North Shore-LIJ receives FDA approval for new drug application to manufacture PET scan drug
...anning. Once the radioactive atoms are produced, a sophisticated radiochemistry instrument such as a Fludeoxyglucose synthesizer incorporates the radioactive atoms into a chemical compound such as deoxyglucose and produces the drug. Fludeoxyglucose F 18 is manufactured in a saline solution, stored in glass vials a...NIH grants $11 million to Brown University for cancer research
...on, powerful microscopes were purchased along with sophisticated instruments to study gene activity and protein structure. These tools are used not only to study cancer, but also fertility, aging and brain development as well as heart disease, diabetes and addiction. Brown was among the first universities to estab...Geologists use biotools to understand geosystems
...id. "We study bacteria and other microorganisms in sophisticated ways. Geoscience Ph.D. students take courses in microbiology and biochemistry and apply biotools to geosystems." Ph.D. student Tracy (Cail) Bank did her dissertation research on the sticking efficiencies of Enterococcus faecalis bacteria, which cause...Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds
...he can change. This raises a bigger question about sophisticated social awareness in fish. After all, socialization requires more brainpower, and all vertebrates--fish, amphibians, birds, humans--use a variety of cues in the environment." The difficult question that remains, according to Fernald, is to figure out...Humble yeast sheds light on promising anti-cancer drug
... that we've used the humble yeast, which is a less sophisticated cell than a human cell, to reveal the molecular secrets of the drug and how it works in humans. The GSAO story GSAO (glutathionarsenoxide) is an angiogenesis inhibitor drug that "starves" tumour cells by stopping them from making blood vessels -- ...Humans are governed by emotionsliterally
...ut politicians and marketers have become ever more sophisticated when it comes to manipulating people by manipulating their emotions. One of the functions of law should be to keep deliberative control in the picture, especially at times of high emotion when it is needed the most," Loewenstein said....Trained wasps may be used to detect bombs, bugs, bodies and more
...use than trained dogs and more sensitive than some sophisticated chemical detection methods, including electronic noses, the researchers say. Their experimental device is described in a study slated to be published in the Jan.-Feb. issue of Biotechnology Progress , a joint publication of the American Chemical Soc...Selective logging causes widespread destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, study finds
...the research team had refined its technique into a sophisticated remote-sensing technology called the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System (CLAS), which processes data from three NASA satellites--Landsat 7, Terra and Earth Observing 1--through a powerful supercomputer equipped with new pattern-recognition approaches d...Bees solve complex colour puzzles
Bees have a much more sophisticated visual system than previously thought, according t...not only solve this difficult task, which the most sophisticated computers still can't resolve, but suggests they do so by using the colour relationships between obj...New imaging method shows early in treatment if brain cancer therapy is effective
...ot succeeding. If this is the case, we can use our sophisticated radiation planning techniques to target higher radiation doses to the regions that are not responding," says study author Theodore Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., Isadore Lampe Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology at the U-M Medical School. In the study,...California's oak woodlands face a new threat: Climate change
...d first author of the study. The researchers used sophisticated climate models to project what California's climate may be like in the final decade of the 21st century, assuming a "business-as-usual" scenario for ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases. Based on those projections, they predicted the potential range...Engaging prior learning on creationism and evolution may benefit college biology students
... support students as they progressed toward a more sophisticated cognitive mode by engaging them at the level of their initial understanding--including their initial ideas about creationism. Although alternative explanations are possible, Verhey maintains that his results suggest engaging prior learning "was an ef...Superconducting magnet attracts molecular research
...al and biochemical research because it is the most sophisticated analytical tool available for determining the three-dimensional structure and motion of biological molecules in solution. The average hospital-based MRI has an electromagnetic field of about 7 Tesla, while this superconducting magnet is more than twi...... hypothesis, Schwaninger's group had established a sophisticated method of creating a stroke-like condition in mice, a model that can be used to investigate new therapies.What would happen if the activity of NF-kB in neurons were blocked after a stroke? To test this, genetic mouse models were required. The group o...Grid bridges 4,800 miles for molecular repositories
... molecular scientists to collaborate in a far more sophisticated way than we've been able to ever before. The ramifications of sharing terascale data are huge." While there have been attempts to launch similar grid networks in the United States, none are currently active, Straatsma said. The PNNL node on the BioSi...ORNL scientists looking at nature in a new way
Improved tools and increasingly sophisticated approaches are helping researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a better understanding of how organisms respond to and interact with their environment. Through the Detection and Simulation of Ecosystem Response Initiative, scientists are tak...NJIT mathematician receives Fulbright to study thin film science in Argentina
...ociologists, and political scientists also utilize sophisticated mathematical modeling to deal with detailed problems associated with human behavior. Kondic is the author of more than 50 research articles. His most recent scholarly article, "On Nontrivial Traveling Waves in Thin Film Flows, Including Contact Line...'Computer-chemistry' yields new insight into a puzzle of cell division
...eticulous biochemical studies, but also from using sophisticated simulation techniques to perform "chemistry in the computer." In a paper published Nov. 24, 2005 online in the journal Biochemistry, members of the interdisciplinary collaboration described how they discovered the probable orientation required for a ...GROWing the next generation of water recycling plants
...ch' in the traditional sense. "It does not require sophisticated maintenance, just tending, like any garden," says Butler. The next aim for GROW is to see if it can be reduced in size to sit above a household water butt, making it serviceable for individual households. The team will also investigate whether the ad...Pretreating rogue cancer cells with aspirin cripples their resistance to targeted therapy
...cent years, scientists have gained an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of apoptosis, which has led to the development of a number of therapies targeted to repairing or bypassing damaged apoptotic processes in cancer cells. TRAIL is one of the more promising of these agents, and a synthesi...