32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
... quantum dot production at significantly increased output and reduced cost. Receptor Logic, Ltd. (Amarillo, Texas) TCR Mimics: A New Class of Antibodies Against HLA-peptide Complexes for Diagnosis and Therapy of Breast CancerDevelop a new class of breast cancer diagnostic and therapeutic antibodies u...Good news: As you age, leg blood vessels adapt so you can still exercise without fainting
...atory mechanism for their reduced level of cardiac output during exercise," they reported. In other words, older adults may require a higher level of vascular "restraint" to preserve systemic blood pressure during exercise, Proctor said. "We expected the blood vessels in the older men to c...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
... combined effects were expressed in vagal efferent output and glandular secretion." In the eighth and last in a series of lectures that overcame the Nobel committee's objection to his lack of publication, Pavlov was "primarily concerned with the relationship between physiology and clinical medicine," Smith ...First Max Planck Partner Institute in China
...nstitute is a way to strengthen their own research output and intensify bilateral ties. This initiative offers German and Chinese universities additional starting points for cooperation and exchanges among scientists. ...'Lighter than air' breathing more than doubles COPD patients' exercise endurance
...liters, and minute ventilation over carbon dioxide output to 36.3 versus 33.9 at peak exercise, and by the reduction in arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide at Iso to 44 from 48 and at peak exercise to 46 from 48. The study, "Effect of heliox on lung dynamic hyperinflation, dyspne...NIH makes award to UNC for Genome Fingerprint Scanning program
...ogram. They plan to greatly improve the program's output to include peptide maps that users can browse overlaid on a genome, expand the list of built-in searchable genomes, provide a multi-genome simultaneous search capability, and automate both updates of the genome databases and distribution of the compu...Exercise doesn't work for us all
...s three times a week at 75 per cent of the maximum output they were capable of before the study. Previous reports indicated that there are huge variations in "trainability" between subjects. For example, the team found that training improved maximum oxygen consumption, a measure of a person's ability to per...Hummingbirds lose power at high altitudes
...orrelation at high altitudes between maximum power output and how much of that excess power is available, an...was able to show that, whereas body mass and power output increase with elevation in hummingbirds, the power margin goes down. "Higher eleva...Satellites plus software equal best-ever Mediterranean heat map
...tween actual observations and the numerical model, output data can be credibly used for operational tasks such as sea state and algal bloom forecasting, and predicting the path of oil spills. And these models can also be used to look deeper than just the ocean surface. "The time is coming for operational m...Evidence that human brain evolution was a special event
...trolling either the overall size or the behavioral output of the brain -- aspects of the brain that have cha... genes controlling the overall size and behavioral output of the brain are perhaps places of the genome where nature has done the most amount of tinkering in ...NSBRI news: Bone-quality assessment tool for space and Earth
...e, the system will be designed to include wireless output for easy data transmission. The entire device is lightweight and easy to carry. Qin sees his project in two phases: first; the development phase focusing on miniaturizing the device and fine-tuning its precision, and the second phase; eventual clini...MSI releases 'moleculizer' - a new approach to simulation of intracellular biochemical networks
...s parallel simplifications in simulation setup and output provide data in a way that is meaningful and useful to biological researchers." Moleculizer was developed in the context of MSI's "Alpha Project", an ambitious experimental and computational effort to understand the quantitative behavior of a cell si...Don't count on vitamin C to boost your exercise performance
...n test subjects were given a drug to boost cardiac output (somewhat like exercise does), and then took the same drug and vitamin C, the increase in cardiac output was much greater. These results were widely interpreted as suggesting that since vitamin C decreased...Put science at center of decision-making on third world development, experts tell UN
... scaling up from laboratory findings to industrial output becomes difficult or fails to happen. There is no easy solution to this problem, except to create opportunities for R&D laboratories in the public domain to work with private industry. In Taiwan (China) more than 30 R&D consortia have been formed to...Powerful X-ray beams at Argonne, new electronic flight simulator
..., "We are now in a position to relate muscle power output to changes in molecular structure, which helps us understand how insects generate enough power to support flight." The fact that these experiments are performed on tiny, genetically malleable fruit flies raises the possibility of addressing much more...Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks
...afish (danio rerio) because they yield such a high output of spawn, with hundreds of eggs being laid by each female per week. This gives the scientists a better chance of identifying mutant fish whose biological clocks run fast or slow, providing the ability to trace the specific genes that create the anom...NASA research to aid federal invasive species council efforts
...ive species with observations and predictive model output from NASA and other sources. The model can generate a regional view of the distribution of the species and predict where it is likely to spread. The NISFS will provide on-demand, regional-scale assessments of invasive species patterns and vulnerable ...Sexual cooperation: Mating increases longevity in ant queens
...to females, whose lifespan and future reproductive output can be drastically reduced. New findings suggest that in some social insects--in which both sexes ultimately benefit from long, successful reproductive lives of females--sexual cooperation, rather than sexual conflict, may be favored. The findings, ...The world's smallest synchrotron, MIRRORCLE-6X, now commercially available
Synchrotron light, the highly prized output from a synchrotron (a particular type of particle ... Continued research promises to boost MIRRORCLE-6X output to even higher levels of performance. In a world where "bigger" is usually associated with better, M...In the mating game, male wild turkeys benefit even when they don't get the girl
...he behavior increases the survival or reproductive output of their relatives. Such behavior can include caring for a relative's young or sending out alarm calls to warn nearby relatives at the peril of drawing the attention of a predator. "Although kin selection is widely invoked as an explanation for coope...