Does the desire to consume alcohol and tobacco come from our genetic makeup?
... In an attempt to find the genomic determinants underlying alcohol and tobacco use, resea...Biodesign Institute leads innovative project to prevent cancer
... Stephen Albert Johnston, PhD, director of the institutes Center for Innovations in Medicine, will focus his research project on breast cancer. Johnston is one of only two recipients in the nation bestowed with a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the Department of Defenses Innovator Award, funded through its Breast Cancer Research Program. His Biodesign research colleague, Douglas Lake, PhD...Alzheimer's drug based on Purdue -- designed inhibitor begins clinical trials
... ... CoMentis Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in San Francisco, is initiati...UGR researchers design an alternative to blood test to detect drugs in the body
... ), coordinated by professor Antonio Hernndez Jerez, has developed a new t...Ossur's PROPRIO FOOT takes the Gold 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award
June 19, 2007 (Reykjavik, Iceland) -- Ossur, a trusted and global developer of more scientifically advanced prosthetic innovations than any other company in the field, is pleased to announce that its PROPRIO FOOT is the winner of the Gold 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award, in the category of rehabilitation and assistive technology products. ...The PROPRIO FOOT features several unique propriet...New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems
Scientists from Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research (IBN), Austrian Academy of Sciences and of Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA report the study of Tuning Curvature and Stability of Monoolein Bilayers by Designer Lipid-Like Peptide Surfactants in the May 30th issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. Their findings no...The Institute of Ecosystem Studies to host an international conference on ecology and urban design
... From May 1st to May 3rd, the Institute of Ecosystem Studies will be hosting an international conference focused on building bridges between current ecological thinking and the professionals that are responsible for building the cities of th...Wanting ahead -- Birds plan for future desires
... The Western scrub-jay is native to the western United States, and, like squirrels and other food-caching animals, these birds readily store food for the future and recover their caches at a later...Pump design could give new hope to heart patients
Pump design could give heart patients new hope A new counter-flow heart pump being developed by Queensland University of Technology has the potential to...revolutionise future designs of the mechanical heart. Lead researcher Associate Professor Andy Tan said the heart pump's innovative design was based on a doubleoutput centrifugal model that pushed the blood in a counter direction to ensure cor...Ossur's Proprio Foot walks away with 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award
April 9, 2007 (Aliso Viejo, CA) -- Ossur, a trusted and global developer of more scientifically advanced prosthetic innovations than any other company in the field, is pleased to announce that its PROPRIO FOOT is the winner of a 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award. ... The PROPRIO FOOT, the latest in Ossurs Bionic Technology platform, is the worlds first motor-powered and intelligent prostheti...University of Minnesota's 6th annual Design of Medical Devices Conference to be held April 17-19
... "The momentum this conference continues to generate clearly demonstrates the evolving interest and expertise in this field," said Art Erdman, University of Minnesota professor of mechanical engineering and DMD Co...UCLA scientists design masks to hide genetic mutations from cell
... The laboratory findings suggest a powerful new a...Center for Science Writings debate: Redesigning Humanity, March 21
HOBOKEN, N.J. The Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology presents the debate "Redesigning Humanity: How Far Should We Go?" on Wednesday, March 21, 2007. The event, which will feature a debate between bioethicists Thomas Murray and James Hughes, will be held in the Bissinger Room, located in the Wesley J. Howe Center, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.... "Genetic engineering,...Computer-designed molecule to clean up fluorocarbons?
... At sea level, the strong C-F bond makes fluo...Delft University of Technology designs language development toy for autistic children
... ... The electronic toy, which is called LINKX, consists of blocks that the children must place against a spe...Medieval Islamic designs reveal breakthrough in tiled pattern-making
... ... Medieval Islamic artisans developed a pattern-making process for designing ornate tiled surfaces that allowed them to produce sophisticated patterns not seen in the West until centuries later, a new study suggests. The findings appear in the 23 Februar...What is wrong with intelligent design?
... Biologists from Charles Darwin to Stephen Jay Gould have advanced this second type of argument. Stephen Jay Gould's well-known example of a trait of this type is the panda's thumb. If a truly intelligent designer were responsible for the panda, Goul...Walking tall: UH student working on space suit redesign for NASA
... ... To begin her study, Scott-P...Biodesign Institute takes part in $14.4M NIH chemical defense grant
... ... Tsafrir Mor, a researcher at ASU's Biodesign Institute and assist...Cease and desist -- genome stability and epithelial carcinogenesis
Dr. Leonard Zon and colleagues at The Children's Hospital (Boston) have identified a mutated gene in zebrafish that increases susceptibility to epithelial cancers. As featured on the cover of the January 1st issue of G&D, Dr. Zon's research team pinpointed a mitotic checkpoint gene, called separase, as being responsible for the proper segregation of chromosomes during cell division. Mutations in...Nano design adjustment may help find, clear some water contaminants
... The research targets toxic groundwater contaminants that contain negatively charged ions known as anions (a-NI-ens), which are historically difficult to remove. Perchlorate, a rocket fuel additive recently linked to thyroid deficiency in women, has contaminated more than 450 wells in California alone. Nitrate contamination, which...Squid-inspired design could mean better handling of underwater vehicles
... ... K...Scientists design simple dipstick test for cocaine, other drugs
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simple "dipstick" test for detecting cocaine and other drugs in saliva, urine or blood serum. The test is based upon DNA-gold nanoparticle technology, and can be packaged in user-friendly kits similar to those used for home pregnancy tests.... "Building upon our earlier work with lead (Pb) sensors,...Tailored treatments: Promising designer drug provides new insight into cancer biology
Scientists are making progress toward unraveling the molecular mysteries that underlie cancer progression and treatment resistance. Two studies in the November 2006 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, provide mechanistic details that may explain why the small-molecule chemical ABT-737 is emerging as a unique and effective anticancer agent. The studies also demonstrate that...Scientists design a PSA-activated protoxin that kills prostate cancer
... Prostate cancer is one of the commonest cancers in men, with nearly 680,000 new cases each year worldwide and more than 220,000 deaths [1]. Furthermore, by the age of 80, approximately 80% of all men will have developed a non-cancerous condition called benign prostat...U of MN Center for Drug Design awarded $2.5 million grant
The University of Minnesota Center for Drug Design has been awarded a $2.5 million, 5-year grant by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to research antidotes for cyanide poisoning. The study, Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats: Countermeasures Against Cyanide, will be led by Herbert Nagasawa, Ph.D., Robert Vince, Ph.D., and Steve Patterson, Ph.D.... Cyanide poisoning has the potential...MIT designs portable 'lab on a chip'
... ... "In the same way that miniaturization le...Yale and NFCR launch Research Center for Cancer Drug Design and Discovery
... , the Milton Harris, '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, and William Jorgensen, the Whitehead Pro...Images develop clinical applications for new DESI technology
... ... This tool has a wide range of...Designer babies - what would you do for a 'healthy' baby?
... ... ... The evidence suggests that there are gender, age and socio-economic class differences in what is...Engineer designs system to put wastewater to work
In the midst of the worldwide energy crisis, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have been continuing their work on a microbial fuel cell that generates electricity from wastewater. Advances in the design of this fuel cell in the last year have increased the power output by a factor of 10 and future designs, already in the minds of the researchers, hope to multiple that power output...Universal design tackles little things with big impact
EAST LANSING, Mich. An international packaging conference this month will explore how little things can become major obstacles. ...... Like a childproof cap....... Michigan State University's School of Packaging is organizing Universal Package '06 a look at design and packaging and how it regards or disregards a range of abilities, behaviors, habits and sizes. The conference will be June 19-2...Designer gradients speed surface science experiments
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an elegantly simple technique for synthesizing a wide variety of complex surfaces that vary in a controlled fashion across a test strip. The new technique is so flexible that it can be applied to surface science experiments ranging from developing better paints to exploring the bonding of proteins to cell...RIT students design deep-sea explorer to search for Lake Ontario shipwrecks
It's designed to explore the depths of large bodies of water--and one recent weekend, that's exactly where it was found: searching the depths of the deep end of Judson Pool in Rochester Institute of Technology's Gordon Field House and Activities Center. (As the adage goes, every journey begins with a single step.)...... A team of RIT engineering majors built the explorer, an underwater remote-ope...UAB is participating in a project to design functional foods against Alzheimer's disease
UAB researchers will participate in an ambitious R+D+I project to design functional foods for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular diseases. The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce has allocated a budget of 21 million to the four-year project. Led by the company La Morella Nuts S.A., seven further companies, six departments from four universities (...Researchers look to nature for design inspiration
ATLANTA -- Georgia Tech researchers studying nature's masterful and time-tested design techniques to find answers for some of science's toughest design challenges presented their research May 11 and May 12 at the International Symposium for Biologically-inspired Design and Engineering at Georgia Tech....... Here are several highlights of Georgia Tech research presented at the symposium:...... In...In drug design, a loose fit may be best bet
Chemical knockoffs resembling a key thyroid-related hormone are, in certain cases, more effective than the real thing at activating the target receptor, says a new study conducted in part by researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases... (NIDDK) and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), two of the National Institutes...Nature meets technology at Georgia Tech's conference on bio-inspired design
Through the centuries, nature has inspired countless number of poets, artists and musicians now engineers are looking to nature to help them solve some of the most complex problems of the day. For two days, May 11-12, researchers from 20 institutions will gather at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the first International Symposium for Biologically-inspired Design and Engineering. ...... T...K-Staters design and build a low-cost remote sensing tool for environmental studies
MANHATTAN, KAN. -- A Kansas State University research team is prototyping a small, inexpensive remote-control plane as a sensing tool, also known as an unmanned aerial vehicle, to collect environmental data. The team plans to test it over the Konza Prairie Biological Station near Manhattan this summer....... If the sensing tool performs as the team hopes, it will be made available to climate scie...Biodesign Institute participates in first-of-its-kind 'coyote' disaster preparedness drill
A full year in planning, the first Coyote Crisis Campaign (CCC) culminated in a large-scale disaster drill during the week of April 24-28, 2006. The Biodesign Institute at ASU was among the participants facilitating emergency response coordination during a mass casualty crisis scenario....... Nationally, the exercise was the first major drill of its type between government, National Guard, health...