Nanotech safety needs specific government risk research strategy and funding
...g workable answers to definite questions needed by regulatory agencies." "Nanotechnology is no longer a scientific curiosity. It is in the workplace, the environment and the home. But if people are to realize nanotechnology's benefits--in medicine, communications, and energy production--the federal government...European Union outpaces United States on chemical safety
...andards as possible. They often follow the highest regulatory standard, rather than trying to cope with different manufacturing processes for different markets. As a result, if a U.S. company such as Hewlett-Packard or Dell needs to redesign its laptops or substitute chemicals used in production to meet E.U. st...Molecular 'on/off switch' controls immune defenses against viruses
...response to infection is where antiviral or immune regulatory drugs are headed," said Dr. Gale....Erythrocyte G protein as a novel target for malarial chemotherapy
...in red blood cells (erythrocyte guanine nucleotide regulatory protein Gs) as a novel antimalarial target. They showed that a commonly used antihypertensive drug, propranolol, decreased Gs activity in red blood cells and inhibited blood-stage malarial parasite growth, as did other drugs of the same class. When u...Structure of iron regulatory protein-RNA complex solved
...e likely also to apply to the other important iron regulatory molecule, IRP2, they wrote in their conclusion. "What remains to be determined is the evolutionary origin and selective advantage of such dramatic conformational plasticity and dual functionality as found in IRP1."...A green way to slag off bunnies
...ical, it could circumvent the convoluted pesticide regulatory approval pathway and be used straight away....American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- December 6, 2006
...gin of life on Earth Calls for a new food safety regulatory agency follow spinach tragedy Journalists' Resou...STERN TIME, DEC. 11 Calls for a new food safety regulatory agency follow spinach tragedy Chemical & Engineering News The recent contamination of spinach w...ORNL aids diesel parts manufacturers
...tally friendly production diesel engines that meet regulatory requirements while achieving state-of-the-art fuel efficiency and decreasing our oil dependence," said Roger England, Catalyst Elements Leader for Cummins, Inc. In another project for Industrial Ceramic Solutions, based in Knoxville, Tenn., HTML us...From a lowly yeast, researchers divine a clue to human disease
... of a key protein that allow it to act as a master regulatory switch -- a control that determines gene activity and that, when malfunctioning in humans, may contribute to serious neurological disorders. The work, published in the Dec. 8 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, shows how a mutation in a single gene...Protein's tail may be flu virus's achilles heel
...ersity of Texas at Austin to explore the protein's regulatory functions....Examining molecular imaging's hot future
...entists, industry representatives, and funding and regulatory officialsin a special expanded section of the soci...atives, and officials from national government and regulatory agencies examined current and future applications of molecular imaging over three days during SNM's ...Dartmouth researchers find that low doses of arsenic have broad impact on hormone activity
...in drinking water at the current and previous U.S. regulatory limits, in the range of 5-50 ppb) arsenic enhances hormone-stimulated gene expression, by two- to three-fold. At slightly higher doses (in the range of 50-200 ppb, commonly found in drinking water from contaminated wells in New Hampshire and elsewher...GM spuds to be commercialized in 2007
...qualified majority on Monday (December 4th) by the regulatory committee, she said the potatoes would ultimately be approved. But Oxborrow also expressed concerns that Amflora potatoes could find their way into the food supply, especially given that a separate application by BASF for food and feeding is not far ...Biolex reports potential for more potent, efficacious antibodies in Nature Biotechnology
...y used today and key to reducing production risks, regulatory risks and costs. "The rapid and successful ev...t and creating potential consistency, scale-up and regulatory challenges. Accordingly, the ability of the LEX System to produce antibodies with homogeneous glyco...Gene linked to aggressive 'wet' age-related macular degeneration
...phism (SNP)a one-base change in the sequenceof the regulatory part of the HTRA1 gene on chromosome 10 that leads to greatly increased risk of developing the wet form of AMD. According to Hoh, buildup of abnormal blood vessels in Caucasian patients is compounded by development of large waste deposits called dr...Researchers find docking sites for glucocorticoid receptor and Hsp90
...icated to assist a restricted yet diverse group of regulatory proteins, such as the glucocorticoid receptor, which requires help from Hsp90 to interact with hormones. Scientists had been stymied with how Hsp90 recognizes and interacts with client proteins. Hsp90 activity is becoming a target for drug manufact...Report outlines funding to conserve half of Massachusetts's land
...anisms such as payments for ecosystem services and regulatory reform to facilitate smart growth. The new report's authors are James N. Levitt, director of the Harvard Forest's Program on Conservation Innovation, and Kathleen Fallon Lambert, president of Ecologic, an environmental consulting firm in Woodstock,...UCLA researchers unravel a mystery about DNA
...t are available for interaction with transcription regulatory proteins. Beyond resolving the mechanism for initiation, the significance of this work is in pointing out an important regulation "checkpoint." Scrunched DNA is likely to play a major role in future studies of transcription regulation, and possibly b...JCI table of contents: November 16, 2006
... that the pro-survival protein BCL2A1 and the gene regulatory protein CEBPB were required for ALCL cells to become cancerous and/or to survive long-term. This study provides evidence that approaches such as RNAi can be used to identify critical mediators of the cancer process, thereby identifying potential ther...Novel regulatory mechanism identified for key tumor suppressor p53
...With histones, methylation is well recognized as a regulatory mechanism, but the fact that other proteins are al...eves that scientists will likely find this type of regulatory mechanism at work in many other protein systems over the next few years. Interestingly, only one ot...