Genetic Trickery Offers New Way to Target HIV
...n white blood cells resistant toHIV, using genetic engineering to fool the virus and disrupt itslife cycle. The novel strategy is described in the June 6 issueof the Journal of Biological Chemistry . "This turns the normal process by which HIV replicatesagainst itself," says Joseph Rosenblatt, the lead inv...Stopping "Cellular Suicide" Could Boost Production In Biotech Labs
...2. Whenthismaterial is inserted during the genetic engineering of a new cellline, itappears to shut down the suicidal impulses, Betenbaugh says. Heis alsoexperimenting with chemicals that mimic the effects of bcl-2 whenadded tocells that are already growing in the lab. "Maybe our cells seethe signalsthat tell th...Study Focuses On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
...C. Hornbuckle, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering atUB, has received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation tostudy the effects of temperature, humidity and ultraviolet light on thetransport through the atmosphere of persistent organic pollutants. The project, which has bee...E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone Of Modern Biology Emerges From Wisconsin Lab
...d recent developments in biotechnology and genetic engineering have depended heavily on it. Related strains of E. coli are also responsible for several human diseases. Although not the first bacterial genome to be completed, E. coli is by far the most complex and the most eagerly awaited by scientists around the...New Description Of Protein May Be Basis For Regulating Cholesterol
...y to more probing studies,Cane said. These include engineering proteins in the laboratory to make newproducts with unique structures. "If we can understand how a particular proteinis designed and works and how pieces of its system function, then in principlewe can make designer-engineered proteins with particula...Environmental Engineers Demonstrate Effective Method For Trapping Highway Pollutants
...search in the department of civil andenvironmental engineering at UC. The PET replaces the normal sandused in hig...d for Hydraulic Research. The award is named foran engineering researcher who specialized in hydraulics....New Materials Remove Corrosive Gas In Coal-Gasification Process
...id Mark Cal, a U. of I. professor of environmental engineering who alsois a chemical engineer with the Survey. "H...e found." Cal and his colleagues -- environmental engineering professor Mark Rood,Survey scientist Anthony Lizzio and graduate student Brooks Strickler --are deve...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...arded $6.8 million in grants to improve biomedical engineering education at six universities in the United States...raduate students, and creating five new biomedical engineering courses and an associated virtual imaging laboratory. The courses and laboratory will develop virtua...Banning Chemicals To Protect Ozone May Aggravate Global Warming
...rnal Science, Wuebbles and colleague JamesCalm, an engineering consultant in Great Falls, Va., write that the regulatoryactions on certain chemicals -- imposed by both the Montreal Protocol andthe U.S. Clean Air Act to protect the ozone layer -- will have little impacton stratospheric ozone while contributing un...Researchers Improve Treatment Of Industrial Waste
...rofessor Grant Allen of the department of chemical engineering and applied chemistry and a team of researchers have devised a process that treats waste air and water emissions -- while they are still hot -- from pulp and paper mills. Using heat-resistant microbes, the researchers treat waste air and water at tem...Penn State Erie's Sea Grant To Focus On Ecology, Economic Development
...r for up-to-date research in science, medicine,and engineering athttp://www.eurekalert.org/...Remote Cloud Observatory Tracks El Niño Changes
...r for up-to-date research in science, medicine,and engineering athttp://www.eurekalert.org/...Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...s grants exhibit a remarkable range of science and engineering exploration combined with an impressive dedication to integrating research and education," said NSF Acting Deputy Director Joseph Bordogna. "This assembly of researchers, at the early stages of what we hope will be long and productive careers,gives ...Cellular Engineers Design Custom Cell Surfaces Able To Adhere To Synthetic Materials
...lready Bertozzi's group has used this cell-surface engineering to turn cancercells into bright targets for diagnostic probes and cell-killing toxins. "Our primary goal is to take control of the cell surface," saysBertozzi, who is a member of Berkeley Lab's Biomolecular Materials Program inthe Materi...Burroughs Wellcome Fund Continues Support Of EurekAlert!
...l members and nearly 300 affiliated scientific and engineering societies. The Association will celebrate its 150th anniversary this year....Study Reviews Medication Use In Elderly Cardiac Patients After Discharge
...r for up-to-date research in science, medicine,and engineering at http://www.eurekalert.org/...... section's entry into the emergingareas of genetic engineering and food irradiation. Early 1980s and beyond Lat...ce the enzymes for a fraction of the cost. Genetic engineering offers many other possibilities. For instance, PacificNorthwest staff believe they eventually can d...DNA Enzyme Works In Crystal Form; Yields New Insights Into Gene Copying
...on accessto the synchrotrons for basic biomedical, engineering and physics studies....STS-89 Will Carry Five Science Payloads From NASA/Marshall
...that may have greatramifications for down-to-Earth engineering in the future," Kearnssaid. "We know, through science studies going back 50 or 60 years,that under certain conditions - such as shock waves produced during an earthquakeor the collapse of a grain silo - that what looks like a gigantic mass ofsolidly ...UMass Researchers Announce Birth Of Genetically Modified Cloned Calves
...eated through a combination of cloning and genetic engineering (also called transgenics) developed by Robl and Stice, who conduct this research under the auspices of ACT, a biotechnology company with close ties to the University. The scientists have developed a reliable way to introduce new traits into livestock...