Supercomputing center partners with Institute for Systems Biology
...ance computing, networking, visualization and data storage resources....Synthetic antifreeze could prevent ice growth
...ve fruit crops from frost, and use low temperature storage in complicated medical procedures like human organ transplants, researchers report. A way to make large amounts of artificial antifreeze safe enough to use in living organisms has been developed by researchers looking at the biological antifreeze use...New technology treats dairy wastes, odors
...sting infrastructure to convert lagoons from waste storage facilities to facilities that solve waste problems, said John Jaksch, PNNL program manager for the project in the Pacific Northwest. In doing so, this technology addresses one of the dairy industrys most pressing issues. Unlike conventional treat...Climate plays bigger role than CO2 in make-up of plant communities
... UF researchers and currently are kept in the core storage facility at UFs Land Use and Environmental Change Institute. The researchers used new techniques that allowed them to analyze only the remains of land plants, specifically their leaf waxes. The technology has come on line to allow us to do studies th......mportant in transportation applications where fuel storage and system packaging are such critical issues." Fuel cells could also make possible electric generators that operate on propane or butane. Gortes team is interested in developing a relatively small, five-kilowatt fuel cell. Such a unit, placed in a......ive minutes, P-selectin moved from its location in storage granules inside endothelial cells to the surface of the cells, where it facilitated the binding of sickle cells. Since sickle cell anemia was first described in 1910, scientists have believed that sickle-shaped red blood cells have a rigidity that c...University of Cincinnati and Air Force use algal enzyme to create new silicon-based materials
...o include noninvasive cancer therapy, optical data storage and blue light lasers. Clarson noted that the worldwide market for silicon-based polymers is currently $10 billion a year. "So, there are many applications with potential for major economic impact," he said....Is there a protective gene against alcoholism?
...itting enzyme called lipase which increases energy storage in adipose (or fatty) tissue. Central administration of NPY in mice reduces anxiety, whereas NPY-deficient mice score high on measures of anxiety. In the normal variant of the NPY gene, one Leucine (Leu) amino acid is substituted by Proline (Pro) a...Say what? Neurons and fat cells have a dialogue in the lab
...chers say, with implications for understanding the storage and burning of fat, obesity and related disorders, such as diabetes. "It's been known for a long time that neurons outside of the brain communicate to fat cells, but no one has thought much about whether fat cells can signal back to the neurons," sa......uditory measure); and vocabulary knowledge (memory storage measure). Data were collected five times, within two weeks of control EEG acquisition. Results In both boys and girls the language ability improved during a phase of increased connections (EEG coherence growth phase). Language ability decreased ...Holiday fruit ranks number one in antioxidants
...tional Thanksgiving meal. In general, processing, storage and heating reduces the antioxidant levels in cranberries: uncooked fruit is the best, says Vinson. On the basis of serving size, 100 percent pure cranberry juice, found in some health food stores, has the highest antioxidant content. Many people pre...Virginia Tech study may help develop more effective clean up of gasoline spills
...tant professor of geological sciences. Underground storage tanks such as those at service stations sometimes leak, creating underground gas plumes, Spain said. The gas then can get into the groundwater. The most dangerous components of the gasoline are benzene, toluene ethylbenzine, xylenes, or BTEX, becau...Forest management may mitigate global warming
...method, known as eddy covariance, measured the net storage and net release of carbon into the air. Ground-based biometry, a longer-standing method, measured changes in the trees' diameter, a direct indication of carbon storage. Both measurements produced similar results -- an important finding, Barford says,...Human cancer-detection test showing promise in pets, too
...a diagnostic tool at institutions with the correct storage facilities.Authors of the recent cat study were Kitchell, Casey D. Cadile, Barbara J. Biller, Elizabeth R. Hetler and Rebecca Balkin. The Morris Animal Foundation provided partial funding for the research....Aquaporins - the perfect water filters of the cell
...ior and exterior is an important short-time energy storage like an electrical battery which would otherwise be short-circuited. Water itself is known to conduct protons well; protons can hop via so-called hydrogen bonds from one water molecule to the next. So, how does aquaporin prevent proton hopping thro...Hormonal regulation of glucose production by fat cells
... clear that fat should be regarded not solely as a storage site for lipids, but also as an endocrine tissue. The discovery of resistin and Acrp30 extended this finding and showed that multiple hormones secreted by adipocytes can profoundly alter energy metabolism in various tissues. Here, Combs and colleague...Magnetic tag lets scientists track stem cells in living rat
...nimal cells have a process to deal with iron and a storage mechanism for the metal, making the iron-based dendrimers inherently safer, says Bulte. For instance, iron is a key part of the transporter for oxygen and carbon monoxide found in red blood cells. He adds that while it was not easy to develop the way...Protein discovery tied to DNA master switch
...d. "This chromatin packaging allows for efficient storage of genetic information. But it also impedes access to DNA by transcription factors, proteins that regulate gene expression." Zhang and his colleagues believe their discovery to be part of the mechanism that dynamically changes the chromatin structur......a, which deepened the ocean basins and allowed for storage of large quantities of organic matter. This in turn may have lowered atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and led to the massive Permo-Carboniferous glaciation of Gondwana. The Round Mountain serpentinite mlange, northern Coast Ranges of California: A...