Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ies collected, with 30% of the positive houseflies coming from a flaked corn shed. Ninety percent of the isolates contained genes indicating highly virulent strains. "Our study demonstrated that houseflies carry virulent E. coli O157:H7 in the farm environment primarily during the summer and may play an ...Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH
...ts to these DNA microchip technologies. Prior to coming to UH in 1992, Gao was a senior investigator at Glaxo Research Laboratory and received her postdoctoral training at Columbia University, her doctorate from Rutgers University and bachelor of science from the Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology. ...Needling chromosomes yields insights into cell division
...hrough the bottom of the cell, and the needles are coming down through a layer of oil covering the cell to p... adjust the focus to determine where the needle is coming down into the cell. This is difficult with one needle, but with two it's a terrific challenge; and y...Healthy mix of GI tract microbes are key to preventing allergies and asthma
...ing to harmless antigens," Noverr explains. "We're coming at it from a different angle. Our emphasis is on what's going on in the GI tract." The link between lung and gut may not seem obvious at first. But Huffnagle points out that every time we swallow, particles of dust, pollen and spores trapped by mucu...ESA's Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
...ncludes multiple additional flybys of Titan in the coming months and years. A probe deep into space and time Bigger than Mercury and slightly smaller than Mars, Titan is unique in having a thick hazy nitrogen-rich atmosphere containing carbon-based compounds that could yield important clues...New lensless imaging technique opens door to nanoscale world
...ety of samples from thin films to small structures coming from material science, biology or chemistry," Luen...lapse photography for slow processes like a flower coming into bloom. This confers a brand new capability to study the nonrepeatable aspects of biological, ph...Weill Cornell team develops fast-acting anthrax vaccine
...ack, it may not be known whether another attack is coming -- or who might be affected. In that case, you want immunity to be built up in key populations as quickly as possible," said Dr. Ronald G. Crystal, Chairman of the Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and Chief of the Divisio...First x-ray laser gets funding
...tories in the world for synchrotron science in the coming decades." Scientists expect LCLS to deliver "first light" to experimenters in 2009....Loss of sight and enhanced hearing: A neural picture
...ee chamber and asked to indicate where a sound was coming from, using either one (monaural) or both (binaural) ears. Only the blind individuals with superior localization skills showed increased activity in the visual cortex while performing monaural localization tasks. Whether the enhanced auditory ...Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks
...ement the next steps of this research. Prior to coming to UH in 1994, Cahill was a research assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell biology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City and received his postdoctoral training at Emory University. He received his doctorate in...Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
...l broadcast expedition wrapping up conclusions and coming to an end in the Louisiana bayou with the JASON Foundation for Education. "The loss of Louisiana's wetlands is the single most catastrophic environmental disaster ever to hit the continental U.S.," said Mark Schexnayder, a marine biologist with the L...NJIT hosts Spring Career Fair: Employers expected to increase hiring...
...pplied science and liberal arts. Of the companies coming to recruit graduates, more than half will seek computing engineer or computer science majors, Mass said. Other sought after majors are accounting, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, business administration and economics and finance, acco...Diabetes' link to obesity broken in mice
...e that helps the cell deal with all the fat that's coming in, but our notion was that it might also play a r... also be telling cells, look, we have all this fat coming in, so we're not going to need glucose to make energy, so let's shut down glucose burning. And that'...Michael F. Hochella Jr. named Virginia's 2005 Outstanding Scientist
... in 1992. He was named a professor in 1996. Before coming to Virginia Tech, Hochella worked at Corning Glass Inc. and Stanford University. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in geosciences from Virginia Tech. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University. Learn more about Hochella's work at www.geol.vt....In one of the rare good news stories coming out of Iraq, the country's almost-decimated wetlan...t a group of Iraqi scientists and students will be coming to work and study at the University of Waterloo this summer. "Again, we want to try and reacquaint t...Muon opportunists: Detecting the unseen with natural probes
... scan is underway. "We measure the angle of a muon coming in and the angle going out," said Christopher Morris, a member of the Los Alamos team. "The change in angle tells us how much material was in the path." It takes about 30 to 60 seconds to track enough muons for each cargo container screened, Morris s...Climate change to bring a wave of new health risks
...nd adverse health outcomes. Such tools are already coming into play. Strong El Nino events, for example, tend to trigger heavier rainfall in the American southwest, setting the stage for rodent population booms and increased risk of exposure to hanta virus, a sometimes deadly disease transmitted through rod...Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases
...urve, because we don't know where these things are coming from." In fact, while parasites like malaria are well known, we may have identified only a fraction of the total number of the world's parasites, and the prospect of cataloguing them poses a daunting technical challenge. Since the physical characteri...Predicting the future: Mirror neurons reflect the intentions of others
...on is recognizing the intent of his actions--is he coming to praise me or to bury me? In the premier open-access journal PLoS Biology , Marco Iacoboni and colleagues use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that the mirror neuron system tracks not only the actions, but also the intentions, ......ron was in the patch, how diatoms were growing and coming together in multi-cellular aggregations. They studied the sinking rate, the slow process through which aggregations of diatoms sink into the deep sea, taking their carbon with them. The Kilo Moana returned to Hawaii after spending 42 days at sea. Ea...