Advances developed to detect bioterrorist agents could find use in protecting food supplies
...ists to fight bioterrorism could find another use detecting naturally occurring pathogens in food. Livermore biomedical scientist Paula McCready will deliver that message today during a session of the American Society for Microbiology at the Salt Palace Convention Center. "The tools we use to develop DNA si...'Warm to the touch' gene found
... for the first time that skin cells are capable of detecting heat through molecules similar to those in heat-sensing neurons," says Patapoutian. Around 33 C, TRPV3 becomes activated, opens, and allows an influx of positively-charged ions into the cellan electrical signal that presumably alerts the brain of the...Researchers unravel anthrax genomes
...l also lead to highly specific methods for quickly detecting and identifying different pathogens, a critical need for defense against bioterrorism....Research highights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...ismologists around the world determine if they are detecting a shift in the earths crust or the results of a nuclear test detonation....ORNL technology gets nod from EPA
...of direct screening methods are being explored for detecting hidden explosives, chemical and biological warfare agents on the battlefield, and contaminants in food and agricultural products, Wise said. ORNL's efforts to develop the technology and methodology began in the late 1980s through a Department of Def...Human antibodies against spores found by researchers suggest new tool to detect and treat anthrax
...dies might make a powerful and convenient tool for detecting anthrax. Moreover, antibodies that bind to spores have important implications for treating individuals who are exposed to anthrax. Since the antibodies come from humans, they could be given to individuals to passively immunize themthe antibodies wou...Prescription drug pollution may harm humans, aquatic life
...e from Timonium, Md., will present a new method of detecting tiny amounts of several drugs in natural waters, using a lab technique called gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The test is so sensitive it can detect a gram of pharmaceutical in more than 1 billion liters of water. Blumenfelds test, developed in...Tallahassee chemist wins national award for 'weighing' mixtures
... of wavelengths mass spec applications range from detecting performance drugs in Olympic athletes to determining the age of meteorites. Marshall took mass spec to new levels of accuracy in 1973 by inventing a way to view the whole spectrum at once rather than one wavelength at a time. Many researchers have si...Other highlights in the April 3 issue of JNCI
...ion profile can signal tumor progression. However, detecting such changes through gene expression profiling alone is an extremely complex task. Deepak Agrawal, Timothy J. Yeatman, M.D., of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, and colleagues investigated the feasibility of sample pooling in combination wit...New process by Temple grad student can place loose fossils back into the strata or determine fakes
...erial for analysis, can potentially be valuable in detecting fakes, in which composite creatures or species are made from different fossils. As an example, Patrick points to the archeoraptor, which was put on display a few years ago. Someone took dinosaur bones and put them together with the bones of a newer...Scientists develop markers capable of detecting minute numbers of cancer cells in blood
... markers which, when used together, are capable of detecting minute amounts of metastatic cancer cells in the b...hen used in combination. There are other ways of detecting small numbers of cancer cells in blood, but they usually involve lengthier processes, such as the ad...Researchers develop blood test to diagnose Alzheimers-type changes in mice
...s the potential to provide a non-invasive means of detecting Alzheimers pathology even before clinical symptoms appear. Holtzman led the Washington University research team and Steven M. Paul, M.D., group vice president at Lilly Research Laboratories, led the Lilly team. Washington University research fellow ...New x-ray technique images cartilage, may lead to earlier diagnosis of osteoarthritis
...elieve that DEI can fill the x-ray imaging void in detecting cartilage degeneration earlier. The DEI images taken used synchrotron radiation from the National Synchotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. Sychotron radiation is also produced by the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Ar...Researchers discover mechanism of plant resistance to pathogens
...cterial pathogens, so plants are very effective at detecting pathogens. Highlighting the conservation and similarity of immune systems in plants and animals, bacterial flagellin can also trigger innate immune response through a LRR receptor in mammals, explains Sheen. When the plant receptor binds flagel...Researchers discover mechanism of plant resistance to pathogens
...cterial pathogens, so plants are very effective at detecting pathogens," says Sheen. Highlighting the conservation and similarity of immune systems in plants and animals, bacterial flagellin can also trigger innate immune responses through a LRR receptor in mammals. When the plant receptor binds flagellin, wh...Single cell type seems to control internal clock and pupil of eye
...sible for creating visual images and the other for detecting levels of light, adds Yau. For their experiments, the researchers created a line of mice with one normal copy of the melanopsin gene and one copy that coded for a protein called tau-lacZ instead. In addition, Hopkins neuroscience graduate student H...Alien life forms more likely to be found outside solar system, says Colorado prof.
The chance of detecting life outside our own solar system probably is greater than discovering it on neighboring planets and moons like Mars or Europa, a moon of Jupiter, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder professor. Molecular, cellular and developmental bio...PET tracer detects early prostate cancer
...rtunately, 18F-FDG PET has not proven effective in detecting early prostate cancer. This is because the 18F-FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose) tracer is not taken up well by prostate tumors, which often have a slower glucose metabolism. 11C-Acetate also responds to metabolic activity, but how or why it has higher uptake...New study finds undiagnosed, untreated gonorrhea, chlamydia infections common
...ive or plentiful. Thus, it is possible that we are detecting the residue of old untreated infections that are no longer transmissible or clinically significant. Our suspicion is strengthened by the fact that only 2 to 5 percent of infected subjects reported having symptoms during the past six months. Three pe...Satellites vs. mosquitoes: Tracking West Nile Virus in the U.S.
...capture a number of variables that are crucial for detecting whether a habitat is suitable for a vector, like a mosquito that carries West Nile Virus," said David Rogers, the lead author of the study. Rogers is Professor of Ecology at Oxford University in the United Kingdom and a member of the International Re...