Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...- and will assist in designing sensor networks for conducting research in other remote and hostile environments. The National Science Foundation (NSF) today awarded $3.9 million over four years to the University of Washington (UW), the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and partner institutions to build...USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
... quality coffee and the Starbucks Experience while conducting its business in ways that produce social, environmental and economic benefits for communities in which it does business....Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...a discovery of life. Ames scientist Chris McKay is conducting a long-term ecological study of the Atacama as a Mars analog environment. Scientists using EventScope, a remote experience browser developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry, will guide Zoe. EventScope enables s...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...reaks." Lieber and his colleagues merged nanowires conducting a small current with antibody receptors for certain key domains of viruses - such as agglutinin in the influenza A virus. When an individual virus came into contact with a receptor, it sparked a momentary, telltale change in conductance that gave a c...Microbes eat their way to better concrete
...rtment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, are conducting the research. The two recently were awarded $51,60...te and graduate students who are actively involved conducting research experiments, analyzing data, presenting their findings at conferences and preparing journal...Joslin Diabetes Center honors brothers living 70-plus years with type 1 diabetes
... Ph.D., a member of a Joslin research team that is conducting a study of Joslin medalists who have lived with type 1 diabetes for 50 years or more to better understand what biological and genetic factors may contribute to a long life with diabetes. The Cleveland brothers' longtime physicians, David Dube, M.D., ...UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
...iner, or sieve, overboard. The scientists had been conducting nearshore surveys of marine life as part of an international study sponsored by the Census of Marine Life NaGISA program and funded by the Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring program. "A sieve is worth about $75, so we wanted to get it back," said Konar....A liking for sweets, combined with novelty seeking, may predict alcoholism
...ly psychosocial therapy as well? We are currently conducting a study of sweet liking as a predictor of response to naltrexone in alcoholism but no data has yet been analyzed. Fourth, if sweet liking is a marker for alcoholism, how does it interact with other markers/genes to lead to a complete understanding o...Laboratory grows world record length carbon nanotube
...le electronics, where the nanotubes can be used as conducting or insulating materials. For example, joining together two nanoscale carbon tubes with differing electronic properties could create nanoscale diodes. Even more promising are uses that take advantage of the astonishing strength of the tubes, such as i...Cell's gatekeeper for ammonia revealed in unprecedented detail
...all differences in the amino acid sequences of the conducting machinery lead to slight differences in their channels and provide for regulation and localization of the ammonia transport, Stroud said. Using X-ray crystallography, the researchers determined the channel's structure down to an unprecedented resolut...APS awards more than $140,000 to minority students of physiology
... of Louisville School of Medicine Ms. Bratcher is conducting research in the area of hypertension. She is investigating the effects of increased dietary salt intake on microcirculation. Her research will give insight on the mechanism of hypertension due to high levels of salt. Jessica Clark University of A...OneWorld Health compiles comprehensive state of infectious diarrhea treatments, potential solutions
...working to solve this problem. OneWorld Health is conducting a landscape analysis in the field of infectious diarrhea. As a first step, OneWorld Health will use the findings from a recently held workshop of experts to examine the feasibility of an international diarrheal vaccine effort, with particular emphasi...UCR earns $1.5 million grant to examine how engineered crop genes stray
..."an honest broker" in this debate. "The scientists conducting this research have no stake in the policy outcomes," Angle said. They hold no patents on genetically modified plants. The study will provide solid scientific input to inform the public and the policy makers at national and international levels." Joe...Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won't work, study shows
..." Bergstrom said. "And if they do work, the people conducting the trials are going to have to do further investigation on why they are working, because the rationale that we've been using for cycling doesn't hold true." The study is based on numerical models that examined the mechanics of how microbial inf...Carnegie Mellon researchers to demonstrate autonomous robotthat will seek life in Atacama Desert
...s colleagues from the end of August to mid-October conducting experiments in rover perception, mobility and autonomy during long-distance traverses. The Atacama team also will conduct a series of robotic science investigations in which Zoë will be sent to visit promising locations and deploy instruments ab...Protein vaccine fully protects mice from lethal aerosol challenge with ricin toxin
...ss and the final product. In addition, USAMRIID is conducting pre-formulation studies to produce a formulated vaccine that will induce the optimum immune response possible in animal models. ...Lake research offers clues to managing crayfish invasions
... To test this theory, he and other researchers are conducting an experiment in which they have set up 300 rusty crayfish traps at the bottom of a 150-acre lake in northern Wisconsin. The objective is to determine whether fish and aquatic populations, decimated by the invaders, will grow in number as crayfish ar...... Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, was simultaneously conducting x-ray crystallographic studies of an Argonaute protein (PfAgo) from the hyperthermophilic archaebacterium, Pyrococcus furiosus. When Joshua-Tor and her colleagues determined the crystal structure of PfAgo, they found that the PIWI domain of PfAgo bel...OHSU researchers discover possible method for early detection, prevention of premature birth
...uppressed and premature birth prevented. In conducting this current research, the scientists used mass spectrometry analysis of non-human primates amniotic fluid to not only identify the protein biomarkers for intra-amniotic infections, but also the length of time between infection and the appearance of ...Ocean scientists assess impact of seismic pulses in effort to protect whales
...alifornia at around the time R/V Maurice Ewing was conducting acoustic research in the area, but a causal relationship has not been established. Some beaked whale strandings have occurred in connection with Navy sonar operations at frequencies of around three kilohertz, Tolstoy says. Recognizing that different ...