Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...phenol, at rates 2.5-7 times greater than previous designs (2pPA4). In the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry, there has been no reliable way to monitor silicon wafers as they undergo dozens of crucial "megasonic" cleaning steps, in which the wafer is immersed in a liquid and blasted with very-high-f...Other highlights in the October 20 JNCI
...ce with 22 accelerated approvals and discuss study designs and populations evaluated in the approval process. They also emphasize the need for the FDA and drug companies to integrate the accelerated approval process into a comprehensive drug development plan. There is also a related JNCI News article on the ...Spider silks, the ecological materials of tomorrow?
... capture key structural and functional features in designs that could be useful for engineering applications" explains the author. Spiders are territorial and cannibalistic and so impossible to farm. The only way to produce large quantities of silk is to engineer and insert silk genes into other cells or or...Idaho lab, Utah company achieve major milestone in hydrogen research
... invented at Ceramatec for NASA. "Cell designs and fabrication processes, which are scalable to a commercially practical size, are essential to securing our energy future," said Ceramatec senior engineer Joseph Hartvigsen, who will lead the project. Dave Swank, INEEL Thermal Spray Rese...Growing cities in arid regions
...zed along six areas of research, including: Who designs the city: The political framework of urban design Ecosystem dynamics and ecosystem management in arid regions Human ecology and urban design: Prospects for a new arid regions' urbanism Transportation and ecological mobility alternatives Building ...Intelligence in men and women is a gray and white matter
...ral intelligence and that different types of brain designs are capable of producing equivalent intellectual performance. "These findings suggest that human evolution has created two different types of brains designed for equally intelligent behavior," said Richard Haier, professor of psychology in the Depar...Flocking together: Study shows how animal groups find their way
... has collaborated with roboticists at Princeton on designs for fleets of underwater vehicles. "Say you had a group of robots exploring a planet or the ocean, and each individual robot was moving around collecting information locally," he said. "By returning to the group and following the type of algorithm w...Ancient olfaction protein is shared by many bugs, offering new pest control target
...ction in olfaction has also been conserved. Future designs of pesticides and disease-controlling insect repellents may be able to utilize this commonality to "blind" the insects to the smell of their prey. Walton D. Jones, Thuy-Ai T. Nguyen, Brian Kloss, Kevin J. Lee, and Leslie B. Vosshall: "Functional cons...'Blinding' an insect's sense of smell may be the best repellent
...nformation may provide a starting point for future designs of pesticides and disease-controlling insect repellents. "Although mosquitoes and flies have very different opinions about odors," Vosshall says, "this gene functionally substitutes. Insects are very smart and have evolved a lot, but from the point o...Disease diagnosis, biodefense among UH chemical research projects
...o several other authors, will focus on "Microarray designs for rapid microbial identification." This research is important because infectious diseases cause 26 percent of global mortality and are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Microbial identification also is important in food safet...Ophthalmologists and physicists team up to design 'bionic eye'
...uickly." Currently the researchers are testing two designs in parallel because they aren't yet sure which will be best. One design uses electrodes that protrude up from the chip like pillars. The pillars allow retinal cells greater access to nutrients and let researchers affect specific cell layers by contro...National Academies news: Spent nuclear fuel storage
...ifferences in the robustness of different dry cask designs under various terrorist attack scenarios, the differences are not large, and relatively simple steps could be taken to further reduce potential vulnerabilities. Once the USNRC completes the recommended plant-specific vulnerability analyses, the agen...Lasers, laureates, competitions infuse symposium to celebrate physics milestones
...tion, offering over $65,000 in prizes for Web site designs celebrating the invention and impacts of lasers, including categories for students; deadline, September 1. A spectacular gala with a laser light show to honor Charles Townes, whose contributions to humankind have inspired the event and whose insight...Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor
...an electron microscope to view different serration designs of shark teeth. "Our analysis of their teeth shows that Great White and mako sharks have very similar tooth growth trajectories, while those of the great white and megladon are not similar. Analysis of both the root and entire tooth also shows a rem...Yale scientist studying virus infections named Burroughs Wellcome Investigator
...uld like to incorporate these factors into vaccine designs and immunomodulatory therapies." Antigen presenting cells begin the immune responses to pathogens. However, it was unknown whether the cells that become the actual target of infection, most typically the cells of the mucous membranes, play a role in ...Pollution-eating bacteria produce electricity
...s could prove useful in future microbial fuel cell designs where the device need not always be operational but must survive long periods of hazardous conditions before being used. "The generation of electricity is one of those things that we tend not to think about during our daily routines. When we do, th...Life detection instrument passes key test on road to Mars
... novel micro-valve systems and portable instrument designs pioneered in Mathies' lab to look for homochirality in amino acids. These microarrays with microfluidic channels are 100 to 1,000 times more sensitive for amino acid detection than the original life detection instrument flown on the Viking Landers in...Aerobic exercise helps find genetic regions linked to prediabetes
...ise," An says. "We need to employ insightful study designs and analysis strategies. By selecting nondiabetic, sedentary people and then looking at their exercise response in this study, we were able to analyze a unique sample and directly measure insulin secretion and action. What we found is consistent with...Good connections are everything
...than 2 but smaller than 2.5 could provide possible designs for associative memories and pattern recognition. The dynamic properties just described are not restricted to neural networks. Indeed, the biosphere contains a whole hierarchy of scale-free networks which typically exhibit a decay exponent in the ra...UCSB among team awarded $12.5 million to develop nanoscale systems for early diagnosis
...at are under stress or are diseased. The nanoscale designs are based on the concept that advanced nanotechnologies can help overcome inherent limitations of molecular imaging and therapeutic gene transfer. "I think part of the reason we received this grant was due to UCSB's excellence in soft materials and ...