Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...age is reduced to tolerable levels. A barley gene enables rice plants to produce a protein that makes them salt- and drought-resistant so that they grow in saline conditions and recover quickly from dry conditions. "These are capabilities that wild plants develop naturally over years of evolution, but we ca...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...sshave been granted. Implementation of the process enables Cargill to recycleat least 80 percent of their chill water. Researchers are also exploring another use of ozone in the food safety process.The current rules allow application of ozone only when the water passesthrough the cylinders but not in the ch...Gene Discovery Could Overcome Aluminum Barrier To Higher Wheat Yields Worldwide
...">Agricultural Research Service said the gene enables wheat to resist toxins in aluminum often found in acid soils. "No plant likes aluminum," he said. "It limits crop productivity on a large scale around the world." Overseas and in this country, about 5 billion acres of acid soil harbor aluminum, he ...Proteins Interacting With RNA And DNA Are Surprisingly Similar
... ribosomes,particles thatproduce proteins. The L11 enables the ribosomes to make proteinstwice asfast. When it attaches to the ribosomes in bacteria, the bacteriaare able tomultiply much faster than they ordinarily would because the rateof proteinproduction is doubled. An antibiotic called thiostrepton works...Birds Deal With "Cocktail Party Effect"
...arelyfound in people, called absolute pitch, which enables them toimmediately identify the pitch of an isolated tone. Theimplication is that the birds may use this talent to communicatewith each other, recognizing individual birds by the pitch ofsome parts or all of their song. Research into absolute pi...Scientists Determine 3-D Crystal Structure Of Cancer-Causing Protein
...omology (SH)domain 2, is a signaling molecule that enables interactions and containsdocking units. Normally, ...that showed the change in the protein's shape that enables it totransform cells, but shows, unexpectedly, that it is the SH3 domain that is theprime controller...Cell-Membrane Proteins Appear To Play Key Role In Squid's Swiftness
...n their more sluggishmolluskan kin. The adaptation enables the squid's high-speed, jet-propelledswimming behavior and may partly explain the intelligence shown by octopuses. The key element of the findings, say University of Illinois and Stanford University scientists,involves sodium channels protei...Trojan Horse Virus Controls Hiv Infection
...V-infected cells into fusing with itinstead. This enables VSV, which easily kills cells, to gain entry into the HIV-infected cell and destroyit. The modified VSV cannot infect normal cells because it lacks its normalsurface protein. Thus, it targets, enters, multiplies in and kills only Tcells that, throu...Mystery Of Vital Cell Protein Solved After 30 Years
...y to shift through various formationswhich is what enables a cell to undergo mitosis or to regulate intracell...btaining diffraction patterns withan electron beam enables us to work with crystals only one molecule inthickness, giving us our high resolution." Th...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...reatly enlarged image of the assembly work, but it enables the worker to maintain a better posture and more dynamic motion. Based on extensive comparative testing of the old and new workstations, a 15% higher productivity rate is obtained with the new one. Venda reports that the average value of products a..."Discovering Biological Diversity" Is AAAS Topic For USGS Manager
...kes morequalityinformation readily available. This enables users to make better-informeddecisions regarding the future uses of natural resources across this nation-- and the globe," said Dr. Dennis B. Fenn, Chief Biologist of the USGS. The AAAS session's focus on global inf......to the otheroligonucleotide on the electrode. That enables the spans to straddle thedistance between the electrodes, forming a scaffold for depositing silver. To bridge the gap between the electrodes, the scientists deposit adroplet of water laced with the DNA spans across the two electrodes. Then th...Hultgren Receives Prestigious Eli Lilly Award
...adhesin, hoping to find outhow the protein's shape enables it to interact with host receptors. Second, theyare investigating the consequences of this interaction and the cross-talk thatswitches on genes in both pathogen and host. In the third program, Hultgren's team is studying the structure,functi...Pharmacogenesis: Postgenomic Drug Discovery Through Developmental Biology
...s and disease processes. This powerful technology enables researchers toselect and validate optimal therapeutic targets. On March 26 and 27 in Boston, Mass., more than 25 of the leading developmentalbiology researchers and clinicians will describe the field's history and growth,present current research fin...3-D Structure of Human Tumor-Suppressor Protein Produced
...ic field to make molecular measurements.The method enables the researchers to study the structure of the p16 proteinin a water solution, which more closely represents the molecule’s structureas it would exist inside the cell. This, in turn, will make it easier through further research to determinethe p...Nitrate Reductase: A Magical Enzyme?
...s." Campbell says the recombinant process enables scientists to clone a genefrom a plant, put it into a vector that "allows us to manipulate the cloned geneand place it into a yeast where a promoter is 'triggered' by methanol and allowsus to control when the gene is expressed. The end result is an e...Vascular Surgeons Test New Treatment For Abdominal Aneurysms
... temperatures but stiff at body temperature. This enables the cloth supportto expand to fill the necessary space, excluding the aneurysm. Traditional treatments for abdominal aortic aneurysms require extensivesurgery to sew a similar but unsupported cloth tube inside the ballooning aorta. Wi...Novel Method Of Gene Replacement Reported By University Of Washington Researchers
...te. Many diseases could be cured if futureresearch enables us to correct genes in 10 percent of the targeted cells." As a vector, the researchers used a virus called adeno-associated virus2 (AAV), a single-stranded DNA virus capable of integrating into the chromosomesof mammals. Until this research,...Jellyfish Help To Make Sugar Smarter
...uick to use compared with other gene markers, and enables scientists to check more samples for the best results at a far lower cost. The jellyfish gene is also a trailblazer, opening the way for the use of genes that will add value and quality to Australia's sugar production or help reduce its environmen......all DNA enzyme that is catalytic -- meaningthat it enables chemical reactions to occur much faster. Not only did Li isolatethe enzyme and demonstrate its effectiveness, he also characterized itsproperties in what his thesis supervisor, Prof. Dipankar Sen, describes as"astonishing depth." Li's discove...