San Francisco State University receives JavaOne award
...services and cellular monitoring infrastructure to enable the sensors to collect and forward oceanographic d...y, common open-source components and adaptors that enable Java networks to seamlessly "plug and play" transducers of many kinds without error or confusion. "N...Study in Royal Society journal on holly as an indicator of climate change
...mpling at detecting Salmonella. These results will enable enhanced surveillance of Salmonella at potentially reduced cost. Contact: Dr M Arnold, Department of Epidemiology, VLA New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB...Identifying blood stem cells is a SLAM dunk
...e to identify hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) will enable scientists to determine where stem cells are locat...od-forming stem cells in humans, the technique may enable safer transplants of stem cells, by improving purification of the stem cells prior to transplantatio...Dirk Inz receives the Francqui Prize for Biological and Medical Sciences 2005
...xide and convert it into bio-mass will undoubtedly enable these processes to be optimized. Prof. Inz's research group is the international leader in the study of the mechanisms that control bio-mass, and it is his ultimate ambition to make significant contributions to the generation of plants that can be us...Molecular Profiling Institute, Inc. acquires NanoBiomics, Inc.
...e of medicine, NanoBiomics' technologies will help enable lower cost diagnostic products to be produced and commercialized more broadly." Molecular Profiling will work closely with Dr. Frederic Zenhausern, Director of the Applied Nanobioscience Center at ASU's Biodesign Institute. "Dr. Zenhausern is a pion...Genetics center to launch new genetic-testing initiative
...ments a previous investment by the Trusts and will enable the Center to work with medical, governmental, business, and research communities to build consensus on how to ensure these diagnostic tools are safe, effective, and accurate. The Trusts has committed nearly $13 million to the Center since it was cre...Columbia University takes leading role in second phase of NIH protein structure initiative
...ator of one of the new centers. "This project will enable us to see thousands of proteins in the form in which they actually do their work." When the PSI established its pilot centers beginning in 2000, its goal was twofold: to develop innovative approaches and tools, such as robotic instruments, that strea......arch we are doing could lift these limitations and enable traditional crossing between lines so that breeders can produce wheat varieties that would thrive in the British climate but produce much higher yields." Professor Julia Goodfellow, Chief Executive of BBSRC, said, "Sustainable agriculture is a key ai...42 biomedical scientists worldwide named HHMI international research scholars
...ing a fully transmissible strain of T. brucei will enable her to monitor the parasite throughout its life cy...ts to identify and characterize the proteases that enable a family of parasitic protozoa called Apicomplexa to attach themselves to and actively invade host c...Scientists find evidence of catastrophic sand avalanches, sea level changes in Gulf of Mexico
...nts of changes in sediment and fluid properties to enable prediction of the mechanics of catastrophic underwater flows known as turbidity currents. These currents are akin to underwater avalanches and carry large amounts of sand and mud in suspension, sometimes for hundreds of miles, at speeds up to 70 mile...Researchers merge spatial and temporal structure within a metapopulation model
...abited by sawtooth grain beetles. This system will enable them to validate the model, refine methods for parameter estimation, and explore the limits of these persistence thresholds within a stochastic environment.......mix. This and other unique structural features may enable the algal carbonic anhydrase to be active in the presence of salt, though not dependent on it. In a surprise twist, the researchers discovered that one other known carbonic anhydrase - found in mouse kidney - sported a similar, salt-tolerant construc...Good connections are everything
...l of single neurons, but modern imaging techniques enable us to monitor coarse-grained patterns with a reduced spatial resolution. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, for example, scientists can obtain activity patterns of about 100,000 neuron clusters, each of which contains about one million neur...... harmful creatures on a genetic level, which could enable scientists to develop drugs or vaccines that will ...key to its reproductive success. The research will enable in-vitro specialists to select the most viable eggs for fertilization. Using the PolScope, a polari...Kentucky Geological Survey involved in global climate change research
...ng geologic storage sites. The data collected will enable investigators to distinguish natural changes in carbon dioxide concentrations from potential surface seeps that could occur when carbon dioxide is injected underground for storage. Other ongoing research at the Survey indicates natural gas production...Researchers identify gene's role in suppressing longevity
...ity for their use, in that eliminating SIRT1 could enable the production of large numbers of cells that are ...ly causes abnormal development. Such studies would enable them to determine whether turning off the gene eliminates senescence in wider range of cells. The st...Redesigned protein accelerates blood clotting
... lack of factor VIII, one of several proteins that enable blood to solidify, or clot, to plug wounds after injury. Current preventive treatment consists of genetically engineered factor VIII administered by injection, but one quarter of those born with no factor VIII suffer severe immune reactions that ren...Engineers create optoelectronic tweezers to round up cells, microparticles
...eers, and dubbed an "optoelectronic tweezer," will enable researchers to easily manipulate large numbers of single cells and particles using optical images projected onto a glass slide coated with photoconductive materials. "This is the first time a single light-emitting diode has been used to trap more tha...Researchers pinpoint genes that drive spread of breast cancer to lungs
... metastatic cancer. These genes are mediators that enable fragments of breast cancer tumors to take root in the lungs. The scientists are hopeful that their research will give clinicians a new set of molecular tools to test tumor biopsies for the activity of these specific genes. This, in turn, should help ...UT Southwestern researchers unravel control of growing blood vessels
...hat can stop smooth muscle cells from dividing and enable them to contract, but little is known about how this cascade of interactions works. The protein myocardin, discovered in Dr. Olson's lab in 2003, is known to bind to DNA and stimulate the expression of genes that control muscle contraction. How myoca...