Brain disease research, particle physics meet in the middle (ware)
... other disorders. With the participating research labs connected by the Internet2 high-performance network, the BIRN cyberinfrastructure uses software from the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) to harness grid-based services and resources for the demanding computational tasks of data mining, analysis and v...New insight into cancer metastasis
...egulatory proteins that have been studied in other labs and have properties very similar to those of Twist. The other regulators undoubtedly will play important roles in other types of human metastatic cancer." ...Macrophages, not stem cells, correct liver disease by fusion
...entiation of the transplanted stem cells. "Various labs have reported that bone marrow or blood stem cells are like super cells. They can turn into anything liver, lung, brain, muscle," Grompe said. "Our thought was that blood stem cells are really there to repair all tissues, and we showed that you can ...Plant pathologists look to forensics to aid in biosecurity
...ng how to apply techniques typically used in crime labs as a tool to fight bioterrorism. According to Jacqueline Fletcher, plant pathology professor, Oklahoma State University, the potential for microbes to be used with an intent to harm people, societies, or the environment has generated renewed interest...Something's fishy about new NIST food standard
...0 federal, state, academic, industrial and foreign labs performed measurements that contributed to the assigned values for the SRM....Computer database being developed at Temple will allow for better inventory of chemicals
...ill keep an inventoried record of chemicals in all labs across campus and screen for hazardous chemicals, ...an emergency such as a fire. The people in the labs need to know what theyre working with and whats hazardous, he explains. In the case of an emergency...Computer scientists at UH developing 'nurturing' computers
... even go to the doctor. In some computer science labs at the University of Houston, such human-computer interaction is becoming a reality. Ioannis Pavlidis, associate professor of computer science at UH, and his Infrared Imaging Group at UH's computer science department in the College of Natural Scienc...Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...t new ideas and put them into practice in research labs across the globe....K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...ates. "K-State is working with some of the premier labs in the world on this project, which is being funded by the National Science Foundation." said Steve Welch, professor in the university's agronomy department and the lead K-State researcher on the project. "We'll be studying ecology and genomics (gene...... forming HAP crystals. There are only a handful of labs capable of doing this, Shaw said, and there are more proteins than there are people to look at them all. The NMR data complement previous results, suggesting that proteins function is to interact with HAP specifically. The carboxyl terminus of the pr...Rice finds 'on-off switch' for buckyball toxicity
... that chemists do every day in university research labs and in industry," Colvin said. "Moreover, we believe the technique can prove useful in tuning the toxicity of other nanoparticles." The researchers postulate that cell death in the tests occurred via physical disruption of the cell membrane by oxygen...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...d others with a compromised immune system. "Our labs identified the viral and host proteins that compose the HCMV virion," said Jay Nelson, Ph.D., director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) and a study co-author. "By identifying the proteins in the HCMV virion, we hope to develop ne...Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...ly opened my mind to what goes on in real research labs and became a big influence in my career choice." ...ly opened my mind to what goes on in real research labs and became a big influence in my career choice." Robert Merson "It was my firs...