Diatom genome reveals key role in biosphere's carbon cycle
...ate silica in ways that nanotechnologists can only dream about. If we understood how they can design and build their patterned frustule as part of their biology, perhaps this could be adapted by humans," Rokhsar says. Scientists on the project, which includes 46 researchers from 26 institutions, also cons...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
...lley Authority are testing an electric ratepayer's dream -- a "frostless" heat pump that produces warmer air than conventional air source heat pumps, especially during the defrosting cycle and at lower overall cost. A heat pump circulating warm air through a structure can struggle when the outside temperat...Award will help unlock mysteries of one of Earth's most important organisms
...ts on our planet. This award will let her live the dream of all scientists, to truly following her passion and ideas wherever they lead." Since joining the faculty of the UW School of Oceanography in 1996, Armbrust has supervised 15 undergraduates conducting research in her lab, advised 30 graduate studen...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...re the excitement of the technology that makes the dream of a Census a reality, CoML team members launched the educational website Investigating Marine Life at www.coml.org, accompanied by the launch of a television public service commercial. ...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
...enfold," he said. "In many ways, this project is a dream project: interesting science, high technology, rapid transition from the bench to the bedside, and most important, critical need." To produce the artemisinin, Keasling and his team have genetically modified microbes. This approach, one of the first t...Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH
...ential to make research that many of us could only dream about both plausible and cost effective," said Stuart Dryer, chair of the department of biology and biochemistry at UH. "In my own research on neurological diseases, we've often wished we could rapidly synthesize many variations of large naturally o...Key molecule in plant photo-protection identified
... create artificial versions of photosynthesis, the dream of solar power as a clean, efficient and sustainable source of energy for humanity could be realized. A potential pitfall for any sunlight-harvesting system is that if the system becomes overloaded with absorbed energy, it will likely suffer some for...International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort
...their time, technology and money to help turn this dream into reality. The payoff will be a better understanding of the genetic risk factors underlying a wide range of diseases and conditions," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. The first phase of the HapMap Project has allowed scientists ......ding (in vivo). It may take many years before this dream comes true, but the experiment reported by an Aust... Krausz indicates a promising way of realizing the dream some day. Researchers at Vienna University of Technology, the University of Wrzburg, the University ...Methodist, UH system joining forces for biomedical research, clinical care
...olutionary research and education, will bring that dream to reality. The real beneficiary will be the health care community and the general public."...The world's smallest synchrotron, MIRRORCLE-6X, now commercially available
...on light with a very low entrance fee. This is the dream of Professor Hironari Yamada, researcher and inventor at Ritsumeikan University in Kusatsu, Japan. After more than 15 years of intense research into the development of miniature synchrotrons, the pinnacle of success was achieved with the construction...Three Nobel laureates to speak at 06 AACBNC Meeting
...anuary 18th to 21st 2006. Dr. Goodman stated, "My dream was to have three Nobel Laureates who worked in the physical and life sciences attend the meeting to discuss the future of interdisciplinary research and training. Sometimes dreams come true." Goodman has recruited Dr. Aaron J. Ciechanover (Nobel Pri...One year after groundbreaking, desert research center takes shape on the Israeli-Jordanian border
... Israeli businessman living in New York. Kochavi's dream was to create a bioscience research center jointly...as academic partners. Dead Sea science Kochavi's dream became reality on March 9, 2004, when he, Feldman and others joined Jordanian and Israeli government...Biochemists report discovery of structure of major piece of telomerase; implications for cancer
...s laboratory has been working on the RNA. "It is a dream of mine to figure out what this RNA is doing with the protein," Feigon said. "Reverse transcriptases normally copy RNA to DNA, but do not contain RNA; in this enzyme, the protein requires the RNA component to function. The enzyme is unique because it...Harvard, Texas A&M scientists develop new laser
...ne day it may lead to the sort of security experts dream of having-a portable device that you could use to detect things like weapons or explosives simply by shining an invisible light to see what someone might be hiding," Capasso explains. "The work also represents an important advance in quantum design, ...Solving sleep problems helps epileptic children
...ep cycle when brain activity is highest and people dream intensely. The children in the study spent 17 percent of total sleep time in the REM stage. The norm for young adults is 25 percent. "Removing the sleep problem does seem to improve the behavior problem significantly, because it changes the child's l...Brain-mapping technique aids understanding of sleep, wakefulness
...ern and senior author of the study. "Eventually my dream is to elucidate all the pathways regulating sleep." Dr. Yanagisawa and his colleagues focused on neurons in the brain that produce the protein orexin, which helps keep animals awake. In humans, a lack of, or deficiency in, orexin causes narcolepsy,...Hydroxycitric acid slows glucose uptake, cuts insulin peaks/valleys a la South Beach Diet
...May 18, 2005) In this obesity-obsessed world, the dream ingredient must be something that tastes good enough to be a condiment or flavoring and yet somehow helps us keep our weight down. Consider hydroxycitric acid (HCA), known variously as Brindle berry or Malabar tamarind, which is used in Indian and Th...Water quality a major focus of $14 million grant to the University of Arizona
...o is an environmental microbiologist. "My hope and dream is that we would be able to soak the seeds in a microbial inoculum, then plant them and walk away." Because contaminant removal can't happen overnight, half the SBRP research projects are dedicated to elucidating the health effects of TCE and arsenic...NC woman is now insulin-free after series of three islet cell transplants
... taking insulin injections. For Anderson this is a dream come true." CMC's islet cell transplant research is being funded by the National Institutes of Health. The Transplant Center at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte has been active in transplantation since 1970 when the first kidney transplant was ...