Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
... advanced monitoring of manufacturing equipment to more accurately determine maintenance needs for the systems and anticipate equipment failures. Such capability improves manufacturing process efficiency, reduces emissions and prevents costly outages for equipment repairs. Funding for the projects came fr...Genetic factors strongly shape how peers are chosen
...nt, our genetically influenced temperament becomes more and more important in influencing the kinds of friends we like to hang out with, said Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...ians have been routinely looking at the brain in a more direct way than has been possible by high tech brain scanners such as MRI and CAT." Now, Dr Cordeiro believes that this knowledge may mean that the eye could also be used to test potential treatments for Alzheimer's disease. "Since we have shown...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
... medium. The Lorenz-Mie theory has been around for more than a century and was introduced to graphics in 1995. In computer graphics, it has been used to compute the optical properties of certain paints, plastics, clouds, atmospheric phenomena and other media that can be described as spherical particles em...Research team enlightens the reasons for severe blindness
... therefore a good model which also enables to gain more knowledge over other difficultly treatable diseases in the long term. LCA itself is so far incurable. However, patients and doctors set their hopes high on gene therapy: since each type of LCA is caused by the mutation of a single gene, the affecte......e practice, further research is needed to identify more cover crops that behave similar to sunn hemp and t...f its seed. High seed cost is a limiting factor to more widespread use of this effective cover crop. Atrazine is also used globally resulting in numerous...UCF research links proteins, stem cells and potential Alzheimer's treatment
...Sugaya tempers his enthusiasm with the caveat that more research, including clinical trials, will be needed should the next set of research benchmarks be met. Its one thing to be able to manipulate stem cells for creating specific tissue types the brain, the eyes, the heart but every disease is diffe...Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
...onsuming, given that many bacteria secrete 4000 or more proteins. Now, however, the Newcastle researchers have developed an automatic method which makes the identification, analysis and comparison of bacterial secreted proteins from many organisms a realistic proposition. Based on Taverna workflow tec...Biologist traces coconut's history through DNA
...d on this ancient phylogeographic structure is the more recent history of human dispersal, cultivation an...in the Pacific, Olsen said. He added that more than 11 million hectares (one hectare is equal to 100 acres) are now planted in coconut in 86 tropic...Teamwork between 2 key proteins necessary for normal development and regulation of red blood cells
...rs, they cannot compensate for each other, causing more serious defects in red blood cell development, Lloyd said. According to Lloyd, the production of blood cells involves a complex differentiation pathway with interactions between many molecular players and proteins. In humans, there are four glob...Gene predicts better outcome as cortex normalizes in teens with ADHD
... 7-repeat variant had significantly lower IQs, and more than half of them still had pronounced ADHD symptoms when followed-up about six years later, compared to only 21 percent of those with at least one copy of the 7-repeat variant. There was also a trend toward better overall functioning among those wit...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
... the need to stay ahead of the game has never been more evident. Thats why the Montreal-based World Anti-D...n athletes have begun searching for stealthier and more powerful alternatives. The next variation of boosting red blood cell production is to actually i...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
...ion that these findings mean that there need to be more embryonic stem cell lines for research purposes an...l treatments, said Sdhof. Sun said that developing more ES cell lines is important because right now we still dont know the causes for the functional differ...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
... hypotheses for the origin of chytridiomycosis was more plausible. If the fungus was recently introduced t...ssing the other four sites, however, was decidedly more difficult, necessitating hikes of two to three days or, on several occasions, the use of helicopters...Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...peting for the same food could make migration even more difficult for them." The project is ...Clemente del Tuyu and Mar del Plata, coastal towns more than 500 miles north of Punta Tombo. Epoxy and special tape will be used to attach a transmitter to ...New mechanism links smoking to lung damage
...of an ion channel, are not as specific, permitting more rapid, less regulated flow of molecules up to the size of 1000 Daltons--wide enough to allow exchange of many signaling and messenger molecules, such as ATP and small metabolites that are essential for normal cell sustenance. "We suspect that this...Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice
...rain in a species and that the one brain is built, more or less, the same in the male and the female." Du...rd wired into the female mouse brain and suggests, more broadly, that male and female courtship behaviors exist in the brains of both sexes and are switched...Multicenter study nets new lung tumor-suppressor gene
...non-small cell lung cancer in mice, it also may be more powerful than other, better-known suppressors. The... patients with such tumors might be candidates for more aggressive therapy. People born with defective versions of LKB1 often develop Peutz-Jeghers syndro...Defects in critical gene lead to accelerated lung tumor growth
...In mice, these mutations result in tumors that are more aggressive and more likely to spread throughout the body. Defects in this gene appear to result in a much nastier form......ptics, academics claim this approach is faster and more sensitive than the extractive techniques normally used to monitor emissions. In an MOT test, for example, exhaust emissions are extracted into a box while the engine is idling and the gases present are then measured. The University of Manchester ...