ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 22, 2006
...ect now underway to foster information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the Internet so that software agents can help in the dissemination of information. In a report scheduled for the Nov. 27 issue of the bimonthly ACS Journal of Chemical Information and Modeli...Scientific American names UCSB professor, alumna to list of Top 50 in Technological Leadership
...semiconductor thin films. Morse discovered that by putting molecules that mimic the enzymes of marine sponges onto gold surfaces, his research team could create catalytic templates for growing semiconductor films. "Inspiration from a lowly marine sponge may eventually yield more powerful batteries," the maga...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 8, 2006
...hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP), it involves putting foods under pressures that crush and kill bacteria while leaving food with a fresh, uncooked taste. "Milk processed at a pressure of about 85,000 pounds per square inch for five minutes, and lower temperatures than used in commercial pasteurization...An AIDS-related virus tricks cells to become tumors, new Penn study finds
...em for degradation. This process can be likened to putting out the garbage for disposal. Ubiquitylation and degradation involve a complex set of proteins in addition to ubiquitin. "We found that the viral LANA has an amino acid motif that mimics non-viral cell proteins usually involved in the ubiquitylat...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 1, 2006
...mpany A sinks several hundred million dollars into putting a new drug onto pharmacy shelves. Only then do serious side effects appear, and force withdrawal of that drug from the market. Researchers in India now are reporting development of a new and more accurate method for predicting toxicity in the very ...A potential biological cause for sudden infant death syndrome
...ies have identified risk factors for SIDS, such as putting babies to sleep on their stomachs, and protective factors like pacifier use, there has been little understanding of SIDS's biologic basis. "Researchers led by neuropathologist Hannah Kinney, MD, and neuroscientist David Paterson, PhD, at Children'...Biodiversity controls ecological 'services,' report scientists in comprehenisive analysis
...ld save a lot of species with only small areas, by putting aside hot spots," he said. Cardinale's varied research interests are tied together by a common thread, which is to understand the causes and consequences of changing biodiversity in the modern era. The study published in Nature was supported by g...Space radiation threats to astronauts addressed in federal research study
...ecially if astronauts were on extended expeditions putting them hours away from base camps or space vehicles, Baker said. The report recommends creating a "color-coded alert system" for intense solar events that could be transmitted quickly to astronauts roaming alien soils, he said....Groups and grumps: Study identifies 'sociality' neurons
...nd their baseline activity is about twice as high, putting the birds in a kind of perpetual "social mood." "These findings," Goodson said, "address the fundamental question of sociality: Why are some animal species highly social while others seem to have little or no tolerance for others? "And while the o...Diabetes gene carries similar risk to obesity
...nt to a whole new genetic mechanism which could be putting people at high risk of diabetes, and this needs to be explored. If we could understand more about this pathway, it could be possible to develop completely new treatment methods. "In future it might be possible to use this genetic information to ide...New biologic treatment for tennis elbow may replace surgery for chronic sufferers
...blood from a different area, concentrating it, and putting it back into an area where there was relatively poor blood supply to help repair the damage."...New biochip helps study living cells, may speed drug development
... one that needed the least fertilizer, rather than putting a lot of different genes into hundreds of plants and waiting for them to grow, as is currently done." In addition to the potential savings in time and money, Porterfield said the chip has allowed him to do research that would otherwise be impossibl...Research holds promise for herpes vaccine
...oring cells to enter "an anti-viral state" akin to putting on a suit of armor, Halford said. However, herpes produces a protein, ICP0, that tricks every infected cell into destroying its own armor. Once the cell's armor is gone, the virus can propagate itself and spread to other cells, which are in turn tr...16 outstanding researchers receive Singapore's highest honor in science and technology
...map in prestigious journal Science in August 2002, putting tiny Singapore on the international scientific map. Scientists, post docs and students in his laboratory at IMCB and more recently, clinician scientists, at the Centre for Molecular Medicine have benefited from Dr Brenner's supervision. Many of t...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Oct. 4, 2006
...the benefits of maggot therapy to patients without putting live Greenbottle fly (blowfly) larvae into non-healing wounds. The joint research project of Stephen Britland from Bradford University and David Pritchard of Nottingham University included colleagues from the Bradford-based biotechnology company AGT...Meet the earliest baby girl ever discovered
... cases the difficulty paleoanthropologists face is putting very fragmentary pieces they find back together. In the case of the Dikika girl, however, the challenge was the opposite; sediments had to be removed almost grain by grain using dental instruments passing between ribs and the twisted spinal column. T...China's environmental challenges
... generated will go up by a factor of at least 1.3, putting the country's already fragile freshwater systems under greater strain. The authors wonder: will China "..continue down the same road as in the past two decades, or will environmental quality, energy efficiency, and the conservation of resources no l...Engineer ramps up protein production, develops versatile viral spheres
... the amazing protein-making parts out of cells and putting them into systems to mass-produce designer proteins for a wide variety of medical uses. At the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Sept. 13 in San Francisco, Stanford engineering Professor James Swartz will discuss advances in such ...Science researchers genetically transform immune cells into tumor fighters
... of our work is going into designing retroviruses, putting genes into cells efficiently and getting them expressed." ...For low-risk women, risk of death may be higher for babies delivered by cesarean
...increase in the cesarean rate may inadvertently be putting a larger population of babies at risk for neonatal mortality. In the past it was assumed that babies were delivered by cesarean because of a medical risk, thereby explaining the higher infant and neonatal mortality rates typically associated with ...