New aerogels could clean contaminated water, purify hydrogen for fuel cells
...catalyst poison, he explained. The research team had not intended to create the aerogels, but their dis...nate, said Kanatzidis. Originally, the researchers had used surfactants to produce porous semiconducting powders instead of gels. When one of the researche...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
... interleukin-7 receptor (IL-7R), which researchers had thought was connected to the disease and now know ... A similar database, in both quantity and quality, had been developed at the University of Cambridge, in England. Both collections were used for both of th...Reading ability protects brain from lead exposure
...1th grade or lower. Even though the two groups had similar lead exposure, the cognitive effects of lead were 2.5 times greater in workers with low reading ability. In contrast, the effect of lead on motor speed was comparable in both groups as cognitive reserve does not apply to motor speed, said stu...Negative effects of plastic's additive blocked by nutrient supplements
...esity and cancer. The fact that the mice fed BPA had a yellow coat and likely would grow to be obese as adults demonstrates that this single substance had a system-wide effect, said Dana Dolinoy, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Randy Jirtl...Jan Lwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
...re of MreB, a prokaryotic actin-like protein which had been discovered by Jeff Errington. The structural ...derstanding of the cytoskeleton in bacteria, which had often been regarded as structureless bags of enzymes, explains Tony Crowther, former Joint Head of t...Injection drug use the most important risk factor for HIV and HCV infections among Quebec prisoners
...he HIV-positive men (68.8%) and women (59.1%) also had HCV infection. Interestingly, 20% of the HIV-posit... 40% of the HCV-positive inmates did not know they had these infections. More than 90% of the participants infected by either virus reported being injectio...Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
...s, Johnson says. The reef-building sponge species had their heyday 150 million years ago when ocean conditions allowed them to grown near the surface of the ocean. Their fossilized remains, for example, are found in outcrops that are hundreds of miles long on land throughout Europe, all sites that were ...Insulin grown in plants relieves diabetes in mice; UCF study holds promise for humans
... weeks. By the end of the study, the diabetic mice had normal blood and urine sugar levels, and their cells were producing normal levels of insulin. Those results and prior research indicate that insulin capsules could someday be used to prevent diabetes before symptoms appear and treat the disease in...Researchers find pathway that controls cell size and division
... a nutrient-rich environment. Basically, the cells had no way to tell the division apparatus to wait until theyve reached the size they should be. The cells would divide when they were still very short, said Levin. It was almost as if they were growing in really great media but they didnt know it. Kno...GI Caramba! Blue tortillas may help dieters and diabetics
...the taco, found that tortillas made from blue corn had less starch and a lower glycmic index than their w...ter parts. They also found that the blue tortillas had 20% more protein than white (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, DOI 10.1002/jsfa.3008)....New research identifies anti-viral protein that may predict who might be at risk to develop lupus
...ha. The researchers found that when an SLE patient had high blood levels, so did many of their healthy fi...f first degree relatives of patients with SLE that had high interferon-alpha levels, says Timothy Niewold, M.D., first author of the study and a former rhe...Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone
... graduate student in Ward's lab, Jessica Allewalt, had already grown a culture of mixed microbes from the...ays Bryant. "I wouldn't have been as excited if I had reached into that mat and pulled out a gold nugget the size of my fist!" He adds, "I am really grat...Report recommends off-site disposal of secondary waste
...s due to thousands of tons of secondary waste that had accumulated on-site. Current waste management at the facilities is regulated by state-issued permits that date back to before the construction of the facilities, when data concerning the quantities of wastes was scarce. While the permits have...Innovative research technique reveals another natural wonder in Yellowstone Park
...says Bryant. "I wouldn't have been as excited if I had reached into that mat and pulled out a gold nugget the size of my fist!" Yellowstone habitats have been explored since the 1960s for new organisms that may have important applications for biotechnology, pollution clean-ups (bioremediation), and med...Hepatitis C helicase unwinds DNA in a spring-loaded, 3-step process
...iscrete jumps: Three nucleotide pairs (base pairs) had to be unhitched from one another before an unwinding event occurred. Its like youre adding tension to a spring, said U. of I. physics professor Taekjip Ha, a researcher on the study and an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology and the Howa...Presence of wolves allows aspen recovery in Yellowstone
...h populations of grazing ungulates, primarily elk, had grazed on the small tree shoots at leisure and wit...aded ecosystems in the mid-1990s in Yellowstone, I had doubts we would ever be able to bring the aspen back, said Robert Beschta, a professor emeritus of f...U-M team identifies gene that regulates blood-forming fetal stem cells
...ildhood leukemias---and that's an idea that nobody had in their mind before this work," Morrison said. "If it's true, it'll give us a new target for cancer." The Sox17 results will be published online July 26 in the journal Cell. U-M's Injune Kim is lead author of the paper; Morrison and U-M's Thomas S...MicroRNA works with Ago2 protein to regulate blood cell development
...go2. Two months later, OCarroll observed that they had developed anemia and enlarged spleens, and noted that although the stem cells still gave rise to all blood cell types, the development of two of them was severely affected: B lymphocytes, which contribute to the production of antibodies, and red bloo...Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
... retrospective clinical data from 114 patients who had a patent false lumen when they were admitted to an IRAD hospital, 68 patients who had a partially thrombosed (clot-filled) false lumen, and 19 who had a complete thrombosed false lumen. ......id. The 17 research participants aged 18 to 26 who had their brain scans taken prior to participating in the pseudo second-language training were previously participants in two related studies published by Wong and his research team. The three studies have identified behavioral, neurophysiologic and, wit...