Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...Biolistic particle delivery system, the "gene gun" invented at Cornell by plant biologist John Sanford and electrical engineer Edward Wolf. Cornell Research Foundation has applied for patents on the transgenic rice technologies. Now that molecular biologists know how to transfer the insect-resistance gene to...Moving DNA Molecules With Magnetic Tweezers
...With magnetic force, it'snon-invasive." Wirtz, who invented the device three years ago as a postdoctoralstudent in Europe, is reconstructing it in a new lab at Hopkins.Here, he hopes to turn the magnetic surgery idea intoreality. He has attracted more than $500,000 in federal andprivate grants to continue stu...Laser Microscope At Cornell Images Serotonin In Live Cells
...rgic response, but to a broad range of areas. Webb invented the technology for scanning laser microscopy in 1989 with Winfried Denk, now at AT&T Bell Labs, and Jim Strickler, now at McKinsey Co., and has been using it since for biophysical investigations with pre- and post-doctoral students. Cornell holds a ......including one who is himself adouble-amputee, have invented equipment to grant Rickels'wish. Students Mili Ashar, Jay Humphries and Aaron Kim developed amechanism that allows Rickels to attach a power drill, power sawor power screwdriver to his prosthetic arms without help fromanother person. Rickels made his...Bacterium gobbles up chlorinated pollutants
...," Zinder said. "Then what was it doing before we invented chlorinated ethylenes?" Gossett asked. "It's true, there are some natural levels (of chlorinated ethylenes) in nature, but not in the high concentrations normally needed to support growth." The evolutionary origin of Strain 195 is just one of the q...Where Fossils Fear To Tread: Scientists Follow Genes To An Ancient Ancestor
...ich most of world's animals subsequently derived - invented a set of body-building genetic machinery so succes...at work. "Everybody thought the wheel was invented again and again and again," Carroll said, "but there was a single solution and everything is a modif...New, Environmentally Friendly Technique For Separating Liquids Invented At UNC-CH
... or both, and they are expensive. "What we invented was a process that allows carbon dioxide to be used toreplace these organic solvents in liquid-liquid extractions." A report on the chemical process appears in the Sept. 25 issue ofNature, a scientific journal. Besides DeSimone, UNC-C...Hurdle In Ulcer Vaccine Development Cleared
... To find the BabA protein, Borén's group invented a clever techniquecalled ReTagging (Receptor Activity Directed Affinity Tagging). First, theresearchers attached several Leb molecules to a large protein called albumin,creating a structure that looked like a potato stuck with toothpicks. Then theyad...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
... monoxide is present." Miremadi has invented a system that can differentiate between gases: "My system is like a sniffing camera which can find any gas and identify it. Currently, you can only buy a sensor that can detect one particular gas. Our unit can detect ...New Sensor Will Detech Chemical And Biological Pathogens At Incredibly Small Doses
...e of his previous work. He adapted a technology he invented that is employed to purify pharmaceuticalspresent in blood plasma at trace levels. By combining his scientific processwith an optical fiber sensing device, Velander and Murphy have found that theycan "capture biological warfare agents" that were prev...Scientists Invent Faster Gene Function Identification System
...THENS, Ohio -- Researchers at Ohio University have invented a new wayto identify gene function in a matter of ...ts at Ohio University's Edison BiotechnologyCenter invented several years ago. In order to block gene function, scientistsmust keep the gene from producing its ...MIT's Mini Respirator Breathes Life Into Mutant Mice
...babies that has been tested on rabbits. He hasalso invented two different gadgets to help babies trigger ventilators. One ispatented, the other patent pending. Harvard Apparatus Inc., a local scientific instrumentation company,licensed the mouse respirator and will soon market a commercial version. T......ize of a common bacterial cell. This method was invented and worked out by groups at the Cornell University, Ithaca, at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, and at the Max Planck Institute, Gttingen; nowadays it has found its way into several laboratories and companies all over the world as a t...New Gene Therapy Technique Results In 60 Percent Tumor Regression Rate
...ompany have used a nonviral gene expression system invented hereseveral years ago to eliminate human cancer cells in animals, achieving a 60percent tumor regression rate without the potential dangers associated withconventional viral gene therapy techniques. Scientists in the university's Edison Biot...Molecular "Fossils" Of Early Life
... "This is exactly what you would expect if RNA invented these processesduring the 'RNA World,'" Breaker said. "Because DNA is about a million timesmore stable than RNA, DNA most likely evolved later as a safe storehouse for the genetic code first found in RNA. Similarly, proteinsprobably evolved that we...New Device To Alleviate Distress Caused By Tinnitus
...the maddening ringing, a company in New Jersey has invented a devicethat makes a bone behind the ear vibrate. The Aurex-3, developed by ADM Tronics in New Jersey, works by pressing a smallvibrating probe onto the mastoid bone behind the ear. The cochlea-the coiledpart of the inner ear that turns mechani...Bioreactor Grows Cells That Produce Possible Anti-Cancer Protein
...US, Ohio -- Ohio State University researchers have invented a device that grows human tumor cells in an artificial medium in order to produce a protein for possible cancer treatment. The device, called a fibrous-bed bioreactor (FBB), is capable of growing cells for a variety of applications incl...Hutch Researcher Wins 'Nobel Prize Of Applied Research'
...recognition also will go to a gene-transfer system invented byDusty Miller, Ph.D, a gene-therapy researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer ResearchCenter in Seattle. He will receive the award -- dubbed "the Nobel Prize ofapplied research" and "the Oscars of invention" -- on Thursday, Sept. 24 at ablack-tie banquet...Living Bone Created By University of Toronto Researchers
...roughout a new type ofbiodegradable polymeric foam invented by biomaterials professor John Davies,chemical engineering professor Molly Shoichet and doctoral student Chantal Holy. When implanted to fill a gap or fracture, the foam can be seeded with thepatient's own bone stem cells to create living tissue. ...... for more than a century, Japaneseresearchers have invented a new technique for storing human organs fortransplant. The team, which has successfully revived a rat's heart after 10 days instorage, says the work may lead to organ banks similar to blood banks. Thesewould allow doctors to avoid the franti...