Yale digital diagnostic technology is basis of new company, HistoRx Inc.
...HistoRx, Inc., a bioscience company offering novel digital technologies for in situ diagnostics developed at Yale School of Medicine , has located its operations at 25 Science Park in New Haven. Their technology, called AQUA TM (Automated Quantitative Analysis) enables researchers to localize and quant...Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...ty to translate the play of light on surfaces into digital code has not only secured his status as an academic computer scientist, it has taken him on a red carpet ride, earning him credits on films such as Terminator 3 and Shrek 2. In February, he earned an Academy Award for Technical Achievement. David...IBD (Crohn's, Colitis) 'joins' cancer, inflammatory diseases in associated blood vessel growth
...dothelial antigen CD31. Vessels were quantified by digital morphometry (vessel density/field). Microvessel V3 expression was studied in vivo by confocal microscopy, and in vitro by flow cytometric analysis of human intestinal microvascular endothelial cells (HIMEC) activated by bFGF, VEGF and TNF-. Pro-angio...Early detection hope for eye disease
...ngths. The images are captured by a sophisticated digital camera - a cooled, low noise CCD camera. Image processing corrects for the movements of the eye while the pictures are being taken, and a large set of images are combined in a "data cube" to improve the quality of the resolution. Spectral imaging is ...Molecular motor myosin VI moves 'hand over hand,' researchers say
...t dye to one of the arms and took a picture with a digital camera attached to a microscope to find exactly where the dye was," Selvin said. "Then we fed the myosin a little food called adenosine triphosphate, and it took a step. We took another picture, located the dye, and measured how far the dye moved."...Sensors at Watts Bar being evaluated by ORNL
...ct manifest data, note weather conditions and take digital photographs of barges and other vessels transporting cargo. The project is scheduled to continue through December, and officials noted that precautions will be taken not to disclose the shipper's name, carrier's name, commodity and date outside of of...'Weed from hell' found in Texas
...ay also call Ketchersid at 979-845-6531, or e-mail digital photos of the suspect plant to her at m-ketchersid@tamu.edu . It's important that landowners act promptly if they suspect they have the weed for it can spread rapidly, Ketchersid said. "The landowner told us in a meeting that he had probably brou...Digital evolution reveals the many ways to get to diversity
... they can use for making copies of themselves. The digital organisms come in different "species" identifiabl... require thousands of years without blinking. The digital bugs evolve at lightning speed, and they leave tracks for scientists to study. "These experiments al...Study of proteins offers insights into organization of biological networks
...ll proteins, the investigators were able to make a digital simulation of the protein network. They selectively removed hub and non-hub proteins and measured how this affected the overall number of connections between proteins. They found that while eliminating non-hubs had very little effect on the amount of...UC Riverside professor to spend year with US State Department
...e nanotechnology, genomics, environmental studies, digital arts and sustainable growth and development. With a current undergraduate and graduate enrollment of nearly 17,000, the campus is projected to grow to 21,000 students by 2010. Located in the heart of inland Southern California, the nearly 1,200-acre,...BioCDS could hit No. 1 on doctors' charts
...d Leilei Peng, all of Purdue. CDs ordinarily store digital information - such as computer data or music - as ...ound in conventional CD players. Instead of seeing digital data, the laser reader would see how concentrated a given protein had become on each track." Each pi...Plant disease under the homeland security microscope
...to help land-grant personnel submit plant samples, digital images and other details for row-crop pest diagnosis.The advantages include rapid evaluation and reporting of potential threats, and shorter response time for diagnoses. Linking satellite labs across the country with regulatory agencies, including th...ASU advance could provide insight into human's ability to recognize patterns
...late or freely change between states. In contrast, digital computer memories operate on a binary number system (1 or 0). An important advance was made in this area in the 1980s by John Hopfield, a Caltech researcher at the time, who developed the "Hopfield network" to help understand how biological memory w...UCLA chemists develop new coating for nanoscale probes
...eter in size. The semiconductor laser used to read digital information on a CD or DVD has an active layer of similar dimensions. "Creating the ability to import such electronic functions into the cell and meshing them with biological functions could open tremendous new possibilities, both for basic bio...Making sense of the brain's mind-boggling complexity
...oject is building shared databases in standardized digital form, integrating information from the level of the gene to the level of behavior. These resources will ultimately help us better understand the connection between brain function and human health." The HBP is coordinated and sponsored by fifteen fed...New proteomics core at OHSU will speed discovery process
... flouroimaging machine, which can provide detailed digital images of stained proteins suspended in gels, as well as a mass spectrometer the size of an upright piano, and a liquid chromatography machine. And the latest software helps Bystrom and his research associate, Deb McMillen, manage the samples, ana...World's first databank for all living systems
...systems, from microbes to plants to animals, using digital images and global positioning data. Information al...totype, the Library of the Desert, which will be a digital catalog that includes living samples of microbes, fungi, plants, insects, invertebrates and vertebra......r, Hutchinson created the Web site to display NASA digital images in configurations that allow users to analyze the characteristics of the land. Orr says, "This tool offers the ability to zoom in on your ranch, forest or habitat and monitor changes in vegetation through time." George Ruyle, Larry Howery an...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...ebrate Animal Populations," or SEAMAP, to create a digital archive of sea turtles, marine mammals and seabirds from throughout the world. The project is funded by the Sloan Foundation and the National Oceanographic Partnership Program. SEAMAP is one component of an Internet data sharing network called the Oc......s Lunar Orbiters in the 1960s are now available in digital form on the internet. These important images can now be viewed by everyone at a NASA-funded web site established by the USGS Astrogeology Program in Flagstaff, Arizona where mapping of planets continues to be a primary function. A series of five NA...