Margaret Foti to be honored for significant contributions to cancer care
...Clinical Cancer Research,' which has served as the prototype for subsequent workshops designed to introduce beginning oncologists in Europe and Australia to the essentials of effective clinical trials design." They noted also Foti's efforts "to provide vital links between translational scientists and clinicia...Tiny tango: Device sorts microscopic particles with speed and precision
...peed and accuracy. Huang quickly made a prototype device and tested it with tiny plastic beads. "It gives such amazing separation resolution in just a minute," he said. "And the operation is very simple: You just need a syringe to push your sample through. We are very excited about it." Th...Researchers discover how worms' noses sense oxygen
...dies of these denizens of the soil and served as a prototype for further nematode studies. By knocking out several genes coding for parts of the guanylate cyclase enzyme, they were able to show that this enzyme was acting as an oxygen detector, primarily steering worms away from too much oxygen. The enzyme is ...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
.... Air Force, Professor Lo's group has fabricated a prototype integrated optical-front-end-on-a-chip, using microfluidic and optical MEMS technologies. This comes at a time of growing industry interest in fluidic lenses for high-performance, multi-functional, and cost-effective miniature imaging systems. Having...Forest fire sensor inspired by nature
...that the system can be perfected: "With our simple prototype we are only at the beginning of what is possible." The zoologist is currently looking for industrial partners to work out the specifications of his sensor and mature the technology. To determine where the limits of this monitoring principle lie he a...NIST's new way of 'seeing': A neutron microscope
A prototype microscope that uses neutrons instead of light to "see" magnified images has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Neutron microscopes might eventually offer certain advantages over optical, X-ray and electro...Wheelchairs biomechanics, prosthetic development
...icle describes the development and evaluation of a prototype of the Smart Wheelchair Component System (SWCS). The SWCS was evaluated on four different wheelchairs using an array of specific navigation tasks and a reliability test in which each wheelchair was configured to wander randomly within an enclosed are...Computer database being developed at Temple will allow for better inventory of chemicals
... Universitys bio-safety committee, has developed a prototype database and software that will more efficiently m...ave a lot of work to do, concludes Rappaport. The prototype we have needs to be converted to a Web-based application to enable multiple users and at the same ti...MIT team explains yin-yang of ginseng
...ilities of harnessing [its] chemical scaffold as a prototype for wound-healing compounds." Sasisekharan emphasizes the importance of Sengupta's interdisciplinary approach to the work. "He had the foresight to integrate the biology of cancer and blood-vessel formation to the pharmacological behavior of this dru......y will concentrate mainly on using Compound 3 as a prototype treatment for cancers. The researchers are currently testing the molecule's effects on an array of cultured cancer cells. They also plan to begin testing the compound in animal models of cancer, to explore its effectiveness, stability and distributio...Case for IBD combination therapy comes from research at Baylor, MIT and Hebrew University
...us introduce a novel therapeutic approach and drug prototype for treatment of IBD."...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...mini-sub to answer this need. In July, they took a prototype to Alaska for testing. Appropriately named Shadow III -- and painted a bright yellow that belies its sleuthy assignment -- the mini-sub includes a video camera and hydrophones (sonar mikes) to track its prey. Marine biologists, directed by Professor ...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
..., Canada and Mexico. That infrastructure will be a prototype for the use and automation of undersea sensor netw...es, networking protocols, devices and sensors. The prototype grid will eventually link communities of oceanographers via high-speed wireless and optical networks...