NJIT professor discovers new mixing method for microchip-sized labs
...she said. "The prominent role that it now plays in emerging areas such as nanotechnology and biomedicine makes it a particularly exciting field." ...$6.7 million for bionic war on disabilities
...sary for people using the device to have 100 wires emerging from their skull, something that raises the possibility of infection and also of getting the wires snagged while the person is using a wheelchair, Normann says. "To go from a bundle of wires sticking out of somebody's head to a totally implantab...Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a 'designer ecosystem'
...fast growing desert city, like many of the world's emerging cities, with an archeological record for the area going back more than 2,000 years. The city has gone from a small farming center to a major metropolitan area in little more than a century, with the major growth occurring after World War II. "It's a...Genome comparison of four campylobacter strains yields new genetic markers and clues to virulence
...mpylobacters, including one species that may be an emerging pathogen in Africa. In their analysis, the...genes that can be used as markers to help identify emerging species; Numerous variable polynucleotide repeats in one of the emerging species of Campylobacter; ...Put science at center of decision-making on third world development, experts tell UN
...gly need science advisors to make effective use of emerging technologies," says the report co-author, Calestou...ed by rapid technological change and the enormous, emerging opportunities presented by biotechnologies and nanotechnologies, science advisors will soon be a nec...Searle grant funds proteomics initiative
...apies. To help position Chicago as a leader in the emerging field of proteomics, the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust have awarded a $1.5 million grant to the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) for the Proteomics/Bioinformatics Demonstration Project. Under the leadership of scientists at Northwest...High sugar levels increase cancer and mortality risk
...ovides more information on glucose intolerance, an emerging cause of cancer. It points to increased cancer risk as another adverse consequence of rising obesity around the world," concluded, Sun Ha Jee, PhD, MHS, lead author of the study and an adjunct assistant professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Hea...UCLA researchers detail the evolution of quantum dot imaging in the journal Science
...m Stanford University. The researchers assess this emerging field and highlight two recent advances in the Jan. 28, 2005, issue of the peer-reviewed journal Science. "Qdots as biological probes have lived up to the hopes of their initial promoters," said the article's senior author, Shimon Weiss, a Jonsson C...'Future Vision 2005' to feature innovation in endoscopy
...rook, IL, Jan. 28, 2005 - Innovation, research and emerging endoscopic techniques are some of the topics that ...tives of its impact on patient outcomes today, the emerging clinical techniques of tomorrow, and the exciting future of the field in both technology changes and...Gene with broad role also causes prevalent, inherited nerve disorder
...tion of each new gene comes to light, a picture is emerging about the gene and protein families that underlie different forms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and perhaps other nervous system diseases as well," Zchner said. As evidence mounts for the genetic basis of the disorder's different forms, scientists ...Blocking cell signaling can stymie viral infections, study shows
...MD, director of NIAID, and Mark D. Challberg, PhD, emerging viral diseases program officer at NIAID, write tha...useful in developing countermeasures against newly emerging infectious diseases and those that are introduced deliberately, as in a bioterror attack."...Women's health, tissue regeneration is focus of Illinois & Carle Hospital initiative
... healthy women. IGB scientists will then use newly emerging DNA technologies to isolate and identify all microbes in the samples and determine how changes in their composition and concentrations influence women's health and susceptibility or resistance to vaginal infections. Therapies to promote healing or p...Cricket's finicky mating behavior boosts biodiversity
...ation process, says Mendelson, crickets of the two emerging lines interbreed. After a point, however, members of the two distinct species no longer mate with each other. This discovery led Mendelson to name one of her graduate-school papers after the pop song "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" The Nature arti...Grid expectations for networked computing: From global Earth monitoring to black hole detection
...ut was enthusiastically taken up by wider society, emerging Grid and e-collaboration technology is likely to have a huge impact beyond science. Federico Rossi of the company Datamat said he predicted Grid use spreading beyond science to industry in the next few years, as initial 'hype and hope' was replaced ...Wiley announces publication of Databasing the Brain
... the great scientific challenges of our time. The emerging field of neuroinformatics integrates neuroscience with informatics to create unique databases and analytical tools for the large variety of neuroscience data types, applying them to brain research and linking them with databases within neuroscience a...Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves
...h those found in the fossil record. Cyanobacteria emerging some two billion years ago were becoming complex microbes that had larger cell diameters than earlier groups at least 2.5 microns. Blank's tree shows that several morphological traits arose independently in multiple lines, among them a sheath struc...Spit, and call me in the morning
...he body. Saliva and other oral substances are now emerging as the bodily fluids of choice for physicians, den...Cancer Center and School of Dentistry. One of the emerging uses for oral fluid testing is in dental health. Based on information from someone's saliva, Paul De......Ocean Alliance will share their latest discoveries emerging from these high tech ventures, using DNA sequences, deep-sea video and sound-clips. Reading the Past from DNA Genetics is opening the door to a huge storehouse of historical information about whales, says Steve Palumbi of Stanford University. Palum...Coastal dead zones may lead to ecosystem-based fisheries management
...stream in watersheds has received new support from emerging evidence that resulting coastal low-oxygen dead zo...h an impact, regulators might someday invoke a new emerging "ecosystem-based" approach to fisheries management, Crowder said. "If we are going to ask farmers in...... social, legal, and ethical issues that arise from emerging genetic technologies. Graham Hatfull, University of Pittsburgh, turns high school students into phage-hunters. Working with soil samples from backyards, barnyards, and the monkey pit at the Bronx Zoo, they have identified more than 30 new bacteriop...