The world's most powerful NMR spectrometer
...eader in high-powered NMR instrumentation, with 10 instruments at or above 500 MHz. Wright continued, "It's a very big deal to have the first major instrument of this type in this city. It reinforces our position at the leading edge of molecular and structural biology." NMR spectroscopy is a diagnostic tool fo...New satellite study shows vegetation increases in North America
...ere made in the visible and near-infrared bands of instruments on board several generations of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer satellites. Tucker and Los from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center produced the satellite measurements. "With the models ...Ribosome insight could help combat antibiotic resistance
...e Structural Biology Center provides the latest in instruments and other equipment for X-ray crystallography, a specialized research method for determining the molecular structure of materials....Ohio State chemists synthesize possible new anti-tumor agent
...hink about how the different instruments would play off each other." To obtain natural azinomycin A for comparison, they fermented a broth of Streptomyces bacteria, which Coleman says resembles a good Irish ale, and isolat......y studies indicating that people who learn musical instruments at a very young age have a higher incidence of absolute pitch. There are also studies showing a higher incidence among people who are blind, since the pitch of a moving car or a person's footsteps can provide important spatial cues. One the other h......echnology is the foundation for Orchid's SNPstream instruments and SNPware consumables that rapidly and cost effectively generate highly accurate SNP information. SNP-IT is adaptable to environments ranging from small-scale laboratories to large commercial facilities. Its versatility enables Orchid's Platform Pr...Researchers trace toxins from algal blooms through the marine food web in Monterey Bay
...hnology for monitoring domoic acid in the bay from instruments deployed on buoys. "Harmful algal blooms probably occur in all coastal regions, but Monterey Bay is likely to become one of the best understood places in this regard due to the strong marine research community here. We can learn not only a lot about...Unprecedented fire season in southern Africa aids air quality, climate change research
...nnesburg until I was directly overhead." With instruments on the ground, in the air, and in space, scientists were able to sample the chemistry and measure the thickness of the smoke plumes, map the movements of the haze layer, and investigate how the smoke and fine aerosol particles affect clouds. "Fo......e samples, Patterson and Lohmann created precision instruments and computer programs that allow them to take slic...f a grain of salt. The researchers used three such instruments for this study--one at SU, which Patterson developed in 1997, and two at the University of Michigan,...Bio-X awards $3 million in grants for imaginative interdisciplinary research and education projects
...ective for cross-disciplinary learning, as well as instruments for evaluating the effectiveness of such courses.`` The 3-unit course, which may be offered to graduate students as early as Spring 2001, will be coordinated by Parnes; Elizabeth Mellins, associate professor of pediatrics; Charles Kerns and Larry Lei...Marine genomics researchers discover new ocean protein
... Pharmacia Biotech's MegaBACE 1000 high-throughput instruments and DNA sequencing reagents at the company's Production Sequencing Laboratory in Sunnyvale. Through genomic analyses, the researchers determined that when exposed to light, the protein pumps ions across the cell membrane, the basic mechanism for gen......ted at more centers and is using different testing instruments to measure sexual function. Following that study, a larger yet Phase III clinical trial will likely be required before the Food and Drug Administration approves the testosterone patch for general treatment....The ultimate pocket protector--radiation detection made easy
...ombining two sensors like this before." Competing instruments are outclassed because the INEEL dosimeter provide...ector can outperform competing instruments. Other instruments cannot measure low-level neutrons in high gamma radiation fields as accurately. "The good thing ab...Unearthing the secrets of human skeletal remains
...mains," Ms Powell says. "Many of the geophysical instruments that have potential are used primarily for mineral exploration. They're not constructed for shallow burials, but I'm hoping they can be adapted for this purpose." A critical component of her research is time-time for the bodies to decay-as Ms Powe...Amazon rainforest field research facility opens for ecological, global change studies
... field station in the national forest with similar instruments will monitor the forest in its undisturbed state and after it is logged next year so scientists can study how the forest recovers. A third site outside the forest will monitor carbon and water exchanges in a pasture. With data from all these sites, s...Arctic ozone depletion linked to longevity of polar stratospheric clouds, according to studies
...ed satellites, aircraft, balloons and ground-based instruments operated from December 1999 through March 2000 by more than 200 scientists and support staff from the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia and Japan. Polar stratospheric clouds generally form about 13 miles above the poles when temperatures dro...DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
...pplication areas are atom lasers, atomic clocks or instruments with which the Earth's gravity can be accurately measured. Thanks to a number of space missions that have been planned for the next few years, Mars is going to become a focal point of interest internationally. The priority programme Mars and the Ter...... employing such devices in miniaturized biomedical instruments that are used to diagnose diseases and find new medicines, and are suitable for genetic applications. Thomas J. Meade, a faculty member in the division of biology at the Beckman Institute of the California Institute of Technology, will outline adva......ic capacities. Now, with the help of sophisticated instruments and video technology, a team of researchers has resolved the paradox and discovered a laid-back diving strategy that appears to be widespread among marine mammals. The researchers studied Weddell seals hunting beneath the ice in the Antarctic, ...