New opportunities from old chemistry in surface science, say Purdue chemists
...rface between electronic components and organic or biomolecular substances. Gold's conductivity and resistance to corrosion makes it an ideal surface for attaching molecules that can detect the presence of proteins in the blood that indicate disease, for example. "Up to this point, the standard practice has been ...ORNL technologies win maximum Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
...itoring biosensor system, the Photo-Molecular Comb biomolecular separator and the miniature californium-252 neutro...source. This movement results in fast and accurate biomolecular separations with unprecedented versatility. The project is a joint effort with Protein Discovery of ...By creating molecular 'bridge,' scientists change function of a protein
... Chen and Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, describe what they call a "simple and efficient method for creation of novel protein functions in an existing protein scaffold." In doing so, Zhao and Chen skirted the two time-and-labor-consuming approaches tried repeatedly in the past ...NIH awards Georgia Tech/Emory $11.5 M for nano cardiology research
...tive probes for the free radicals inside cells and biomolecular constructs for molecular imaging and therapeutics.... the Georgia Tech/Emory group also plans to expand biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology to the detection and treatment of other diseases, such as neurodegene...PNAS highlights for the week of May 2 - 6
... dynamics of water, supercooled liquids, and other biomolecular systems. --- Neandertal Bone Suggests Human Competition with Hyenas This release is also available in French Analysis of a 40,000-year-old human femur found in France suggests that Neandertals competed with hyenas for food and shelter. siRNA f...Molecular motors cooperate in moving cellular cargo, study shows
...measured outside the cell." Dynein and kinesin are biomolecular motors that haul cargo from one part of a cell to another. Dynein moves material from the cell membrane to the nucleus; kinesin moves material from the cell nucleus to the cell membrane. The little cargo transporters accomplish their task by stepping...Researchers improve design of genetic on-off switches
...hao, 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 mammalian cells, altered the specificity of human estrogen receptor alpha by 100 million times so it would bind preferentially to a non-toxic synthe...Drezek wins Beckman Young Investigator Award
...or of Bioengineering and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. "The discretionary money that accompa...Colvin, professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Jason Hafner, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and of chemistry....Researchers devise way to mass-produce embryonic stem cells
... said Shang-Tian Yang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State University. Federal rules forbid the federal funding of research on human embryonic stem cell lines that aren't listed on the National Institutes of Health's Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry. There are currently 22 embryon...Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down
New biomolecular technologies have largely failed to deliver the hoped-for knockout punch breakthrough against the defences of disease-causing bacteria, says a leading Canadian specialist in antibiotic resistance. Techniques such as genomic sequencing and high throug...Women's health, tissue regeneration is focus of Illinois & Carle Hospital initiative
...enomics biology, biomaterials, and in chemical and biomolecular engineering. Eventually, the tissues grown by members of Schook's research team could be used by Carle physicians to promote more efficient cell growth in surgically repaired areas and reduce the need for yet more surgery that sometimes becomes nece...An unusual RNA structure in the SARS virus offers a promising target for antiviral drugs
...iate in the Ares lab; David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering and a HHMI investigator; and Robert Baertsch, a graduate student working with Haussler. All of the authors are affiliated with UCSC's Center for Molecular Biology of RNA. The strong interdisciplinary connections within the RNA center wer...Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH
...logy. She is an expert in nucleic acid chemistry, biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance technology, structural biological chemistry and combinatorial chemistry. Research in her lab involves the interface of chemistry and biological sciences. Holding patents in biochip technologies, her current focus is to un...Computer analysis shows scientists could reconstruct the genome of the mammalian common ancestor
...molecular level, said David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "We will be able to trace the molecular evolution of our genome over the past 75 million years. It's a very exciting new way to think about our origins, a kind of DNA-based archaeology to unde...ORNL project earns top honor from Southeast tech transfer group
...ly protection monitor and the photo-molecular comb biomolecular separator. The AquaSentinel system was devel...source. This movement results in fast and accurate biomolecular separations with unprecedented versatility. The project is a joint effort with Protein Disc...Phillip A. Sharp to present 2004 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture at Chemical Heritage Foundation
...Cambridge, Massachusetts) as a world leader in the biomolecular sciences and technologies. He was director of its Center for Cancer Research from 1985 to 1991 and chair of the Department of Biology from 1991 to 1999. He served as founding director of the McGovern Institute at MIT from its establishment in 2000 un...Technology award presented to Weizmann Institute scientist
...Institute, has been recognized for the creation of biomolecular computing devices. These devices are made entirel...t into one drop of water. A recent version of the biomolecular computing device was programmed by Shapiro and his research team to identify signs of specific cance......or College of Medicine. "We don't know the precise biomolecular pathway for this second function, but we know that dimA codes for a transcription factor that binds with DNA in the nucleus to control gene expression. Because transcription factors often control more than one gene, we believe the absence of dimA may...