Russian universities receive US funding to improve basic scientific research capabilities
...us and Nonlinear Media The BRHE program seeks to transform and invigorate the training of young Russian scientists by strengthening the basic research capabilities of Russian higher education institutions in the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, physics). BRHE establishes Re...Scientists awarded patent for coal-purifying bacteria
...oach permits us to tailor the microbial package to transform different types of coal and other carbon-containing materials."...New view of bacteria-mineral interface to advance bioremediation
...on basalt using a customized laser imaging Fourier transform mass spectrometer. In the first reported application of imaging Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FTMS) to the field of biogeochemistry, INEEL researchers created high-resolution ...New portable device senses chemical weapons
...or spectrum at once. The problem with such Fourier transform (FT) instruments, Tsao said, is the size and the r... detect things that cant be detected using Fourier transform spectroscopy, which employs single element infrared detection, Rabolt said. And, it can do that very...Lilly Endowment grants almost $26 million to Purdue Discovery Park
...ndowment, said Discovery Park has the potential to transform Indiana and its economy. "Purdue, because of its international prominence in the high-technology fields, is a magnificent resource," he said. "The university not only graduates large numbers of scientists, engineers and information specialists, but i......nce off the electrons and pick-up enough energy to transform them into X-rays in the process. The monochromatic X-ray beam is similar to a laser beam. Monochromatic X-rays are capable of producing sharper, cleaner images than conventional X-ray machines, but, until now, the only sources for this kind of radiat...Scientists chart iron cycle in ocean
...(NSF)-supported researchers found that light helps transform the mineral into a form that can be easily taken u...Santa Barbara. "This photochemical reaction helps transform the iron complexes into a form that enables marine organisms to more easily acquire the essential ir...... to shuttle the genes into cells, and used them to transform three different kinds of tumor cell lines that do not normally display the proteins: a melanoma (skin cancer), a T cell lymphoma and a thymoma (cancer of the thymus). He then injected them into laboratory mice at levels that would typically kill them...Slight molecular tweak, and flu virus becomes a killer
...hat such changes may also trigger changes that can transform the virus from merely sickening to deadly. In the case of H5N1 influenza A, it seems that only a minor change in the virus was enough to permit it to spread beyond the respiratory system to other vital organs, including the heart and the brain. Int...Career counseling for embryonic cells
... is a complex series of biochemical reactions that transform stem cells into specific types of body tissue. In...gnals instruct cells to produce proteins that will transform the cell into a particular tissue type, such as bone or muscle. QSulf1 functions in progenitor cells...Scientists map the complete genome of an important agricultural bacterium
...l bacterial species with the remarkable ability to transform atmospheric nitrogen into other chemicals a process called nitrogen fixation. All living things need nitrogen a basic ingredient of proteins, DNA and other organic molecules. But obtaining usable nitrogen from nature is a complicated process, despi...Homeground ecology 101: Sara Stein to speak at ESA Meeting
... pursuits in backyard ecology, and explains how to transform the traditional, lawn-bound home garden into natural habitat. Noah's Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood, published this June by Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, explores a child's need to be connected with natural habitats, for children's own sa...Worlds largest scientific society convenes regional meeting June 14-17 in Seattle
...an Genome Project, and how this new knowledge will transform biology, biomedical sciences, medicine, our laws and customs, and how we view ourselves. (Alan Weiner, Biochemistry Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., 206-543-1768, amweiner@u.washington.edu )....Study finds nonviral gene therapy for severe hemophilia a is safe with early signs of benefit
... hemophilia, which if ultimately successful, could transform the care of such patients. "Hemophilia A is an attractive candidate disease for gene therapy because factor VIII production is not regulated in response to bleeding, and the delivery of factor VIII into the bloodstream does not require expression of...The cult - and culture - of anorexia
...rkers. "What I found was that people with anorexia transform many of the thingsthat we might consider to be fundamental to social relationships," MsWarin says. "These are things like relating to family, friendships, thesharing of food, and sharing space with others - all of these are a verylarge part of how we...Field Museum plays vital role in creation of huge new park
...fore habitat fragmentation and degradation forever transform the landscape." In 1999, APECO spearheaded an initiative to establish a national park in the Cordillera Azul mountains. To support that effort, Field Museum scientists and colleagues launched this RBI with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. Ma......the University of Maryland. "Ecoagriculture could transform agriculture and environmental protection to save wild biodiversity while also addressing the realities of human hunger and population growth." Wild biodiversity in all of its forms has intrinsic value, but it also has practical value, such as m...Researchers discover the ultimate adult stem cell
...een discovered--a cell in the bone marrow that can transform itself into almost any organ in the body, accordin...at these cells have surprising plasticity, and can transform themselves into mature cells of other organs such as skeletal muscle, bone, and brain. Dr. Theise an...Spurred by the worldwide fight against malaria, scientists release parasite genome database
...s soon as possible and to equip them with tools to transform this data into a useful form." The database created by the Penn team is a milestone for bioinformatics, which seeks to bring order to the flood of data generated by various genome projects. Scientists can use built-in data-mining tools to examin......n to 11 days, the stem cells began to multiply and transform themselves into heart muscle cells and migrated into the damaged area. After an average of nine days, the newly formed heart muscle cells occupied 68 percent of the damaged portion of the heart. In addition, the stem cells also began producing smoot...