Nanotechnology's past, present and future: A Congressional perspective
...ll interview former Congressman Boehlert about the beginnings of the NNI and about the future of this transformative technology at a Monday, April 16th, 2007, 12:30 p.m. event and live webcast at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The event is organized by the Project on Emerging Nanotech...Research physiologists convene for 120th Annual Meeting
...nformation in the physiological sciences. From its beginnings in 1887 the Society has grown to more than 10,500 members today. In addition to being a member-based organization, APS is a premier not-for-profit publisher in the life sciences community whose publications are among the most respected and freque...Practice of farming reaches back farther than thought
...ults add to the growing evidence that the earliest beginnings of farming were not centred in arid highland regions like central Mexico and the Peruvian Andes as once believed, but in the lowland areas and humid forests of the American tropics," Dickau says. "What is particularly interesting is that these crop...Old dinosaur research leads to new honor
...University of Toronto. "I like to look at the very beginnings of major evolutionary events to that time when mammals and reptiles and birds were just becoming separate from each other. It was an exciting time in history, about 270 million years ago it was between ice ages, just like the time we are living in ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
MATERIALS -- SNS's bright beginnings . . . Months into its commissioning since the first neutrons were made in late April 2006, the Spallation Neutron Source is distinguishing itself as a robust neutron source. The SNS has set records for the highest-energy proton linear accelerator...Genetic surprise confirms neglected 70-year-old evolutionary hypothesis
...the process involved in the origin of species. The beginnings of speciation, suggests the paper, can be triggered by genes that change their locations in a genome. "In the 1930s there was speculation that parts of chromosomes that switch from one location to another might cause a species to split into two diffe...Case Western Reserve University researchers find protein associated with brain cell death
...l role in AD. Because the events that trigger the beginnings of AD are still unknown, the Case researchers began targeting research on the reaction between the plaque and immune cells. In in vitro studies of brain tissue from mice, the researchers found that the microglia had the appropriate immune response...Japanese researchers get to the heart of atherosclerosis
...ests, Japanese researchers were able to detect the beginnings of atherosclerosis--before the disease became clinically evident. These results were released during SNM's 53rd Annual Meeting June 37 in San Diego. This revelation will allow physicians to advise high-risk patients--who show no cardiovascular sympto...Nanotechnology may find disease before it starts
...y when nanotechnology can alert a physician to the beginnings of cancer or heart disease, perhaps in a woman who has a family history of breast cancer: "Her doctor could inject the breast with nanoparticles and the resulting ultrasound image would alert the doctor to any suspicious areas in the tissue, even at ...Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health
...s already provided by nature," said Rittmann. The beginnings of microbial ecology started back in the 1940s and 1950s, when microbial cultures were initially sorted by size and shape. Before the modern DNA-based techniques, the function of a microorganism was assigned by selective culturing on agar plates or ...Researchers devise dinosaur classification method
...king teeth as the correct genus. "I've created the beginnings of a standard of comparison; a data set with teeth that we know where they came from, against which to compare isolated teeth. That's basically all I've done," Smiths said. He said that the model, although functional, isn't without its weaknesses......vated in the cells. This provided evidence for the beginnings of a differentiation process. But this process was only apparently halfway complete. So, for example, after the activation of the wnt-signaling cascade, there was no typical striped pattern; this suggests incomplete development of the contractile app...New book expands biological classifications to account for 'alien' life
... other Earth life? Either way, Peter Ward has the beginnings of an answer. In a new book, the University of Washington paleontologist puts forth an expanded "tree of life," or biological classification system, to account for a variety of life forms that would not fit in the current system. Among them are viru...Ancient anthropoid origins discovered in Africa
...ll modern anthropoids -- have their earliest known beginnings in Africa," said Simons. "They show that findings by other researchers of isolated examples of possible higher primate fossils in Asia do not constitute evidence of an ancestral crown anthropoid lineage there." According to Seiffert, the latest findi...Latest study: Scientists say no evidence exists that therapod dinosaurs evolved into birds
...'feathered dinosaurs,' we are truly witnessing the beginnings of the meltdown of the field of paleontology," he said. "Just as the discovery a four-chambered heart in a dinosaur described in 2000 in an article in Science turned out to be an artifact, feathered dinosaurs too have become part of the fantasia of t...Learning how SARS spikes its quarry
...ation," said Harrison. "These findings give us the beginnings of information needed -- if a new virus were isolated -- to make predictive guesses about infectivity, so that we can better give advance warning." He also noted that laboratory studies indicate that the fragment of the spike protein they used could...Brain activity in youth may presage Alzheimer's pathology
...entists and clinicians identify and understand the beginnings of what is probably a cascade of events that ultimately leads to Alzheimer's. The most common form of dementia among older people, Alzheimer's is characterized outwardly by the erosion of language, thought and memory. Within the brains of people with...Less intense response to alcohol sheds light on genetic tracing of alcohol dependence
...re. "The study offers a unique perspective on the beginnings of the alcohol experience and usage patterns of 12-year-olds," explained principal investigator Marc Schuckit, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. "This is the first study correlating the intensity of r...Modification of program enables prediction of gene transcription
.... Louis now enables scientists to predict the very beginnings of gene transcription start sites and where the first splice occurs thereby defining the first exon of the gene. The modification to the gene prediction software TWINSCAN is called N-SCAN. Michael Brent, Ph.D. professor of computer science ...Remote control flies?: Fly behavior controlled by laser light
...vements such as escape movements, jumping, and the beginnings of flight. If the flies engaged in these behaviors after the giant fiber neurons had been outfitted and "operated" with the remote control, Miesenbck and Lima reasoned, they could be sure that their system was working. After genetically engineering t...