Homeland security highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
... is time consuming and potentially expensive. But thanks to an Internet assessment tool under development at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory called Mozart, a thorough analysis soon will be just mouse clicks away. Mozart quickly archives and analyzes entire Web sites based on search terms provided by ...Interpreting a climate record from 10,000-year-old migrating waters
...0 years old. Glassley and his team of researchers, thanks to the super computer's simulations, now have the proof that these assumptions are valid. "We were also interested in how big an effect changes in surface temperature and amount of rainfall would have on the water chemistry," noted William Glassley, ...Rabies vaccinations could help save Ethiopian wolf
...ds. This population (Bale Mountain) has recovered, thanks to a dog vaccination program that began there in 1996. To see if disease management would also benefit the other Ethiopian wolf populations, Haydon and his colleagues used a model that accounted for factors including the level of rabies incidence in...Special report: Personal genomics
...ics will take off. The idea is gathering momentum thanks to Craig Venter, the eccentric scientist-entrepreneur who raced government-funded labs to decode the human genome. Earlier this year, he was ousted from Celera, the genome company he founded. But he has bounced back with a plan for a massive non-prof...Bio-X to fund 21 new interdisciplinary research projects
...ch futuristic scenarios may become reality one day thanks to $3 million in grants awarded by Stanford University's Bio-X program this week. Twenty-one new interdisciplinary research projects - including the artificial cornea and wireless gastric endocapsule projects - will obtain funding from Bio-X during t...Tailor-made sugar coated proteins manufactured in novel E. coli system
...eins for use in therapeutic drugs is a step closer thanks to new research published today in Science. Researchers from Switzerland and the UK report they have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to carry a vital piece of cell machinery that adds sugar molecules to newly synthesized proteins by a proce...Observing proteins and cells in the wild
... to be. This fantasy is rapidly becoming a reality thanks to new Rockefeller University research that takes advantage of a technology originally developed in the early 1980s for use in computers. Called "quantum dots," these fluorescent nanocrystals can be made to glow brightly in any desired color and thus...RIT collaborates with IBM on genomic research
...will open at a remarkable rate in the near future, thanks to upcoming applied research in the field of bioinformatics, say university and industry experts. Ahead of the curve, Rochester Institute of Technology and IBM have launched a collaboration based on RIT bioinformatics expertise and IBM's scientific c...American Physical Society March Meeting 2003
...E EAR We are able to locate the origin of sounds thanks to the fact that we have two ears. Differences in the relative timing of sounds as well as differences in the volume level in each ear both affect our ability to pinpoint sounds. Surprisingly, timing and level differences seem to be independently pro...New protein will help fight inflammation
...al use. The development programme is made possible thanks to a groundbreaking investment by the Universities' seed fund, the Cardiff Partnership Fund, and Catalyst Biomedica Limited. Together, they have invested 350,000 UK pounds in the development project, which has resulted from an on-going collaboratio...Stuart research funds generating dividends for veterinary medicine
...en percent of horses that have colic will die. But thanks to research funded by grants to Virginia Tech from the estate of the late Patricia Stuart, researchers at the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center are making some important discoveries about what causes colic and finding better ways to treat it....Backstage with a command performer
... of histone proteins' interaction with DNA. Now, thanks to Su's stamina on the Ezh2 inquiry, other labs likely will follow the same footsteps to study effector molecules. "We thought that Ezh2 might serve as a direct link from receptor signaling to nuclear responses," says Tarakhovsky. "But proof for Ezh2...Charles J. Sherr and Dennis J. Slamon awarded Landon-AACR Prizes for Cancer Research
...ussel. "This is also an appropriate time to give thanks to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for believing in us and supporting our work, even before it was fashionable."Dr. Sherr, who in 1995 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, has received many...Minority and underrepresented scientists in cancer research supported by AACR
... be participating in the 2003 AACR Annual Meeting, thanks to AACR-HBCU Faculty Scholar Awards in Cancer Research. These awards, also supported by a grant from the Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Program of the National Cancer Institute, are designed to foster the participation of scientists at the level o...MIT research in Hawaii could impact state's management of fresh water
...team was also exposed firsthand to native culture, thanks in large part to Frankel's creativity. She volunteered everyone to weed invasive plants for the Kokee Resource Conservation Program in return for four days of free lodging at an original Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Kokee State Park on Kauai. ...Best chance to protect giant pandas
...pportunity to protect more of the panda's habitat, thanks to two conservation policies recently adopted by the Chinese government to help control flooding. First, under the National Forest Conservation Program, logging is banned in natural forests until 2010; and second, the Grain-to-Green policy is restori...Myosin V, the molecular motor, moves in monkey-bar motion
...ver-hand motion of a single myosin motor in action thanks to an innovative microscopic technique created by Joseph N. Forkey, PhD, a post-doctoral researcher at Goldmans PMI laboratory. The technique, called single-molecule fluorescence polarization, involved labeling myosin V with a fluorescent tag. The r...New DNA chip rapidly detects, identifies dangerous pathogens
...apons, is about to get faster and more convenient, thanks to a new technique that can sense harmful DNA and immediately alert a doctor or scientist. The research, published in the April 9 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, uses custom-designed loops of DNA that emit colored light in the...Pitt researchers develop non-invasive glucose sensor
...rs several times a day to test blood sugar levels, thanks to a breakthrough by University of Pittsburgh researchers who have developed a non-invasive method to measure the glucose level in bodily fluids. Researchers Sanford A. Asher, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in the faculty and College of Arts and Scien...High-speed images show how cells mobilize for immune response
... explains that many of these findings are possible thanks to high-speed imaging techniques that enable him to merge knowledge of physics with cell and molecular biology. He uses high sensitivity fluorescence imaging with shutter speeds 600,000 times faster than video frames. "Before the advent of high-spee...