American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...office buildings, and refineries, it just might be feasible for a consumer to walk into Home Depot someday and buy a device that today only a scientist or quality control expert would want to have, the article concludes. ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, August 15, 2007In hot pursuit: Instrume...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
...y of generating embryos and that it may someday be feasible to generate patient-specific pES cells from females. If careful genetic and functional analysis of tissues derived from human pES cells show them to be safe and effective, then pES cells might represent a favorable source for tissue replacement thera...Discredited Korean embryonic stem cells' true origins revealed
...ystem. The team recently demonstrated in mice a feasible technique for generating parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells that were genetically matched to the egg donor at the genes that control tissue typing, and are attempting to create similar cells from humans. (see http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsr...Report recommends off-site disposal of secondary waste
WASHINGTON -- It is both technically feasible and advantageous for the U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) to use off-site facilities to dispose of secondary waste during regular chemical agent disposal operations, says a new report from the National Research Council. The committee that...Smithsonian's National Zoo researchers use electronic eggs to help save threatened species
...eggs for smaller species should be technologically feasible in the future. Kori bustards, native to eastern and southern Africa, are the heaviest birds capable of flight, with males reaching up to 40 pounds; still, they are primarily ground-dwelling birds, inhabiting grasslands and feeding on an omnivorous ...Call for EU to launch major project to map out all our proteins
... Science Foundation (ESF) concluded that it is now feasible to map at least nearly the whole proteome (the sum total of all proteins) of an organism. Such an extensive map will be an essential base for the development and eventually the widespread application of a new generation of proteomics technologies tha...Faster-acting antidepressants closer to becoming a reality
...ed depressive behaviors, suggesting that it may be feasible to develop other fast-acting antidepressants without ketamines side effects. Todays antidepressant medications eventually end up doing the same thing, but they go about it the long way around, with a lot of biochemical steps that take time. Now w...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
... gas. The study shows that the new method makes it feasible to conduct shaftless coal gasification in a more economical fashion, they report. ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Experimental Study of Shaftless Underground Gasification in Thin High-Angle Coal Seams DOWMLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sam...ACMG recognizes progress made in newborn screening
.... Advances in technology have made it possible and feasible to test newborns for a number of serious or deadly diseases, which can then be treated. With the current expansion of newborn screening panels, it is estimated that about 10,000 of the 4.1 million babies born each year in the United States will be id...MIT, BU team builds viruses to combat harmful 'biofilms'
...nt enzymes. Creating such a library may soon be feasible with new technologies for synthesizing genes quickly and cheaply. We hope in a few years, it will be easy to create libraries of phage that we know have a good chance of working a priori because we know so much about their inner-workings, says Lu. ...UF scientists work to develop simple bladder cancer test
...tine screening of patients with urological disease feasible in the future, said Nicholas C. Popescu, chief of the molecular cytogenetics section at the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis. In addition, interactions among specific proteins could lead to the development of effe...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...n moisture and mold control. While it is not yet feasible to develop standards and regulations for acceptable mold levels in the home, guidelines and policies can be developed at the federal, state, and local levels to control moisture and mold in homes, the report states. ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...Cord blood may preserve insulin levels in children with type 1 diabetes
...rida researchers sought to determine whether it is feasible to use a patients own cord blood stem cells to neutralize the bodys autoimmune attack on the pancreas and help restore the organs ability to make insulin, which regulates how the body uses sugar and other nutrients for energy. This is the first att...Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs
...esses. But nobody has been able to come up with a feasible way of doing that." Dr. Romaine and his colleague, Xi Chen, then a post-doctoral scholar at Penn State and now a Syngenta Biotechnology Inc. research scientist, have developed a technique to genetically modify Agaricus bisporus -- the button varie...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...us immunization with C. difficile toxin A may be a feasible immunization strategy against C. difficile, an important cause of morbidity and mortality against which current preventative strategies are failing, say the researchers. (C. Ghose, A. Kalsy, A. Sheikh, J. Rollenhagen, M. John, J. Young, S.M. Rollin...5.9 million award gives UK aging research a new lease on life
...his field. It is both desirable and, in principal, feasible to ensure that the UK develops and maintains world-class research into the biology of ageing." Professor Partridge and colleagues will look at the cellular and biochemical mechanisms of ageing in fruit flies, nematode worms and mice, and in particu...Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
...Energy efficiency and renewable energy are already feasible today and also can define the long-term energy picture, he said. ''[Carbon dioxide] sequestration, on the other hand, is only a bridge technology,'' he added. ''Maybe we have another hundred years of using fossil fuels, and then we'll be on to bett...Los Alamos National Laboratory making progress in Groundwater Protection Program
.... "Our committee believes that it is technically feasible to monitor groundwater at the site," said Larry W. Lake, W.A. Moncrief Centennial Endowed Chair in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, and chair of the committee that wrote the report. "However, determining the efficac...Better chemistry through living models
...point to new materials that render it economically feasible to produce energy from hydrogen fuel cells. This is a basic research project, but one that we hope will provide new knowledge that will be pertinent to the production of hydrogen or oxidation of hydrogen in fuel cells, said Morris Bullock, co-lead...Ethanol injection helps manage bone metastasis in thyroid cancer patients
...ide effects," noted Nakada. "In addition, PEI is a feasible treatment for radioiodine-ineffective tumors and has a potential for improving general performance or quality of life for selected patients," he added. Additional research should be done to optimize treatment, said Nakada, including determining dos...