Zooming liquid particles show technological promise
... ofEngineering and Applied Science. Chen, an expert in heat transfer and multiphase flow problems, suggestedthat Chaudhury apply the gradient effect to heat-transfer problems. Thetwo researchers began a collaboration that culminated in theirco-authorship of the current Science article, which is titled...Nagyvary's violin research to be celebrated Feb. 12
...w worlds to me," notes Nagyvary, who has become an expert violin maker himself and who took his first practice lessons on a violin belonging to Albert Einstein. "I am proud to say that I was the first chemist to apply modern analytical methods and define the makeup of these great violins. And it's satisfyi...UC Davis science newstips Feb 01
...ence at the University of California, Davis, is an expert on computer security and hacking. He can comment on computer virus attacks like Monday's "Anna Kournikova" virus. The UC Davis Computer Security Research Laboratory is recognized by the U.S. National Security Agency as a center of excellence. Media...New AAAS project links judges to experts in science and engineering
...ed, impartial scientists and engineers to serve as expert witnesses, a step that could help the judiciary un...the judges questioned would consider appointing an expert to help them comprehend complex technical issues. The judges dont use this authority to appoint ex...Language can fuel, or abate, public fears about bioengineered foods
... "one-way communication" in which the educator or expert does all the talking and the public does all the listening can be detrimental to the communication process. No consensus can be achieved when this occurs, because the public is given little or no voice in the discussion. "This form of communication ...Museum dinosaur labs draw international researchers
...eering and computer engineering. He is a technical expert on the electron microscope. Researchers across MSU and around the world are welcome to use the museum's 3-D imaging and histology labs, Celeste said. Anyone with questions can contact her at chorner@montana.edu "There is a lot of science to be don......ld Warren, an independent environmental monitoring expert who is contracted to scrutinise radioactivity at INEEL. "The tumbleweeds blew against the [2-metre high] fence where they built up, forming a ramp other weeds could climb over," he says. In a two-year study, Warren and his colleagues measured how...Virus studies reunite two families of major insect-borne viruses
...tinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and an expert in X-ray crystallography; and Kuhn, a specialist in virology. Sindbis virus has an ordered structure, with proteins imbedded in the membrane in specific patterns. However, the virus surface also contains a series of sugar molecules, located at sit...Wood preservation: stopping termite destruction and making safer wood preservatives
...ood deterioration mechanisms. Halliwell is a noted expert on the role of free radicals and antioxidants in human health and disease. He will provide a general discussion of free radical chemistry, which researchers believe may be a key tool in controlling brown rot, a wood-destroying fungus that causes mill...Janet Ginsburg receives microbiology communications award
...sease native to Africa. She interviewed heartwater expert Michael Burridge whose research showed that the mortality for North American livestock and wild herds could range from 40% to 100%, depending on species, if the disease were to become established here. For the next few years, Ginsburg continued to s...Agent Orange might boost the risk of leukemia, UNC researcher says
...ity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill public health expert and a national committee of other experts, the study involved compiling and reviewing the best available research evidence of Agent Orange's effects. The National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine convened the 2000 Committee to review the la...UC San Francisco patents method for delivering normal genes in a pill
...to be adjusted or stopped easily," said German, an expert on diabetes. To demonstrate the validity of the method, the UCSF research team had to show, among other obstacles, that neither stomach acids nor intestinal enzymes would destroy the DNA. "People thought the oral delivery of genes might be possible i...Stem cells and cloning: Medicine and controversy
...ence behind the headlines. Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch, an expert in mouse cloning, and Dr. George Daley, a leading physician-scientist and stem cell researcher, will share their perspectives on the new biology. The moderator will be Dr. David Page, a pioneer in human genetics and chairman of the Whitehead Task Fo...Novel, even unlikely drugs may curb childhood leukemia
... The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, who is an expert in these new attack strategies. Unlike conventional cancer drugs, the newer drugs are based on detailed knowledge of cellular mechanisms that can be used to manipulate cancer cells in a way that is gentler to surrounding healthy cells. Oncologist...URI professor investigates the muscle behind blue mussels
...istant professor Emily Carrington of Wakefield, an expert on the blue mussel and its marine community, is trying to determine. Funded by a three-year, $320,000 National Science Foundation grant, Carringtons overall research goal is to determine the ability of mussels to adjust their attachment strength to p......(Cossart's team in collaboration with transgenesis expert Charles Babinet and other scientists at the Pasteur Institute), investigated oral infection mechanisms within guinea pigs and transgenic mice, which had been genetically modified to express the human version of cadherin in the intestine. Animals rece...Montana drought sends paleontologists to field early for largest project in state's history
.... They include paleobotanists, a Cretaceous mammal expert and an invertebrate specialist. The early end to this year's field season will have an additional benefit beyond the hope that workers will be able to complete their work, Leiggi continued. It will also give the MSU people time to continue working o......ystems for relaying the mammography images back to expert radiologists at the U.S. Army's Walter Reed Medica... experts at Walter Reed and Hopkins. Based on the expert readings, the women can be informed if they need additional tests or procedures, such as diagnostic ...... the system are fully realized, Dr. Alea Mills, an expert in this field, remarked that this system "appears to fulfill the criteria for an optimal inducible system." As the mouse is the most widely used experimental system to model human disease and development, this revolutionary new system will greatly br...Alzheimer's genetic susceptibility could bring fear and misunderstanding, religious scholars say
...was quickly asserted by no less than five national expert panels that clinical genetic testing for the APOE susceptibility allele was unacceptable because: (a) The information provided would be extremely vague and difficult to interpret, so much so that genetic counselors would be hard pressed to provide a...