MBL scientists embark on international effort to uncover microbial diversity in world's oceans
...illiliter of seawater and one billion bacteria per gram of sediment, this plan to develop a database on marine microbes linked to genomic and other data is an extremely critical and timely venture," said Sogin. ICoMM joins a dozen other Census of Marine Life (CoML) research projects currently underway...Less fat makes better process for designing new drugs
...hat offer surface area for chemical reactions. One gram of the stuff has more surface area than a football field. The sponge method, called "cubic phase," or "in meso," crystallization, has been around since the 1990s. But because most proteins are difficult to crystallize, scientists have only been...Scientists develop split green for tagging protein
...oteins down to 0.1 picomole, or one billionth of a gram of a typical protein molecule. Because the method can be used to detect protein aggregation within the living organisms, it will be useful for high-throughput studies of protein structure and protein production and for studying diseases, like Alzheim...Want to petrify wood without waiting a few million years? Try this
...plant matter provide enormous surfaces--in wood, 1 gram of material flattened out would cover a football field--that may prove useful in industrial chemical separations or filtering pollutants from gaseous effluents. The acid-leaching method yields an identical, positive reproduction of the wood. If Shin ...Promising anti-TB compound finally can be synthesized with ease
..., requires fewer steps and is capable of producing gram quantities. The UB chemists describe the direct synthesis in the laboratory of the natural product isolated from the Pseudopterogorgia corals. They now are applying the synthesis method to other members of this class of compounds calle...Chemical analysis of mushrooms shows their nutritional benefits
...gosaccharide concentration of 5,272 micrograms per gram (ug/g). Also found to have more than 1,000 ug/g were raw, mature portabellas and cooked, immature crimini. None were detected in enokis, maitakes or shiitakes. Most of the total oligosaccharides were in the form of glucooligosaccharides, but fructool...Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects
...dio transmitters -- each weighing less than half a gram -- to the backs of Mormon crickets in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado, Drs. Gregory A. Sword, Patrick D. Lorch and Darryl T. Gwynne showed experimentally that band formation indeed boosted insect survival. Sword is a research ecologist wi...Whale bones and farm soil: Sequencing biodiversity
... organism, why not sequence a drop of sea water, a gram of farm soil or even a sunken whale skeleton? Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and their US collaborators have done just that, and the result is a new appreciation for the rich diversity of life that exists...Molecular miners find pain relief drugs from the sea
...ng used by Metabolic Pharmaceuticals to synthesise gram amounts of ACV1 needed for the planned human clinical trials for diabetic neuropathy. "With an increasing age demographic in our society the need for more effective pain suppressing compounds is a priority. ACV1 may fill this unmet need," Associate ...Regulating cell shape in mycobacteria
...of related signaling molecules in a broad range of gram positive bacteria suggests that this mechanism may be widely conserved among bacteria."...Hamill Foundation funds innovation program at Rice
...ompound, the cost of resveratrol -- about $400 per gram -- could limit medicinal applications. Bennett and San hope to develop a cheaper way to make the compound by combing genetic sequences from various organisms to form resveratrol-making gene clusters in bioengineered bacteria....Method slashes quantum dot costs by 80 percent
..." Quantum dots typically cost more than $2,000 per gram from commercial sources, and pricey solvents like octadecene, or ODE - the least expensive solvent used in quantum dot preparation today - account for about 90 percent costs of raw materials. Heat-transfer fluids - stable, heat-resistant oils that ar...Leading lampreys to slaughter: Pheromone for scourge of Great Lakes identified
...otency so great that lampreys would smell a single gram dissolved in 10 billion liters of water, enough to fill 5,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. This level of potency tops that of all other fish attractants, including those of salmon. To find the pheromone, the researchers extracted 8,000 liters of wa...Pillows - a hot bed of fungal spores
...d identified several thousand spores of fungus per gram of used pillow - more than a million spores per pillow. Fungal contamination of bedding was first studied in 1936, but there have been no reports in the last seventy years. For this new study, which was published online today in the scientific jour...Based on body size, bacteria and elephants have similar metabolism, ecologists find
...close organisms, such as mammals. For example, one gram of an elephant's body uses up 25 times less energy than does one gram of a shrew's body, accounting for why shrews have to eat more often than elephants. On the other han...Crystal sponges excel at sopping up CO2
...cture designed to maximize surface area. Just one gram of a MOF, in fact, has the surface area of a football field. By modifying the rods in various ways, Yaghi and his team have been able to increase the material's storage capacity, making it possible to stuff more gas molecules into a small area withou...... a new group of AIDS drugs. One million euros per gram 'Dicaffeoyl quinic acid can prevent the HI virus from reproducing, at least in cell cultures,' explains Claudio Cerboncini, who is now working at the caesar research centre. 'It is one of the few substances known today which inhibit viral integrase...Study demonstrates rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infections with biosensor technology
...uidics to identify correctly the infection-causing gram negative bacteria species in 98 percent of the tested clinical urinary tract infection urine samples. These results represent the first ever species-specific detection of bacteria in human clinical fluid samples using a microfabricated electrochemica...New method for identifying microbes
...f species per milliliter of water or thousands per gram of soil," said Brookhaven biologist Daniel (Niels) van der Lelie, lead author of the study. "Elucidating this complexity is essential if we want to fully understand the roles microbes play in global cycles, make use of their enormous metabolic capabi...Chemists report progress in quest to use hydrogen as fuel for cars and electronic devices
...hly porous to increase their storage capacity; one gram of a MOF has the surface area of a football field! Yaghi's laboratory has made more than 500 MOFs, with a variety of properties and structures. "We have achieved 7.5 percent hydrogen; we want to achieve this percent at ambient temperatures," said Yag...