Mosquitoes repelled by tomato-based substance
...echnology is calling IBI-246, has the potential to replace DEET as the active ingredient in most insect repellents. "People have been looking for a competitive product to DEET for 20 years," ...The mind may help restore movement to the immobile
...ing, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, plans to replace the virtual cursor with a robot arm that will be used by a monkey to reach and retrieve food while its own arms are restrained. Through a sort of 'neural bypass', it is hoped that this approach can be used by human patients with paralyzed arms. As ...Researchers identify stem cell 'glue'
...ught that stem cells from any organ may be able to replace damaged cells in another organ if they find themselves in that organ's stem cell niche." This discovery builds upon previous research by Ting Xie and Allan Spradling at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which demonstrated that stem cell functi...Study of aquatic mussels indicates they may yield new antifouling materials, surgical adhesives
...ork is the design of surgical adhesives that could replace the tissue-damaging sutures currently used in surgery. The mussels' adhesives are made up of soluble proteins that cross-link to form a hardened matrix. His team has preliminary results indicating that metals such as iron are vital to this matrix, re...Global aluminium waste headache solved
...ium fluoride produced by the process will directly replace a portion of the expensive imported aluminium fluoride used in the smelting process - significantly reducing purchase costs for this material. Another product, "synthetic sand", has received Environment Protection Authority approval for unrestricted ......le that low-energy intensive metals like steel may replace high-energy metals (eg aluminium) in applications where weight is not especially critical, and vice versa." "Of all the materials used by society metals have the greatest potential for unlimited recycling. "They offer the ability to conserve resource...Ramoplanin beats antibiotic resistance by fighting the battle on its own terms
...of bacteria-killing drugs. In a sense, antibiotics replace natural selection in driving changes in bacteria, as the survival of a single resistant cell can lead to whole new population of resistant bacteria. Distressingly, bacteria have grown resistant to vancomycin, the antibiotic of last resort for more th...New Jersey researcher receives award for developing ozone-friendly aerosol
...veloped by aerosol antiperspirant manufacturers to replace Freon reacts with the antiperspirants active ingredient and forms a hazardous air pollutant. Parekh discovered a group of additives that reduces or blocks this reaction. The new, ozone-safe antiperspirant provides better protection at lower applicati...U of Minnesota study: Adult bone marrow stem cells can become liver cells
... might be used to create bio-artificial livers and replace the use of pig liver cells, which are a commonly used source of cells now. Much as dialysis machines can be a bridge for patients waiting for kidneys, a bio-artificial liver can help bridge a person from acute liver failure to transplant. "The immed...Gene therapy breakthrough offers hope to patients with inherited high cholesterol levels
...ene therapy, a medical treatment used to repair or replace faulty genes (this is because it is much easier to... sustained and finally any virus used to repair or replace faulty genes must not be attacked by the immune system of the patient receiving gene therapy. The re...Hopkins scientists reveal how sound becomes electric
...ids and cochlear implants are designed to boost or replace the sound-detecting function of hair cells in the cochlea. Fuchs and Glowatzki believe their discovery might help improve the range or accuracy of hearing aids and cochlear implants, they say....A popular Japanese plum, now available in the US, may help prevent the onset of cardiac disease
...oughout the United States. Could the Japanese plum replace the benefits of the all-American apple someday? Perhaps. Background The pickled plum has been reported to aid the digestive system, increase saliva, and even act as a cure for a hangover. It is a fruit of legend, with one tale recounting that Samura...Eliminating battlefield transfusions
...xperiments, the plasma volume expander was used to replace most or all of the rats circulating blood. The rat...nal series, the plasma volume expander was used to replace most of the rats circulating blood while they were at normothermia in room air. The rats were then f...Mathematical analysis could aid flu vaccine selection
...y identify. "Certainly we don't think this should replace what the CDC and World Health Organization are doing," said Levin. "It is just another tool that we think can help inform the decision making." In the United States, the flu affects 35 to 50 million people and is linked to 20,000 deaths and more than...Sea Grant news: Shipworms, ozone, hurricanes
...is often discovered too late to do anything except replace the infected structures. To protect and rehabilitate bearing wood piles, the new shield will be wrapped around the piling from the mud line to the high tide level. Lopez-Anido hopes his waterfront repair technology will be ready for deployment and p...Industry explores renewable resources, such as lignin
...ctionation, can be added to a host of materials to replace oil-derived resources, and to make those materials biodegradable and environmentally-friendly. "Plants fix carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere using solar energy, and this generates between one and 10 gigatons of biomass a year. It's fantastic. Sola...Los Angeles chemist wins national award for thin-film discoveries
...borations with this kind of approach being used to replace silicon technology in electronic devices. One of Knoblers most unexpected discoveries is that monolayers exhibit a property known as self-assembly. That means the molecules on their own arrange themselves on a surface, and in very complex patterns, h...ORNL material could help pilots keep their cool
...Klett believe has great potential to supplement or replace other cooling methods. The lungs, Klett notes, have a very high surface area and a very effective heat transfer medium -- blood -- flowing between them and the rest of the body. "It turns out that the lungs can reject a large fraction of the waste he...Does a vegan diet have a moral basis?
...nant-pasture model of food production, which would replace all poultry, pig and lamb production with beef and dairy products. According to his calculations, such a model would result in the deaths of 300 million fewer animals annually (counting both field animals and cattle) than would a total vegan model. T...Scientists combine therapeutic cloning, embryonic stem cells, and gene defect in mice
... which contains the DNA of a cell, from an egg and replace it with the nucleus from a skin cell of an adult mouse with a genetic immune deficiency. In this procedure, the egg resets the developmental clock of the adult nucleus and the reprogrammed cell starts developing into an embryo that is genetically ide...