Diatom genome reveals key role in biosphere's carbon cycle
...am about. If we understood how they can design and build their patterned frustule as part of their biology, perhaps this could be adapted by humans," Rokhsar says. Scientists on the project, which includes 46 researchers from 26 institutions, also considered the evolutionary implications revealed by the g...NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...em of protein stability. One approach will be to build on the work that has been done using other proteins to help stabilize the membrane proteins. While this technique has been used before, there has never been a generalized approach to creating such a scaffold. As part of the grant, the team plans to s...Studying the chemistry of drugs in wastewater
...euticals. Hydrophobic compounds are more likely to build up in the body. It is not known whether these reaction products pose any health or environmental hazards. "We have unique measurement capabilities here at NIST, which help to confirm the presence of products that are difficult to identify," says chem...National Science Foundation awards $2 million grant to UC Riverside
...e study will determine the amount of N required to build up different levels of invasive grass fuel, impacting fire frequency. The threshold at which N affects different vegetation types from forest to shrubland to desert is different, and the study will determine the different levels of sensitivity for ea...Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
...is one of four new national centers endeavoring to build the biomedical computing infrastructure urgently n...bility for renewal for another five years, aims to build an easy-to-use software package allowing high-quality physical modeling. Altman's vision? "A biologi...Internet data-mining of natural history
...ant. "The funding provided by NSF will allow us to build those tools by bringing together the expertise of computational specialists, population biologists and statisticians, with the goal of making the data sets accessible to researchers, conservation biologists, educators and citizens." Kelling's co-PIs...Running not swimming or biking is best kind of loading exercise for childrens bone growth
...servations were: (1) "short intense exercise bouts build bone most effectively, hence short sprints should build more bone than a long jog," (2) "OI is best improved by adding more exercise sessions per week rathe...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...have one thing in common: they suffer from a large build up of amyloids, tissue that's created when millions upon millions of misfolded proteins stick together and form a mass that the body can't get rid of on its own. Doctors don't yet understand whether amyloids cause disease or result from it, but the f...NIH awards Emory and Georgia Tech $10 million for partnerships in cancer nanotechnology
...r many years, nanotechnology enables scientists to build devices and materials one atom or molecule at a time, creating tightly packed structures that take on new properties by virtue of their miniature size. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or about 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human...HHS awards $232 million in biodefense contracts for vaccine development
...e new contracts are the next steps in our plans to build a robust stockpile of critical medical countermeasures and supplies, so we are even more prepared to respond to a biological attack or outbreak." These awards respond to a key objective of the NIAID biodefense research agenda, which emphasizes the...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...sewhere to address pest management problems and to build institutional capacity. As the sub-grantee for West Africa to the University of Georgia during the previous phase of the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Collaborative Research Support Program for six years, ...Texas universities expanding new information network
...nounced the approval of $9.8 million in funding to build the high-speed Lonestar Education And Research Network (LEARN) for Texas higher education institutions, and to construct the Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) to enable these institutions to access and share resources, collaborat...Channel protein converts vibrations to electrical signal
... pushing a child on a swing, successive pushes can build up to a large oscillation, amplifying the sound. In addition, different hair cells amplify different frequencies, so this mechanism could create the sharp tuning in the ear that allows us to discriminate fine differences in pitch. If this model is tr...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
... directly, Jones and his team set about in 1999 to build new tools for the cleanup job. They wanted to collect data from deep underground without digging up contaminated soil or damaging delicate probe sensors during installation. The culmination of their five-year project features an innovative sheath for...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...NA. This is part of the group's plan to eventually build a full-scale sequencing system. Stephen R. Quake, ...xplore combinations of fabrication technologies to build devices for analysis of single DNA molecules, and use various measurement techniques to extract info...New Jersey Institute of Technology environmentalist receives Fulbright Chair award
...of Arkansas, the Fulbright program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and other countries. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Recipients of the awards are selected on the basis of academic or profe...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
...e effective, but the group has also found a way to build a mass spectrometer that weighs about 18 kilograms (40 pounds), which means it can be carried to the sample, rather than forcing investigators to bring the sample to it. "This backpack-size device will be useful for field analysis of chemicals,......females have very bad parenting skills: They don't build nests, nurse their young, or tend to their offspring, which die within a day or two as a result. "Basically, we observed mothers that don't care for their pups," says post-doctoral associate Loretta Collins, Ph.D., who did much of the work along ...UCLA scientists discover new way to fix defective gene
... in A-T clinical trials. "Our next step will be to build an ATM animal model and see how it responds to aminoglycoside therapy," said Gatti. "We will also screen other antibiotics and drugs that may restore ATM cell function even better. We only need one successful candidate to make a huge difference in ...UT Southwestern researchers uncover process for sugar-induced fat formation
...are diverted from the energy production pathway to build fat for energy storage when glucose consumption exceeds the body's energy needs. ChREBP is normally expressed in the liver and in fat and muscle. In the first of two studies, Dr. Uyeda studied mice lacking the gene for ChREBP. Without the gene, m...