New method for identifying microbes
...letters long, so this is a more time-consuming and expensive task. But since ribosomal genes have been sequenced and cataloged from more than 100,000 bacterial species, this "ribotyping" technique makes use of a vast database for comparison. "If there's still no match," said van der Lelie, "then the tag probab...Disease damages wheat roots, thwarts water uptake
...cerned since we've had so much drought and it's so expensive toirrigate this year," Price said. "Water-use efficiency is going to bekey."...Resveratrol prolongs lifespan and delays onset of aging-related traits in a short-lived vertebrate
... hand, live more than two years and are relatively expensive to maintain, making large-scale, life-long pharmacological trials in mice unaffordable. Recently, a small fish species with a captive lifespan of only three months was described by Cellerino and colleagues. In the new work, the researchers used this ...Experts find better way to scrub milking hardware
...an alkaline and an acidic solution. "It is not as expensive as the detergents, and can be made with just a little bit of salt and water," says Demirci, whose findings are published in the December 2005 issue of Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. To test how the new cleaning agent ...Carbon nanotubes that detect disease-causing mutations developed by Pitt researcher
...e National Academy of Science. This method is less expensive and takes less time than conventional techniques. Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of graphite only a few nanometers wide-about the width of a molecule of DNA. The researchers used these nanotubes' electrical properties to find a particular muta...Crop development efforts get major boost
The long, arduous and expensive process of developing new crop varieties received a major boost this week with the joint launch in Mexico and the Philippines of a new scientific program and facilities that unite key databases and research on the planet's three most important crops,...ACS Chemistry Enterprise 2015 report predicts strong growth, expanding markets
...ve work at centers where they can obtain access to expensive yet essential infrastructure. Education and Institutional Structure . By 2015, university faculties will be more representative of the U.S. population in terms of gender and ethnicity. Graduate-student enrollment will lead to greater use of u...Report demonstrates safety of nuclear medicine procedures
...e unavailable, require surgery or necessitate more expensive diagnostic tests. Daily, about 55,000 women, men and children benefit from medical imaging technologies in this country. Nearly all hospitals, as well as many clinics and private doctors' offices, perform nuclear medicine tests and scans....Penguins waddle but they don't fall down, UH researchers say
...ion of sophisticated robots. Kurz said it is very expensive to construct a robot that can successfully adjust ...ot that mimics human walking patterns, have large, expensive and cumbersome computers built onto their "bodies" to keep them from tipping over when they walk and...BiovaxID produces long term clinical remission and 95 percent overall survival
... that, at some point in the battle against cancer, expensive cancer therapeutics need to start to provide cures. Because this disease is considered incurable with existing therapies we are particularly pleased with the reported rate of overall survival without tumor recurrence, which is the gold standard for c...HIV vaccine takes different tack to boosting immune response
...endence on antiretroviral drugs, many of which are expensive and require daily administration. "Conventional wisdom is that natural immune responses play an important but insufficient role in controlling HIV infection," said Chen. "Hopefully this therapeutic vaccine can boost the natural immune responses stron...UCF, NIH study: Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants
...ts." Current production of the vaccine involves an expensive fermentation process that can cause harmful side e...e administered orally and allow effective and less expensive treatments to be more accessible worldwide. He believes fruits and vegetables such as carrots and to...Engineered stem cells show promise for sneaking drugs into the brain
...ng symptoms of Parkinson's. But the drug, which is expensive and hard to obtain, had to be pumped directly into the brains of Parkinson's patients for it to work, as it is unable to cross the blood-brain barrier. In an effort to develop a less invasive strategy to effectively deliver the drug to the brain, Sve...Max Planck researchers win part of Descartes Research Prize 2005
...eme conditions in the universe. Because it is very expensive to produce and use equipment to examine these stars, researchers across the continent created the European Pulsar Network (EPN, also known as PULSE). It began with the development of a common format to bring together data from very different measurin...Moderate exercise may delay congestive heart failure, CU-Boulder study suggests
...diagnosed early with CHF could preclude the use of expensive drug therapies and their side effects until later in life, he said. The rats used in the study were bred over generations to carry a genetic blueprint causing spontaneously hypertensive heart failure, or SHHF. Rats and humans share a large number o...Plants, too, have ways to manage freeloaders
...ng bacteria do not always take up that strain - an expensive problem for farmers. "The most effective strain is not always best at competing for nodules," Simms said. "Is it the plant or the microbe that determines this? Have we bred out of crop plants the ability to choose their root bacteria?"...Molecule links Down syndrome to Alzheimer's
...sing overlying dementia is difficult to treat, and expensive to manage. Professor Declan Murphy, who led the research said: 'We have shown in this study that adults with Down syndrome have a significantly higher concentration of myo-inositol in the hippocampal region of their brains, and this increase is assoc...Low-level exercise delays heart failure, markedly extends lives, even with hypertension
...ing exercise early in the disease might leave more expensive options like drug therapies until later, thus avoiding their inevitable side-effects. At the same time, it's likely that even low-level exercise has the additional potential of an improved life style." Moore said the human equivalent of the exercise...What to sequence next: Pick one species at a time
...ation about biology. But genome sequencing remains expensive and time consuming, so scientists need a strategy to help them select the organisms that will give them the most new information. One solution is to sequence the most distantly related organisms, to get the widest possible diversity of sequences. Bio...Highlights from the December Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...Although fruits and vegetables can be a relatively expensive source of dietary energy, they provide key nutrients at a reasonable cost, according to researchers at the University of Washington. A scoring system was used to estimate the nutritional adequacy of vegetables and fruits on a per weight, per calorie ...