Math model could aid study of collagen ailments
...nts of quantum mechanics and molecular dynamics to scale his model up and show precisely which length and arrangement of molecules were best for sustaining large weights pulling in opposite directions, a process known as tensile loading. Buehler discovered that the ideal length of tropocollagen molecules ...Two Pitt researchers make 'Scientific American 50' of leaders in science and technology
... can place cells within fiber networks at the same scale found within the body's own tissue. Dr. Sacks' laboratory has characterized and modeled the function of these tissue scaffolds and demonstrated how they mimic the complex behavior of a human pulmonary valve. Through their collaboration, which they de...Hebrew University in leading spots in world university rankings
...ed for the third consecutive year - are based on a scale of indicators that include academic peer reviews, citations of academic papers written by faculty members, staff to student ratios, number of foreign students, number of researchers and a survey of global recruiters of graduates. The ranking was comp...End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
...g, came to agree that forest transition on a major scale is underway and have now collectively demonstrated.... Waggoner: "A rapid forest transition at a global scale would mean that atmospheric CO2 might not rise as fast as many fear." As well, forest transitions ...Climate changes are linked between Greenland and the Antarctic
...roject (NGRIP). Based on the new synchronized time scale the scientists were able to compare high-resolution temperature proxy records from north and south. This showed that the Bipolar Seesaw occurred throughout and most probably beyond the last glacial period. "It is really astounding how systematically ...A buffet for early human relatives
...if they had variability in their diets on the time scale of a few months to a few years," he says. "The new method showed that their diets were extremely variable. One possibility is that they were migrating seasonally between more forested habitats to more open, savanna habitats." Study coauthor and ge......ut also because it indicates that relatively large scale melting of landbased icesheets occurred in Greenland or the Antarctic. It is the very rapid rise in sea level from catastrophic melting of landbased icesheets where there the greatest uncertainty and concern lies. Now from the Margaret River corals ...Penn researcher shows that DNA gets kinky easily at the nanoscale
...aid. ''Its resistance to large-angle bends at this scale is much smaller than previously suspected." Nelson...rsect. "The nanoscale just happens to also be the scale at which cell biology operates," Nelson said. "We're entering an era when we are able to use the to...Global map shows new patterns of extinction risk
...ide map of all species in these groups, on a finer scale than ever before. Professor Ian Owens, one of the paper's authors from Imperial College London's Division of Biology, and the Natural Environment Research Council's Centre for Population Biology, said: "For the first time ever this global mapping ...Boston College to develop urban environmental science curriculum for use in urban high schools
...plement and evaluate the curriculum and then later scale the materials across the nation. "The team is particularly excited about the opportunity to bring the fruits of this interdisciplinary Boston College partnership, which has transformed science education in Boston, to the national scale," said Straus...Looking to a new era in bee research
...ney Bee Genome Sequencing Project (HBGSP), a large scale communal project led by the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Human Genome Research Institute, is expected to usher in a bright new era of bee research, benefiting agriculture, biological research and human health. Papers ap...New biologic treatment for tennis elbow may replace surgery for chronic sufferers
... scored at least a 60 of 100 using a visual analog scale (a continuum on which a person rates the severity ...ge was 48 years. Their baseline score on the pain scale was 80.3. Five patients served as a control (non-PRP) group and received a 2 to 3 mL injection of a...ASU embarks on NSF grant for Nanotechnology Solar Energy Initiative
...rgy research by building devices atom by atom at a scale a thousand times finer than the width of a human h...ng science of DNA nanoarchitecture -- or molecular scale DNA origami -- for folding DNA into a broad range of technological applications important for human ...NRC team uses new Quantum Technology to control molecules
.... Quantum technologies make use of the molecular scale properties of matter. At this scale, which is diff.... Quantum technologies aim to manipulate molecular scale behaviour, in a way not usually seen in nature, for fundamentally new applications. For example, met...Squeeze play: Protein's grip like a baseball bunter's
...d time-scale, which is important because that time scale is relevant for fast-twitching muscles," he said. ...tty hard to measure motion at the microsecond time scale using NMR."......ral enemies in their wheat fields, thanks to pilot scale research co-sponsored by the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee; USDA, CSREES Special Research Grants; the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology; and the BNSF Railway Foundation. However, the process of locating parasitic wasp po...New technique boosts size of proteins that can be analyzed
...at the bottom-up approach is often used for larger scale studies of proteins because it can identify a large number of proteins from a sample, but it does not provide a complete picture of each protein. The top-down approach, on the other hand, measures the whole protein and thus provides more confident id...Gateway to Nanoscience: The convergence of disciplines
...osciences explore what happens on the "nanometric" scale and thus in a dimension, where our understanding o...ntext many issues will be addressed: How can nano scale research improve the quality of life? Will future energy problems be powered on nano-scale? How will...Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows
...ion of whether we can have native salmon and large scale aquaculture as it is currently practiced in the same place," said Dr. Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist at Dalhousie University. "It also raises a more distant specter," said Dobson. "When are we going to see the first human disease caused by ...Urgent call to action issued to protect world's most vulnerable populations from influenza pandemic
...alth. "That hasn't really happened on a widespread scale yet, and is in part what prompted the Bellagio meeting in the first place." "There is much work to do, and it will not be easy," said Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, which sponsored the meeting. "With the Bellagio Statement o...