Stealth worms may improve insect pest control
... 48 hours and even digests its tissues, creating a perfect environment for the EPN to grow and multiply. One or more adult generations live entirely inside the decaying insect. The third stage infective juvenile is the only one that can live outside the insect host. Numbering about 150,000 strong or more, th...Wetlands clean water and may control neighborhood flood problems
...ournal Ecological Engineering. "Golf courses are a perfect place for constructed wetlands used as part of a water management system because wetlands can filter chemicals out of surface water, and they can also store excess water during storms," Turco said. In addition, constructed wetlands act as a holding a...U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS
... a question of whether we can make new tissue in a perfect condition. Now we're mimicking what can really happen in a person, and we don't know if the rules of regeneration might be totally different," said Paul Krebsbach, associate professor at the U-M School of Dentistry. Krebsbach is scheduled to particip...Bipedal bots to star at AAAS media briefing
...y energy-efficient prosthetic devices. "This is a perfect example of a single concept yielding benefits in a variety of fields, including medicine," says NSF program officer Gil Devey, an NSF expert on disabilities research who also oversaw the projects. The MIT walker provides a platform to study motor lea...Singers (and parents) take note: Worst songbird rehearsals precede best debuts
...several months as the birds learned to imitate and perfect their own renditions of recorded adult male zebra finch songs. To assess the musical progress or lack thereof of the young birds, the City College group collaborated with Mitra to develop algorithms that became the basis of powerful software for anal...Promising anti-TB compound finally can be synthesized with ease
...drogen activation in our process, our chemistry is perfect for this target," said Davies. They do it through the use of a special catalyst Davies developed, which at once catalyzes the activation of the normally unreactive carbon-hydrogen bonds and produces only the target compound. "We solve th...New RNA polymerase discovered in plants
...for Pol IV." Pikaard said the Pol IV has a perfect match in rice, the only other plant genome to be sequenced, despite rice being a monocotyledon and Arabidopsis a dicotyledon. "These two plants diverged 200 million years ago, and there is some speculation that this form of polymerase might ...Multi-purpose protein regulates new protein synthesis and immune cell development
...t a unique biochemical reaction. This makes IRE1 a perfect target for pharmacological intervention for B cell-driven autoimmune diseases, like myasthenia gravis or systemic lupus erythematosus." Results from the study will be published in the Feb. 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation . Kaufman s...Chemists create 'Superbowl' molecule; May lead to better health
...r size and shape," says Sherburn. "'Superbowl' was perfect since it conjures up for me at least the image of a sports stadium, which the molecules are similar to in shape." Appropriately, the researcher is also a football fan and watches the Super Bowl each year on Australian television. Super Bowl XXXIX ...Racial groupings match genetic profiles, Stanford study finds
...eople's self-identified race/ethnicity is a nearly perfect indicator of their genetic background," Risch said. When the team further analyzed each of the four clusters, they found two distinct sub-groups within the East Asian genetic cluster. These two groups correlated with people who identified themselves ...The Cochrane Library Newsletter, 2005, Issue 1
... was found in the included studies. They are not a perfect solution, however, because each still has its own spectrum of possible side effects and limitations. "The antibiotics studied proved to be more or less equally effective for eradicating carriage of N. meningitides, however th...The death of a very special chimpanzee
... chimp sequence. But living cell lines are not the perfect way to preserve a genome, because they mutate and change. They can also die, which is what happened to a few cell lines created during the publicly funded Human Genome Project. The anonymity of the donors meant new lines could not be established, and...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
...technologies. UC Berkeley will conduct research to perfect a microbial factory for the compound artemisinin, currently the most effective treatment for malaria, and Amyris, a new biotech company founded on the breakthroughs in synthetic biology pioneered at UC Berkeley, will develop the process for industria......ike locks and keys, he says. Rose believes birds perfect their songs because they start combining various song segments and retain only those pairs (AB, BC, CD, DE) that match the memory of what they are tutored and reject others (such as AC or EC) that are not reinforced by tutoring. This may involve in...NIDCR launches unique initiative on oral biofilm
...iofilms, such as the intestine," he said. "It's a perfect place to start." Dr. Gary Armitage, a collaborator on this project at the University of California at San Francisco School of Dentistry, will collect biofilm scrapings from individuals in either good oral health or who have various degrees of perio...Scientists name world's whiffiest cheese
...with a surprisingly mellow and gentle taste that's perfect served with some crusty bread and a beer. It's a great cheese to try, as it doesn't have the earthy, farmyardy flavours that some people find overpowering." Sally Clarke said: "France has a huge selection of weird and wonderful whiffy cheeses...Isotron licenses ORNL cancer treatment technology
...ORNL's Californium User Facility. "This is a perfect example of how collaborations between ORNL and the private sector can result in technology to make our lives better," said Alex Fischer, director of ORNL's Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development. "Through this work with Isotron, thous...Heart responds to fasting by remodeling vital energy-producing components
... division like Xianlin Han, who has worked hard to perfect the technology, we have been able to open up fresh avenues of investigation using shotgun lipidomics," Gross says....JCI table of contents, November 15 2004
...pe closely matches that of the patient's) is not a perfect therapy, there has been remarkable success in reestablishing the B and T cell population in SCID patients. However, gene therapy cannot be performed unless the abnormal gene for the specific patient is known. At Duke University alone, approximately 6...U. Va. Health System to develop new approaches to treat type 1 diabetics with islet cell transplants
... is to develop a safer, more effective protocol to perfect islet cell transplantation and move the procedure to the next level. There is a lot to do to make this procedure more effective and more applicable to people with type 1 diabetes in this country and worldwide, " said Dr. Jerry Nadler, chief of the Di...