought that if we linked the bridge in t...... from approximately 20 years to 1 week. "The computer analyzes the forces of attraction and repulsion between atoms, depending on their positions, distances, and angles. It shuffles through all the possible arrangements to arrive at the most stable three-dimensional configuration," Davenport says. Th...Pioneering discoveries, pursuing new knowledge, fostering partnerships
...logy, optometry, pharmacy, engineering, education, computer science, health and human performance, economics and materials science. At 11 a.m., Arnold Eskin, professor of biology and biochemistry, will give the keynote address, "Learning and Memory Mechanisms and Modulation." "This year, we were successfu...