Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...of pixels and image processing capability. Further improvement will require changes in the front-end optics that have become the bottleneck for performance, functionality and the cost of all miniature cameras. With support from DARPA and the U.S. Air Force, Professor Lo's group has fabricated a prototype integra...'Weed from hell' found in Texas
...d. "This was only after two weeks. I expect some improvement in control as these products have longer to work," Baumann said. In spot treatments a 2 percent solution of Roundup provided excellent control, Baumann said. (In spot treatments, Roundup also has 14-day haying and 14-day grazing restrictions.) Remed...ORNL adds three R&D 100s to DOE lab-leading total
...nsor that can identify the molecule. SniffEx is an improvement over other explosive detection products (such as gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and gas chromatography/surface acoustic wave devices) because of its sub-part-per-trillion sensitivity and high selectivity, direct vapor sensing, low power consump...RSV can increase the risk of asthma, UT Southwestern researchers find
...mice treated with the neutralizing antibody showed improvement regardless of when the medicine was given. UT Southwestern researchers' next step will be to study whether treatments against RSV can reduce RSV-associated asthma in children. Researchers believe these findings could also lead to the development of n...Targeted therapy for lung cancer patients shows promise in extending lives
...xib) can shrink tumors, relieve symptoms and offer improvement and survival for patients with stage IV lung cance...eported to increase survival. In general, survival improvement for patients with advanced stage lung cancer have been modest- adding several months to longevity. "...Brain development and puberty may be key factors in learning disorders
... three years behind, but after that, their rate of improvement was very similar to that of the children without impairments," said Wright. "At around 10 years, however -- right around puberty's onset -- we saw a halt in further development in the children with learning problems." In attempting to understand th...Natural, man-made mix promises biggest landscape plant growth
...or the public and industry. "We were expecting an improvement but somehow thought the organic fertilizer would be better, and we didn't expect such a big difference," said Carpio, a Venezuelan native now is in charge of research for a potato company in Dalhart.. "I love to do work that has meaning, that indust...Drug that cuts off tumor's blood supply extends lives of colorectal cancer patients
... chemotherapy combination, resulted in significant improvement in survival in patients with metastatic colorectal...tatistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in survival among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer," the study states. After several disap...3-D micro-imaging technology licensed to Carl Zeiss Jena
..., multiphoton microscopy is proving to be a marked improvement over existing biomedical-imaging techniques. Wherever it is conducted -- in imaging of still-living tissue outside the body (ex vivo) or endoscopic imaging practically anywhere in the body (in vivo) -- multiphoton microscopy depicts cells and cell...Unexpected changes in Earth's climate observed on the dark side of the moon
...on be observations from Yunnan in China. A further improvement will be to automate the current manual observations. A prototype robotic telescope is being constructed while the team seeks funds to construct, calibrate and deploy a network of eight of them around the globe. "Even as the scientific community ackn...Published research contains 'high level of statistical errors'
...he quality of research and scientific papers needs improvement and should be more carefully checked and evaluated in these days of high publication pressure," write the authors. The errors seen could have been caused by transcription or typesetting errors, for example if a repeated zero was omitted. Alternativel...Small trial shows daclizumab add-on therapy improves MS outcome
...cale and in a test of hand function. The clinical improvement was unexpected in such a small trial, since a larger number of patients is usually required to show clinical effects. One patient with extremely high inflammation activity responded initially to daclizumab but, as disease activity returned, was give...Maxygen subsidiary Verdia announces discovery and improvement of glyphosate tolerance gene
... that confer glyphosate tolerance to plants. This improvement in enzyme activity may provide an alternative stra...TM recombination resulted in nearly a 10,000 fold improvement in enzyme activity over the parental enzymes. The ability to improve enzyme activity using the Mole...ADAM: Good enzyme for Alzheimer disease
...mation, and, from a functional standpoint provided improvement in both long-term potentiation and cognitive impairment. On the other hand, mice lacking ADAM10 had increased number and size of amyloid plaques. The data here provide evidence that a-secretase might be a useful therapeutic target for AD, and also ...JCI table of contents, 17 May 2004
...mation, and, from a functional standpoint provided improvement in both long-term potentiation and cognitive impairment. On the other hand, mice lacking ADAM10 had increased number and size of amyloid plaques. The data here provide evidence that alpha-secretase might be a useful therapeutic target for AD, and a...UC Riverside researchers develop low-carb corn with enhanced protein and oil
...to improve its nutrient and economic value. "Such improvement would be particularly important for those who depend on grain as their primary source of dietary protein which includes many people in the third world," said Gallie. Although food production is currently sufficient to feed the world's population, pro...New studies show Curves Program raises metabolic rate in overweight and sedentary women
...om their waists, while showing a 20- to-30-percent improvement in strength and a 15 percent increase in aerobic capacity. Their blood cholesterol, resting heart rate, and resting blood pressure also improved, reducing their odds against cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of women in the United States...Dietary supplement shows promise for improving immune function in the elderly
...ration of immune function is keenly needed for the improvement of quality of life in the elderly as this segment of the population is rapidly growing. The use of dietary manipulation and supplementation has been identified as a method of immune system renewal and dietary supplements such as 7-oxo DHEA may play a...Longer-term, moderate exercise improves immune activity
... Green-Johnson says, "It was gratifying to see the improvement in these older people in ways that should enable them to maintain their health and independence with advancing age." Dr. Murphy adds, "We believe the take home message is that there are several important health benefits for older people who choose to...'Meeting of the minds' leads new era in fight against cancer
...es. "AACR is committed to continual progress and improvement in this field, focusing on support for discoveries and breakthroughs to which the ultimate goal will be the feasible management of cancer," said Geoffrey Wahl, PhD, professor in the gene expression laboratory at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif....