American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...s electronic noses and electronic tongues, require expensive equipment, are time consuming and involve complicated analyses. In the study, they describe development of a polymer material that raises a red flag, changing color in the presence biogenic amines, compounds produced by the bacterial decay of food ...New system of wastewater treatment could reduce the size of treatment plants by half
...er purifier, and its building would involve a less expensive construction. Installation is therefore much cheaper than installation of plants with tertiary treatment, and it also makes it possible to use the water immediately after it has been biologically treated. ...Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
...tgomery said. He noted that as oil becomes more expensive and less available, it will be even more important to preserve soil fertility through methods such as no-till farming, which requires less fertilizer and many fewer passes with a tractor. No-till farming can build soil fertility even with intensiv......t until now the technology has been considered too expensive to compete. However, recent increases in grain prices mean that production costs are now similar for grain ethanol and second generation biofuels, according to a paper published in the first edition of Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining. The switc...Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
...It's like looking at an overcrowded aquarium in an expensive Japanese restaurant," he says. The Washington sponge reefs are each hundreds of feet in length and width. It's possible that the state has reefs comparable to the Canadian reefs that are miles in length, Johnson says. The glass sponge reefs on the ...... between methanol and hydrogen peroxide. While too expensive to replace the vast quantities of steam used routinely by industry, a reaction chamber the size of a sugar cube can pump steam at a rate of 7L/minute at temperatures up to 800 C. The first application is likely to be a GumBuster backpack for remov...Using stem cells to help heart attack victims
...s. However, they are difficult, time-consuming and expensive to grow in the lab. "Our understanding of how to convert them into cardiomyocytes is poor. At the moment we only know how to produce a few million cardiomyocytes, but to treat just one heart attack patient, we may need one billion that all function...System to analyze beating heart stem cells could lead to heart attack treatments
...s. However, they are difficult, time-consuming and expensive to grow in the lab, Dr Denning explains. Our understanding of how to convert them into cardiomyocytes is poor. At the moment we only know how to produce a few million cardiomyocytes, but to treat just one heart attack patient, we may need one billion...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 18, 2007
...ly react with the material being sanded or are too expensive for practical use. But today, computer programs can take the guesswork out of making sandpaper by modeling how an abrasive will perform, while the electron microscope has been used to optimize the structure of the tiniest abrasives. With the devel...Jefferson scientist's patent dramatically improves
... called electrophoresis five times faster and less expensive than now is possible. It could save millions of do...oice, he says, because the standard method is more expensive and takes longer. This solution that we found is literally a better, faster way of doing it. Accor...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
...into gas. Building those gasification galleries is expensive and has made underground coal gasification unattractive economically In the study, researchers report development and successful field-tests in a coal mine in Jiangsu Province of a new method that overcomes a major obstacle to shaftless underground......re being slowed down by current time-consuming and expensive methods of screening for resistant plants. Now, researchers believe they have found a shortcut for screening resistant soybean crops. Researchers at the University of Georgia report the discovery of several molecular markers that will help soybean ...Tomorrow's green nanofactories
...iconductor or battery manufacturing which requires expensive and toxic chemicals, Belchers nanofactories generate little waste, grow at room temperature, and promise to be inexpensive and largely biodegradable. Does all this sound too good to be true" Judge for yourself. Listen to an interview with Dr. Belc...'Virtual' mouse brains now available online
...y of an entire brain, which would be prohibitively expensive using conventional methods. The Duke center has pioneered the development of MRI microscopy to image the micro-anatomies of small biological specimens. The NeuroImage study describes the ways his group have devised to manipulate the signals to ach...New way to target and kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria found
... deadly infections that are difficult to treat and expensive to cure. Every time someone takes an antibiotic, the drug kills the weakest bacteria in the bloodstream. Any bug that has a protective mutation against the antibiotic survives. These drug-resistant microbes quickly accumulate useful mutations and ...Manganese levels increase in scrapie-infected sheep before clinical symptoms develop
... the mass spectrometry we use to measure levels is expensive and labour intensive. The research builds on the 2002 discovery that mice infected with scrapie have higher levels of manganese. This is the first time that tissue from farm animals infected with prion diseases have been studied in this way. One ...New method for reading DNA sheds light on basis of cell identity
...ractice, though, the technique has proven slow and expensive to construct genome-wide maps of mammalian chromatin. But now, a new method of massively parallel DNA sequencing has given rise to a powerful approach for readily churning out whole-genome maps of chromatin structure. The technology based on single-...Military bases can benefit by addressing sprawl issues and biodiversity
...ped land has passed, it will be very difficult and expensive to buffer these bases....Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs
...A mushroom-based biofactory also would not require expensive infrastructure set up by major drug companies, he added.......testing for apoB48 may become more common and less expensive as people realize how important it is in determining CVD risk. And while Proctor and his colleagues believe chylomicrons contribute significantly to the development of CVD, they feel more tests need to be done to find out why. They currently don't ...