Whale of a Puget Sound problem lures UW researchers
...electrical engineering doctoral student who used a prototype of it to do acoustical tracking of sperm whales off Norway. The Auto Boat is equipped with a laptop computer that collects data from the fish finder, which is suspended under the vessel, and a global positioning system. The fish finder can provide ......at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a prototype fuel cell thats the first to run on a readily avai...arbon dioxide and heat. Smaller than a penny, the prototype fuel cell developed by Gorte, Vohs, graduate student Hyuk Kim and postdoctoral researcher Seungdoo P...Virtual lung models every breath you take - and its impact
...d collect in the entire respiratory system. PNNLs prototype system models the nose, larynx and lungs of a rat. Efforts are underway to similarly model the respiratory systems of monkeys and humans. Understanding biological impacts from pollution has become more important as respiratory ailments have incr......e company with Vanderbilt support has developed a prototype monochromatic X-ray machine that it estimates should cost about $1 million to produce commercially. The FEL is also proving its worth in the emerging field of proteomics. Now that the human genome has been sequenced, researchers are beginning the t...Anthrax - How to protect ourselves
...rax and its harmless relatives. He hopes to have a prototype ready soon. For detecting bioweapons remotely, one technology that has already had some success is LIDAR, the laser analogue of radar. A helicopter-mounted system developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory fires powerful laser pulses at a suspect c...... is just a couple of months away from completing a prototype detector designed to sound the alarm when airborne microbes such as anthrax are in the air. Dr. Jeanne Small, a biophysicist and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash., has come up with a detector th...Early detection device for exposure to chemical warfare agents being developed
... sophisticated algorithms that will be placed in a prototype that eventually could be clinically tested. Included in the detection device is a tracking system so that soldiers or others using the device could be rapidly found and treated. The researchers are still discussing the most effective style and positi......ow physical barrier proved the most effective, the prototype being nothing more sophisticated than chicken wire. A physical barrier's effectiveness may well relate to the bottom-dwelling habit of carp, and be less of a deterrent to native fish which swim more freely the open water. It is this demand for selec...Insect bites on plants reduce photosynthesis, imaging device shows
...o study caterpillar-caused damage to parsnips. The prototype consists of a high-speed camera linked to specially designed parallel processing computers. The camera sits in a colander-shaped light source containing more than a thousand high-intensity light-emitting diodes. A momentary flash of bright light hi......tart testing cow eggs in the next few weeks. The prototype is a thin silicon slice a few centimetres across etched with hundreds of tiny wells, one for each egg. The trick is to spin the chip in a centrifuge, forcing the eggs' dense nuclei through a small hole at the bottom of each well. About 90 per cent of...Dartmouth researchers expose weakness of common parasite
...parent ill effects, this mutant could be used as a prototype vaccine strain," said Bzik. "This parasite is amenable to further genetic manipulation; it has an amazing ability to elicit a strong immune response that is likely to be beneficial for certain vaccines targeted against other challenging infectious di...Surgeons to train on artificial bodies
...now been created and the next step will be to make prototype physical versions, for evaluation by surgeons across Europe. Once the prototypes are approved, final parts organs and bones - will be produced, using novel materials and the MECs state of the art rapid tooling technology. Such artificial bodies are...Chimpanzee virus may be key to better vaccines, study shows
...n be." For the study, the scientists developed two prototype vaccines against the rabies virus. One was a human... Ertl and her coworkers are now working on similar prototype vaccines against HIV, smallpox, and other viruses. "There are any number of viral diseases against ...Researchers will study cell growth, differentiation
...ity of Washingtons Cell Systems Initiative build a prototype to study how cells grow, proliferate and different...the $756,000 Mathers grant, CSI hopes to develop a prototype of an observation platform that will allow real-time measurement of complex processes within the cel...New x-ray technique images cartilage, may lead to earlier diagnosis of osteoarthritis
... but on the alignment of the rays says Chapman. A prototype he is building of a small DEI machine at IIT uses a regular x-ray tube which has produced high-resolution DEI images comparable to those taken at Argonne. A clinical machine is still years away, but Chapman is confident that one day DEI will be avai...Ames Laboratory pursues new standard in sensor technology
...orators successfully demonstrated an oxygen-sensor prototype in which the OLED was integrated with the oxygen-s...f Michigan collaborators will be able to develop a prototype for a glucose sensor in the near future. "The recipe is there, but we're wrestling with the stabili...Vaccine puts blood-sucking ticks off their food
... University, England. Dr Sparagano explains, These prototype vaccines can greatly reduce the fertility of female ticks and the survival of their larvae. By reducing tick populations we may improve animal health and welfare as well as reducing the risk of diseases being spread to humans. Human tick-borne diseas...End of 'free ride' on ecosystem CO2 absorption
...gh CO2 levels, to study their effects. Data from a prototype FACTS-1 facility indicated that the forest section under study had stopped responding to high CO2 levels with enhanced growth. The researchers plan future studies using the apparatus to examine another potential limitation, water availability, said ...National Institutes of Health green lights additional research into new breast imaging system
... encircle and lightly touch the breast. A one-ring prototype has already been through phase-one clinical trials at Greenville Hospital System....Efficient plastic nuggets key to agricultural plastic waste disposal
...e them, according to Garthe. Preprocessing for the prototype plant is currently done by cutting up the plastics and hand feeding them into the hopper where a feed rod pushes them into the die. The die is heated to melt the outer layer and a snake of compacted, but mostly unmelted plastic emerges. For the pro...