Researchers isolate gene that helps plants take in iron from soil
...cule of reductase collects electronsfrom chemicals manufactured inside the root cell and passes them onto ferriccompounds in the soil around the root. This converts the ferric compounds intoferrous compounds which can then be absorbed by the root cell. To isolate the gene that encodes the reductase enzyme, the D...Major New Study Shows HIV-1 Antibodies Found In Urine
...aFDA- licensed urine HIV-1 antibody screening test manufactured byCalypte Biomedical Corporation. An investigational new test showed that the 24 discordanturine-only reactive samples were repeatedly reactive for a particulartype of HIV antibody made mostly in the mucosal tissues, i.e.Immunoglobulin A antibody, a...New Findings On Receptor Regulation May Lead To Better Drugs For Diabetes
...also director of Penn's Diabetes Center. Rezulin, manufactured byParke-Davis, is the only TZD currently on the market; several TZD compounds arein clinical trials and others are at earlier stages of development. Unfortunately, as Lazar and coworkers discovered in 1996, when TZDactivates PPAR-gamma, fat c...Patented Bait System May Hold Answer To Combating Formosan Termites
...wemolt," Henderson says. "The paper bait is being manufactured and provided byEnsystex, the newest bait on the market." Termite baits are slow-acting and may take about six months toeffectively eliminate a problem, Henderson says. A cellulose-containing monitorcan be used to measure consumption and term...Ribozymes To The Rescue: New UF Gene Therapy Shows Promise For Treatment Of Inherited Blindness
... inherited human blindness. The weapon, a ribozyme manufactured in the laboratory, works by chopping up genetic messengers before they deliver the instructions of a mutant gene. "This is the first case we know of where ribozymes have been used to correct a disease in an animal in a way that realistically could b...New Device Brightens Recycling Efforts
...d by a group of Purdue University researchers and manufactured by SpectraCode Inc. in Purdue's Industrial Research Park, may help to save billions of pounds of plastics that now are landfilled or incinerated every year, says Edward Grant, Purdue professor of chemistry and chief executive officer of SpectraCod...New Research On Environmental Pollutants
...ls. Moreover, brominated flame retardants arestill manufactured and tests show that many of them degrade very slowly. Thepresence of brominated substances in sperm whales, which seek food at greatdepths, indicates that these pollutants are found at several hundred metersdepth in the Atlantic. Polybrominated Biph......king at using polyamide binders that also could be manufactured from local materials. NASA is studying technologies to make methane that could be used as fuel for the trip back to Earth. Variations on the equipment could make polymers that would be mixed with Mars dirt and cured in sunlight to make shielding bric...New Insights Into The Enigma Of Lengthening Longevity
...ough living organisms are vastly more complex than manufactured products mortality deceleration could be a general property of complex systems. As far as living organisms are concerned, these findings come as a big surprise in light of the traditional view that posits maxi...Fortified Drink Improves Third World Nutrition
... "It is also a simple approach that with a locally manufactured product widely distributed could be administered easily by mothers without any medical intervention." Latham previously reported that a single dose of medicine costing 20 cents a person could dramatically improve the health status of children and bo...Experimental Trial Combines DNA Vaccine With Triple-Drug Therapy To Stop HIV
...lth, and the experimental vaccine for the trial is manufactured by ApollonInc., a biotechnology firm located in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center's sponsored research ranksfifth in the United States, based on grant support from the National Institutesof Health, the prim...Pitt Researchers Construct Novel Delivery System For Gene Therapy Of Liver Disorders
... the researchers also found that hAAT proteinswere manufactured and released into the bloodstream where they were detected forup to 60 days after the initial injection. By injecting the genetically-altered RCRs directly into the livers ofmice (through the portal vein), the researchers reported a 100-f...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...vision of American Home Products Corp., and is now manufactured byWyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics, a unit of Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. ***Background*** NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases has been involved in studies ofgastroenteritis since the late 1960s. "It's very exciting to see something fromth...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...an producing gamma raystwo nights after they first manufactured ultraviolet laser light. The researchersbegan by introducing an extra electron bunch into the FEL lab's electronring. Traveling at nearly the speed of light, the extra electron bunch arrivedin the laser's optical cavity at the precise instant that u...