Learning From Birds And Bees: Engineers Study Insects For Ideas On Tiny "Micro Air Vehicles"
...to single chips. Progress to date hasdemonstrated integrated image acquisition, processing and datacompression, including demonstration of optical-through- waferinterconnects. Drs. JoyLaskar , Nan MarieJokerst , MartinBrooke , AprilBrown and ScottWills in the School ofElectrical and Computer Engineeri...A Drug Pump On A Computer Chip
...icrometer or less. The field, which developed from integrated circuit fabrication techniques, has recently expanded into the medical device market. "No company wants to build hospital infusion pumps any longer, since the whole health care system is striving to keep people out of hospitals," Huff said. "Dru...Biological Clocks No Longer Found Only In The Brain
...erstanding how the timing of cellular functions is integrated in complex organisms," says Christopher Platt, program director in NSF's neuroscience program. "This advance shows how basic research with a model system has a broad impact on fields from agriculture to human biology." According to Kay, "Our fi...Pitt Researchers Construct Novel Delivery System For Gene Therapy Of Liver Disorders
...fully used them to deliver the hAAT gene, whichwas integrated into 10 percent of cells in the liver and led to the productionof hAAT proteins. Based on these findings, we feel they are one of the bestnon-viral vectors," commented Dr. Huang. Once a gene is expressed, the information it contains beco......on of food wastes co-generation in food processing integrated farming concepts designed to recycle agricultural wastes into the production process. 1978-80 The section continued to seek out new markets and projects toreplace declining demand in conventional areas, such as biomass and foodproduction and pr..."Discovering Biological Diversity" Is AAAS Topic For USGS Manager
...will examineboth the successes and the barriers to integrated information sharing. As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the USGS works in cooperationwith more than 2000 organizations ac...Emerging Field Of Industrial Ecology
...as their predecessors. The ultimate example is the integrated circuit, Graedel said, in which packingdensity has increased exponentially since 1960. Less energy intensity, which means adopting manufacturing processesthat require less energy and contribute less carbon dioxide to the globalwarming proble......obial sequences in return. The aim is toproduce an integrated and user-friendly system for bacterial identification thatcan be used in many applications, says Dewhirst. Scientists from other academic institutions have also joined thecollaboration. The result, which has been partially released, is PE Ap...USGS To Study Young Forests And Streamsides In Western Oregon
...ohn Hayes,"because CFER's goals and objectives are integrated and interdisciplinary andrequire a broad range of experience. Teamwork is essential to ensure a highlevel of integration in all aspects of program development and execution." The Oregon State University Colleges of Forestry and Agricultural Sciences......environmental sciences. This meeting represents an integrated approach to environmental statistics inthat it covers not only the statistical methods but also the associated datacollection issues and policy issues. It will also cover a systematic account ofthe problems of formulating environmental policies, wit...New Machine Slashes Time, Cost To Make Unique Lenses
...nses now used to make computer chips by tracingout integrated circuits on wafers of silicon. "Aspheres are better than spherical lenses in theseapplications because they bend light rays more precisely," saysPresident Donald Golini of Rochester optics firm QEDTechnologies, which was not part of the consorti...DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...icrosystems. Such systemsare actuator systems with integrated sensors, power electronics and control systems which areembedded in a mechanical carrier structure. The usefulness of the newly developed methodswill then be demonstrated in a prototype model. The objective - which is also of great interestto industr...Taking The "Ouch" Out Of Needles: Arrays Of "Microneedles" Offer New Technique For Drug Delivery
...icrofabrication techniques originally developedfor integrated circuits, the researchers have so far built solid siliconmicroneedle arrays 10 millimeterssquare. The existing needles are 150 microns long and leave holes about onemicron in diameter when removed from the skin. Prausnitz and Allen expect further d...'Molecular' Computers? Munich/UD Researchers Report First Glimpse Of Artificial Molecule In Action
...ing of realsystems. As conventional, semiconductor integrated circuits keep shrinking, van der Weidenotes, the n...a dual-source spectrometer,incorporating a pair of integrated circuits for generating these short pulses,thereby "communicating with the traveling electron by int...NASA Funds New Origin Of Life Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
...iology, radiation health,bioregenerative life, and integrated physiology. A second NSCORT on the originof life already exists on the West Coast in a cooperative effort betweenscientists at the University of California at San Diego, the Salk Institute, andthe Scripps Research Foundation. That center focuses more...NCI Awards Hopkins $3.8 Million For Cancer Genetics Network
... However, much of this new knowledge has not been integrated orhas been improperly integrated into medical practice. In far too many cases,the genetic cancer risk assessments being presented t......Vertexapproaches functional genomics as part of an integrated discovery platform,"said Dr. Joshua Boger, Chairman, President, and CEO of Vertex. "This researchclarifying the relationship between caspases and their activity in body tissuesgreatly increases our understanding of which caspases are appropriate tar...New Environmental Monitoring System To Reduce Costs And Improve Efficiency
...ls, solvents, and petroleumoil and lubricants. The integrated optic interferometric sensors weredeveloped over t...ges in the transmitted laserlight. The sensors are integrated into the E-SMART team's standardized smartsensor networks that collect, manage and analyze the senso...Gene Therapy Showing Promise In Fighting Melanoma
...ated by the beads,the new genetic material becomes integrated into the cell and the cytokine isproduced. With this therapy, the animal's immune response is improved by the increase incytokine production. The cytokines "train" the immune system to recognize andkill tumor cells, Hogge said. Cancer vaccines and ge......oping a multi-element detector array andassociated integrated circuits to process the signals. Ultimately, Paulus hopes the MicroCAT will allow automated screening of mice,which will enable genetics researchers to quickly scan mice and look atphenotypes using a computer program. This will become increasingly im...