Potential gene therapy carriers created that mimic viruses, without the risk
... of Medicine in St. Louis. Dowdy demonstrated the efficiency with which PTD transduces proteins into cells. With the aid of extremely powerful microscopes, Wooley and her colleagues were able to detect the peptide-bearing knedels binding to cell surfaces. Another group of nanoparticles without the PTD but w...Carbon diem: Grants awarded to research that seizes excess carbon dioxide
...ral industrial companies are trying to improve the efficiency of a vortex tube by at least 50 percent and make t...gas in the vortex, they expect a large jump in the efficiency of the separation. Making the gas travel through liquid will separate the gas molecules more efficie...DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
...derable technical effort. The great differences in efficiency and selectivity of catalysis reactions are examined in the priority programme Secondary Interaction as a Control Principle in Oriented Use of Low Reactivity Substrates. The focus is on the design and dynamics of molecular catalysts, which are suppose...Common household items could be sources of infections
...les in the home to the hand was studied. Transfer efficiency was found to be particularly high for faucet handl...c bacterial pathogens. Based on a 0.0009% transfer efficiency to the hand, 2,912 bacteria would be transferred to the hand. Assuming 3.2% (93) of these bacteria......ly utilize the total prey supply. Ney examined the efficiency with which predators consume their prey. He observed that prey availability has three components: morphology, distribution, and behavior, each of which can be quantified. On the other side, predator food demand could be determined by bioenergetics mo...Study shows receptor molecule facilitates introduction of corrected genes into cells
...cientists are now attempting to boost the vector's efficiency in entering cells, Boucher said. After that, they will try to correct defective cystic fibrosis cells in tissue culture, in mouse models of cystic fibrosis pioneered at UNC-CH and, eventually, in human volunteers. "All of us are very keen to the not...Building better engines through natural selection
...genetic algorithms to simultaneously increase fuel efficiency and reduce pollution. Peter Senecal, a post-doctorate engineer at UW-Madison, created the computer models to help sort through literally billions of combinations of factors that determine engine performance - a task too enormous for conventional c...Purdue researchers clean up petroleum spills with plants
...ng with the EPA and Indiana Gas Co. to compare the efficiency of several bioremediation methods at a contaminated site at a coal-to-natural gas refinery. Their joint efforts have become a demonstration project for natural gas manufacturers nationwide. At Bedford, the Purdue researchers have planted grasses and ......hat has extensive chromium contamination. Energy efficiency at 'core' of home - Home, sweet, energy-efficient ...west researchers will monitor the potential energy efficiency of this new manufactured home. At the laboratory's urging, the manufactured home is the first con...Scientists discover key ingredient in sexual reproduction
... fertilized mammal egg 'might end up improving the efficiency of cloning,' he notes. Nitric oxide also may turn out to be a necessary ingredient in successful human reproduction. 'There are lots of defects in human sperm,' notes Epel, 'and there could well be deficiencies in nitric oxide concentrations in t...Research shows that brain receptor may control obesity
...ome obese due to genetic changes that increase the efficiency with which calories are stored in the form of fat." Scientists have already discovered that energy stored in the form of fat is controlled and balanced internally. The brain continually adjusts food intake and energy expenditure to maintain co...INEEL creates a method to link energy use, greenhouse gases
... as other details of the lab's energy use. Energy efficiency is affected by building design such as insulation, the energy efficiency of windows, peak energy usage hours, etc. Additionally, the local ecosystem may affect how long the...Major new initiative to resolve structure of protein families
...developed and built to increase the throughput and efficiency of the structural determination process, including robotic crystal mounting and alignment and expert computation systems. Data collected by Kim and his collaborators, along with that collected by the other NIGMS grant recipients is to form the founda...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...ng and implementing a multi-million dollar energy efficiency program at the Gostomel Glass Plant in Ukraine. ...cure funding for more than $4.5 million in energy efficiency improvements. For example, Gostomel now uses recovered heat waste to provide space heat required i...IIASA releases scientific study linking population growth to climate change
... policy makers have prioritized policies in energy efficiency and other technological fields, they have overlooked population factors, such as growth, aging and urbanization, which have significant climate implications. The authors stress that since growth rates change slowly, the climate-related benefits ...Dendreon identifies novel approach to improve immunization efficiency
...tentially important implications for improving the efficiency of therapeutic cancer vaccines. The data, published in the December issue of Nature Biotechnology, highlights a method for modifying targets on cancer cells called antigens to facilitate activation of cytotoxic T cells a key component of the immune ...Metabolism in women after weight loss varies from that of never overweight women
... more muted among the PO women, indicating greater efficiency at storing triacylglycerols. Greater insulin sensitivity and more efficient triacylglycerol storage are both risk factors for weight gain and obesity....Zooming liquid particles show technological promise
..., preventing liquid build-up and thusimproving the efficiency of heat transfer. Another potential application, he says, is to microfluidic devices,especially the microchips equipped with microfabricated miniature fuelcells that, scientists envision, may one day serve as power sources inlaptop computers, milita...The enemy of my enemy is my friend
...anic compounds (VOCs), which increases the hunting efficiency of predators and parasitoids. Parasitoids and predators (which are small) have the difficult task of locating their frequently cryptic prey (which are also small) in the vast spatial expanses of green plants. By re......with little or no scarring, recreating the healing efficiency of young children. Purdue scientists discovered SIS' healing qualities unexpectedly about 15 years ago while looking for ways to make substitute blood vessels. "In the early 1990s, we started asking, 'If an extracellular matrix from the small intesti...