Michigan receives NCRR grant for tomorrow's proteomics technology
...s generates massive amounts of data, which must be processed and stored in powerful, high-speed computers. And, just to keep things interesting, the technology is moving so fast, it is usually outdated within two to three years. "This additional funding from the National Center for Research Resources will make...Pollutant-eating microbe could speed gasworks cleanup
...e evidence" proving that the naphthalene was being processed by microorganisms. Part of this evidence was that the bacteria in the sediment produced carbon dioxide (CO2) labeled with carbon-13. In addition, the same bacteria incorporated carbon-13 into their nucleic acids. After extraction of nucleic acids f...Awareness of GM foods increasing, while overall support slipping
...vely low. Estimates suggest that as much as 80% of processed food in the United States may contain a component ... author on the study. "But bottom line, if you eat processed foods, you're probably eating GM ingredients." One reason Americans may be unaware of the presence o...New scheduling method raises efficiency of electronics recycling
...than 1.5 billion pounds of electronic equipment is processed every year in the United States, and the quantity ...he more than 1.5 billion pounds of electronic junk processed annually includes about 40 million discarded computer components like printers, monitors and CPUs, a...University of Toronto professor turns hemp into auto parts
... and Applied Chemistry, creates biocomposites from processed plant fibres. His latest research, published in the August issue of Materials Research Innovations and the July issue of Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, describes a way to create a material from hemp (a member of the cannabis family) that i...UCSD researchers discover gene able to suppress retrovirus insertion mutations
...A in the nucleus is transcribed into RNA, which is processed and exported to the cytoplasm. This mRNA is then translated to make proteins. However, when a retrovirus invades a cell, it sometimes inserts a copy of itself into a gene of the host cell. As a result, the host gene may be poorly expressed and dep...Scientists switch components in cell circuits: Possible new technology, therapy
...owth or movement. The signals are transmitted and processed by groups of proteins linked in specific circuits. Focusing on a protein that directs cell movement, the researchers were able to substitute key parts of the protein so that the reaction driving cell movement came under the control of new signals. T...Americans' knowledge of genetically modified foods remains low and opinions on safety still split
...ne. Although it has been estimated that 70-75% of processed foods in grocery stores contain GM foods, just 24% of Americans believe they have eaten GM foods while 58% say they have not, suggesting that Americans continue not to recognize the extent to which GM foods are present in foods they eat every day. ...Salk News: Social behavior genes
...r years in an effort to understand how language is processed in the brain and what genes may be involved. Very rarely, an individual with Williams syndrome has a slightly smaller or larger gene deletion than is typical for the syndrome. The researchers analyzed the genetic deletion of a two-year-old girl with ...New tool helps researchers bone up on osteoporosis
... or give them away free, she said. If hens are not processed for meat, then producers need an environmentally safe and economical way to dispose of the birds once their egg-producing days are over. The estimated U.S. annual economic loss because the egg layers aren't used for meat products is $18 million, Hest...JCI Table of Contents, 15 August 2003
...ells detect extracellular pathogens that have been processed and presented on the surface of MHC class II molecules. This presentation process requires the activity of lysosomal proteases such as the cathepsins, which degrade the MHC class II chaperone invariant chain to generate class IIassociated invariant c...Hypothesis linking flying foxes to high incidence of ALS/PDC gets boost from new study
...tain BMAA, the concentrations of the neurotoxin in processed cycad flour is believed to be too low to be toxic, and therefore their consumption was not associated with immediate ill effects. Compared to the high concentrations in bat skins, the concentration of BMAA in the unprocessed seeds averaged 9 ug/g. "T...Enhanced nutrition could result from rice research leading to high-protein flour
...ciency of starch bioprocessing. These seeds can be processed to simultaneously produce high-protein rice flour and sugar syrups for human consumption and broad industrial uses. A similar approach could also be applied to other cereals, e.g., maize, which might offer even less production cost than rice. Result...SARS information for antiviral drug design released by Protein Data Bank
...ompany deposited its data with the PDB, which were processed rapidly by a team at Rutgers to make the data available in the public database. "Having the three-dimensional structure of the SARS virus protease should accelerate the search for effective treatments for SARS," said Eddy Arnold, professor, Rutgers...DNA profiling used on cannabis plants
...ice investigating the production or sale of highly processed or synthetic drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy. Nor does the team think it would work with hashish, which is made from resin exuded by cannabis plants, as not enough cellular material can be recovered. If the cannabis profiling technique does prove t...Researchers use lab cultures to create robotic 'semi-living artist'
...ransmitted over a two-way communication system and processed both in Atlanta and Perth to control the robotic drawing arm. Depending on how the neuro-electrical activity fires, the robotic arm will draw on a portion of the canvas or choose how many colored markers to use at one time and which colors it will us...Burning forests speedily space-mapped for fire fighters
...d passed on to Spanish prime contractor INSA to be processed for products, delivered to users and validated with GPS readings taken on the ground. Before BIRD had completed a single orbit, local fire fighters had been provided with geo-referenced hot-spot maps together with a risk index indicating where the b...Tissue-engineered bone speeds healing in laboratory tests
...colide), a polymer used in sutures. The polymer is processed in a unique way to yield the open, sponge-like structure with pores more than 10 times larger than those that result from conventional processing. Animal studies show that the scaffold provides an intricate framework for dense new bone growth while i...West Nile virus warning system from climate data
...level where information -- once it is gathered and processed -- can be readily employed in vector management schemes," he says. The research, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will occur in four stages. First, climatologists and entomologists will gather climate data and synchroniz...Hebrew University researcher studies 'reorganization' of brain in blind people
...closer examination of how and where information is processed in the brains of blind people. An article on his work appears in the current online edition of Nature Neuroscience magazine. It is believed that this work could open a window towards future enhancement of the quality of life for blind people. Humans,...