A treatment, not a cure: Calcium silicate neutralizes an acidic stream
... conducting the Wollastonite addition research and preparing the Restoration Ecology paper. Several were IES graduate students when they participated in the project (*). Don Buso, Institute of Ecosystem Studies *Brian K. Dresser *Emily S. Bernhardt, University of Maryland Robert O. Hall, Jr., University ot Wy...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...e has assisted the United States, most recently by preparing scientists for an insect invasion that threatened the $100-million-a-year olive crop in California. IPM identifies and targets crop pests such as invasive pests, insect-transmitted plant viruses, and harmful native pests, using a combination o...Researchers provide road map for generating B cells from stem cells
...guiding them down one specific developmental path, preparing them to respond to signals yet to come, and blocking off other options. "Our findings reveal considerable complexity, but are promising from the standpoint of directing stem cell differentiation," said Harinder Singh, Ph.D., Louis Block Professor of ...Health, food, new technologies featured during ACS meeting Oct. 17-20 in Peoria, Ill.
The health benefits of certain foods and preparing for new technologies of the 21 st century are among the topics being presented at the 36 th Great Lakes regional meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society, in Peoria, Ill., Oct. 17-20. Approximately 450 papers ...Australian expertise helps resurrect Iraq's ancient marshlands
...es to avoid," Dr Fitzpatrick says. His team is now preparing a series of papers for major international journals and conferences to communicate the impact of their findings. "It was a magical experience," Dr Fitzpatrick says. "The potential to do a lot more really good science and work over there is really sp...$2.8 million NIH grant awarded to UH for bionano training
...f Houston is not only expanding research, but also preparing the next generation of scientists among Houston universities and medical schools. The T90R90 grant, earmarked specifically for bionano training and research, was awarded to UH through the school's Institute for Molecular Design (IMD) for the Keck C...New source for heart bypass replacement blood vessels: Fibrin-based TEVs
...steps According to Stelios Andreadis, the team is preparing to submit a grant application to the National Institutes of Health "to improve vessels' mechanical strength." They will also seek to make the matrix stronger using recombinant DNA techniques and "engineer vessels from bone marrow-derived stem cells t...Identifying the path to infection
...substances to leave a cell but also participate in preparing the substance for secretion. In this case, PapC gathers the "parts" that make up the adhesive and then guides the assembled adhesive out of the cell. Li and his colleagues found that PapC consists of two main structural elements, with each part co...New program examines stem cells' potential to repair, replace damaged tissue
...ommon diseases. That group is now meeting weekly, preparing to apply for a Program Project grant from the National Institutes of Health which already has a name: "Molecular Mechanisms of Tissue Repair With Aging." Stem cells are relatively few in number and difficult to track in the body, so researchers will...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...nize what is known about this huge micro-world and preparing for countless new arrivals. Advances in technology have lifted limits for discovery of life that is small, deep, or rare, says Dr. Grassle. Census scientists are innovating, refining, and integrating techniques to assess and monitor ma...Balancing 'hysteria and suspicion': Doctors face new responsibilities in 'bioterrorism era'
...tate and local health departments) are critical in preparing doctors, they said. The exercises are designed to ... While physicians stand at the forefront of preparing for bioterrorism threats, Clements and Evans point out in their article that physicians have contrib...EB and IUPS - Where cures of tomorrow can be seen in the science of today
...on, each society offers programs on attracting and preparing the next generation of scientists, with special attention to women and minorities. Many of that next generation of current graduate and postdoctoral students will take advantage of an extensive career resources and placement service, while young fa...First x-ray laser gets funding
...ampus, in close cooperation with SLAC and SSRL, is preparing to take advantage of the unique research capabilities of LCLS with a new center for ultrafast science that will share the LCLS facility. The Department of Energy awarded $4.7 million for three years, and the W. M. Keck Foundation in early January awa...Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds
...is needed to understand the optimal conditions for preparing human cells for therapeutic application." "We cons...o embryoid bodies (EB), which is the first step in preparing them for potential use in humans, the percentage of total sialic acids present still ranged from 5 t...Celebrex prevents adhesions after surgery
...e placebo group. Based on these findings, Puder is preparing to set up a multi-institutional clinical trial of Celebrex in adult surgical patients. "If Celebrex works in humans, you could give it to patients on the day of abdominal surgery and the 10 days after surgery," Puder says. Currently, the most common...AAAS honors recombinant DNA advisory committee at NIH, citing 30 years of leadership
... fears surrounding recombinant DNA research, while preparing society to accept and understand the responsible use of this technology to advance public welfare." More recently, RAC has faced new challenges related to human gene therapy, Frankel noted. Despite their potential for saving lives and reducing suffer...Scientists rid stem cell culture of key animal cells
... "It also significantly reduces the daily labor of preparing the feeder cell-conditioned medium." "It is important that the culture of human ES cells be simplified so that the average scientist can use them without extensive prior training," says James Thomson, a UW-Madison professor of anatomy and a co-author...Technological revolutions in sensors, robotics, and telecommunications allow new views of ocean
...our bunk, or eating dinner," says Lindholm, who is preparing for his third underwater research trip this fall. Aquarius sits approximately 15 meters under the sea, where the pressure on divers is 2.5 times what we experience on land. It enables scientists to conduct dives for as long as 7 hours opening th...Consortium to create comprehensive tools for uncovering the functions of human, mouse genes
... project also will develop efficient protocols for preparing DNA and virus stocks of the RNAi reagents and will create methods for performing high-throughput screening with the entire library. "We are pleased to be a part of the RNAi Consortium, as it promises to be a highly important resource for the scientif......lty is that crystallization, the leading method of preparing proteins for structure solving, does not work well with the elaborate, envelope-bound complexes, which tend to fall apart when they are removed from the virus membrane. Dr. Deborah Fass of the Weizmann Institute's Structural Biology Department had ma...