Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
...e papers are the first significant publications to come from those efforts." In addition to Jahrling and LeDuc, the research team included Lisa E. Hensley, John W. Huggins, and Mark J. Martinez of USAMRIID, and Kathleen H. Rubins and David A. Relman of Stanford University....Stanford cooling tool may improve performance of athletes, soldiers
...e the violent tremors many patients have when they come out of anesthesia after surgery. From studies in rats, the researchers determined that such tremors occur because the body's temperature regulation mechanisms are suppressed during anesthesia. They reasoned that rapid rewarming might stop the tremors...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
...thing design. "We've drawn upon nature to come up with an idea by looking at how pine cones react to lack of moisture by opening up," The design is being carried out by Veronika Kapsali, who is studying for her PhD in design at the London College of Fashion, part of the University of Art...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
...-edge clothing design. "We've drawn upon nature to come up with an idea by looking at how pine cones react to lack of moisture by opening up," The design is being carried out by Veronika Kapsali, who is studying for her PhD in design at the London College of Fashion, part of the University of Arts London....New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
... That's a problem because by the time test results come back, products may already be in food suppliers' warehouses or on store shelves, he said. Last summer, for example, a Georgia company recalled nearly 37,000 pounds of precooked chicken products that may have been contaminated by Listeria....'Immediately open access' option for the leading journal Genome Research
...ors choose immediately open access, librarians may come to feel it is not worth continuing to subscribe to Genome Research" Inglis said. "We plan to engage the library community in a dialogue as our experience with this option grows, to make sure the journal's ability to contribute to the advance of scien...After flu exposure, mild exercise protects mature mice from dying
...stopped, to mirror how most people react once they come down with flu-like symptoms. The mice were nave, that is, they previously hadn't been exercising on a regular basis. Results both striking and surprising; human flu vaccine reaction study underway 20-week-old mice that had exercised had significant...U-M scientists see ubiquitin-modified proteins in living cells
... protein, the fragments of the fluorescent protein come together and produce a bright spot of glowing colo...es the two fragments of the fluorescent protein to come together," Kerppola says. "If they can't get together, the assay doesn't work. It's quite good at id...Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
...by proteins today). But how did that RNA world come about? "Anybody who thinks they know the solution to this problem [of the origin of life] is deluded," says Orgel. "But," he adds, "anybody who thinks this is an insoluble problem is also deluded." One possible approach to the pro...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...the last great remaining problem of what has since come to be called "the Standard Model" of the quantum m... time," said Bildsten, "for us here at the KITP to come to grips with the design concept for that hexagonal tower. It is all Michael Graves, and it is insp...Emory chemists develop bacteria that may help decaffeinate coffee
...hat are low in caffeine. That's where the bacteria come in. They now need the breakdown product of the enzyme (theophylline) for survival, but they can't do much with caffeine." Gallivan says that the idea is to supply these bacteria with caffeine, and give each bacterium a piece of DNA from coffee plants...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
...bstetricians, nurses, midwives and social workers, come into contact with pregnant patients regularly. Are these providers injecting personal bias or stereotypes onto their patients that ultimately affect care? Are their interactions with patients impacting whether the patient accepts the treatment recom...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...e area during that time, he said. "Instead, we can come back in 20 minutes and say either this is safe or there is a problem." Chad Mirkin, professor of chemistry at Northwestern University and director of Northwestern's Institute for Nanotechnology, said the new technique looks promising. "This looks to...Environmental exposures before and after birth can harm children's lungs
...ally high risk for PAH and ETS exposure. PAHs can come from motor vehicle emissions, residential heating, power generation, tobacco smoking, and other combustion sources. While PAHs and ETS can harm boys and girls, the study found preliminary evidence that the combination more often leads to cough and w...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...l applications and environmental benefits that can come from extremophilic research." Since the 1980s, clo...ed wastewater treatment options -- though all have come with extra cost or environmental problems. One hydrogen peroxide treatment dilutes wastewater with ...Experimental drug prevents vaginal simian HIV transmission in monkeys Science study says
...IV and designing new HIV prevention strategies may come from a new SHIV study in monkeys. Scientists coated the vaginal surfaces of monkeys with an experimental drug 15 minutes before exposure to the immunodeficiency virus SHIV and report that the drug protected the animals from infection. SHIV provides ...Researchers find protein that makes long-term memory possible
... the cells' electrical impulses. The brain slices come from a region of the brain known as the hippocampus, believed to be involved in forming long-term memories. When the hippocampal cells are stimulated with a specific pattern of electric signals, they begin to transmit the stronger electric signals c...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
...o their bloodhound's new nose. The wand's tip must come within 5 millimeters of the sample to be 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 th......posed on the tree to confirm the relationships and come up with reliable groupings that will be used as the basis for a system of classification. The eventual goal of these projects is to have all flowering plants, algae, mammals, insects, and others put together in a full tree of life. There are sev...