Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells
... The research, "Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Deliver DNA and Chemicals into Plants," is a highlighted article in the May issue of Nature Nanotechnology. The scientis...$4.4 million NIH grant renews Echinacea and St John's wort research at Iowa State
... The Iowa Center for Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements at Iowa State University was created in 2002 by the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. In addition to Iowa State, the center includes researchers at the University of Iowa, Yale University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's North Central Regional Plant Int...ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5M biofuels research program at Iowa State
... ... Biorenewable fuels are produced from organic materials and help...Iowa State University botanists identify new species of North American bamboo
... Lynn Clark, Iowa State professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology, and Ph.D. student Jimmy Triplett study bamboo diversity and evolution. They first heard about "hill cane" from Alan Weakley, a botanist at the University of North Carolina. Although the plant was known to...Iowa State researchers improve soy processing by boosting protein and sugar yields
Iowa State researchers improve soy processing by boosting protein and sugar yields...AMES, Iowa -- Graduate student Bishnu Karki turned on an ultrasonic machine in an Iowa State University laboratory. With a loud screech, the machine's high-frequency sound waves churned a mixture of soy flakes and cold water. And that churning could be a major boost to soy processors and the food industry. ... ...University of Iowa scientists explore function of 'junk DNA'
... The team, led by Beverly Davidson, Ph.D., a Roy J. Carver Biomedical Research Chair in Internal Medicine and UI professor of internal medicine, physiology and biophysics, and neurology, have discovered a new mechanism for the expression of microRNAs -- short segments of RNA that do not give rise to a protein, but do play a rol...Iowa State corn/soy plastics to be made into hog feeders
... Richard Larock displays some of the plastics he has made from corn, soybean and other bio-based oils....Larock said his research project is about as Iowa as you can get. The state, after all, is the country's leading producer of...Iowa State researcher studies gene families to explore diversity and evolution
... ... "The growth of a gene family can occur through rare errors in DNA replication," Proulx said. "Sometimes in error, a single gene i...Iowa State researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil
... ... ... "That's about 20 percent moisture," said Drew Simonsen, an Iowa State University sophomore from Quimby who's working on the research project led by Sada...Iowa State plant scientists tweak their biopharmaceutical corn research project
AMES, Iowa -- A biopharmaceutical corn created at Iowa State University is getting a makeover. Researchers are developing the corn into a variety that keeps the therapeutic protein, but eliminates the pollen. And they're using traditional breeding to do it....... ISU researchers have had promising results using the biopharmaceutical corn to treat bacterial diarrhea in pigs. ...... Now they are sh...U-Iowa researchers will use grant to study fetal alcohol syndrome
Binge drinking can cause more than a bad hangover in pregnant women. Along with other forms of alcohol abuse, it puts fetuses at risk for fetal alcohol syndrome -- the most common preventable cause of mental retardation and birth defects in the Western world. ......University of Iowa researchers who seek to reduce fetal alcohol syndrome cases -- which annually number nearly 8,800 in the United St...U Iowa researchers prevent hereditary deafness in mice
Working with mice, University of Iowa scientists and colleagues from Okayama University, Japan, have shown that it is possible to cure a certain type of hereditary deafness by silencing a gene that causes hearing loss. ...... Richard Smith, M.D., the Sterba Hearing Research Professor in Otolaryngology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, described the study as a proof-of-pr...U. Iowa finding speeds up immunization booster schedule
Parents often wonder why it takes a year or more and multiple shots to fully immunize their children against diseases like diphtheria and pertussis. The reason is twofold. First, a single vaccination generates only a small amount of immunity and booster shots are needed to build up immunity to protective levels. The second reason is due to the fact that a substantial "lag time" is required by the...Rice, Iowa state biologists search for 'half-fusion'
HOUSTON, May 16, 2005 Every living cell is surrounded by a membrane, a thin barrier that separates the genetic machinery of life from the non-living world outside. Though barriers, membranes are not impervious. Cells use a complex hierarchy of proteins that work in concert to allow cell membranes to fuse with other cells or with membrane-encased packages of proteins and other chemicals that the...U. Iowa researchers improve Huntington's disease symptoms in mice
Researchers at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have taken another step toward a potential treatment for Huntington's disease (HD). Using an approach called RNA interference (RNAi), the scientists reduced levels of the disease-causing HD protein in mice and significantly improved the movement and neurological abnormalities normally associated with the diseas...