Researchers Find How Disease-resistant Plants Recognize Bacteria
...nd yelling 'I'm over here!' Why it does this is an ongoing puzzle," Martin says. "It's possible that the bacterial signal proteins may increase bacterial growth in plants that lack the resistance gene." The research at Purdue is funded by the National Science Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Found...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
...inated soil and water. Their work would supplement ongoing commercial efforts to use plants for toxic cleanup. Phytotech, a phytoremediation company based in New Jersey, has used floating rafts of sunflowers to clean up radioactive Chernobyl water. Dangling sunflower roots pull both cesium 137 and strontium ...Enhancin Protein Attacks Insect Immune System
ITHACA, N.Y. -- In the ongoing bout with plant pests, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. , located at Cornell University, have found a one-two punch. The researchers have discovered and cloned a protein that, when delivered into an insect's gut by...Cut Pesticide Use In Half, Urges SFU Biologist
...: People vs.Pests, a persuasive indictment of our ongoing - and futile - chemicalbattle to rid ourselves of ... 1992 gypsy moth spray programin Vancouver and the ongoing coddling moth controversy in the Okanagan -to illustrate the complex political, economic, biological......ve sitesof the helicase enzyme, are a focus of our ongoing drug design efforts." Helicases are enzymes distin...lieve will provide opportunities to accelerate our ongoing efforts todesign potent and specific drugs against hepatitis C," said Dr. Paul Caron,Vertex biophysi...Experimental Trial Combines DNA Vaccine With Triple-Drug Therapy To Stop HIV
...ne products from the nine full genes active in the ongoing infection? "Historically, the most powerful immune response results from a naturalinfection," notes MacGregor. "A case of chicken pox gives you better immunitythan the chicken pox vaccine, for example. So, it was counterintuitive to me inour ...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
...iry farmsin the New York City watershed through an ongoing program to ensureenvironmental safety of drinking water supplies. Another way to trace DT104'spotential path through the food supply would be testing at meat-packing plantsin the Northeast, where Cornell scientists conducted a 1995-96 study of possi...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...ct to improve productivity. Imada anticipates that ongoing work to improve the total system process including packaging, storage, and delivery of food products and supplies, and managerial processes eventually will result in a much greater increase in productivity. Fine assembly workstations. Typical workst......pectrometrictechniques. The results are part of an ongoing collaboration designed to changethe diagnosis and management of AIDS and to optimize its therapeutic approach byallowing physicians to rapidly measure the efficacy of a drug or treatmentmodality in an individual patient. This diagnostic technique ma...Salve From Serpents? UD Studies May Explain Why Viper-Venom Protein Stops Tumor Spread In Mice
...(Vol. 219, pp. 571-578,1995). Since then, McLane's ongoing molecular biology studies of eristostatin havefocused on a protruding section of amino acids--the RGD loop, composed ofarginine, glycine and aspartic acid--which is known to play a key role inbinding with integrins. To learn more about the RGD loop, ...New Sickle-Clawed Fossil From Madagascar Links Birds And Dinosaurs
... The discovery was made during one of a series of ongoing paleontologicalexpeditions in Madagascar, funded by NSF. In addition to Rahona, the scientificteam discovered an array of well-preserved skeletal remains of other fossilanimals, including theropod and sauropod dinosaurs, mammals, turtles, snakes,cro...AAAS, State Of Arizona Co-Host Conference On Research And Development
...righter." The conference is the 10 th in an ongoing series of regional and state conferences that theAAAS has been hosting since 1996, examining the impact of research and development forselected states and regions, and is accompanied by a written report from the AAAS. The reportanalyzes Arizona's com...Rapid Progress Reported On New Class Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
..., so this information, along withinsights from the ongoing studies in the three Duke laboratories, will beimportant for further development of inhibitory drugs." In an interview before the symposium, Casey said that as many as eightU.S. pharmaceutical companies, as well as companies in Europe and Ja......ectant mothers and nonsmoking pregnant women in an ongoing study evaluating anumber of biomarkers of tobacco exposure, genetic susceptibility to cancer andearly biological effects of cancer-causing agents. They studied the incidenceof mutations in the gene for glycophorin A (GPA), a molecule found in themem...Environmental Impact Of Antifouling Paints And Tributyltin Regulations
...hulls. TheInternational Maritime Organization has ongoing discussions about the harmfuleffects of the TBT paints, but the search to develop alternative systems toTBT-based paints for ships hulls which are equivalent in performance and areenvironmentally safe has proved to be a complex problem, says Uwe Schn...Environmental Technology Breakthroughs Forecast -- Year 2008
...l impacts by2008." This is the first of an ongoing dialogue to forecast the directionenvironmental science and technology is heading in the 21st century, accordingto Stokes. "Our hope is to provide this look ahead on an annual basis to helpenhance public understanding and government decision making,...Florida Or Bust? Older Lab Rats Seek Heat To Fight Infection, UD Researchers Report
...ely ward off sickness by huddlingin hot spots, and ongoing studies of their behavior may suggest drug-freestrategies to help older people fight infections, University of Delawareresearchers reported today at the Experimental Biology '98 meeting. "Most older rats, like many older people, either don't get feve...Cystic Fibrosis Gene Protects Against Typhoid Fever
... applications in vaccine research, particularly in ongoing efforts todevelop S. typhi-based vaccine delivery vehicles. S. typhi stripped of its ability to cause disease is an attractive tool forvaccine researchers. Vaccines based on this gastrointestinal pathogen would bedelivered orally, and thus might be ......lum development inastrobiology and help coordinate ongoing research with the work of scientists at otherinstitutions around the country. Planned to take advantage of the next generation of internet technology, the NASAAstrobiology Institute will be administered by Ames Research Center in California, N......clinical indications. The company is conducting an ongoing pivotalPhase III trial for the treatment of FAP (APC). In December 1997, the companyinitiated Phase II/III trials of FGN-1 for the treatment of sporadic adenomatouscolonic polyps and for the prevention of prostate cancer recurrence. A pilotstudy of F...