32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
... reconfigurable embedded debug logic to detect and fix design errors after fabrication, enabling reduced design cycle time, bypassing manufacturing defects, and improving yields. Gemini Life Sciences, Inc. (Sugar City, Idaho) Biotechnology for Conferring Apomixis (Clonal Seed Production) to CropsD...Research out this week helps us understand basics of how neurons communicate
...a broken car. When something goes wrong, you can't fix it if you don't know how it works."...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...stem of ports lets workers test and sometimes even fix sensors without hauling equipment to the surface. And off-the-shelf components keep the cost of building and maintaining a GEOPS unit low. Scientists can use GEOPS in a variety of landfill types, with soil that is either saturated by groundwater or ...Chimpanzee brains are asymmetrical in key areas and their handedness reflects it
...lect asymmetries, may help scientists get a better fix on the evolution of the limbic system in all primates, including humans. Says Hopkins, "The limbic system asymmetries advance the position that asymmetries are fundamental aspects of the nervous system of all primates, and apply to more primitiv...Study urges caution in contaminant source tracking
...and officials naturally want to find the cause and fix it -- quickly. But several testing methods using E. coli to identify the sources of fecal contamination were less accurate in field application than previously reported, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report published in the jou...First analysis of chicken genome offers many new insights
...ys that allow scientists to use it to get a better fix on the human version of the gene. "For every human gene, there's a gene in another species that's going to be most helpful in understanding the human version," Wilson explains. "For some human genes, we might be able to learn more by loo...Cells don festive holiday colors
...tations," said Tsien. "In the process of trying to fix these characteristics, we also discovered more colors," he said. Further adjustments to the genes pushed the fluorescence of some of the proteins to longer wavelengths, filling in gaps in the spectrum of colors, said Tsien. In the Nature Biotechnolog...Immune system contributes to evolution of a new fluorescent protein
...ists to see whether any of them could accidentally fix it. They could eventually fix it, but what we were trying to do was take, say, one Shakespearean play and see if we could mutate i...Timing is everything: First step in protein building revealed
...bosome works, perhaps we can harness it to help us fix disease." Already, scientists knew that without eIF1, the ribosome can start reading the gene's RNA instructions at places other than a particular three-block piece of RNA known as the "start codon." And excessive amounts of eIF1 are associated with ...Recognizing new aneurysm syndrome can save lives
...ight be," says Dietz, "but we know that surgery to fix the aneurysm works if patients are identified in time." Sadly, one patient who came to the clinic with widely spaced eyes and aortic aneurysm died just a week after being evaluated. At the time of her death, her aneurysm had measured just 4 centimete...Drought reduces nitrogen-fixing in legumes
...the bacteroid and the capacity of the bacteroid to fix nitrogen thus affected. Perception of water stress Wishing to investigate the process of perception and transduction of water stress that leads to the inhibition of nitrogen-fixing, Mara Dolores Glvez also studied abscisic acid and species of activ...Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves
...eath structure, filamentous growth, the ability to fix nitrogen, thermophily (love of heat), motility and the use of sulfide as an electron donor. "We will need lots of analyses of the micro-fossil record by serious paleobiologists to see how sound this hypothesis is," Blank said. "This time frame is o...Scientists propose new approach to estimating global ocean productivity
...nt absorbing all that light if you can't use it to fix more carbon. So being able to assess how much chlorophyll there is per unit of carbon is key to saying how fast these guys are growing, fixing carbon, producing oxygen and all the rest," says Boss. In place of chlorophyll, the new method substitutes...Secrets of whales' long-distance songs are being unveiled
...orth Atlantic. If he hears a whale singing, he can fix its location and position it in space and time and observe animals that are many tens of miles apart -- cohorts of humpback singers moving coherently -- and watch the collective migration of species in large portions of the ocean basin. "So if I am a...... of the world. If he hears a whale singing, he can fix its location and position it in space and time and observe multiple animals that are 100s of miles apartcohorts of humpback singers moving coherently and watch the collective migration of species over large portions of an ocean basin. So if I am a wh...Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies
...ly to signals from both rhizobia, the friends that fix nitrogen for the plant, and root-knot nematodes, the parasitic foes that want to harm the plant. Signals from both outsiders induce rapid changes in distribution of the plant's cytoskeleton, which is part of a pathway that leads to a series of growth...NJIT researcher creates opportunities for studying chiral ionic liquids
...lated compounds were used by Bronze Age weavers to fix the dyes in their fabrics. In the twenty-first century, such solvents are basic constituents of products as commonplace as paint remover, and they are critical in many complex industrial processes. When employed as media for promoting organic synth...Fasting intermittently reduces cell proliferation, a marker for cancer risk, study finds
... multiple mutations. "Normally, a cell will try to fix any damage that has occurred to its DNA," said Hel...ein, "But, if it divides before it has a chance to fix the damage, then that damage becomes memorialized as a mutation in the offspring cells. Slowing down...Researchers pioneer new gene therapy technique using natural repair process
...ct the defect in a small number of immune cells to fix the problem," said Dr. Porteus, assistant professo...utions to the gene therapy technique. "That we can fix mutations in human immune cells makes us very optimistic that this therapy will work in several othe......an transplantation to survive, both of which don't fix the problem." Associate Professor Little's research has long focused on developing new treatments through understanding kidney development and the causes of renal disease. Little chairs the Renal Regeneration Consortium, a research team of 12 nationa...