Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...ost electrical systems. Another key feature is the capability to use human blood or sweat to help power the battery. Details of the project are outlined in the paper Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on Nanocomposite Paper published Aug. 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The sem...Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
...he systems and anticipate equipment failures. Such capability improves manufacturing process efficiency, reduces emissions and prevents costly outages for equipment repairs. Funding for the projects came from the Department of Energys Industrial Technology Program and private dollars from each of the companies....Forsyth scientists gain new understanding of adult stem cell regulation
...sms in vivo. Planarians have powerful regeneration capability that makes them ideal for studying this process. The Forsyth team uses planarians and other animal models to study development and regeneration. The Forsyth team will publish this research in the August 16 issue of Development. According to the pa...Boston Univeristy bioengineers devise 'dimmer swith' to regulate gene expression in mammal cells
... the cell died. They also showcased the switchs capability for delicately tuning gene expression, by installing it alongside a gene that leads to apoptosis, programmed cell death, once a certain threshold concentration of the genes product is reached. They gradually increased the genes activity until they me...Rapid evolution of defense genes in plants may produce hybrid incompatibility
...ve been shown to evolve rapidly, giving plants the capability to adapt to changing conditions and pathogens. Bomblies and Weigel found that the same type of gene is involved in hybrid incompatibility in Arabidopsis. Because these genes evolve so rapidly, there are likely to be different forms present in the p...New imaging method clarifies nutrient cycle
...iology. Capone added that the structural imaging capability of NanoSIMS could allow medical researchers to study metabolic function in distinct cell types, in cells at different stages of development and in cancerous versus non-cancerous cells. Gunther Dennert, professor of molecular microbiology at the USC...Bright future for nano-sized light source
...single nanowires with optical tweezers, a critical capability not only for bio-imaging but also for wiring together nanophotonic circuitry. Jan Liphardt, a biophysicist who holds a joint appointment with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and UC Berkeleys Physics Department, was another principal in...Wright State scientist receives grant to help clean up polluted American harbors
... research will be (1) development of an integrated capability to assess sites for ecological risk and recovery using accurate exposure and effects data and (2) a straightforward approach to quantitatively measure and graphically demonstrate displays of sediment quality and the dominant contaminant relationships...Staphylococcus aureus hides out in cells
...reus intracellular survival appears related to its capability to adopt a discrete behaviour instead of actively duplicating, says Patrice Francois, a Geneva-based member of the research team. S. aureus then benefits from natural or programmed cell death to re-emerge and trigger another episode of infection, lea...New genetic data overturn long-held theory of limb development
...y fish, the paddlefish. "We found that the genetic capability seen in tetrapods to build limbs is present in eve... did, and is very far removed from tetrapods." The capability of building limbs with fingers and toes existed for a long period of time, but it took a set of envi...Another world-first for LCT's Xeno facilities
...patients. The accredited laboratory will have the capability of testing for potential infections in recipients ...r a range of appropriate viruses. This is a unique capability that has been developed by the Company over many years and is fully owned by LCT. Although there h...Ocean observing contracts awarded to UC San Diego and University of Washington
...duled for late 2007. "This new ocean observatory capability will provide novel and enduring ways to study the oceans. These new approaches are going to revolutionize not only how we humans look at oceans and the earth, but eventually in the time of our children's children the way we manage our entire planet...Replacement warhead program poses challenges for weapons complex
...tion complex which will require a greatly enhanced capability for the manufacture of plutonium pits, or triggers, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition, certification of both the method and the design for the first RRW will still need to go through a rigorous implementation and demonstration proces...Everything starts with recognition
...perfect machine, our body ultimately relies on the capability of each little part (molecule) to know a specific function and location out of countless possibilities. To do this, molecules carry information in different ways. An international team at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart...A genetic 'gang of 4' drives spread of breast cancer
...of the four abnormal genes affected the metastatic capability of the cells in the lung. They injected cells deficient in the four genes directly into the circulatory system of mice. "When these cells reached the lung capillaries, they just got stuck there," said Massagu. "We concluded that metastatic cells use ...UC Davis wins new national center for avian flu research
...ties of biological samples. It will have theunique capability to analyze influenza genes from thousands ofviruses each year, far more quickly and in far greater numbers thanany other program. The final CRISAR collaborator, Los Alamos National Laboratory, willprovide technological support to UCLA's high-speed ...MIT's ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests
... marine microbes, recent advances in computational capability and a simple recognition of his own bias. "Physicists, like myself, have a bit of a reductionist view. We often shy away from the complexity of the real world in our models and prefer to reduce things to the simplest case with fewest factors," said...LED array signals successful binding of drug-delivery molecules to DNA
... colors to signal different DNA interactions. That capability is important in terms of what color of light you want to use to activate the molecules to bind to or cleave the DNA, Brewer said. The research poster, Validation of an LED array for use in DNA photocleavage assays (INOR 726), was selected for both ...San Diego stem cell consortium tops in state funding
...bryonic stem cells in order to improve scientists' capability to general disease-specific human stem cell lines. At The Salk Institute, Professor Fred Gage will receive $2,879,210 to develop procedures to induce human embryonic stem cells into mature functioning neurons that carry genes that cause debilitatin...Gene sequencing advance will aid in biomass-to-biofuels conversion
...tance to the scientific community demonstrates the capability of FPL's researchers and our status as a world-class facility." "The genetic blueprint reported in this paper will be at the foundation of new biofuels technology that will be developed under the auspices of the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative," repo...