Duke Researchers Discover Central Role Of Nitric Oxide In Hemoglobin Action
...hange also releasesSNO, presumably to increase the efficiency of oxygen utilization, Stamlersaid. "Mitochondria in tissue make energy from oxygen, and the SNOmay help regulate the rate at which the mitochondria respire, or use theoxygen." It is also possible that SNO regulates capillary blood flow,he said. ...Major Plant Genome Research Project Underway
... "Their activities will be coordinated to maximize efficiency and usefulness," says Clutter, "and information from the project will be widely disseminated so that researchers will gain maximum benefits." The U.S. effort is being dovetailed with other large-scale Arabidopsis genome sequencing projects in Euro...New Software Provides Quick Analysis of ion-Channel Activity
...t can perform ion-channel analysis with remarkable efficiency and speed. The researchers have received a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance the programs and to move them from the current UNIX environment to Windows. The current version of the software may be downloa...Stopping "Cellular Suicide" Could Boost Production In Biotech Labs
...xtend the lifetime of these cells andincreasetheir efficiency in making biotech products that save people'slives," saysBetenbaugh, an associate professor in the Department of ChemicalEngineering. His research has important implications. If scientists find a wayto stopcellular suicide, they may be able to keep s...UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
...r. "This motor operates at about 20 percent of the efficiency we think is possible, so it greatly reduces the mileage we can achieve on a tank of fuel," explains John Williams, a master's student in the department of aeronautics and astronautics who has worked on the smogmobile project for two years. Under a $3......rent target sites onthe mRNA enhanced the method's efficiency in restoring drug sensitivity, andalso prevented a return to drug resistance. (Research was funded by the U.S.Public Health Service.) "We've been working on enzy...Environmental Engineers Demonstrate Effective Method For Trapping Highway Pollutants
...difying the coating itself to increaseits trapping efficiency and lifetime. The goal is to have asystem which can last as long as the typical highway pavement about 15 years. Lab tests indicated Sansalone's coating couldlast approximately 40 years. The field tests indicated a muchshorter life expectancy, but o...Purdue Study Finds Prehistoric Couch Potato
...udies the physiology of dinosaurs to determine the efficiency of their breathing systems. Hengst, a biologist at... attached to the vertebral column to determine the efficiency of the respiratory systems in a number of carnivorous theropods, a class of flesh-eating dinosaurs t...New Materials Remove Corrosive Gas In Coal-Gasification Process
...lsois a chemical engineer with the Survey. "Higher efficiency means thatfuel can be conserved and greenhouse-gas emissions like carbon dioxide andacid-gas emissions like sulfur dioxide and the nitrogen oxides can be reduced.To achieve maximum performance in coal-gasification plants, an efficientand economical m...Banning Chemicals To Protect Ozone May Aggravate Global Warming
...ut they also are far less energy efficient. "High efficiency translates into reduced emissions of carbon dioxid...s of the refrigerant itself," Wuebblessaid. "High efficiency also reduces fuel and other resource requirements. "It is probable that HCFC-123 and several other ......key projects during this period included: energy efficiency in irrigation alternatives to open field burning energy conversion of food wastes co-generation in food processing integrated farming concepts designed to recycle agricultural wastes into the production process. 1978-80 The section continued to......were indeed being destroyed with ahigher degree of efficiency in AIDS patients than in healthy people without HIVinfection, but more important is their body's capacity to form new cells. "We at Berkeley/UCSF are very excited about the prospects for this technology ,"stated Marc Hellerstein, M.D., Ph.D., the Pri...UPMC Researchers Report On Gene Therapy Advances
... mouse'sbody, engineered bone cells exhibited high efficiency in expressing anintroduced growth hormone gene. "Confirmation of gene expression itself isvery exciting," said Niyibizi, "but we have already taken the next step inseeing how much and for how long the hormone actually affects mice," hecontinued. # ...New Gene Therapy Technique Results In 60 Percent Tumor Regression Rate
... scientists at Progenitor are trying toimprove the efficiency of the technology and improve the product form for...t lipidsor other molecules to improve the delivery efficiency and consistency of the T7system. But when clinical trials do begin, the system might work li...Caribbean Lizards Evolve Independently
...s should develop shorterlimbs to move with greater efficiency on the narrow vegetation in their newhabitat. Examination of the populations 15 years after their establishmentconfirmed this prediction. "This finding is very exciting because it allows us to understand howspecies adapt to their en......known human ancestors walked with greater ease and efficiency than previously believed, despite their short legs. Conventional thought among paleoanthropologists has been that the short-legged australopithecines, such as Lucy, were primitive or ape-like and hominids developed long legs because they are characte...Study At UNC-CH Shows Chlorinated Water Dramatically Cuts Strawberry Contamination
...arch needs to be expanded to determinechlorination efficiency against other disease-causing organisms like Salmonellabacteria and other viruses and to other types of produce such as tomatoes andapples," he said. The Clorox Co. and Ramsey-SIAS, an agricultural processing company,supported the UNC-CH rese...DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...o reducing the noise developmentand increasing the efficiency of fluidic configurations. These include aircraft ...uits andsteam turbines, are designed to achieve an efficiency of about 65 per cent when burningnatural gas and of approximately 55 per cent when burning coal from...First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...enic animalsthan earlier techniques because of its efficiency of reproducibility and,when used in genetic and embryonic development studies, will shed new lighton the cellular and molecular activities involved in aging and diseasessuch as cancer, AIDS, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. The technology hasbeen lic...New Environmental Monitoring System To Reduce Costs And Improve Efficiency
...orting neTwork) — will dramatically improvethe efficiency and effectiveness of environmental monitoring. The system— consisting of data management hardware and software and integratedoptic chemical sensors — operates in real time and measures very smallamounts of contaminants. In addition, researche...