Researchers to present advances in energy, health, technology at chemical engineering conference
...e largest annual gathering devoted to chemical and biomolecular engineering and advances in nanotechnology. The meeting will be held at the Hilton San Francisco, 333 O'Farrell Street. For details, visit http://www.aiche.org . Health and the environment One meeting highlight concerns research into the molecu...HYPER-CEST MRI breaks new ground in molecular imaging
... of these contrasting agents will bind to specific biomolecular targets, the sensitivity is usually too low for molecular imaging. In earlier studies, Pines and his group exploited the fact that zapping rubidium vapor with a beam of polarized laser light creates a "hyperpolarized" effect that can be transferred t...Chemical tests of cell growth enter third dimension
... body. Shang-Tian Yang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State, and his colleagues described the two technologies Wednesday and Thursday at the American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting in San Francisco. For more than a decade, Yang's team has been developing three-dimensional me...Biodegradable napkin -- featuring sensitive nanofibers -- may quickly detect biohazards
...with Yong Joo, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Antje Baeumner, associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, both at Cornell, Frey developed nanofibers with platforms made of biotin, a part of the B vitamin complex, and the protein streptavidin, which can hold ...Researchers identify key step in cocaine-induced heart enlargement, sudden death
... heart enlargement caused by chronic disease. "The biomolecular pathway that we've identified likely also plays an important role in heart hypertrophy due to hypertension, heart attacks and heart failure," Dr. Henning said. In cardiac hypertrophy, or enlarged heart, the heart's main pumping chamber becomes abn...When biology gets 'Quirky,' scientists turn to math
...n is now an assistant professor of mathematics and biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. Based on the number of connections and how they overlap, Feinberg and Craciun can tell with a glance whether a reaction is predictable, or whether it might be what they call "quirky" -- prone to the switchi...Researchers find new clues to biochemistry of 'anti-aging'
...g process," says John Denu, associate professor of biomolecular chemistry at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and lead author on the study. "They also have great potential for promoting healthier aging by giving us a better understanding of - and possibly suggesting treatments for - meta...FSU scientist's biomolecular research published in Science, Nature
...e Science article, it discusses findings involving biomolecular structures known as "introns," which are intervening sequences found in human genes that separate the stretches of DNA that code for functional molecules such as proteins and RNA. Introns are "similar to commercials that interrupt our favorite progra...Broccoli, cauliflower and genetic cancer
...N and explain how it works to thwart cancer at the biomolecular level. The researchers employed a specially bred strain of mice (labeled Apc/Min/+) that carry a mutation that switches off a gene (Apc) that suppresses tumors. This is the same gene known to be directly implicated in the development of most colon ca...Biological motors sort molecules one by one on a chip
...lft discovery "the first traffic control system in biomolecular motor nanotechnology". The research findings will ... had developed the first traffic control system in biomolecular motor nanotechnology....Nature meets technology at Georgia Tech's conference on bio-inspired design
...rain, Hang Lu, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech, is studying how sensory- and memory-related genes are expressed and regulated in tiny micro-sized worms by observing the worms' behavior on an equally micro-sized chip. While Steven DeWeerth, an electrical engineer at Tec...Free access to world-class biological databases for European science thanks to FELICS
...s to provide global services for basic and applied biomolecular and biomedical research can only increase. "With other support from the EU and the EMBL Member States, the EBI coordinates several FP6 networks of excellence between leading European institutes in bioinformatics and is involved in many others. These ...Researchers trawl the origins of sea fishing in Northern Europe
...h traditional zooarchaeological techniques and new biomolecular approaches. Dried cod for trade was cut up in cert... the cut marks on the bones. Moreover, we will use biomolecular tests to establish whether fish found in towns such as York originated locally from the North Sea or...Rice tapped for model programs merging teaching, research
...or of Bioengineering and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. Richards-Kortum is the Stanley C. Moore Professor and department chair in bioengineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering. Bartel's HHMI research program, "From Reading to Research: Introducing Undergraduates to Resea...Computer simulation hints at new HIV drug target
...t to the design of therapeutic proteins as well as biomolecular electronics devices....Detection of DNA on nanotubes offers new sensing, sequencing technologies
...Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Michael Strano and his students reported that single-walled carbon nanotubes coated with DNA could be placed in living cells and detect trace amounts of harmful contaminants. In a paper accepted for publication in the journal Na...Grand challenge seeks carbon sequestration, hydrogen production solutions
...the fixation of carbon dioxide and nitrogen at the biomolecular level. Learning the intricacies of these organisms could lead to breakthroughs in the understanding of bothbiological carbon sequestration and hydrogen production." A systems approach integrates all available temporal information into a predictive,...New Georgia Tech probe revolutionizes nano imaging
...rcuits for mechanical and material defects. And in biomolecular measurement applications, FIRAT can scan the surface quickly enough for a researcher to observe molecular interactions in real time. "The potential is huge. AFM started as a topography tool and has exploded to many more uses since. I'm sure people wi...Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
... applied this technique to measure how Myosin V, a biomolecular motor involved in intracellular transport, moves." Ahmet Yildiz received the grand prize for his essay, "Elucidating the Mechanism of Molecular Motor Movement." Yildiz grew up in Sakarya, Turkey. In 2001, he received a bachelors degree in physics fro...DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes serve as sensors in living cells
..." said Michael Strano, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois and corresponding author of a paper to appear in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science. "We also show for the first time that a subtle rearrangement of an adsorbed biomolecule can be directly detected by a carbon nanotube."...