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...rained to compare an initial stimulus (a vibration applied to a fingertip) with a second stimulus applied a few seconds later and to immediately provide a "yes" or "no" answer to the question "was the first...Robots walk with close-to-human efficiency
...s Andy Ruina, Cornell professor of theoretical and applied mechanics. The Cornell robot consumes an amount of energy per unit weight and distance comparable to a human walker. In contrast, they estimate that the Honda Asimo uses at least 10 times as much energy as a human. The MIT and Delft robots, though no...Biological clock may shut down long-term memory at night
...ngs in a simple system (i.e. Aplysia) were quickly applied to a higher organism (i.e. mammals). They found that glutamate transport increased in the brains of mammals during learning as also found in Aplysia. (See related release at http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/nr/2002/032002/eskinlearning.html .) Comi...... Steve Palumbi of Stanford University. Palumbi has applied new genetic techniques to penetrate over a million years of whale history dating back to the middle of the last series of Ice Ages. Using whale samples from the Japanese meat market, where Antarctic minke whales killed for scientific research are le...Successful test of single molecule switch opens the door to biomolecular electronics
...ts avoided using electrolyte solutions because the applied current would leak into the surrounding solution. ...uctive state (at low voltage) and then the voltage applied to the molecule is increased, the connections to the molecule will, themselves, rip electrons out of...Top experts and scientists at BioFinland 05 Congress
... as a consequence of powerful genomics tools being applied in all these areas. The congress speakers come both from the industry and academia, and they are among others Nobel Laureate (1993) Richard J. Roberts (USA), Leif Groop (Sweden), David R. Cox (USA), Peter Shaw (USA), Kari Alitalo (Finland), Robert G....New collaborations offer hope for HIV/AIDS vaccine
...foundation of all our objectives, and the need for applied research, and novel research partnerships, to rap...ucted in one country could, for example, be better applied in another country. To that end, Fauci said, NIH and other agencies are also coordinating research p...Rapid, new test develped for inherited immune deficiency
...ow increasingly sophisticated genetic tools can be applied to important public health problems," said NHGRI Scientific Director Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. "Here we have a chance to catch an illness early when treatment is most effective. This new approach provides a rapid, accurate indication of a possible ...Topical treatment shown to inhibit HIV and herpes simplex virus infection
...ol of Medicine researchers demonstrated that a gel applied in the vagina provides protection from both the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the herpes simplex Virus. The study, presented at the 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, is the first to show that a gel can retain anti...2005 ASM biodefense research meeting
... tested in the field of infectious diseases can be applied to the challenges of homeland defense. The purpose of this meeting is to identify existing state-of-the-art research in the biomedical sciences that can be adapted to address biodefense needs, including vaccine development, new and faster diagnost...Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters
...chaotic social settings where a small set of rules applied to local information drives decision-making," Hollingshead said. Put another way, while individual honeybees process only "partial and local information," they are able, through interactions with each other, to produce "a coherent response to a chang...Fine-tuning calf nutrition could reduce nitrogen pollution
...g preliminary studies with limited funding. He has applied for a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant in order to scale up the study. "Our ultimate goal is to allow producers to maintain current rates and efficiencies of calf growth, while continuing to place emphasis on environmental stewardship" Lambert...Pioneering PET/CT research widens applications of imaging for diabetic foot
...being used currently for cancer evaluation, may be applied potentially to the investigation of infection during evaluation of prolonged fever, suspected infected vascular graft or limb prosthesis, he added. The group's preliminary results have been "enthusiastically welcomed" by nuclear medicine professiona...Basis for DNA ejection from single phage particles
...s of the ejection process after being stretched by applied hydrodynamic flow. The study demonstrated that DNA release is not an all-or-none process, but rather is unexpectedly complex. DNA release occurred at a very high rate, reaching 75,000 base pairs of DNA/sec, but in a stepwise fashion. Pausing times w...Incubator company at NJIT develops lifesaving MRI coil for small animals
...apers in this field. He received his doctorate in applied physics from Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. Prior to joining Supertron, DeVries directed a research project supported by Southern California Edison, led a research team at Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, worked as a venture capitalist a...William C. Rose Award lecture will focus on cytochrome P450
...and today much of the resulting knowledge has been applied in the drug development process, as well as in endocrinology, toxicology, and other areas. Despite the complexity of P450s, much has been learned about their structures, mechanisms, and function. Dr. Guengerich will discuss some of his recent work o...Genetic therapy reverses nervous system damage in animal model of inherited human disease
...ce and rats. If this approach can be successfully applied to humans, say the researchers, it might one day treat an entire class of diseases called lysosomal storage disorders which cause severe, sometimes fatal, disabilities in about one in 5,000 births. The members of the research team from the Universit...Study: Turkey hunting most dangerous, deer hunting most deadly
... for fall turkey hunting should be re-instated and applied to fall and spring turkey hunting." While turkey hunters claim that wearing fluorescent orange clothing interferes with their ability to harvest a bird, the Pennsylvania Game Commission's data tell another story. Harvest data from the early 1980s to ...Chemical engineer Kao explores antibiotic synthesis with DNA chips
...ing bacteria were infused with fluorescent dye and applied to the microarray. "This experiment revealed that the RNA transcript abundance of the erythromycin-producing genes remained higher for longer times in the Saccharopolyspora erythraea mutant strain," Kao said. Searching for mutations When researcher...Using molecular technique, researcher identify hospital pool bacterial pathogen
...ngineer at Washington University in St. Louis, has applied a molecular approach to identify the biological particles in aerosol responsible for making employees of a Colorado hospital therapeutic pool ill. They found: when the bubble bursts, the bacteria disperse, and lifeguards get pneumonia-like symptoms. ...