History-hunting geneticists can still follow familiar trail
...NA, because DNA contains a species' blueprints for manufacturing protein -- and the French scientists agreed that protein diversity did correlate with population size. All that remained for UF researchers to do to reinstate mtDNA diversity as indicative of population size was to determine that protein diversity ......have established a new, cost-effective process for manufacturing GGC. The process has been licensed to pharmaceut...ompany, Biospecialties Australia. A newly-expanded manufacturing plant at Newcastle, New South Wales, will produce GGC. It is expected that GGC will be used as an ...New clean-up project builds upon success gained in field
...m, nitrate and other contaminants from the weapons manufacturing era from 1951 to 1983. These liquid wastes were disposed of in four ponds during that era. The pond area, which is 400-by-400 feet and 17 feet deep, was neutralized in 1984 and capped by an asphalt parking lot in 1988. As a result of these waste disp...Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection
...r in the related fields of biomedical engineering, manufacturing and materials, information technology, and nanotechnology," said Elbestawi. "Funding support from government is seeding a nanotechnology cluster in Canada that can compete internationally."...Changes in dietary protein may override inherited skeletal abnormalities
...rmal increase in activity of genes responsible for manufacturing bone. The researchers also found a more general link between dietary amino acidsthe building blocks of proteinsand normal bone development. That result raised the possibility that changes in nutrition may, in some cases, offer a simple treatment f...Special ES&T issue examines effects of emerging contaminants on people, planet
...in this study. The findings suggest that nanoscale manufacturing byproducts could upset coastal food chains if released into rivers and estuaries, the researchers say. These byproducts, they add, should be monitored or possibly regulated in the future. DOWNLOAD PDF: http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/esthag/a...New finding points way to foiling anthrax's tricks
...capturing iron in order to reproduce, and finally, manufacturing a toxin that kills the cells and releases thousands of new spores into the bloodstream. Because the iron-capture stage is critical to growth, it has become a recent focus of attention as a possible drug target. Raymond, who has studied bacterial si...First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza
...rease vaccine supply using pioneering cell-culture manufacturing technologies that do not rely on conventional egg based vaccine production," commented Dr Bram Palache, study author and member of Solvay Pharmaceuticals Influenza Pandemic Preparedness team. "Production capacity for influenza vaccines is currently ...Exposure to dioxins influences male reproductive system, study of Vietnam veterans concludes
...ses such as incineration, smelting, paper and pulp manufacturing and pesticide and herbicide production. Humans are exposed to these chemicals primarily through consumption of animal fat and dairy products. Babies are exposed to the highest levels of dioxins through breast milk. Dioxins are eliminated extremely ...Developing uses for sugar-cane bagasse: Biotechnology applied to the paper industry
The principal raw material used for manufacturing paper pulp is wood. However, growing demand in the paper industry, at a time of dwindling forest resources, have compelled the sector to turn to other sources of raw materials, such as cereal straw, reeds, bamboo or sugar-cane bagasse. This residue, ...'Nanorust' cleans arsenic from drinking water
...id the cost of the materials could be quite low if manufacturing methods are scaled up. In addition, Colvin's graduate student, Cafer Yavuz, has been working for several months to refine a method that villagers in the developing world could use to prepare the iron oxide nanoparticles. The primary raw materials are...Research Council feted NJIT chemical engineering professor
...c pollutants from waste gas streams produced from manufacturing processes before the toxic pollutants are released to the atmosphere. Sirkar resides with his family in Bridgewater. The Council also honored Jyh-Yao Raphael Li, PhD, of Parsippany, a postdoctoral fellow who worked alongside Sirkar and is a co-i...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 1, 2006
...at actually are comparable to those of traditional manufacturing industries, a new study has found. The Universit...a rapid transformation from traditional industrial manufacturing to services. The study is scheduled for publication in the November 1 issue of the ACS's Environment...Inventor helps grasslands go native
...sion Center provided critical advice on design and manufacturing through Dale Detrick, based in Billings. "Dale and MMEC have been a spectacular resource for us. MMEC support made the Seedster design simpler and easier to manufacture," Arbuckle said. "The Seedster is a simple, inexpensive, durable, very-adjust...Romania as a scientific partner
... economic and scientific partner for Germany: as a manufacturing location, as a market for German technology, but first and foremost as a partner for cooperation in research and development. With this in mind the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is working to strengthen existing co...Vitamin C and water not just healthy for people -- healthy for plastics, too
...sent attractive alternatives to the common plastic manufacturing technique called free radical polymerization (FRP)... waste and drastically reduced removal costs. Mass manufacturing could become more affordable for a range of items such as advanced sensors, drug delivery systems, p...Ecosystem of vanishing lake yields valuable bacterium
... clean-up wastewater from fertilizer and explosive manufacturing plants, which is 10 to 15-times saltier than the ocean and laden with polluting nitrates. Peyton hoped the salty ecosystem of Soap Lake might be home to a bacterium that could live in such high-salt waters and also find nitrates appetizing. Soap La...Binghamton University researcher makes major biofilm dispersion breakthrough
...rne by industries and consumers worldwide. Name a manufacturing process and biofilms are probably a serious and costly issue. They have even been discovered in pipes at factories producing prepadine, the anti-bacterial, iodine-based solution that doctors swab on patients to "prep" them for surgery. The small mo...Researchers make nanosheets that mimic protein formation
...bly offers substantial advantages over traditional manufacturing approaches, if we can design the building blocks appropriately. This is what we're trying to do."...Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing
...RP differs significantly from conventional polymer manufacturing methods. This "living," synthetic process can be shut down or restarted at will, depending on how the temperature and other conditions of the reaction are varied. ATRP is an exceptionally robust way to uniformly and precisely control the chemical com...