Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
...own time. The TransRovr's lightweight, three-piece modular construction makes thewheelchair easy to pick up and transport in a car's trunk or back seat. Theseat portion of the unit, expected to be provided by Superior UnlimitedCorp. of Bristol, sits atop a platform propelled by three sphericalcasters. A spin...Scientists Determine 3-D Crystal Structure Of Cancer-Causing Protein
... an external signal. Thisclustering is mediated by modular units that carry the phosphorylatedtyrosines, or phosphotyrosines. One of these modular units, Src homology (SH)domain 2, is a signaling molecule that enables interactions and containsdock...Emerging Field Of Industrial Ecology
...ies are revertingto the earlier approach of making modular components that can be replaced whenthey wear out or become obsolete. Some laptop computer companies, for example,advertise replaceable keyboards, interchangeable screens and alternative discdrives. Find the need, which means making inno...Sex-Specific Behavior Controlled By Peripheral Nervous System
...ts can only work because the fiddler crab has this modular chemosensory structure -- its claw. This would be verydifficult to do in vertebrates. "And these experiments are also powerful because of the greaterpossibility of doing a number of different experiments," said Derby, one of Weissburg'smentor......Marshall will develop and integrate. The MSRF is a modular facility comprising three autonomous Materials ScienceResearch Racks (MSRR) for research in the microgravity environment on spacestation. It will house materials processing furnaces and common systems requiredto operate the furnaces. Each research ra...Montana Hantavirus Study Looks At Why The Mouse Goes Into The House
..."hotel experiment,"Douglass set up three identical modular buildings at ranches near Butte andCascade, Mont. The buildings have holes in each side, a grid on the floor andfluorescent dust at every entry. The dust coats the rodents so researchers cancount the squares the mice visit. One building is b...Biomedical engineers working to help kids with special needs
...eirclassroom. They also built 4-inch tall, modular boxes a foot-and-a-half square thatchildren can get to light up, vibrate or play music by pushing on them with somestrength. A third project relating to speech therapy and language instructioninvolved developing a digital version of a card reader tha...Microbial janitors tackle nuclear clean-up problems
...ully controlled. BNFL has customized a portable modular containment system to control thehumidity around the gel applied to the concrete test site. "We're actuallyusing a humidifier that you could buy at Wal-Mart for this test," said BNFL'sMilner, "although one of our engineers has souped it up a little...Researchers show that proteins can transmit heritable traits
...covery that a yeast prion called Sup35 consists of modular sections, or domains, that can be attached to othe...in. "The fact that these prion domains proved so modular and transferable, as revealed in these papers, proved quite a surprise," said Lindquist. "Since prio...Emerging 'R&D' patterns in genes may reduce evolution's risks
... the same family if they have essentially the same modular organization along their length," Hedgecock explains. "They're made of the same parts in the same order. Superfamilies are a higher structural class, and that only means that the proteins share an individual domain, but they may differ--be unrelate...Two programs will follow up on Human Genome Project
...ering. The goal of this center is to develop modular microscale devices, built from a hybrid integration of state-of-the-art manufacturing methods with key technologies drawing directly from those used to manufacture integrated circuits (computer chips). These Microsystems will detect and analyze how, ...Stanford researchers develop system for field testing mechanisms of evolution
.... As anyone who plays with Legos can testify to, a modular body plan greatly increases the options for tweaking designs over time. "The goal of this project was to develop a system that makes it possible to bring what we know in the laboratory about molecular genetics and begin applying it in the fiel...Biosensor research expands globally to reach a variety of key industries
...technique to fashion polymers. This involves using modular polymer scaffolds that are programmed to attract building block molecules. Chemical interactions cause these components to self-assemble into the desired complex structure. Scientists are equipping a biosensor with an on-board biofuel cell to replace...Scientists switch components in cell circuits: Possible new technology, therapy
... different ways. We showed that the components are modular the equivalent of electronic components. By mixi...on, nature has repeatedly used the same or similar modular components for different functions. "If you build some machine that is perfectly engineered for one...University of Delaware lays keel for new research vessel
...ls," UD's new ship will feature a state-of-the-art modular design and clean, quiet operation. It will be the first ship in the U.S. academic research fleet to meet international underwater noise standards, which are based on the hearing ability of fish. The total cost of constructing the vessel and outfittin...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
... spatio-temporal aspects of signaling. By using a modular modeling approach, we will iteratively build toward our goal of producing a validated computational model of the complex signaling processes used in cellular communication. HOD LIPSON Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. URI ALON Weizmann Institute o...Measurement clarifies role between protein structure and cell adhesion
...s cells together through bonds formed between five modular regions called domains. Previous studies had gener...r Advanced Science and Technology. "The protein's modular architecture permits the formation of multiple bonds that engage different modules, which allowed us...Labs-on-a-chip to detect milk contamination
...ves, channels, mixers, pumps, and filters. Beebe's modular approach allows the flexibility to design and fabricate a wide range of test chips from a single toolbox of components. "Multiple functions such as diluting and mixing blood, separating whole blood to serum and cells, and detecting botulinum toxin in...Biocompatibility to widen scope of biomaterial applications
...designer polymers from a beaker by programming the modular polymer scaffolds to attract building blocks of small molecules. This 'one-beaker' process aims at simplifying the synthesis of designer polymers through self-assembly using combinatorial chemistry. Researchers have used the same 'one-beaker' princip......science and application of cutting-edge biological modular microsystems." "This center draws upon the significant amount of investment by the state and the university in micro- and nano-fabrication," said Soper. "It brings a diverse group of people under one roof to draw major national funding and respect....