Forest fire sensor inspired by nature
... is also avaialable in German They are what fire fighters have long been calling for: low-cost and highly sensitive infrared sensors that automatically monitor large forest areas and trigger an early warning in the event of fire. Zoologist at the University of Bonn have taken an important step towards this ...UCSD, VA and Cal-(IT) wireless technology to enhance mass casualty treatment in disasters
...taff. In addition, health care providers and fire fighters had difficulty communicating with one another. (Critical Care 2001; 5:301-3) To resolve this problem, WIISARD will utilize hand-held PDAs based on wireless devices currently used by students at UCSD's Sixth College to locate and communicate with fri...Real-time 'movies' will predict wildfire behavior for one hour
Someday fire fighters will be able to manage wildfires by computer. Rochester Institute of Technology recently won a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to translate remote-sensing data about wildfires into real-time "mini-movies" that fire managers can do...Burning forests speedily space-mapped for fire fighters
...ire fighting. To track blazes as they happen, fire fighters must rely on eyewitnesses or helicopter surveys u...fore BIRD had completed a single orbit, local fire fighters had been provided with geo-referenced hot-spot maps together with a risk index indicating where the ...Technique brings immune-based therapies closer to reality
...ts with melanoma and multiple myeloma and as virus fighters after bone marrow transplant. However, the technological advance reported by the Johns Hopkins team overcomes a major weakness of current methods for making these targeted immune cells, known as antigen-specific cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) -- namely ...Duke researchers discover protein that can alert immune system to fight cancer
...de cantrigger a strong response from immune system fighters known as killer T cells. The Duke researchers showed that when they injected mice with dendriticcells that had been mixed with calreticulin or GRP94 purified from melanoma(skin cancer) or thymoma (thymus tumors), the animals responded by gene...Researchers Discover How The Immune System Shuts Down Faulty T Cells
...s gland. The thymus identifies promising infection fighters by selecting Tcells able to recognize and lightly bind the body's own peptides, presented byMHC proteins. The thymus then eliminates those cells that bind self antigen tootightly, to prevent autoimmune reactions. At this point, typically only twotype...Heat-Shock Vaccine Stops Bacteria Dead
...re produced are of lowerquality and less effective fighters against disease. To outwit the camouflaged bacteria, scientists have begun to resort to asophisticated approach: when designing improved vaccines, they attach vaccine molecules to "carrier" proteins that stimulate T cells and enlist themin the antibo...RNA-Dendritic Cell Combo Shows Promise As A Universal Cancer Vaccine
...tigen signals a strong response from immune system fighters known as"killer T" cells which move out from the spleen and lymph nodes to attack theinvader. Cancer cells also produce a variety of atypical proteins, Gilboa said,but tumor cells have evolved ways of effectively hiding these proteins fromsur...