Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...ngton universities have genetically engineered and successfully field tested rice plants that resist some of the m...ology, marks the first time that useful genes were successfully transferred from a dicotyledonous plant, the potato, to rice, a monocotyedonous plant. The potato ge...Southern Pine Beetle Reaching Outbreak Levels In North Florida
...It will not stop until it runs outof pines." Trees successfully colonized by the beetles cannot survive, regardless ofcontrol measures, like pesticides. The beetles also carry and introduceinto trees the deadly blue stain fungi. Under normal conditions, thebeetles dine only on stressed or damaged pines, but durin...Cooking And Salad Oils Could Lubricate Cars, Boats, Machines
...s potential by using similar corn oil formulations successfully in company vehicles for the last three years. The company's success challenges the widespread perception that vegetable oils oxidize too rapidly to be used in engines. Duda said there has been continuing interest in vegetable...Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...seedlings of American mahoganytrees seem to become successfully established only on open land. Snook's research i... foundno evidence that new mahogany seedlings will successfully grow in the shadeof other trees -- mahogany trees included. Snook is deeply concerned about the "ma...KU Researcher Eyes The Rain Forest Through The Trees
...here are forest types in all of North America." To successfully reintroduce a species requires knowing a lot more about how the species grow and survive than is now known. "Quite a number of people are now studying what it takes for many species to get from a seed to a young sapling," she said. "From this researc...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
...ould cause diabetes. It allowed the researchers to successfully predict which children from the family would eventually develop diabetes. Since then, Bell's team, and that of Phillippe Froguel, Institute Pasteur de Lille, and others have identified other diabetes-causing genes. They identified a specific gene (fo...Optical Microscopy Shines Light On Biology
...With these new probes, we are one of the few sites successfully using near-field optical microscopy to study biological samples," he said. "People thought it couldn't be done." Dunn said the softness and fragility of biological samples have been a problem for near-field microscopy because of the way the probe is ...A Sensor, A Switch, A Zipper: Protein Engineers Design Potential Tool
... clarity unusual in the field, that they had successfully predicted the final structure. Beyond any potential applications, this study helps increase general understanding of coiled coils. These structures are found in hundreds of proteins and are essential to proce...New Nonviral Gene Therapy System Could Help Fight Cancer
...ting genes into tumor cells. Scientists have successfully used the T7T7 gene therapysystem, commonly referred to as T7, to express genes in cellcultures and in mouse models, said Thomas E. Wagner, professorof molecular and cellular biology at Ohio University and aninventor of the T7 system. "We have ex...A Drug Pump On A Computer Chip
... calculated. The device has been bench tested successfully and is being scaled down for mass production, Huff reported at SPIEs Smart Structures and Materials Symposium in San Diego earlier this month. The field of microelectromechanical systems and micro fabrication research has led to the development...Isle Royale Moose Continue Decline
..."The East Pack produced two young, the Middle Pack successfully raised three pups, and a lone pair of wolves had two pups; only the West Pack failed to produce any young." He says the Middle Pack now has nine members, making it the largest pack on the island. Despite their success, wolves had to work hard for eve...Project Shows Native Bacteria Can Destroy Widespread Pollutant In Groundwater
...emicals. "The test has shown that this method can successfully reduce the levels of TCE in groundwater by 96 to 98 percent," said Perry L. McCarty , the Silas H. Palmer Professor of Civil Engineering who heads the project, report in a at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco this week. Working ...Biosensor Is A Model For Widespread Testing Of Chemicals, Molecules
...has been around for a long time, and has been used successfully in a fewinstances, such as measuring blood glucose for the management of diabetes.The secret in creating such devices lies in finding a way to have the protein"signal" that it has recognized the molecule of interest. Butengineers have had to rely on ...First Planned Release Of Captive Lemurs In Madagascar Wilds Expected In Fall
...he wild, these lemurs have beenfound to breed very successfully in captivity, Katz and Welch said. More than 250 black and white ruffed lemurs are now being held in NorthAmerican institutions, while others are prospering in British and Europeanzoos. These facilities all share husbandry and health information on ...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
...diploperennis , a perennial variety of teosinte.By successfully crossing them for the first time, Eubanks has prod...ke any other teosinte-- Zea diploperennis can be successfully crossed with Tripsacum to produce a fertile hybrid. Previous attempts to breed Tripsacum with any ...Pea Plant Stem Growth Gene Cloned
...ty and the University of Tasmania, Australia, have successfully cloned one of history's first-studied genes -- the gene for stem growth in peas, according to a report in the latest issue of journal The Plant Cell, which was published today. Cloning the gene gives scientists a new way to account for why some plan...New, Environmentally Friendly Technique For Separating Liquids Invented At UNC-CH
...st Nature describes how the team used itstechnique successfully to remove a dye completely from water, the scientistsaid. The first practical application could come within a couple of years in thetextile industry, which releases countless tons of waste water into theenvironment every year. "This work ope...Photocatalytic Air Cleaning System Promises To Help Allergy Sufferers
...." Goswami said the system has been tested successfully in medical research settings where the air in laboratories must be microbe-free. "We've tested the photocatalytic air cleaning system on a variety of indoor air problems, including toxic bacteria, such as those found to cause Legionnaire's di...Jefferson Scientists Develop Botulism Vaccine
...detail the results of experiments in which they successfully immunized mice against botulism. One immediate use of a botulism vaccine, Dr. Simpson notes, would be in veterinary medicine. Animals such as racehorses and farmyard chickens are susceptible to the disease, making such a vaccine of ...Herpes Virus Strain Identified As A Trigger In Multiple Sclerosis
...s--for example,acyclovir--might one day be applied successfully to MS," said Steven Jacobson,Ph.D., Chief of the NINDS Viral Immunology Section and the study's principalinvestigator. "We've suspected a possible role for a virus in MS for quite sometime, and these results certainly point to this particular virus....