LSU veterinarians deliver cloned calves by caesarian section
...novel treatment that seems to slightly improve the efficiency of the process," he explained. A team of experts from the veterinary school, including food-animal surgeons, theriogenologists, anesthesiologists and neonatal care specialists, shared expertise and resources to care for the surrogate mothers and c...Controlling greenhouse gas carbon dioxide through carbon sequestration two-day symposium, April 2-3
... taken to reducing CO2 emissions: improving energy efficiency and using non-fossil energy sources, says Howard Herzog of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Energy Laboratory. He also will discuss opportunities for lowering the cost of carbon sequestration and analyze the storage potential of various ca...Baltimore chemist wins national award for insights into body's carbohydrates
...ind a receptor and latch on with dramatically more efficiency than two, for example. The biochemist said several pharmaceutical companies are exploring the approach, which can potentially cut drug doses not by half but by the hundreds - or even thousands - fold. A native of Taiwan, Lee said his father is an......c. The PVP polymer has been shown to increase the efficiency of vaccine uptake by immune cells and enhance pote...te the epitopes from the chain, thus improving the efficiency and potency of the vaccine....Researchers use cloning technology to produce embryonic stem cell lines from adult mice
...ial therapeutic interest. Importantly, the overall efficiency of this sequence of manipulations is quite good: the procedure is reproducible."...Science paper suggests strategy to more effectively control harmful ozone
... however, because other factors such as combustion efficiency and the plant's age come into play, cautions Ryerson. Focusing solely on emission rate or plant size also ignores another important aspect of ozone formation: location, location, location. The new study confirms that VOCs from natural sources can ...First experiments from NASA Commercial Space Centers get started on International Space Station
...uld be used to enhance research that increases the efficiency of drug production in ground-based facilities. To fly the experiment in space, Bristol-Myers Squibb works with one of NASA's Commercial Space Centers - BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. BioServe built the Commercia...Scientists track down the root of cloning problems
...rucial body of knowledge needed to improve cloning efficiency and to understand why so few clones survive to term and become healthy adults. These findings , from Rudolf Jaenischs lab at the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, were reported on the web May 1, 2001 in the Proceedings of the Natio...Proteins in African HIV strains interact differently with drugs
...hern regions. Freire's lab measured the proteases' efficiency and biochemical fitness through factors related to catalysis, a chemical term for a process where one substance (the protease) accelerates a chemical reaction in another substance (the substrate) without being changed itself. The catalytic action of...Study offers insights into evolutionary origins of life
...uences as with shorter ones. This suggests that if efficiency is increased, it may be possible to replicate the entire ribozyme. The ribozyme also accurately matches basesA to U, and C to Gto the RNA template more than 95 percent of the time, better than any previously isolated ribozyme. "We will never be able ...New effort to increase coal production announced
...ry increase the production of coal and improve the efficiency of producing minerals in an environmentally accept...cleaning. "This would help increase the combustion efficiency and thereby reduce the global sulfur dioxide emissions." Yoon and his colleagues have already made s...Burning now an option to clean up ocean oil spills previously thought incombustible
...an inexpensive technique that can have a very high efficiency of removal, possibly greater than 99 percent. The burning is very rapid and any resulting ecological damage is less severe compared to conventional oil removal methods." However, the window of opportunity for using burning is often limited by wave ...Gene that directs fate of many embryonic stem cells identified
...ne appears to be a potent candidate to improve the efficiency of directing embryonic stem cells to produce medically needed cells and tissues." "Our next step is to demonstrate that the human casanova gene has the same properties as the zebrafish gene." Stainier said he fully expects this is the case....Future army could run on alternative fuels, photosynthesis
...electronics might make it possible to increase the efficiency of converting sunlight to usable energy. If you put this together with fuel-cell storage techniques, this would have a large impact on how the military operates, especially for small unit operations." The NRC recommends that the Army investigate ho...University of Georgia unveils technique to improve success rate of cattle cloning
...oduce offspring and develop methods to improve the efficiency of the cloning process has been our goal," said St...e an identical twin in nature. "Improvement in the efficiency of cloning will allow us to reproduce those individuals, bulls or cows, that have lost the ability t...University of Georgia unveils technique to improve success rate of cattle cloning
...oduce offspring and develop methods to improve the efficiency of the cloning process has been our goal," said St...e an identical twin in nature. "Improvement in the efficiency of cloning will allow us to reproduce those individuals, bulls or cows, that have lost the ability t......n dioxide into organic matter, although with lower efficiency than phytoplankton. When the environment changes, and more organic matter is available, these bacteria cease to make photosynthetic pigment and start to consume organic matter the way normal bacteria do. The scientist estimates th...Untangling the matrix of risk factors for alcoholism
...LPR). Genetic variation in 5-HTTLPR is related to efficiency in 5-HT reuptake, one aspect of 5-HT functioning. The long (LL) variation or genotype has been associated with an increased number and function of 5-HT transporters (the 5-HT structure that recycles synaptic 5-HT back into the pre-synaptic neuron) w......f this organism, which does gene insertion with an efficiency thats close to 100 percent, can reveal some of its...apy for other purposes to get to a higher level of efficiency as well.......ions of years of evolution have worked to maximize efficiency while minimizing waste. In humans and other animals, a couple of cells give rise to an amazingly diverse array of tissues and organs. Percecs team hopes to recreate, with laboratory-created molecules, this ability of individual biomolecules to coal...