American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...y World War II sites, military training areas, and explosive manufacturing sites. In addition to being explosive, TNT is toxic and a human health threat. Researchers knew that certain soil bacteria could metabolize and change trinitrotoluene (TNT) into nontoxic compounds. But those natural bacteria exist at le...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 30, 2007
...ows promise for sickle cell gene therapy A new explosive proves unusually touchy Progress toward a heal...edu ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A new explosive proves unusually touchy Journal of the American Chemical Society The first systematic study of a ...InfoSNM highlights advances in computer, information sciences for molecular imaging
RESTON, Va. -- The explosive growth in the power of digital computers used for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine will be showcased at SNMs 54th Annual Meeting June 26 in the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. SNM, the worlds largest society for molecular imagi...Biosensor sniffs out explosives
...tor "smells" the odor of DNT, an ingredient in the explosive TNT, the biosensor turns fluorescent green. The research team is the first to identify, clone and sequence this novel olfactory receptor. "We suspected that harnessing the potential of the olfactory system, which can detect innumerable chemical age...AGU Journal highlights -- February 23, 2007
...Mt. Vesuvius, an Italian volcano with a history of explosive eruptions, poses a serious threat to the nearly on...most hazardous scenarios. Title:4D simulation of explosive eruption dynamics at Vesuvius Authors: Augusto Neri, Tomaso E. Ongaro, Gianluca Menconi, and Matt...ACS News Service weekly PressPac -- Feb. 7, 2007
...osives that have been used worldwide in improvised explosive devices and other terrorist attacks. The study concludes that SPAMS has the potential to detect the presence of explosives even if only one dust-speck-sized particle weighing one trillionth of a gram, (one gram is one-twenty-eighth of an ounce), is ...Carnegie Mellon engineers devise new process to improve energy efficiency of ethanol production
... products. "As a result of the explosive growth of the U.S. fuel ethanol industry, we decided to collaborate with Professor Grossmann's team to verify how process synthesis tools could be applied to improve the production of ethanol from corn. The work done at Carnegie Mellon demonstrated t...Detaining patients is justified to contain deadly TB strain in South Africa say experts
...f TB in South Africa and to prevent "a potentially explosive international health crisis." In a policy paper in the international health journal PLoS Medicine, Dr Jerome Singh of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in Durban, South Africa (who is also an Adjunct Professor at the Joint Centre for Bi...Algae toxin identification unravels fish-kill mystery
...peake Bay. The single-cell organism can experience explosive growth resulting in algae blooms in coastal waters. While it has been suspected not only in fish kills but in incidents of human memory loss and other environmental and health-related effects, no one has ever conclusively identified the actual mechan...Bioengineer wins $500,000 engineering prize
...been used to develop products that protect against explosive compressions, such as personal body armor for military forces and emergency responders. More recently, Fung directly contributed to tissue engineering through the development of engineered products for treating burns and severe tissue injuries and th...Complexity constrains evolution of human brain genes
Despite the explosive growth in size and complexity of the human brain, the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has actually slowed since the split, millions of years ago, between human and chimpanzee, an international resear...Sniffers show that humans can track scents, and that two nostrils are better than one
...at one day could detect odors such as that from an explosive mine. To test Sobel and Porter's smell hypothesis, the UC Berkeley researchers soaked a 33-foot (10-meter) string in chocolate essence and laid it in the grass outside Barker Hall, located at the northwest corner of the UC Berkeley campus. They the...Detecting explosives with honeybees
...ng tool in the fight against the use of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, which present a critical vulnerability for American military troops abroad and is an emerging danger for civilians worldwide. By studying bee behavior and testing and improving on technologies already on the market, Los Alamos s...Discovery about evolution of fungi has implications for humans, says U of M researcher
...and evolved a variety of new mechanisms (including explosive volleys and fragrances) to disperse their spores and reproduce in a terrestrial setting. "What's particularly interesting is that species retained their flagella for different lengths of time and developed different mechanisms of spore dispersal," ...Earliest fungi may have found multiple solutions to propagation on land, new study infers
... have lost spore motility but evolved dispersal by explosive mechanisms," James said. An example of "explosiv...es through their spores, which may be broadcast by explosive volleys or more passively through windborne dispersion. "Trufflelike fungi, on the other hand, pro...Ecosystem of vanishing lake yields valuable bacterium
...be used to clean-up wastewater from fertilizer and explosive manufacturing plants, which is 10 to 15-times saltier than the ocean and laden with polluting nitrates. Peyton hoped the salty ecosystem of Soap Lake might be home to a bacterium that could live in such high-salt waters and also find nitrates appeti...NIH funds Berkeley Lab research on defense against radiological attack
...lantation. In the event of an attack by nuclear explosive device or radiological dirty bomb, people could potentially inhale, ingest, or absorb through their skin radioactive substances, or radionuclides. Depending on the type of radionuclide that a person is exposed to, the particles may be excreted from t...Trap-jaw ants have fastest recorded strike in animal kingdom
...Having a latch system is critical in obtaining the explosive speeds," said Patek. "In general, muscles aren't good at generating fast movements. If a person were to throw an arrow, it wouldn't get very far. But by using a crossbow, elastic energy is stored in the bow, and a latch releases the stored energy alm...EMBL-EBI and collaborators win bid to run UK PubMed Central
... revolution since its inception. There has been an explosive growth in both the number of biomedical publications and the size of their accompanying data sets; UKPMC will become a major tool to allow both the research community and the public to access and analyse this information. Manchester's expertise in bi...Human activities in arid urban environments can affect rainfall and water cycle
...id cities, such as Phoenix, which have experienced explosive population growth. Now, a study by a climatologist in the department of geography at the University of Georgia has shown, using a unique 108-year-old data record and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, that arid cities such a...