Helping chlorine-eating bacteria clean up toxic waste
...d enough answers, because the bacteria are hard to grow in a petri dish, said Ruth Richardson, Cornell assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, who is following up on Gossett's and Zinder's work, in continued collaboration with them. She is partnering with Gene Network Sciences (GNS),...On-farm research shows farmers that they can use less nitrogen
...ess manure is required to fertilize those lands to grow corn. Coller has reconfigured applications to better distribute the farm's manure resources to other fields. In New York state, some 460,000 acres produced 8.28 million tons of silage in 2006. Nitrogen fertilizer is growing increasingly expensive (...New tumor markers -- 'Spot the differences'
...rders (messages) are the ones that make the cancer grow and invade and which weapons (proteins) it uses to...ome of the orders that allow pancreatic tumours to grow quickly, feed and invade other tissues. Additionally, these messages and the proteins for which they...Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height
...ible to create an elm tree which ordinarily would grow to 100 feet or more that is only five feet tall a...ists were able to create young poplar trees, which grow rapidly and can reach a mature height of 150 feet or more, that were anywhere from about 15 feet to ...Children born after PGD as healthy as those born after conventional IVF treatment
...e carrying out further follow-up as these children grow older. But we feel that results to date are reassuring; it is good to know that a procedure that can offer patients hope of having a baby unaffected by serious disease is also safe in the longer-term....454 sequencing identifies HIV drug resistance at early stage
...iss many low-level resistant HIV strains which can grow rapidly under drug selection pressure and lead to therapy failure. This retrospective study clearly shows that even resistance mutations present at the 1% level lead to premature failure of therapy explained Michael Kozal, M.D. the senior author on ...Ultra deep sequencing identifies HIV drug resistance at early stage
...miss many low-level resistant HIV strains that can grow rapidly under drug selection pressure and lead to therapy failure. This study clearly shows that resistance HIV strains present at the one percent level can lead to premature failure of therapy, said Kozal. It is our hope that in the future, clini...Small, self-controlled planes combine plant pathology and engineering
...es, researchers can ensure that only Fusarium will grow on the plates. Over the course of 75 different UAV-sampling flights above agricultural fiends at Virginia Techs Kentland Farm, Schmale and his colleagues collected more than 500 viable colonies of Fusarium, representing at least a dozen species. Fo...Human activities increasing carbon sequestration in forests
...system initially, and then the forest continues to grow and remove carbon from the atmosphere for the rest of the management or life cycle, accumulating wood at a high rate on the small additional nitrogen inputs. This growth and sequestration is achieved without applications of fertilizer that would l...Genomatix expands operations in North America
...ook forward to seeing our North American user base grow rapidly. Ann Arbor is also the home of the first ...data becoming available for analysis. We expect to grow our business here dramatically over the next 3 years and look forward to working closely with the Mu......erate teeth, mouse incisors contain stem cells and grow continuously throughout life. Using a combination of mouse mutant analyses, organ culture experiments, and gene expression studies, Xiu-Ping Wang and colleagues identify the key signaling molecules that regulate epithelial stem cell proliferation in ...Now playing -- Cell migration LIVE!
...lture medium that gave the fly eggs the ability to grow outside ovaries. The list of ingredients included acidity , and a little bit of insulin. Because many border cell proteins in flies have counterparts in humans, Montells studies should translate to a better understanding of clinically useful cell ......tists have discovered a gene that allows plants to grow better in low nutrient conditionsand even enhance their growth through sodium uptake, according to a report published onlinethis week in The EMBO Journal. Salty soil caused by irrigation practices in arid regions has become a majoragricultural prob...Talcum powder stunts growth of lung tumors
...and choking off its growth. The tumors appeared to grow much slower and in some cases completely disappear...t suicide. All of these make it hard for tumors to grow and spread into healthy lung tissue. When endostatin was first discovered in 1997, doctors hoped i...New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
...is one of the few in the world able to isolate and grow human Bartonella species, and culture of the new organism made study of the DNA much easier. Also collaborating on the research were scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School and the Centers for Disease Control and...UC Irvine awarded $3.9 million to upgrade stem cell research facilities, training
...nd training for scientists and technical staff who grow and maintain these cells. All grants are subject to review and revision by CIRM. We are honored to be chosen for this funding, which will allow us to enhance our already top-notch facility and popular training course, said Peter Donovan, co-directo...New screening method to help find better biofuel crops
...Miscanthus (a subtropical perennial grass that can grow 13 feet high), corn, and poplar and willow trees. Lignin interferes with enzymatic conversion of polysaccharides to ethanol, so Smith will use the imaging to help select plant stocks that have low lignin content. We hope to find out if lignin cont...Research identifies protein that signals flowering in squash plants
...o flower. These are plants that flower as the days grow shorter, such as in the fall in temperate regions. Long day (LD) plants will flower when nights are short (and days are long), and typically flower in late spring or early summer. SD crops include rice and maize, and LD crops include wheat, barley, o...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 23, 2007
... indicating fecal contamination can accumulate and grow in beach sand. "These results indicate that E. coli originating from several sources may survive and potentially replicate in sand and sediment, possibly increasing fecal counts found on beaches," the report states. The researchers point out that w...Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin
...y help cure type 1 diabetes by allowing people to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or...extract stem cells from an individuals blood, then grow them in the laboratory to large numbers and tweak them so that they are directed to create a needed ...