INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
... wastewater chemically with salts, but its harmful residue essentially cancels out the environmental benefits of using hydrogen peroxide in the first place. The most direct wastewater treatment uses a catalase to break down hydrogen peroxide. But scientists working with commercial catalases have had to make ...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
...cannot look inside packages to see what is inside, residue from explosives and drugs often remains on the han... handling to the package's surface. That remaining residue is what this device will be good for detecting." While the team is optimistic about the dev...Read your shampoo's label: Study finds common ingredient stunts developing neurons of rats
...MIT, an indication that this particular amino acid residue is important for axon and dendrite growth and development. "Since we know FAK to be highly expressed in the nerve tissue during brain development, this study suggests that phosphorylation of tyrosine 576 may be critical for axon and dendrite outgrow...Chemical process developed to use cotton gin residue
... is to add a value to the cotton crop by using the residue from the cotton to make a valuable product," said ...e City of Suffolk. After the cotton is ginned, the residue left at the processing plant contains the chemical ingredients for products that are commercially va...Study methods, strains of Pfiesteria are both critical in determining organism's toxicity
... experiments showed that purified Pfiesteria toxin residue added to cultures of larval fish killed the fish, while control fish without exposure to the toxin remained healthy. In the study, two basic methods of detecting Pfiesteria toxicity were compared: fish microassays (FMAs) using larval fish, and stand...K-State professor to discuss feeding the world's population without poison
...essive tillage, low productivity, soil erosion and residue removal result in loss of soil structure, organic ...essive tillage, low productivity, soil erosion and residue removal results in loss of soil structure, organic matter, nutrients and biodiversity. "Water resour...NYU and MSKCC research provides model for understanding chemically induced cancer initiation
...n intercalated structure in which the carcinogenic residue is sandwiched between adjacent base pairs in the double helix. "Such conformational differences in methylated and unmethylated DNA sequences may be significant because of potential alterations in the cellular processing of these lesions by DNA trans...Respiratory syncytial virus poses a significant threat to elderly
...e nose or eyes by hands and by direct contact with residue from coughs or sneezes. Falsey and the research group conducted the study through four consecutive winters from late 1999 to early 2003. The work was done at Rochester General Hospital. The group followed 1,388 hospitalized patients, 608 healthy peop......l charge. Such an unlikely placement for a charged residue suggests that this region of CD147 may seek to align with another protein's oppositely charged region, perhaps that of Psn-1. Disruption of this transmembrane teamwork could lead to increased production of amyloid beta peptides which, in turn, may re...It's electric: Cows show promise as powerplants
...lly leaves behind plenty of it in the form of crop residue in the fields. The other chamber, the cathode, was filled with potassium ferricyanide, a chemical that acts as an oxidizing agent to round out the electrical circuit. Two small pieces of plain graphite served as the fuel cell's electrodes (an electro...Illinois research zeroing in on optimum soil nitrogen rates
...ights the importance of plant populations and crop residue management for proper usage of nitrogen fertilizers. "Our work involved 102 on-farm nitrogen-response studies conducted throughout Illinois in six growing seasons from 1990 to 2003. A site-by site evaluation of the proven-yield method showed that cu...Tobacco industry weakened pesticide regulations, UCSF study shows
...payments of as much as $100,000 a year. Pesticide residue levels for methoprene insecticide: In the early 1...on in Malaysia, Italy and Germany to set pesticide residue limits that were more lax than their own data supported. Zoecon manufactures methoprene, an endocrin...JCI table of contents October 1, 2005
...ted by phosphorylation of RXR on a specific serine residue in the N-terminal region, in a process that requires activation of SEK/JNK. These data may provide some insight into both the rational development of chemotherapeutic combinations involving Arsenic trioxide, as well as the molecular mechanisms of ar...Fast, accurate detection of explosives on airport luggage possible
...s and with equally unprecedented speed. "Trace and residue analysis of explosives has been a difficult task due to deliberate concealment, the small quantities of material available and the presence of other compounds that can interfere with the analysis," said Cotte-Rodrguez, also a graduate student in Cook...Cowpeas could add sustainability to cropping systems
...ther than two crops in three seasons, he said. The residue from the cowpeas also adds organic matter, which tends to decompose faster than cereal crop residue, Payne said. "What we'd like to do is plant it the year after sorghum and before fall-planted wheat," he said. "What we're trying to do now is find t...New discovery: If it weren't for this enzyme, decomposing pesticide would take millennia
...In contrast, the half-life of the potato pesticide residue chloroacrylate -- 10,000 years -- matches the half...tory by analyzing what happened to the pesticide's residue at various temperatures and then extrapolating the results to room temperature to see how long the p...You can't rely on firearms forensics
...e-lab examiner gave evidence that the particle was residue from a gunshot. He claimed Jones must have held or...e conviction, claiming that the science of gunshot residue (GSR) analysis is not as robust as the prosecution claims. Now, a New Scientist investigation has fo...'Computer-chemistry' yields new insight into a puzzle of cell division
...g "mutant" versions of a protein in which a single residue is altered and lab-testing whether the resulting s...he two hot spot residues the study identified, one residue on the phosphatase and the other on the kinase. Both hot spots are located some distance from the mo...New technique helps researchers determine amino-acid charge
...eagues used protein engineering. They mutated each residue of the pore's lining with basic amino-acid residue..."One thing is the proton affinity of an amino-acid residue when the amino acid is dissolved in a lot of water in, say, a glass beaker; another thing is the aff......receptor (TSHr) have allowed identification of the residue N7.49, belonging to the canonical NPxxY motif of T...nd that it might interact with D2.50 and a charged residue not identified yet. Moreover, the conserved L2.46 of the (N/S)LxxxD motif also seems to play a signi...