American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
... Those materials might, for instance, become a new generation of imaging agents that pinpoint the location of diseased tissue in the body. However, the question of whether these nanomaterials are toxic to living cells or organisms has not been fully answered, the researchers explain. The scientists used labor...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...hem dividing. Dekkers work is aiming towards a new generation of drugs that target cancer cells much more specifically than traditional chemotherapy, avoiding side effects such as temporary hair loss. Dekker is focusing on an enzyme called Topoisomerase IB that plays a key role in some of the molecular motors ...Gilbert Foundation and American Fed for Aging Research award grants on Alzheimer's disease
...ng Research. Through their contribution, the next generation of scientists will continue the progress made in Alzheimers research allowing us to get one step closer to preventing or curing the disease, he added. The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation has invested in an outstanding group of U.S. and Is...Second generation biorefineries those making biofuel from lignocell...costs are now similar for grain ethanol and second generation biofuels, according to a paper published in the first edition of Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining...Innovative tagging technique may help researchers better protect fish stocks
...nature within the ear bones (otoliths) of the next generation of fish. Researchers can then track the dispersal of the tagged larvae across reefs and large stretches of open ocean. This chemical tagging approach has been successfully tested in limited studies with clownfish and butterflyfish. Now, Thorrold an...Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
... by GE and OneWireless by Honeywellrepresent a new generation of wireless technology that taps industry-standard approaches to radio frequency identification, or RFID, and wireless sensors for advanced monitoring of manufacturing equipment to more accurately determine maintenance needs for the systems and antic...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
...ery implies that culture conditions during ES cell generation -- which have yet to be identified -- can influence the developmental properties of human ES cells. The report, which was published August 6, 2007, in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also describes a n...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
...2010 goal, and will enable the development of next generation clinical methods that will be needed to accurately measure blood lead levels in children as progress is made toward eliminating lead exposure. In addition to lead, levels two through four of SRM 955c contain added amounts of arsenic, cadmium, mercu...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...pean science, contributing to building up the next generation of leading European researchers. String theory was developed in an attempt to bring together the physics of the big and the small, represented respectively by general relativity and quantum mechanics. It replaces the idea of elementary particles occu...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...her orders. The two remaining categories were the generation of new kinds of errors and changes in the hospital...ondents assigned to power structure shifts and the generation of new kinds of errors, the authors cautioned that the survey methodology could have produced biases...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
...are still significant obstacles to overcome in the generation of pES cells, parthenogenesis is an efficient way 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 t......e and other genes identified in the study. A new generation of anthrax drugs is needed because antibiotics given now to people exposed to anthrax spores, though they work, cause serious gastrointestinal effects during the 60 days people need to take them. Many people do not complete the full course of treatme...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...ng to enhance the whole effort to develop the next generation of DNA sequencing and analysis technologies. "The different approaches will likely result in several successful and complementary technologies. We will monitor carefully to see how each technology progresses and which of them can ultimately be use...2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...pean science, contributing to building up the next generation of leading European researchers. The First Call of the scheme was launched in September 2003, and the first three Calls have resulted in 75 awards. Candidates are selected by a two-stage process, firstly at the national level by the relevant Particip...Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
...unter-intuitive argument that learning within each generation could guide evolution of innate behaviour over future generations. It now seems that Baldwin may have been more right than he could have guessed, even though concepts such as artificial neural networks and distributed representations were not known i...Gene expression pattern could lead to improved treatment of pediatric septic shock
...al power of genomic medicine for discovery and the generation of novel hypotheses. We are ultimately interested in determining whether or not there are biologically significant gene expression profiles that distinguish survivors from non-survivors. The rationale is to discover novel biomarkers of poor outcome a...FDA sees nanotech challenges in every product category it regulates
...pected in the next 5-10 years. Many of the first generation of nanotechnology products now on the market are in sectors where FDAs statutory authority is weakestareas like cosmetics and dietary supplements, stated Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Chief Science Advisor Andrew Maynard. The Task Force report...Call for EU to launch major project to map out all our proteins
...and eventually the widespread application of a new generation of proteomics technologies that are faster, more sensitive and more reliable than the present methods. These technologies, in turn, thanks to their improved performance could greatly improve understanding of many diseases and lead to new therapies, a...Faster-acting antidepressants closer to becoming a reality
...ng to some very real possibilities for a whole new generation of antidepressant medications....New joint replacement material developed at MGH put to first clinical use
...the new material resists wear as well as the first generation and is much stronger. Vitamin-E-stabilized, highly crosslinked polyethylene has also received FDA approval for use in joint implants and has been licensed to both Zimmer and to Biomet, Inc., which made the implant used in the first surgical procedur...