Molecular probes link sea lion deaths to toxic algal bloom
.... Scholin and colleagues at MBARI plan to deploy a prototype of such a device in Monterey Bay this summer.......n endless source of electrical energy. Their lab prototype uses a negatively charged electrode buried in about 10 centimetres of sediment with a positively charged partner just above the surface. When the electrodes are connected, they generate 003 watts per square metre, enough power to run a small ligh...Carbon diem: Grants awarded to research that seizes excess carbon dioxide
...rized," said Raterman. They're hoping to develop a prototype carbon dioxide separator by the end of their three-year, $750,000 grant. By mixing liquid in with the gas in the vortex, they expect a large jump in the efficiency of the separation. Making the gas travel through liquid will separate the gas molecule...Small molecules used to block proteins in HIV
...putting them into one molecule. After developing a prototype molecule, Chmielewski and her group worked to make smaller and smaller versions of it to obtain an agent small enough to pass through a cell's membrane. The group then developed different versions of the molecule, producing a small library of differe...Tiny channels carved in plastic enable medical tests on a CD
... In his keynote address, Madou played a video of a prototype CD spinning slower and then faster to accurately t...esentations on his laptop computer, using the same prototype CD that contains the microchannels to run the slideshow. Madou thinks this technology may be availab......, the Biomedical Security Institute will develop a prototype computer-based surveillance, analysis and communication system that will conduct ongoing real-time mining and analysis of data from public health and health care reporting sources. That data will be evaluated to alert agencies to various kinds of thr...New patent will help improve cancer, transplant research
... said. The researchers use a prototype of the device to look for human stem cells in umbilical cord blood, as well as for transplant and cancer research. Cancer researchers are currently trying to find out whether cancer ...ORNL instrument could spell doom for Asian beetles
...cs. "Well then incorporate these algorithms into a prototype instrument that can detect the bugs and determine ...ure larvae. Once the operation and accuracy of the prototype instrument have been documented in the field, the technology will be transferred to an industrial pa...The future belongs to proteomics
...ostic or treatment from the academic laboratory to prototype to engineering to commercial application will be rapid and will continue to shrink," he said....Volcanic ash detector boosts air safety
...onal Air Show at Avalon. CSIRO has constructed a prototype volcanic ash detector and has world-wide patents for the technologies developed. The instrument may also be suitable for detection of clear air turbulence and hazards such as low-level wind shear as well as for terrain avoidance. CSIRO estimates t...Brookhaven scientists determine key Lyme disease protein structure
...rains of the Lyme disease bacterium, we now have a prototype for determining the structure of OspC from other strains....Nanopore detector shows discriminating taste in DNA molecules
...he opening. Deamer's lab has been working on this prototype nanopore detector for several years. The group's l...entific meeting in 1989. He eventually developed a prototype with collaborators at Harvard University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dea...Scientists, ships, aircraft to profile Asian pollution and dust
... two-day aerosol forecasts. The forecastmodel is a prototype for an important next step: assimilating aerosoldata into global climate models in a way that allows researchers toexperimentally move the aerosols around the globe and estimate theirvertical profiles. "The lifetime of aerosols and their long-rangetr...Fly on a treadmill demonstrates super directional hearing
...niversity engineering groups so far have developed prototype "microphone eardrums" that function " Ormia -like" as predicted but at ultrasonic frequencies. "This might make a good hearing aid for a bat," Hoy notes, "but we need a device that responds to critical frequencies in the human hearing range, espec......se waters. During its fall 2000 maiden voyage, the prototype buoy was towed into Sequim Bay. Equipped with cell-phone technology and a multi-sensor platform, the buoy demonstrated it could communicate with researchers in near real-time and provide customized data. This new generation of buoy also shows promi...New technology reduces noxious emissions
...fidence in the soundness of our approach. Recent prototype reactor tests conducted on a diesel engine at DOEs...ng reactors comes from PNGV, which hopes to have a prototype vehicle by 2004. The laboratory also is working with Delphi Automotive, a potential supplier of a p...Russian scientists to learn Wall Street capitalism in Albuquerque, NM
...ovided by the SPEKTR organization. A non-operative prototype of the wheelchair seat, to be displayed at RMSEL T...reate a manufacturable version of the FDA-approved prototype already developed. Scientists, engineers, and technicians from SPEKTR former employees of Russian ...ORNL technology puts power of lab into the field
...on on the touch-screen display. In 11 seconds, the prototype instrument, dubbed RAMiTS (RAMan Tunable Integrated Sensor), provides a spectral analysis. The final product will translate that into a readout identifying the chemical or compound. Vo-Dinh, a group leader and corporate fellow in the Life Sciences Di...Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...ing their networks. PNNL scientists have created a prototype Systems Administrator Simulation Trainer, or SAST, to rapidly develop the cyber security experience of system administrators in any type of organization to identify, circumvent or recover from hacker activity. The program consists of a network of tra...