'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...half of the 20th century. But now, we think we can engineer bacteriophages to function as 'dynamic' anti-microbial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resource of smart antibiotics for treating bacterial diseases," said Miller, a member of both UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and the UCLA Co...Grant advances biochemical engineering laboratory
...ogical systems for environmental remediation, they engineer improvements to pharmaceuticals and they work in other areas that combine biochemistry, microbiology and chemical engineering. Chemical Engineering students at Tech interested in biochemical engineering take a series of courses that cover all those...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
...entury," says Dr. Miller. "But now we think we can engineer bacteriophages to function as 'dynamic' anti-microbial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resource of smart antibiotics for treating bacterial diseases." Dr. Miller says that he and his team are continuing to study this genetic mech...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...en legs. But, he admits, a biologist and an engineer can go only so far in understanding locomotion without the help of mathematicians and specialists in dynamics who can create models that can be tested on animals and robots. Full has coined the phrase "neuromechanical systems biology" for this multid...National Academies advisory: genome data and bioterrorism
...rns that bioterrorists could potentially use it to engineer the deadly pathogens? Or is such access crucial to the work of researchers trying to find new defenses against the diseases? SEEKING SECURITY: PATHOGENS, OPEN ACCESS, AND GENOME DATABASES, a new report from the National Academies' National Research ...As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...pple Computer distinguished scientist and software engineer who helped perfect handwriting recognition software used by the Apple Newton -- the world's first PDA; * Jean Camp and Markus Jakobsson, leading experts on cybersecurity and Internet privacy; * Christopher Raphael, a professional oboist (and soloist ...Analysis of biological clock may lead to greater understanding of human disease
...st, according to co-author Frank Doyle, a chemical engineer who holds UCSB's Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Endowed Chair in Process Control. "We are very excited about this collaborative work, and how systems engineering ideas and tools can be used to unravel design principles in a complex biological system."...Engineering endurance: The future of the Olympics?
...nce, while Ronald Evans and colleagues genetically engineer muscle phenotype in a manner that dramatically improves endurance and running performance. Hypoxia (the physiological state that occurs when oxygen levels drop below normal) governs how ATP is recycled and which energy-producing substrates (for examp...Chemical engineers discover filtration system to help biotech industry
...s in their molecular weight, before a scientist or engineer could separate them using a process called ultra-filtration. "Now using a new kind of membrane that we invented at NJIT, the proteins can have almost the same molecular weight," said Sirkar. The process also will be more cost-effective because the ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2004
...ature water used in reactors. Zia Faiztompkins, an engineer with the Rockville, Md.-based Gamma Engineering, is working with ORNL's Larry Walker, Michael Lance and Harry Meyer to answer that question. Funding is provided by the Department of Energy's offices of Nuclear Energy and Energy Efficiency and Renewab...Bone, enamel, dentine, milk & saliva share gene family
... the information for producing proteins to reverse engineer DNA that codes for these proteins. This copy DNA can be used to locate the original gene on the chromosome. Except for one of the three genes that codes for mammalian tooth enamel, all the other genes are found in the same area of the same chromoso...Plant respiration not just an evolutionary leftover, study shows
...ecessary. Some have even set about to genetically engineer crop plants so that the activity of the enzyme that initiates both the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis and photorespiration would favor photosynthesis to a greater extent and minimize photorespiration. The result, they have thought, wo...Workforce achievements celebrated at NASA Marshall Center Awards ceremony
...t L. Sackheim, assistant center director and chief engineer for space propulsion, and Stephen Beale, director of procurement, each were honored with the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executives for service at the Marshall Center. Each was honored earlier this year at a ceremony in Washington. Additi...Oxygen sensing in worms may hold key to healthy blood pressure in humans
...began a new set of experiments. Lu, a postdoctoral engineer in the Bargmann lab, designed a small chamber (about five square centimeters in area and about 100 microns thick) that could be placed over Petri dishes containing nematodes feeding on bacteria. The chamber allowed the researchers to create precisely...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...n product development, notably hiring of a product engineer to generate samples for alpha-testing in 7 to 9 mo... Professor Sah and his team will test a new way to engineer cartilage tissue for joint repair and replacement, after developing in 2001 a method of creating car...New multidisciplinary research tops chemists' meeting Aug. 22-26
...om the 2001 anthrax attacks Dairy flavor: Can you engineer aged cheese overnight? Assessing the health risks of perchlorate Fuels for the future From the violin to Blackberry: The polymer science of everyday things Swirling chemistry into the paint can The chemistry behind environmental crimes From the...Protein engineered to detect nerve gas
...nter biochemists have used computational design to engineer and construct a protein that could sense the nerve agent soman. They said their achievement constitutes a proof-of principle that such engineered proteins can be made to detect nerve agents such as sarin and other toxic substances. Such proteins coul...Mimicking humpback whale flippers may improve airplane wing design
... of West Chester University, Penn., fluid dynamics engineer Laurens Howle of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and David Miklosovic and Mark Murray at the U.S. Naval Academy. They reported their findings in the May 2004 issue of Physics of Fluids , published in advance online on March 15, 200...Domesticated tree crops may be the 'future of forestry'
...ble characteristics, Meilan said. The potential to engineer trees and other plants with valuable characteristics is not without controversy, and critics point out the risk of contaminating wild stands of trees with pollen from plants carrying novel genes. An answer to those critics, however, could lie within ...UCSD bioengineers develop first genome-scale computational model of gene regulation
...gn and interpret laboratory experiments as well as engineer strains for industrial purposes. In this more recent work, Covert modeled the regulatory network in E. coli representing how the cell responds to environmental cues and expresses genes involved in cellular metabolism. He scoured the scientific lite...