Three at MIT conceive cell-shaped building
...and fine molecular and cellular structures through billions of years of molecular selection and evolution. "...h advanced computers. But if they can be amplified billions of times as in a building, then these molecular structures can be seen, touched and admired. At that...Aging stars reveal secrets of the universe
...rs will burn hydrogen through fusion and live many billions of years and which ones will never grow large enough to be self-sustaining. Stars that are not self-sustaining only live about 1 billion years at most. Richer and colleagues also detected a characteristic change in the color of white dwarfs in the ...NASA study solves ocean plant mystery
...ntaining a healthy planet. Plants annually take up billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and use this carbon to create the food that nearly all other organisms on Earth depend on for life. Nutrients that make ocean plants thrive, such as nitrogen and phosphate, mostly...DOE JGI, VBI describe disease mechanisms of sudden oak death, related soybean pathogens
...these two pathogens could significantly reduce the billions of dollars lost to crop damage worldwide each year." Sudden oak death was first reported in 1995. The agent responsible for the disease was discovered by University of California scientists in 2000. The pathogen is known to be present in more than ...Genome info from 'plant destroyers' could save trees, beans and chocolate
...lture, forestry and nursery industries hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Even though Phytophthora are similar to fungi, most fungicides are ineffective at controlling them. The information gained from studying the genomic sequences of P. ramorum and P. sojae will help scientists devise strategies to...Genome code cracked for breast and colon cancers
...m patients after surgery. Within each tumor cell, billions of individual chemicals called nucleotides pair together in a preprogrammed fashion to build the rungs of a DNA ladder that compose genetic instructions. Changes called mutations in the nucleotides can create coding errors that transform a normal ce...Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity
...w widely separated regions of the cortex involving billions of cells are linked together to coordinate complex activity. A new study by neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and neurosurgeons and neurologists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) is beginning to answer that question. "One of the m...Hard-wiring the fruit fly's visual system
...he challenge of millions of neurons having to make billions of precise connections. You have to work with a gr...g though how only a few thousand genes can program billions of synaptic connections."...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 20, 2006
...possibly combating a natural process that destroys billions of dollars worth of subsurface petroleum. Called biodegradation, it occurs as bacteria and other microbes metabolize, or feed on, organic compounds present in crude oil. The microbes remove the most valuable hydrocarbon compounds and change the most...NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective
...es obtaining short reads (about 25 DNA bases) from billions of strands of DNA immobilized on a surface inside ... throughput by offering the ability to accommodate billions of DNA molecules in a small area. Hybridization will be detected by atomic force microscopy. Car...Genomic comparison of lactic acid bacteria published
...mented foods and beverages, accounting for tens of billions of dollars in sales annually. Products constituting a fine repast, such as wine, salami, cheese, sourdough bread, pickles, yogurt, cocoa, and coffee are all enhanced by LAB, which ferment six-carbon sugars, or hexoses, to produce lactic acid. "DOE ...Learning to live with oxygen on early Earth
...in the rocks containing the remains for us to find billions of years later. Organisms leave behind different mixes of 12C and 13C depending on what they eat and how they metabolize it. Changes in these chemical fingerprints tell us about changes in how organisms got their energy and food." In the Archean, m...ASU embarks on NSF grant for Nanotechnology Solar Energy Initiative
...In every solar cell, light energy, measured in the billions of photons that hit a square centimeter patch of the cell every second, is converted to electricity. But even the most advanced solar cells can only harness 10 to 30 percent of the available sunlight energy. The majority of the energy is lost, and s...Professor analyzes nuclear receptors in bee genome
...ell-known pollination activities of honey bees add billions of dollars of value to U.S. crops every year, but bees are also used in the laboratory to study issues related to human health such as immunity, longevity and diseases of the X chromosome. In addition, brain scientists are interested in the honey be...Origins, spread of honeybees determined
..., 2006 -- The honeybee, a species that contributes billions of dollars to the world's agricultural economy each year through pollination, originated in Africa and is evolving in surprising ways in the Americas today, according to a UC Irvine researcher. The findings could have significant implications for hon...Green plants share bacterial toxin
... evidently not toxic. The human intestine contains billions of Gram-negative bacteria, but lipid A does not become a problem unless bacteria invade the bloodstream. "We've no idea what it's doing, but it must be something important because it's been retained for a billion years of evolution of plant chloropl...Two nerve cells in direct contact
...btful whether removing a single cell from the many billions of cells in the cerebral cortex would have an effect. Clearly, however, this does not mean that the findings made by the fly researchers in Martinsried will be without consequence for other areas of science. For example, engineers developing navigat...Neanderthal genome sequencing yields surprising results and opens a new door to future studies
...bout our extinct ancestors through the scanning of billions of base pairs of DNA sequences available on the web rather than only being able to study the limited number of bony remains and associated artifacts that are available in hard to access museum collections and field sites. Plus, the new techniques we ...Boehlert, Gordon call for implementation of new nanotechnology report
...notechnology is an area of research that could add billions of dollars to our economy, but that won't happen if it is shrouded in uncertainty about its consequences. And our citizens, especially individuals who will be working with nanotechnology, need to be protected from any potential harm that could come f......a resistant mutant somewhere in that population of billions or even trillions of cells. This is the central problem in oncology. The reason we haven't been able to cure cancer is that we're selecting for resistant tumor cells. When we spray a field with pesticide, we select for resistant pests. It's the same ...