Finding the right mix: A biomaterial blend library
...ilms. In the body, such cell-material dynamics are critically important to the outcome--determining whether a biomaterial leads to inflammation or abnormal cell growth, for example. The new study represents an innovative line of research. Working with NJCB, NIST scientists have developed a method for construc...NSF awards 17 grants for research on biocomplexity in the environment
... straightforward or easily discerned, but that are critically important to the future of life on our planet. Organisms from microbes to humans make up the framework for these awards, as do environments that range from frozen polar regions to deep-ocean hydrothermal vents, from temperate forests to agricultural...Worcester Polytechnic Institute receives $2 million in federal funds for biomedical research centers
... controlled by signals from the brain. "These are critically important areas of investigation with far-reaching implications for national security and the quality of human life around the world," said WPI President Dennis D. Berkey. "With this new federal funding, WPI will have even greater opportunity to cont...Microbes compete with animals for food by making it stink
...hopes the research will make ecologists think more critically about the broad role of microbes in the ecosystem. Microbes are often omitted or relegated to a minor role in food web diagrams, but they should be depicted as direct competitors with larger animals, he said....ESSP launches new Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study
...economic activities in the Monsoon Asia region are critically dependent on the monsoon circulation system. It has direct impacts on water resources and air quality, and indirectly affects agriculture, industry, health, urban life and ecosystem services. However, intensive and large-scale human activities may be...Tβ4 is essential for coronary vessel development report
...ateral growth not only during development but also critically from adult epicardium, suggest TB4 has considerable therapeutic potential in humans," stated the researchers. "These results are very exciting because most humans suffering from ischemic cardiac events, either acutely or chronically, do not develop ...Nobel Laureate finds 'elegant' explanation for DNA transcribing enzyme's high fidelity
... is a result of the alignment with the NTP that is critically dependent upon the base, sugar, phosphate and location when the trigger loop swings into position, Kornberg said. If it is misaligned even slightly, that set of contacts cannot occur. As a consequence of that alignment, to angstrom (a unit of length...Research grant funds studies of climate change and reef ecosystems
...ate change stressors. "Our goal is to establish a critically important information flow process between scientists researching climate change, coral bleaching and water quality in the reefs of South Florida; the stakeholders who depend on the reef ecosystem for their livelihoods and quality of life; and the ma...Scientists learning to create nanomaterials based on micro-algae patterns
...pothesizes that the structure of the diatom silica critically depends on the type of silaffin present within the diatoms silica-producing organic matrix. Therefore, he expects that changing the silaffin equipment of a diatom cell should result in novel silica nanostructures. Krger and collaborator Nicole Poul...Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita
...rvey). This little porpoise is one of the two most critically endangered small cetaceans in the world, suggestin...or increases on an acceptable timescale for such a critically endangered species. According to one analysis, a single survey in 2006 or 2007 would have a probabil...New sucker-footed bat discovered in Madagascar
...e eastern coast of Africa, remains one of the most critically threatened areas in the world, in terms of biodiversity. Madagascar has a higher level of endemism (with plants and animals found nowhere else) than any other landmass in the world of comparable size. "Still today, you can go out and discover things ...Saving endangered whales at no cost
...tantially reduce fishing-gear entanglements of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The findings appear in the January 9th issue of the journal Current Biology, published by Cell Press, and are reported by Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, along with colleagues there and at t...Recently discovered species gain protection
...e Fenwick, the ABC president. The reserve is also critically important for globally threatened frog species, whose last remaining habitat is diminishing rapidly within the Central Cordillera. Seven Vulnerable and four Endangered frog species occur within the new reserve, as do five additional species so new to...Targeting tau: Inflammation study suggests new approach for fighting Alzheimer's
...quences because nerve-cell axons and dendrites are critically dependent on this normal transportation network. The misfolded tau proteins aggregate and form sheets called fibrils that accumulate in different parts of the brain. The resulting impaired axonal transport of proteins and other cargoes needed to ...Are we killing the world's oceans?
...es, where thorny issues of national concern can be critically examined and policy approaches explored. Experts from Canada, Chile, Germany, Scotland and the US will speak on such issues as climate change, ocean acidification and coral reefs, the increase in ocean dead zones, scientific and social dynamics dur...Scripps research study reveals structural dynamics of single prion molecules
...ess. The intermediate stages of the process are critically important, Deniz noted: "No single native unfolded protein is capable of initiating the amyloid cascade because of this constant shape-shifting. To start the amyloid conversion process, it has to first convert to an intermediate species, consisting o...Study to look at aspirin as aid to conception, healthy pregnancy
...gnant or maintain a health pregnancy, it will be a critically important finding. "Aspirin is available, inexpensive and has very few side effects," she added. "We're hopeful that this trial could produce an important finding." Statistics show that in the United States, 10-15 percent of couples trying to b...Universities in San Antonio and Hawaii study safety of assisted reproductive technologies
...RT, confirmation of the safety of these methods is critically important. The results of this study should reassure couples that there appears to be no increased risk of increased mutations as a result of ART methods. ...Lost cuckoo breaks its silence
...by a remote camera trap. It is now believed to be critically endangered. Until now, however, no one knew the birds call a key field diagnostic ornithologists use to identify birds that live in forest. According to WCS, having a recording of the birds call will also make it easier for biologists to locate oth......urvival. Brassinosteroid biosynthesis has become a critically important area of plant biology research with significant implications for commercial agriculture. "Its been a matter of some debate for a very long time if one of these tissue layers controls plant growth or if all three layers have to work togeth...