Purdue researchers discover basis for biological clock
... could prove anything conclusively, though, so the physicists had a field day arguing about it." The argument was more than just an intellectual exercise. Even in the early 1960s, scientists knew that cancer patients and the elderly often experienced disorders thought to be related to the biological clock. As ...Physics tip sheet #30 - January 9, 2003
...petition and how did it come about? In this paper, physicists have developed a minimal model of genome evolution and growth that matches the statistics of real DNA quite well. In their model, either single letter mutations are allowed, or a random length of DNA can be copied from somewhere in the string and ins...American Physical Society March Meeting 2003
...aper A25.1). Other topics: cultivating physics and physicists in Africa (H2); radiation processing in food packa...ertain conditions. PLENARY TALKS Five prominent physicists will look at the future of research in their respective fields. Frank Wilczek (MIT) will explain how...NIH study shows MRI provides faster, more accurate way to diagnose heart attacks
...he clinical setting," added Balaban. "Working with physicists and engineers, we hope to further develop MRI to provide even more precise imaging and quantifiable ways to measure coronary blockages. "MRI is a noninvasive imaging tool that we can now interact with in 'real time' allowing us to see soft tissues,...Discovery of size changes of Bacillus spores may lead to simpler, faster anthrax detector
...tion of Bacillus spores like anthrax, according to physicists at the University of California, Berkeley. The swe...ng up in mail at spots around the East Coast. Both physicists had experience measuring microscopic objects during more than a decade spent searching for the minus...Mathematical models reveal 'molten' and 'glassy' states of RNA
AUSTIN, Texas -- Mathematical models have given physicists a new look at DNA's chemical counterpart, RNA. The models -- showing that RNA behaves differently depending on the temperature of its environment -- may help biologists better ...Laser micro-scalpel yields biological insights into tissue dynamics
...inary Duke research team that includes biologists, physicists and a mathematician. It was this broad collaboration, said the scientists, that enabled them to refine the laser scalpel, to perform the microsurgery to dissect the fly tissue and to model the forces involved in key developmental machinery. Dorsa...Physics tip sheet #34 - April 1, 2003
...trino data from a range of experiments has allowed physicists to constrain the contribution of the CNO cycle from the 99.95% previous bound all the way down to 7.3%. To bring this limit down further will require direct measurements of neutrinos generated in the CNO cycle. Physics News Update: http://www.aip.or...A kindler, gentler cut for LASIK
...rgical procedure were developed by a joint team of physicists and ophthalmologists from the University of Michigans Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS), its biomedical engineering department and the Kellogg Eye Center. Intralase Corporation, a university spin-off, commercialized the technology and curre...DFG to establish nine new collaborative research centres
...the research network will bring mathematicians and physicists together and will cooperate with scientists at the University of Dsseldorf and the Warsaw Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The comprehensive research perspective aims to develop the theoretical bases for new quantum t...UCLA physicists create nanoscale sensor
UCLA physicists have created a first-of-its-kind nanoscale sensor using a single molecule less than 20 nanometers long -- more than 1,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair -- the team reports in the June 24 issue of the Proceedings of the National Aca...Research on relative species abundance provides new theoretical foundation
...together. The paper in Nature includes research by physicists Jayanth Banavar and Igor Volkov of Penn State University and Amos Maritan of the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, along with Hubbell. Conventional ecological theory says that species coexist with one another by being diffe...New NASA facility will help protect space crews from radiation
...he safety of spacecraft crews, NASA biologists and physicists will perform thousands of experiments at the new $34 million NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) commissioned today at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. The laboratory, built in cooperation between NASA...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2003
...r making the super heavy elements that have eluded physicists for some 40 years. Experiments by Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicists Dan Shapira and Felix Liang have demonstrated an enhancement of the tunneling effect that permits tw...With nature's help, a better vision system for smart weapons
...ative approach of Holloway's team of engineers and physicists relies on diffractive optics, which uses interference effects to redirect light in different directions rather than bending it. Their vision for the technology merges the developments of a 19th-century French physicist named Augustin Fresnel with a m...Science's breakthrough of the year: Illumination of the dark, expanding universe
...ecules: New collaborations between biologists and physicists captured the activities of individual molecules inside cells. Research this year offered a look at molecular motors, colored nanocrystal tags attached to cell receptors and a single enzyme digesting DNA. Starbursts and Gamma Rays: ...Salk news: Understanding organ placement
... Institute team of biologists, mathematicians, and physicists has uncovered a novel paradigm for cell communicat...approaches between biologists, mathematicians, and physicists working together will lead to long-term breakthroughs in biological research."...JGI launches community sequencing program
... on biomedical applications, says Rubin. "Just as physicists and climatologists submit proposals to get time on accelerators and supercomputers to address fundamental questions, we are inviting investigators to bring to the JGI important scientific challenges that can be informed with at least 10 million basep...Breast cancer follow-ups 'no longer guess-work' thanks to new physics research
...wing cost of healthcare provision, new research by physicists could help divert funds into frontline treatment such as chemotherapy drugs and better imaging technology. Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in England and Wales and one in nine women will develop breast cancer at some point in their l...Design of composite materials that detect terahertz discovered
A team of physicists and engineers from the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Los Angeles and Imperial College, London have developed a class of materials that respond magnetically to terahertz radiation, a fundamental finding relevant to...