American Red Cross Launches New Genetic Screening Technology To Directly Detect Viruses
...June 1999. "While the U.S. blood supply is already safer than it ever has been and currentscreening tests are very sophisticated, this innovative technology has thepotential to enable the detection of dangerous viruses in donors whose ownimmune systems have not yet recognized the presence of an infectious ......, Maryland, reasoned that deep dives would be made safer if moredissolved hydrogen could be removed from the divers' blood. They turned to abacterium called Methanobrevibacter smithii, which lives in the gut andmetabolises hydrogen to form methane. They injected cultures of the bacteriainto the intestines ...Researchers Track Path Of Safer Gene Delivery Method
...rovided new knowledge for the design of better and safer nonviralcarriers for gene delivery," Mikos said. ...usessynthetic polymers is not only that it is much safer than viral systems but onecan modify the polymer and incorporate specific ligands so it can deliver ...Two-for-one special: industrial enzymes and food
... plants. Using plant-based pharmaceuticals is much safer and cheaper thanusing donated blood or mammalian cells to treathemophiliacs or wounds. See related news release at /www.pnl.gov/news/news.htm...Maybe you can get blood from a turnip after all
... agents. These blood-clotting agents could lead to safer and less expensive treatmentsfor hemophiliacs and an alternative way of sealingwounds. Pacific Northwest researchers have produced two blood factors that areused to treat most patients with bloodclotting disorders.<P.These factors currently are m...CU-Boulder to send experiments ranging from ladybugs to water quality on NASA shuttle
...ation of biologically hazardous sites to providing safer water forbackpackers," said Klaus. "The key is successfully manipulating the bacteria inthe space testbed under very trying conditions." BioServe also will fly a new device for NIH, NASA Ames and Yale University todetermine the effects of spacefligh...Gene therapy holds promise for treating inherited Lou Gehrig's Disease
... "Myoblast-mediated gene therapy would be safer and easier to performthan the conventional method of delivering neurotrophic factors -- injectinglarge amounts of proteins into the muscle or skin or even directly into thenervous system -- which has been associated with adverse side effects andunsuc...Pacific Northwest developments earn spots in top 100 list
...rements advanced chemical modeling safer drinking water. RICHLAND, Wash. - Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific NorthwestNational Laboratory aren't in the business of winning awards, but theircommitment to solving some of the nation's most complex problems rarely fails togar...UW-Madison team develops technique to create flu viruses
...also lead to more efficient influenza vaccines and safer gene therapies, says Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist and author of the report in the Aug. 3 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). "This technology should help us gain a greater biological understandin...New hope for declining U.S. honeybee population
...have developed a gel formulationthat is easier and safer to handle [than the liquid form] and emits formic acidvapors over two to three weeks, reducing the labor associated with its use." The varroa and tracheal mites entered the U.S. in the mid-1980s. Since then,they have decimated both wild and commerci...Researchers use 'voice recognition' program to count bats
...igns of atherosclerosis. Ultrasound would also be safer than current methods which require either exposure to ionizing radiation(angiography) or the insertion of a pressure transducer within the artery itself. "Doppler ultrasound offers quantitative, noninvasive clinical information," said Holland. "Peak...UC researchers use Doppler ultrasound
...igns of atherosclerosis. Ultrasound would also be safer than current methods which require either exposure to ionizing radiation(angiography) or the insertion of a pressure transducer within the artery itself. "Doppler ultrasound offers quantitative, noninvasive clinical information," said Holland. "Peak...Novel anti-cancer agent shows minimal side effects with preliminary evidence of tumor shrinkage
... future observations, this may represent a new and safer treatment for cancer patients." The results were presented by Jerome Alexandre, a physician-in-training and researcher with Dr. Raymond, who received an AACR Young Investigator Scholar Award, bestowed on predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, a......ing strontium-90 underground should be cheaper and safer than extracting it, said INEEL geochemist Bob Smith who leads the project. "If you were to do some sort of treatment where you brought it to the surface, you'd have to expose workers, you'd have to ship it, you'd have to pack it," he said. The res...Radiating relief: Researcher combats stubborn arthritis with neutrons
...ls to remove all the diseased tissue. It should be safer than an injection of a radioactive material, which kills the synovium, but leaves radioactivity in the body. No one knows what initiates or how to cure rheumatoid arthritis, a potentially crippling disease that afflicts more than two million American...University of New Orleans researcher develops nontoxic corrosion inhibitor
... easily. And that means it's more worker friendly, safer for the environment, and will help control hazardous material costs, disposal, and handling. Using his more than 40 years of experience working for and/or with the chemical and paint industries, Martin Marietta, NASA, the Environmental Protection Age...Today's Science for America's Tomorrow: the USGS FY 2001 Budget
...l-time hazard information to help create stronger, safer communities across America is a high priority for USGS." Livable Communities The increase includes $10 million to develop decision support systems to help America's communities respond to issues posed by urban growth. Recognizing that all levels ...Gene transfer improves function of aging hearts in animals
...development, that promise to be more effective and safer than the adenovirus-based system used in this study. He also stresses that it is by no means certain that these animal results will carry over to human patients and that additional research is required to verify and follow up the current findings. ...Study: Methane cleans nitric oxide from power plant emissions
...ic oxide from stack gases in a safer and less expensive way than any currently available. Nitric oxide is a common byproduct of combustion, and cars and fossil-fuel burning power plants are two chief sources of the ...First awards made in NIH effort to understand how genes affect people's responses to medicines
...ans, by making the medicines of today and tomorrow safer and more effective for everyone," said Dr. Rochelle Long, a pharmacologist at NIGMS who spearheaded the pharmacogenetics initiative. The trans-NIH effort is designed to forge an interactive research network of investigators who will store data in a...