CWRU to host regional NAE biomedical conference
...ogy Coalition (NorTech), these new businesses will thrive and participate in the more than $150 billion annual U.S. biomedical device market." Gilbert will deliver remarks on the future of biomedical technology. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 for his work on special building blocks of ge...Study contradicts assumption that ulcer bug has always plagued humans
... more than half the world's population, and it can thrive in the stomach for years. Whereas some people suffer no apparent consequences, others develop peptic ulcer disease. Gastric cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths in some developing countries, also has been associated with H. pylori. Analyzin...Success of introduced Argentine ants tied to reduced genetic variation
...ere those competitors are largely absent, the ants thrive in the temperate and damp coastal regions, killing and displacing native ants, many of which are 10 times larger in size. "The striking thing about Argentine ants in California is that as long as the habitat is favorable, they completely dominate," s...Yale study pinpoints how plants adjust to and grow in various lighting conditions
... agriculture. Farmers can alter crops so they will thrive in less favorable light conditions. This finding can also be used to make greenhouse plants grow much stronger and healthier in early spring, when light is not as abundant." Deng's research team in Yale's Department of Molecular, Cellular and Devel...Bt corn variety found to be safe to Illinois butterfly
...erse effect on black swallowtail caterpillars that thrive in weeds alongside cornfields, according to both field and laboratory studies at the University of Illinois. The study -- published online Tuesday (June 6) by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science -- differs sharply from a May 1999 Natu...Double crops, cut the acreage by 2010, predicts plant scientist
...ate new crop varieties that can withstand and even thrive through environmental stresses such as frost, heat...scientists have always assumed that the ability to thrive through stress was a genetically complex trait, and so researchers assumed that it would be a waste ...Purdue researchers clean up petroleum spills with plants
...tching plants to climate. For example, plants that thrive in southern Indiana may not make it through hurricanes or the heat of an east Texas summer. Another part of the problem is finding plants that survive in contaminated areas and at the same time encourage microbial growth. Banks and Schwab have worked...Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish?
..., the vast majority of animals grown on fish farms thrive on diets consisting primarily of plant food. These...ers to use less fishmeal and to raise species that thrive on vegetarian diets. Agencies like the World Bank also should provide funding to rehabilitate ecosy...Review article highlights tiny motors driving cell division
Living things grow and thrive because their cells -- the tiny building blocks of muscle, skin, branch and flower -- are constantly duplicating themselves. In that process, gene-bearing chromosomes inside each cell must separate into identical sets to form two daughter cells. A mi......e researchers will try to discover which organisms thrive on which types of platforms, how those organisms populate, whether the variety of organisms differs at different depths and different times of the year and whether the organisms can be readily harvested. The research team will examine platforms both...UI researchers develop test indicating cystic fibrosis lungs are infected with bacterial biofilms
... By growing as a biofilm, bacteria can survive and thrive in hostile environments. Although the P. aeruginosa isolated from the lungs of CF patients looks like a biofilm and acts like a biofilm, until now there has not been an objective test available to confirm that it is a biofilm. The researchers also ...UMR research could pave way for discovery of life on Mars
...acteria can live without light or oxygen. They can thrive in boiling water or below the Arctic ice. Existing bacteria have been found in radioactive waste and, interestingly enough, in the belly of a bee trapped in amber for more than 25 million years. If bacteria can survive under these conditions for s...Scientists use new technique to pinpoint key gene in infectious fungus
...hought this might explain why the yeast is able to thrive in macrophages within a special compartment that probably contains very little available calcium. Using a new gene-altering technique, the researchers produced a mutant Histoplasma that was unable to secrete the calcium-binding protein. The mutant g...Discovery may jump-start mine remediation efforts
...sts have discovered sulfide-reducing microbes that thrive at temperatures close to 100 degrees Celsius, suggesting that researchers cannot dismiss the possibility of microbes laying down mineral deposits. The new work, says Banfield, helps fill in the picture: "We now know how it is possible to form pure zi...Microbes make mine-waste drinkable, Science researchers report
... and arsenic. Many sulfate-reducing bacteria thrive in environments that totally lack oxygen, but some species actually thrive at low levels of aeration, in which sulfide precipitation should offer an effective means to biologi...Save that tiger - Texas A&M vets set first-ever surgery
...e. At only 45 pounds, the tiger cub has failed to thrive because of his condition and is at least 20 pounds underweight. Dr. Sonya Gordon, a veterinary cardiologist at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has determined the tiger suffers from Tetralogy of Fallot, a life-threatening heart condition that can...Scientists decode genes of microbe that thrives in toxic metals
Understanding the genetic makeup of microbes that thrive in polluted environments may one day help scientists engineer bacteria that can clean contaminants from soil. In a step toward that goal, the U.S. Department of Energys Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has just released the draft gene sequence of one suc......eir tolerance to urea, for example, and they could thrive on the colonists' urine. The researchers are also looking to give plants new attributes to make them grow more efficiently. Distant colonies might be so far from the Sun that plants could never hope to gather enough sunlight to meet their energy nee......eeds. (Weeds are usually considered as plants that thrive in sunlight and disturbed areas, establish their presence quickly and grow where other plants cant.) The Highland Mayawith a population of around 800,000have inhabited the same region in Mexico for millennia. Earlier research by Brent and Elois A...UW astrobiology research gets huge boost from $4.9 million NASA award
...f research, including the study of life forms that thrive in extreme Earth environments, such as polar ice and deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Such study is expected to further the understanding of conditions in which life might be found elsewhere in the universe. The UW's unique doctoral program in astrobiolo...