World's first 'robot scientist' proves a major success in the lab
...on of particular genes in baker's yeast - and then designs and carries out experiments to test them - has been developed by a team of British scientists, according to new research published in the journal Nature today [14 January 2004]. "This research is very exciting as we have given the robot under our ...Fish, FRAMES and sticky chemicals net technology award for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...nment; and a test bed for developing fish friendly designs for roadway culverts. Speeding up risk assessment:...entifically sound information for use in improving designs for new and retrofitted culverts in the Northwest and elsewhere. Test bed experiments measure water ...Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish
...t the fishery benefits of alternate marine reserve designs for a multitude of species," says David Welch, Chief Scientist for the POST project. " With continued advances in acoustic telemetry, our technical ability to answer these questions is poised to make quantum leaps in the next few years."...New X-ray sources speed protein crystallography
... to build an ERL prototype, based on collaborative designs between Cornell and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Va. Another future source technology, also based on linacs, is the X-ray Free Electron Laser, or XFEL. An XFEL is slated for construction at SLAC. ERL and XFEL sou...Scripps scientists look deep inside sharks and their high-performance swimming system
...t similar investigations probing the biomechanical designs of lamnid sharks had not been successful, mainly due to the extreme difficulty in studying such large, elusive and dangerous predators. "As apex predators in the ocean these sharks are important and becoming rare," said study coauthor Robert Shadwick...Protein engineered to detect nerve gas
...structures, to fit a particular molecule. Once the designs are narrowed down, the biochemists construct the proteins and test them for selectivity and binding properties. "We chose PMPA because it is a commercially available surrogate of soman and is a breakdown product of the nerve agent," said Hellinga. "T...Wheelchairs biomechanics, prosthetic development
...nto the benefits and limitations of different ramp designs and implications for curb and vehicle access. Smoking, foot care linked to self-efficacy in people with amputations , pg 453 This study describes the extent to which veterans with a nontraumatic, unilateral lower-limb amputation engage in two h...Restoring sweetgrass to the South Carolina lowcountry
...olved in the work of individual artists, the basic designs have remained the same throughout time. The coiled seagrass baskets, now highly prized as works of art, represent a major source of income for the community. Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes), a long-bladed grass restricted to the coast of the southe...Environmental costs of home construction lower with wise choice, reuse of building materials
... more energy than a matching wood-frame house. The designs in both cases were typical of homes in those regio...le source of energy compared to fossil fuels. Two designs of typical houses were analyzed in the study by the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial ...Environmental issues center of Inland Northwest Research Alliance 4th Annual Symposium
...M, Tampa, FL., has developed strategies, technical designs and led the installation of more than 400 groundwater and soil remediation systems across the U.S. Dr. James Tate, Jr., the current senior science advisor for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, outlined the current administration's mission for the de......fect their response to drugs. DeRisi, who designs and builds microarrays -- a technology in which gene activity is revealed on a glass slide -- to carry out his studies on infectious diseases, says he plans to use the MacArthur funding to "drill deeper into malaria." "I want to try new rese...