Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
... without having to establish new collaborations or going back to school, have a well-supported tool to do t...describe these systems have a lot in common. We're going to create a package that can simulate everything from proteins folding to human movement." Mathemat...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
... "It's been great fun working on a project that is going to lead to a fundamental change in clothing," said Veronika, who has experience of designing for both the high street and London Fashion Week, and has been working on the project part-time for three years. "It's up to me to work with the new...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
... "It's been great fun working on a project that is going to lead to a fundamental change in clothing," said Veronika, who has experience of designing for both the high street and London Fashion Week, and has been working on the project part-time for three years. "It's up to me to work with the new material...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
.... "We know now that most diseases involve proteins going wrong in one of two ways," said lead researcher Cecilia Clementi, assistant professor of chemistry at Rice University. "In the first, proteins don't function correctly because they fold into the wrong shape. This is something we see in sickle-cell an...MIT: Recycling of scrapped electronics studied
...eir customers, 'Virtually none of your material is going to landfill.' While we recognize that that's impor...use in manufacturing components than for materials going into a roadbed," said Kirchain. They also used two value-based metrics--value retention and va...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
... gives scientists a clearer idea of what is really going wrong in tumors and thus points to possible treatments. The researchers already used their system to identify previously unrecognized immune system genes that are deleted in breast cancer cells, suggesting possible ways in which these aberrant cells ...Australian expertise helps resurrect Iraq's ancient marshlands
...nding a whole range of new minerals, new processes going on in the system quite seriously I'm overwhelmed by it all," Dr Fitzpatrick says. "New criteria, based on properties defined in this study, will need to be submitted to the international bodies. We have discovered new soil types." Dr Fitzpatrick is ...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...n says. "Any catalase derived from a mammal is not going to be stable at extreme conditions." The INEEL team isolated the catalase enzyme from T. brockianus and found its industrial half-life to be 15 days instead of the 15 seconds of other catalase enzymes -- an 86,000-fold improvement. Scientists use an ...Identifying genes that contribute to a low level of response to alcohol
...bably impact their expectations of what alcohol is going to do for them." "Different people have a different initial response to alcohol, also known as level of sensitivity," said David Goldman, chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. "Some peopl...Biomedical engineers at case develop first sliver-sized sensor to monitor glucose levels
...is advantageous because no electrical currents are going through the body. Gratzl says lab testing and in ...sting of the sensor in laboratory animals has been going well. He also reports the sliver sensor could be ready for human testing within six months. "So far,...Dr. Harris receives NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
...ices translates to an intact animal brain. "We are going to work across a timeframe, after induction of long-term potentiation, and find out when the different molecules change, whether the synapses remain enlarged, start to fall off, fall off with LTP or something else." Dr. Cliff Abraham, neuroscient...Gene for Joubert syndrom with excessive brain folds discovered by UCSD researchers and Harvard team
...we think that the genes causing this condition are going to underlie more common childhood brain and behavioral abnormalities, such as autism, mental retardation, and poor coordination" said the UCSD paper's senior author, Joseph Gleeson, M.D., assistant professor of neurosciences at UCSD and Children's Ho...Mouse study: 'Critical' Down syndrome region isn't
...seen in Down syndrome," says Reeves. "If anyone is going to try to treat the problems seen in Down syndrome, we need to understand what is really happening and when in development it happens. "Until very recently, we wouldn't have even thought it possible to 'treat' Down syndrome problems," he adds. "The t...UF scientist: 'Brain' in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer
...ere that will tell you that the computation that's going on here isn't based on just one neuron. The computational property is actually an emergent property of hundreds or thousands of neurons cooperating to produce the amazing processing power of the brain." With Jose Principe, a UF distinguished profes...Cars, not crops, should be chief targets in reducing greenhouse gases
...lection, he said, "the climate change issue is not going to go away. The international community is going to make sure that it doesn't go away. This country is going to have to come up with solutions, and o...Stimulating nerve cells with laser precision
...ical Surgery Anita Mahadevan-Jansen. "Much work is going on around the world trying to make electric nerve stimulation better, but the technique is inherently limited. Using lasers instead, we can simultaneously excite and record the responses of nerve fibers with much greater precision, accuracy and effec...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...art of a round of NIH funding totaling $38 million going to several research teams to spur the development ...oulder as it does its job," Williams said. "We are going to use this little biomechanical marvel to report back on sequences." The technique's high speed an...Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
... more samples you collect, the more likely you are going to get all of the preservable organisms that lived in an area in a particular time period." For her research, she used outcrops that have already been chronologically mapped. Barbour Wood is studying the ancestors of today's marine clams and snails. ...Study reveals genetic link to colon cancer
...reased risk of developing the disease. "This is going to contribute to new knowledge of colon cancer and it may impact who goes for testing," said Dr. Gallinger, a researcher and surgeon. He is also a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. The study suggests this information to be used in...UNC Lineberger researchers identify molecular markers of aging
... "Our results suggest that going on a short-term diet will not reverse the aging process; only long-term restrictions appeared to have an effect on p16INK4a and ARF expression. Therefore, our results would not be consistent with the idea that short-term caloric restriction prior to ...