American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...of a new food freshness sensor, for fast, accurate detection of food spoilage. Their study is scheduled for the Aug. 16 issue of ACS Organic Letters , a bi-weekly journal. In the study, John Lavigne and colleagues describe the need for better sensors that can detect food spoilage caused by E. coli , Salmo...Rain forest protection works in Peru
...ies there. CLAS is a satellite-based forest-damage detection system, which can penetrate the shielding upper layers of forest leaves to see consequences of logging activities below. The CLAS system can uncover forest changes at a resolution of less than 100 by 100 ft. The core process behind CLAS is an advance...New test improves detection of liver cancer
...rement for the test. The new test enables accurate detection of liver cancer in over 50% of the cases for which...n an early stage would save many lives. Current detection methods Methods of detecting malignant growths are often based on the concentration of particular s...... resource-management decision making from disaster detection and mitigation of fires, insect outbreaks, storms, and floods, to agricultural management and basic ecological research, says Dennis Ojima (Colorado State University). Our first views of Earth from space remind us that the planet is an integrated s...Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
...lead to the development of a test which will allow detection of the cancer before the tumours become evident, he says. This would make any quarantine strategy easier to establish, as well as much more efficient. The idea is based on Australian research showing disease-related changes in the composition of hu...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...in a very small area. Separating the chemistry and detection steps makes this technology more efficient, and th...pore-based force spectroscopy for rapid electronic detection of sequence variation. The project builds on the teams previous demonstration of the ability to det...Gold nanoparticles may pan out as tool for cancer diagnosis
...technology will soon play a critical role in early detection and monitoring of breast cancer," said Irudayaraj .... Irudayaraj said using gold nanorods for cancer detection will be about one-third the cost of the current analogous technology, called flow cytometry. This me...Investigating antibiotic use in acute care patients
...this reason it is important to develop a molecular detection method that can identify antibiotic resistance signatures of entire microbial communities. "Our hope is that this kind of information will equip clinicians to better manage prescribing of antibiotics." This latest research is being planned in c......so far successfully broadcast live reports via MRI detection from the liver, endothelial cells and even during fetal development in pregnant mice, without the need for additional substances....Additional mammogram readers improve breast cancer detection
... non-physician technologists improve breast cancer detection rates, according to a study in the July 24 Journa...stitute . Studies have shown that breast cancer detection may increase when mammograms are reviewed by both a radiologist and a mammographic technologist. In ...Scientists discover new way to study nanostructures
...hnologies. It can be used for ultra high sensitive detection of electromagnetic radiation, extremely weak magnetic fields and in superconducting quantum computing bits. Now, experimental physicist Alexei Marchenkov and theoretician Uzi Landman at Georgia Tech have discovered that the AC Josephson effec...Detecting transmissibility of avian influenza virus in human households
... from animals in humans is therefore key for early detection of epidemic spread, and for effective control. In a study published in PLoS Computational Biology, the authors from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have used data from a small but well-defined study of H7N7 avian influenza virus transmission i...Study finds contaminated water reaching Florida's offshore keys
...shore environment on outgoing tides. Lipp said the detection of these bacteria in predominantly nearshore stations suggests that land-based sources of sewage pollution such as cesspits and septic systems may be a significant contributor. Genetic material from enteric viruses, which cause disease in humans ......ncing of the genome of wild strains will allow the detection of new genes. The plan is to decipher the genomes of at least 1001 Arabidopsis varieties. A new instrument, with which the entire genome of a plant can be read in just a few days, is already available. Still missing are the computational algorithms t...Purdue-IU researchers explore new method for early disease diagnosis
.... "This type of analysis could be a key to earlier detection of diseases. Metabolic analysis is currently being developed to identify diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. However, we need to continue to work to refine and improve the techniques to provide early detection." Raftery and his team...Study explains how pathogens evolve to escape detection
...stem eliminates it, allowing the bacteria to avoid detection and cause disease. "This paper explains how a pathogen can evolve to escape detection," said lead author Tracy Rosebrock, a graduate student in Cornell's Department of Plant Pathology and BTI. "The bacterium has one specific protein that it uses to t...Species detectives track unseen evolution
New species are evading detection using a foolproof disguise their own unchanged appearance. Research published in the online open access journal, BMC Evolutionary Biology, suggests that the phenomenon of different animal species not being visually distinct despite other significant...University of Colorado licenses two influenza virus detection discoveries to Quidel Corp.
...grant exclusive, worldwide rights to two influenza detection technologies developed by researchers at the Unive...nary studies demonstrate a 95% success rate in the detection of influenza mutations known to result in drug resistance. The BChip was also developed at CU-Boul...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...d severe clinical signs despite little or no virus detection in nasal washes. The absence of secondary transmission among ferrets housed together was attributed to minimal virus shedding. The effect of viral pathogenicity and receptor binding specificity on transmissibility showed that both Vietnam avian-like...... future as a non-invasive screening tool for early detection of skin, cervical, esophageal, colon and lung cancers. It is also useful in identifying positive lymph nodes which could mean a significant advancement for breast, prostate and testicular cancers. ...