Everyday Technology Underlies First DNA Computer Logic Gates
...s use every day in their labs." Ray, an assistant professor of biology, and Ogihara, an assistant professor of computer science, took fellow researchers by surprise with their announcement at the recent Fir...Newly Identified Tomato Gene Appears Key To Fruit Softening
... Rose works in the laboratory of AlanBennett , a professor in the vegetable crops department and associatedean of the plant sciences division of the UC Davis Collegeof Agricultural and Environmental Sciences . Conventional wisdom among scientists studying plant cells walls has heldthat pectin was the wall ...Enzymes Targeted As Key To Understanding Drug Interactions
...ract," said the program's director, Dr. Rene Levy, professor and chair of pharmaceutics. "But there was a shift...National Institutes of Health, Dr. William Trager, professor of medicinal chemistry, has led a team of School of Pharmacy researchers investigating such drug int...Early Tests Indicate Motor Skills Unharmed In Consumers Of Tainted Fish
...e," said principal investigator Susan L. Schantz,a professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Illinois. "PCBsand DDE are not very easily metabolized; they tend to accumulate in bodyfat." Animal research has shown that PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) -- agroup of industrial chemicals toxic in ...Stuttering Appears To Have Strong Link To Family Genes, Researchers Say
...f C.School of Medicine, and Ehud Yairi, a U. of I. professor of speech and hearingscience and principal investigator for the decade-long Stuttering ResearchProject. Supported by NIH grants since 1989, the project is one of the fewlong-term studies of children who begin to stutter, having collected dataon more ...Bacterium gobbles up chlorinated pollutants
...e field, predicted James M. Gossett , the Cornell professor of civil and environmental engineering who start...hat began in a sewage treatment plant. Zinder, a professor of microbiology, as well as graduate student Xavier Maymo-Gatell and other colleagues, used funding...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
...untry. Since spring 1996, Rudolf B. Husar, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering and director of Washington University's Center for Air Pollution Impact, Trends and Analysis (CAPITA), and Bret A. Schichtel, Ph.D., CAPITA research associate, have been key players in the air quality workgroup of the U.S. E...Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
...andidate, who conducted the study with entomology professor RichardKarban . "We think that predatory insects and mites use domatiaboth for protection from their enemies and for improved microclimatic conditions,"he said. Domatia were originally described in the late 1800s by Swedish naturalistAxel Lundstrom...Genetic Trickery Offers New Way to Target HIV
...tis a new idea," says Vicente Planelles, assistant professor atthe Cancer Center, who participated in the research. "No one haspreviously attempted to genetically interfere with the primingprocess in retroviruses." In the test tube, cells equipped with the engineered primerwere infected by HIV at just on...Calorie Restriction Reduces Age-Related Muscle Loss
...occurregularly with aging," said UW Medical School professor of medicine RichardWeindruch. "Age-associated musc...ison,Weindruch and colleague Judd Aiken, associate professor of animalhealth and biomedical sciences, focused on skeletal muscle in their currentstudy to determi...Enhancin Protein Attacks Insect Immune System
...Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Cornell adjunct professor of entomology. "In our opinion, the peritrophic matrix (PM -- the interior lining of the insect's intestine,) is an important component in the insect's immune system against biological control agents. We've finally defined the site of the action of...Summer Science: Firefly Babies Advertise Their Bitter Taste, UD Researchers Say
...ns to an all-night diner," saysDouglas W. Tallamy, professor of entomology and applied ecology, "but thebioluminescence of firefly larvae sends a very different message to would-bepredators." The UD study is believed to offer the first laboratory-based evidence of aninsect using bioluminescence--rather than co...Better Peroxidase Improves Disease Diagnosis
...nt samples of soybean peroxidase to John Morrow, a professor at Texas Tech University's Health Science Center in Lubbock, Texas. Morrow and Vierling had worked together when Vierling was a graduate student. Vierling asked Morrow to substitute soybean peroxidase for horseradish peroxidase in clinical diagnostic...Stopping "Cellular Suicide" Could Boost Production In Biotech Labs
... save people'slives," saysBetenbaugh, an associate professor in the Department of ChemicalEngineering. His research has important implications. If scientists find a wayto stopcellular suicide, they may be able to keep some cardiac cellsfrom killingthemselves after a heart attack. They may also be able to exten...Couch Potatoes, Not French Fries, May Be To Blame For Obesity
...rms of large populations. James Binkley, associate professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, used state-by-state data to examine one bit of dogma in the war on weight -- that the nation's increasing fast food consumption is partly to blame for the widespread rise in adult obesity. He found that...Jefferson Scientists Discover Mechanism Of Viral Link To Disease Commonly Associated With Asbestos
...led by Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, anatomy and cell biology at Jefferson Medical College, have for the first time found direct evidence of a potential mechanism of a monkey virus in the development of mesothelioma, a rare connective-tissue cancer commonly ...Fighting Wheat Scab In New York State
...rk's wheat industry," said Gary Bergstrom, Cornell professor of plant pathology. In New York, winter wheat is grown on 120,000 to 150,000 acres annually, primarily in the western and central parts of the state, he said. The wheat grain, with a New York grower cash receipt value of approximately $30 million ...Evolutionary Advantage Found For Sex
... genetic fitness. Clifford Zeyl, assistant professor of biology at Wake Forest University,said that his studies of sexual reproduction in brewer's yeast, Saccharomycescerevisiae, have found that sexual populations are better at removingundesirable genetic mutations than single-sexed yeast. "Why...Resistance To Leptin Contributes To Obesity
...lains senior author Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., professor at TheRockefeller University and an investigator with Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute (HHMI). Some investigators have suggested that leptin's principal role isto suppress the body's response to starvation. The new study also suggeststhat rece...UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
...ent than gas or electric," explains Abe Hertzberg, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at the UW and head of the smogmobile project. "We believe a liquid nitrogen vehicle can match the performance and range of an electric car, while still being affordable and easy to maintain and operate. And ec...