N.C. A&T food scientist develops process for allergen-free peanuts
... Doug Speight of the N.C. A&T Office of Outreach and Technology Transfer said food companies are showing a strong interest in licensing the process, which does not degrade the taste or quality of treated peanuts, and might even render them eas...Microscopic jets, diamonds unlikely on Uranus, and amazing mosquito legs
Microscopic Polystyrene Balls - now Jet-propelled!... J. Howse, R. Jones, A. Ryan, T. Gough, R. Vafabakhsh, R. Golestanian... Physical Review Letters (forthcoming, advance copy available)... ... The researchers, led by Ramin Golestanian of the University of Sheffield, coated one side of each polys...JCI table of contents: January 25, 2006
... Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that causes degeneration of the nerves in the brain and spinal cord, leading to various symptoms including muscle weakness and pain. Most individuals with MS go through cycles of disease and remission, leading to the suggestion that there are regulatory mechanisms that counter the disease-causing inflammation. Using a mouse model of...Peanut allergies overstated, study finds
... ... ... "Because peanut allergies are potentially serious, requiring...Blood sugar's manufacture limited by building blocks' supply
... The study found that mice deficient for KLF15, a member of the so-called Krppel-like family of transcription factors, become severely lacking in the blood sugar glucosea primary energy source for the body and the sole source for the brainafter a period of overnight fasting. The researchers traced that deficiency back to an inability to produc...Test finds manufactured nanoparticles don't harm soil ecology
... ... Concerns surround the increa...Manual dishwashing study digs up dirt on dish cleanliness
... ... "After washing, there were lipsti...Instruction manual for creating a molecular nose
......... An artificial nose could be a real benefit at times: this kind of biosensor could sniff out poisons, explosives or drugs, for instance. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry recently revealed a technique for integrating membrane proteins into artificial structures. Membrane proteins have several important functions in...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 24, 2007
... ... ... ... In This Edition:... ... Toward development of...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2007
... ORNL researchers performing basic research have discovered a carbon nanotube-based system that functions like an atom-scale switch. Their approach is to perform first-principles calculations on positioning a molecule inside a carbon nanotube to affect the electronic current flowing across it. The result is an electrical gate at the molecular level: In one position, the molecular gate is open...Best practices for parenterals: From formulation to manufacturing
WHAT: The AAPS 42nd Annual Pharmaceutical Technologies Arden Conference Best Practices for Parenteral Dosage Forms: Formulation and Process Development, Package Selection, and Manufacturing will update scientists on the latest technologies for developing parenteral dosage forms for both small molecules and biologics. The broad range of topics featured will be addressed with presentations from fi...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 10, 2007
...... ...Weekly PressPac - Jan. 10, 2007 ...ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, JAN. 15, 2007) ...... ... The American Chemical Society (ACS) News Service PressPac is your access p...JCI table of contents -- January 11, 2006
... In humans, mutation of the gene encoding a protein known as WASp leads to susceptibility to infections and systemic autoimmunity. Most studies have focused on understanding the defects in T cell activation caused by the WASp deficiency, but researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have now found that in mice and humans a population of T cells known as regulatory T cells (Treg)...Highlights from the January 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
... ... Watching television, eating family meals and the safety of the neighborhood all play a role in children's weight, according to researchers at the University of Missouri....Other highlights in the January 3 JNCI
...Regular use of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins is not associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer, according to a population-based case-control study. ... Laboratory tests of statins have found anticancer effects on colon cancer cells. One case-control study of people found that use of statins for at least 5 years reduced the risk of colorectal cancer by 50 percent. To furt...JCI table of contents: January 2, 2007
... ... The group of drugs known as beta blockers help slow nerve impulses traveling through the heart in order to reduce the heart's workload. This effect is achieved via their action on beta-adrenergic receptors present in cardiac cells. As such, beta blockers have become a mainstay of the treatment regimen for chronic heart failure. However, doctors have remained puzzled by the variable res...ORNL aids diesel parts manufacturers
... Laboratory researchers are helping companies characterize materials and test components as part of the industrys preparation for the new emissions mandates. The requirements will result in a 90 percent reduction in nitrogen oxide, or NOX, and particulate matter, or soot, released by diesel vehicles, from semi-trucks to cars.</...Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing
PITTSBURGH--Using environmentally safe compounds like sugars and vitamin C, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have vastly improved a popular technology used to generate a diverse range of industrial plastics for applications ranging from targeted drug delivery systems to resilient paint coatings.... The revolutionary improvement in atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) now enables l...ANU scientists crack DNA replication mystery
A team of scientists led by Professor Nick Dixon at the Research School of Chemistry at The Australian National University have cracked one of the great DNA mysteries. For more than 20 years scientists have tried in vain to understand the last step in the copying of DNA in cells that are about to divide....... ... In all cells, DNA is copied by a large molecular machine called the replisome. Th...Sandia tool speeds up environmental cleanup, reopening of contaminated facilities
LIVERMORE, Calif. - A software-based tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories for managing the collection, visualization, and analysis of environmental sampling data is now available to potential licensing partners.... ...Sandia's Building Restoration Operations Optimization Model (BROOM) software system was developed to help decision makers - during the planning phase and throughout actual...Caltech's Emmanuel Candes to receive $500,000 Waterman Award
Emmanuel Candes, a mathematician at the California Institute of Technology, has been selected to receive the National Science Board's prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award. The board cited Candes' development of new mathematical tools that allow efficient digital representation of wave signals, together with his discovery of new methods to translate analog data into a cleaner, tighter digital form--...Improving police cars, recovering lost manuscripts: UH research day delivers
HOUSTON, March 28, 2006 From hard sciences and engineering to psychology and literature, a treasure trove of projects will be showcased at an event to focus on cutting-edge research and scholarly programs at the University of Houston. ...... UH's sixth biennial Research and Scholarship Day will take place from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, March 31 in the Conrad Hilton Ballroom at the UH Hilton Hotel...CI and GW publish new manual on creating ecotourism destinations
Determining if a destination is suitable for sustainable ecotourism is not an easy task. However, a new publication produced by Conservation International (CI) and The George Washington University (GW) provides field practitioners with tools to perform rapid assessments and analysis of potential ecotourism destinations....... Titled "Linking Communities, Tourism and ConservationA Tourism Assessme...Grants put ANU in bird flu fight frontline
Australia's preparedness for a potential Avian Influenza pandemic will be boosted by four new projects at ANU, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)....... Researchers at the ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences have received $110,000 for a project to strengthen the contribution of general practitioners to the control of pandemic influenza, $183,040 for a proje...Other highlights in the January 18 JNCI
... Women infected with HIV types 1 and 2 may have a higher risk of HSIL than HIV-negative women, according to a new study in Senegalese women....... Stephen E. Hawes, Ph.D., of the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues studied a cohort of 627 women with and without HIV types 1 and/or 2 and/or high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in Senegal, West Africa. They followed th...JCI table of contents: January 12, 2006
......Blockade of fat hormone helps halt and heal multiple sclerosis ... ...Italian researchers have found that blockade of the hormone leptin, which is primarily produced in fats cells, has beneficial effects on the induction and progression of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in mice the animal model of human multiple sclerosis (MS). In their study appearing online on January 1...JCI table of contents: January 4, 2006
... ... Soy diet worsens heart disease ... ...Researchers from the University of Colorado have shown that mice carrying a genetic mutation that is linked to altered heart growth and function in humans, have significantly worse heart problems if fed a soy diet, when compared to mice fed a soy-free (milk proteinbased) diet. This is the first study to provide evidence that an environmental influenc...Other highlights in the January 4 JNCI
... A new study has found that a cancer drug and an engineered form of the herpes simplex virus may work together more effectively than either agent alone to destroy glioblastoma cells from human brain cancers....... The drug temozolomide, which stops tumor growth by preventing DNA replication in the cell, was approved in 2005 for the treatment of glioblastoma, a rapidly fatal type of brain canc...North Shore-LIJ receives FDA approval for new drug application to manufacture PET scan drug
MANHASSET, NY -- The Institute for Medical Research of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to manufacture a drug used for diagnostic imaging with positron emission tomography (PET), a scanning technique that generates internal pictures of the human body at work. ...... The Institute's...'Switchable' solvents make chemical manufacturing more environmentally-friendly
Researchers from Queen's University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new environmentally-friendly way to make chemicals for pharmaceutical and other industries, such as plastics, pesticides, dyes and fragrances....National Academies news: DOE should consider enhancing cleanup and stabilization
WASHINGTON -- Tanks containing radioactive waste at the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Site, a nuclear weapons facility in South Carolina, should not necessarily be sealed as soon as the bulk of the waste has been removed, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies' National Research Council. Postponing closure of tanks with difficult-to-remove residual wast...Tetanus toxin found to have therapeutic properties
...A team of researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute of Neuroscience at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona has discovered that tetanus toxin, which causes tetanus, could be extremely useful as a therapy against psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety and anorexia, and to slow the progress of neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkins...ANU medical researcher wins national award
ANU immunologist Professor Chris Goodnow has been awarded the Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research for his research in molecular genetics.... ...Professor Goodnow, the Director of the Australian Phenomics Facility and Head of the Medical Genome Centre at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, said the award recognised a forward-looking medical re...New processing method reduces peanut allergenicity
ATLANTA June 6, 2005 -- A new study has found that the allergenicity of peanut products could be significantly reduced by a special fermentation process. Researchers from North Carolina A&T University report their findings today at the 105th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. ..."Due to the wide use of peanuts in food products such as cookies, snacks and even soups there...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2005
FORENSICS The telltale tree . . . ... ...Logs confiscated by police at a Texas murder scene and the work of a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory may help put a killer behind bars. Using a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, Madhavi Martin obtained "chemical fingerprints" from a partially burned log at the crime scene and compared them to those of logs that had been p...Other highlights in the January 5 JNCI
...... A new study has found that blocking vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 (VEGFR-3) prevented lymphangiogenesis in a mouse model but had no effect on blood angiogenesis or the survival or function of existing lymphatic vessels. Specifically targeting VEGFR-3 may inhibit tumor metastasis by preventing lymphatic vessel growth by the tumor, the study concludes....... VEGFR-3 plays an...JCI table of contents, 3 January 2005
Cincinnati study of Chernobyl residents uncovers new cause of thyroid cancer ... ...Cincinnati University scientists studying papillary thyroid cancer in Chernobyl residents following the 1986 nuclear plant accident have identified a novel genetic mutation event that occurs as a result of their exposure to high levels of radioiodide.... ...Yuri E. Nukiforov led a team of researchers from bot...Highlights of January 2005 issue of Biology of Reproduction
The January 2005 issue of Biology of Reproduction marks the start of the co-editorship of Drs. John Eppig and Mary Ann Handel. The new editors-in-chief, along with members of their board of associate editors, will provide highlights of some of the prominent papers in each issue of the journal. Following are the January highlights of groundbreaking papers dealing with genetic modification of germl...Highlights of January Journal of the American Dietetic Association
The January 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association contains articles and research studies you may find of interest. Below is a summary of some of this month's articles. For more information or to receive a faxed copy of a Journal article, e-mail . ...... ...Coffee gets its perk from caffeine, and so do soft drinks and tea. According to researchers from the University of V...