Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ffer a new possibility for treatment. The have the advantages of safety, low cost of production, and ease of use in field conditions due to their minimal need for refrigeration. In the study the DNA of a simian/human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) was made noninfectious by removing the gene that makes reverse t...Harvard, Texas A&M scientists develop new laser
...tions in laser technology. The device combines the advantages of nonlinear optical devices and semiconductor injection lasers with a compact design, and may one day lead to wide-ranging applications in imaging and detection. Published in the Feb. 24th issue of Nature, the proof of concept model was developed by...Aspirin is safer than warfarin and just as effective for treating blocked arteries in the brain
... day), he adds. Most experts believe there are no advantages to aspirin doses greater than 325 mg for stroke prevention, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved dose of aspirin for prevention of vascular events is 50-325 mg. Patients should consult their physicians before beginning any long-term or...Positive air pressure chamber started with patients quickly after surgery
...lieve the positive air chamber has three important advantages over swimming pool exercises. First, the patient's gait can be normal, not a struggle against the drag of the water. Second, the impact on the treadmill, the patient's weight coming down on each step, or "off-loading" in physiological terms, can b...14 highlighted physiology papers from IUPS 2005: From 'genomics to functions'
...s. As blacks' lifestyles change will their genetic advantages be lost to Western influences? "Physical activity and bone mass accumulation patterns differ in black and white South African children," Joanne A. McVeigh, Shane A. Norris and John M. Pettifor, MRC Mineral Metabolism Research Unit, Dept. of Paediatr...National Academies news: Spent nuclear fuel storage
...y, the committee was asked to examine the possible advantages of dry cask storage over pool storage at commercia...oval from a reactor. But dry cask storage has two advantages for storing spent fuel older than about five years: It is a passive system that relies on air circul...National Academies advisory: April 6 conference call on spent nuclear fuel storage
...ools at commercial reactor sites, and the security advantages of moving some of this spent fuel from pools into dry casks. SAFETY AND SECURITY OF COMMERCIAL SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE: PUBLIC REPORT, new from the National Academies' Board on Radioactive Waste Management examines the risk of terrorist attacks o...Researchers improve design of genetic on-off switches
... of the National Academy of Sciences, combines the advantages of directed evolution and computationally driven rational design, said Huimin Zhao, a professor in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering and member of the Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. Zhao's team, using yeast and mamma...New strategies to reduce hospital-acquired infections
...ypes of systemic disinfection methods used and the advantages and disadvantages of each. "Despite the range of technologies being applied, the problem of waterborne microbes in the healthcare setting continues to persist," explained Dr. Cervia. "Each of the systemic methods are limited in their ability to prev...Anammox bacteria produce nitrogen gas in oceans' snackbar
...ing waste water treatment by 88%. Because of these advantages the first large scale waste water treatment system was recently installed in Rotterdam (The Netherlands)....Pulsating ultrasound enhances gene therapy for tumors
...e exceptions being the lungs and bones. Additional advantages of pulsed-HIFU include no scarring, limited blood loss and infections, reduced risk of other complications, shortened recovery time, significant reduction in costs and the potential for many procedures to be done on an outpatient basis....Rutgers' Tabasco Sauce connection
...ng multiple targets simultaneously present decided advantages over conventional drugs which are each based on one compound that produces one action, Raskin explained. "When you have a complex condition like metabolic syndrome in which so many things can go wrong, it will not be possible to deal with all of them...Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size
... they will get value out of it." But to Smith the advantages of obtaining access to a fire-breathing computational resource are obvious. "In my field, many researchers now think within a 'box of calculational limitations.' The ability to think outside that box means we can do things completely differently."...DFG to fund 14 new research training groups
...ne the flexibility of electronic polymers with the advantages of silicon-based technology is the collaboration with the chemical company Degussa, which is providing the Research Training Group with nanoparticles, without which this research would be impossible. University of Gttingen The Research Training G...Size matters: fish genitalia attractiveness vs. predatory escape value
...ation has long been of interest. While competitive advantages of sperm robustness and other post-mating sexual selection criteria have been widely studied and posed as evolutionary explanations, the roles of pre-mating sexual selection and natural selection have been less well studied. Post-doctoral fellow Cra...Ape computers introduced in the US
...heoretical physics calculations and their possible advantages in other scientific and technological areas. It will be the first time that these European supercomputing technologies will be discussed together with the American and the Japanese ones, in a large context that involves not only the insiders. In part...Book argues for change in society's view of pregnancy
... to ensure children begin their lives with as many advantages as possible, contends University of Toronto at Mississauga philosophy professor Amy Mullin. "We're interested in other people's adventures, so why not in this adventure?" asks Mullin, author of a new book entitled Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare...BC scientists coax gold particles to emit light strong enough to view single nanoparticles
... drug in a cell or other biological sample." Other advantages of the technique are that the gold particles can be prepared easily, have very low toxicity, and can readily be attached to molecules of biological interest, said Fourkas. In addition, the laser light used to visualize the particles is at a wavelengt...Tracking a killer: Observing liver invasion by malarial parasites
...wn in one to begin reproducing. The visualization advantages provided by using the fluorescent parasites and intravital microscopy now make it possible to directly observe events in the Plasmodium life cycle that had only been inferred before. Understanding the invasion will help researchers in the battle ag...ORNL nanoscience center 'jump starts' medical compound device
...hance the chemistry of drug development offer many advantages over commercially available technology. While current methods can rapidly explore thousands of variants of a compound to achieve a certain solution, their parallel high-volume nature is not information driven. A closed-loop, information driven syste...