From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
... activating the emulsion) and land on a conversion screen (made of the rare-earth metal gadolinium) that absorbs them. The metal screen emits an electron for every neutron it absorbs, and that activates the emulsion and produces the pho...Duke Researchers Find Second Gene Linked To Blood Vessel Disorder
...ese lung problems. "We are developing a genetic screen that would identify these peopleso they can be followed by their doctors more closely for signs of developinglung problems," Marchuk said. By contrast, people whose disorder is linked to this second gene, ALK1,rarely have lung problems. Like endog...Virginia Tech Researchers Receive Patent For Rapid Virus Detection Technology
... tested in parallel. Thus, the test can be used to screen largenumbers of samples and virus containing samples can be testedfurther." Funding for patent application andcommercial development was provided by Virginia's Center for InnovativeTechnology and Dominion Biosciences, Inc. A description of the devel...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
...n in individual patients," added Bell. "We need to screen the brothers and sisters and other relatives of those with diabetes and test methods to prevent the disease in those with a genetic propensity to it." The two genes each cause a form of non-insulin dependent diabetes (NIDDM) known as maturity-onset d...ORNL Microscope "Sees" Bumps That Reveal Partial DNA Structure
...Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) get on a computer screen when using an atomic force microscope (AFM) to image a serpentine strand of DNA. And when they get the picture, they get excited about the "knots." Thereason: each knot is really a "protein bump" formed when a proteinrecognizes and attaches to a spe...Researchers Corral Millions Of Microscopic Membranes
... a similar fashion, the technique might be used to screen for drugs such as channel blockers that interact with receptors on a cell's surface and interior membranes, the researchers said.The starting point for the project was research that was completed in 1986 and 1987 by Stanford chemistry Professor Harde...Blood Test Can Identify Some Children With Strep-Related Behavioral Disorders
...tic disorders, shesaid. "If we could potentially screen children at risk when they're young, wecould watch the children who have this trait marker for rheumatic fever moreclosely and catch them right away if they begin to show OCD or tic symptoms," said Leonard. "We can also see if there is a way to preve...Chemists Compute Answers To The Origin Of Gout
...oday's chemists design new molecules on a computer screen long before they turn to messy, hazardous, and costly real chemicals. As modern research chemists they can combine their experience with modern information technology to cut costs and develop new materials and processes faster. In collaboration with ...NIH Team Discovers Endocrine Tumor Gene
...ult of the discovery, doctors will soon be able to screen families at risk for MEN1 more easily and eliminate periodic blood tests for those with normal MEN1 genes. They hope to learn from MEN1 and its protein product, called menin , how endocrine tumors and cancers grow. The discovery also provides a ta...Hormonal Changes At Puberty Can Mask High Cholesterol In Blood
...a high-risk for heart disease and has acholesterol screen at age 13, a falsely low value will likely result. Thosechildren will definitely have to be screened again after reaching youngadulthood," says Kwiterovich. The Dietary Intervention Study in Children study found that sexual maturationhad the most pow...Are CDC's 1997 Recommendations For Targeted Lead Screening Of Children Justified?
...cedure. "Ourgoal at this juncture should not be to screen as many children as possible.Rather, our goal must...as well as health care dollars forour children--to screen every child irrespective of lead exposure or plausible risk." CONTACT: Eric W. Manheimer, MSc, Depa...Age-Based Screening Is Cost-Effective Method To Control Chlamydial Infection
...ns Hopkins University compared three strategies to screen 7,699women without symptoms who attended two family planning clinics in Baltimore,Md. In addition to the age-based screening found to be most effective,investigators evaluated universal screening and screening with the criteriarecommended by the Cen...New Sensor Will Detech Chemical And Biological Pathogens At Incredibly Small Doses
...rk," Murphy says.It can take six to nine months to screen libraries of new chemicals, but withthe new sensor, configured in an array of 100 fibers, a determination could bemade within a few weeks. A typical library can contain between 10,000 and 10million compounds from which to choose a new drug. "This app...... automation, making it an attractive way toquickly screen many different chemical compounds. "The intention is to use [the assay] to screen for small moleculeinhibitors which might be very useful in anticancer and antiproliferationdrugs," s...Liquid Crystals Light Up Simple Chemical Test
...ed on-site. Pharmaceutical developerscould quickly screen large numbers of drug candidates for desired qualities. Abbott is working now on the next challenge -- making the test give morethan a "yes" or "no" answer. "Right now, the assay can detect a threshold concentration -- itcan say whether the target ...... cells in the thyroid gland provides one marker to screen patients with hypothyroidism. The role of Pax8 in the determination of a specific cell type of the thyroid gland may indicate that this gene is, perhaps, also involved in thyroid cancer. Further studies are nece......ntisera to these proteins and used the antisera to screen cDNA libraries for corresponding clones. One of the resulting clones, designated R1, is encoding a 160 kDa protein that is partially localized on starch granules. Lorberth et al. describe in Nature Biotechnolog...COGA Suggests Genetic Loci For P3 Brain Wave Abnormality
...stimuli. Researchers then performed a whole-genome screen using microsatellite markers at intervals of 14 centimorgans (cM) and genotyped study participants. For chromosomal regions of interest, they used multipoint linkage analysis to extract additional genetic information from the data, thereby increasing...Cancer Test May Offer High-Risk Groups Quick, Affordable Screening For Tumors
...n assays, aninexpensive technique commonly used to screen newborn babies for phenylketonuriaand other diseases. "We're still relatively early in the development, but I'm confident thatthe test can be implemented in a cost-effective manner," says Brusilow. Other authors were Michael Carducci,...UB Researcher Developing Method That Employs "Evolution" To Identify New Drug Leads
... is to produce many possible combinations and then screen the compounds individually," said Eliseev. "In our... to bind to a target -- to simultaneously form and screen mixtures of many chemicals for the best ones. During a stage the scientists call equilibration, or v...