New biomaterials improve medical devices
...lms that cause infection of implants. Some of the new approaches to these challenges employ nanotechnolo...cing the amount of lab work necessary to develop a new material for a specific application. Among the clinical applications that will be discussed on ...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
A new type of 'smart' clothing which adapts to changing ... which takes ideas from nature and turns them into new technology. Its head, Professor Julian Vincent, said: "The new smart clothing will make wearer...Internet data-mining of natural history
...nce. The four-year project is expected to produce new techniques for interactive exploration and analysi...are telling us." Caruana says the plan to develop new data mining techniques that will allow modeling of long-term population trends, geospatial abundance...Plants provide model for new shape-changing materials
...team of researchers exploring the development of a new class of materials that will use plant protein str...ent of the nastic structure concept will provide a new class of materials based on the direct conversion of biochemical energy into mechanical work. In thi...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
A new type of 'smart' clothing which adapts to changing ... which takes ideas from nature and turns them into new technology. Its head, Professor Julian Vincent, said: "The new smart clothing will make wearers' liv...Below the surface: New clues to plant signaling from the roots
...hed role in coordinating shoot growth. In the new work, University of Utah researchers Jamie Van Norman, Rebecca Frederick, and Leslie Sieburth identify a gene, called BYPASS1, which appears to function in the coordination of root and shoot growth by regulating amounts of a growth-inhibiting substan...Dying cells encourage neighbors to grow
..., published online in Developmental Cell, provides new information about how normal, healthy tissues are maintained and may shed some light on a pathway that may contribute to tumor growth. It has been known for some time that cells that die as a result of injury-provoked programmed cell death, also kno...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...particular diseases or adverse drug reactions. The new center will offer tools to aid in the selection, d...rocess later this fall. Stacey Gabriel, Ph.D., the new center's principal investigator and director, currently oversees the Broad's Genetic Analysis platfo...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...arch program at the age of 55 andgo on to invent a new field research, e.g., the investigation of conditional reflexes that he actively pursued for 30 more years.This work was the basis for his (unsuccessful) nominations for the Nobel Prize again in 1925 and 1927." When he was informed of winning the Nob...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...e of the Journal of Molecular Biology, describes a new technique that may help scientists predict which p...ic diseases. She believes the profiles could offer new clues to doctors and drug companies about which proteins are good candidates for drug therapy. Cleme...New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
...asier to detect in ready-to-eat meats, thanks to a new biosensor developed by scientists at Purdue University. A team of food scientists has developed a sensor that can detect the potentially deadly bacteria Listeria monocytogenes in less than 24 hours at concentrations as low as 1,000 cells per millilit...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...e has published 125 papers in leading journals and new articles are pending. But it is the quality and importance of her work that places her among chemistry's elite, says Dr. Colin Bain of Oxford University's chemistry department. "Understanding the structure of water at surfaces is one of chemistry'...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...am An increase in the number of prescriptions for new and more expensive medications resulted in a signi...Among those using the system, the average cost per new prescription was $4.16 lower and the average cost for new and refilled prescriptions was $4.99 lower...Low dose radiation evades cancer cells' protective 'radar'
A new study shows that lower doses of radiation elude a damage detection "radar" in DNA and actually kill more cancer cells than high-dose radiation. With these findings, scientists believe they can design therapy to dismantle this "radar" sensor allowing ...Does a time delay between prostate cancer diagnosis and start of radiation treatment matter?
...ho have treatment sooner. That is the result of a new study by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center presented today at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Atlanta, Ga. "The time between initial diagnosis and external-beam radiation therapy can be d...Scientific organizations unite to influence science policy and promote the ERC
...in Paris on the European Research Council (ERC), a new funding mechanism for basic research at the European level that should be funded through the EC Framework Programme. This event comes only a few weeks ahead of the European Council meeting where the EU heads of state and government are scheduled to d...NIH awards Emory and Georgia Tech $10 million for partnerships in cancer nanotechnology
...ersity and the Georgia Institute of Technology two new collaborative research grants, totaling nearly $10... program in cancer nanotechnology and to develop a new class of nanoparticles for molecular and cellular imaging. Working at the sub-atomic level, these s...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...d in many diseases. The scientists plan to use the new genetic information to create antibodies. And they hope to begin experiments impossible without those antibodies as soon as the project is complete. "Sequencing the clam genome will be a quantum leap for our research," said Hershko. (Read more about ...New study will tackle three major killer diseases
...s from the University of Edinburgh are launching a new two-year study aimed at improving treatment for three of Scotland's most common life-threatening diseases: heart disease, stroke and diabetes. The study will recruit 1,000 adults from one of the remotest parts of the UK-- the North Isles of Orkney. ......bors -- thus undermining the social collective. In new research, evolutionary biologists and geneticists ...e project was one of the first funded by the NSF's new Frontiers in Integrated Biological Research program. Other co-authors on the paper, "Pleiotropy as a...