Changing climate will challenge Northeast agriculture, CU expert warns
...r cool dairy barns, the extra costs involved could squeeze out small family farmers. The apple industry also could be threatened as winters become so warm that the "winter chilling" period required for maximum flowering and yield is no longer met. "With a lower emissions scenario, apple and other affected tr...Now playing -- Cell migration LIVE!
...ed to think that Kuzbanian allowed border cells to squeeze themselves between other cells as they moved, Montell says, but only now do we understand the real reason cells couldnt move. We can see them valiantly trying to detach from the wall but unable to pull away. Montell and her team tediously worked o...MIT-led team uncovers malaria mechanism
...od cells start to lose their ability to deform and squeeze through tiny blood vessels-one of the hallmarks of...eton, allowing the cell to become more fluidic and squeeze through narrow passages. But when RESA binds to the network, it likely interferes with the proteins'...Researcher receives $1.8M AIDS-related grant
...that the viruses may infect cells that are able to squeeze through the protective blood-brain barrier. "This remains an important problem to solve," Johnson said. Johnson's newest five-year grant will help him unravel the mystery of exactly how the JC virus does its damage. While many have theorized that d...Laser goes tubing for faster body-fluid tests
... undamaged samples for other kinds of tests. "We squeeze a small amount of fluid into the tube," said Berger. "In 10 or 20 seconds, we have a chemical breakdown, and we can see the presence of a lot of chemicals all at once. Theres no chemistry performed, and theres no touching of the fluid." The tubing ...Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes
...rove for a diverse group of scientists, who try to squeeze as much information as possible from the largest metagenomic dataset ever collected. For more information about the expedition, please go to: the J. Craig Venter Institute (URL: www.sorcerer2expedition.org and www.venterinstitute.org )...Pioneering research into health benefits of beauty treatment
...inum toxin relaxes the bladder muscle so it cannot squeeze so hard, and so reduces the need to pass water frequently or suddenly. It may also reduce the sensation of having a full bladder. Dr Douglas Tincello commented: Overactive bladder is very difficult to treat well. Lots of our patients try different ta...'Biomimetic Technologies' project will create first soft-bodied robots
... like nuclear reactors and landmine detection, and squeeze more efficiently into tight spaces." In addition to Trimmer and Kaplan, Assistant Professors Robert White, mechanical engineering, and Sameer Sonkusale, electrical and computer engineering, will supervise projects in the Tufts Microfabrication Labo...Contrary to common wisdom, scientist discovers some mammals can smell objects under water
...the grid were too small for the star appendages to squeeze through but large enough so the air bubbles could pass without difficulty. These trials demonstrated that the moles could follow the scent trail by sniffing alone (without the tactile star). Five moles were tested on earthworm scent trails and foll...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 15, 2006
...is on biofuels, solar energy and new technology to squeeze more oil from existing fields, according to the cover story in the Nov. 20 edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the ACS' weekly newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN reporters Rick Mullin, Marc Reisch and Alexander Tullo focus on progress a...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 8, 2006
...l of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Putting the squeeze on milk may be a long-sought solution to the search for improved ways of killing harmful bacteria in milk and increasing its shelf life without introducing off-flavors into the beverage, researchers report. Michael C. Qian and colleagues at Oregon ...MIT engineers probe spiders' polymer art
...lippery enough to slide past each other easily and squeeze through the spider's ampullate gland. As the silk gel flows from the gland through an S-shaped, tapered canal to the outside of the spider's body, the long protein molecules become aligned and the viscosity (or resistance to flow) drops by a factor o...Glue made from ethanol-production leftovers may be worth more than the fuel itself
... Weimer. Rather than dwelling on finding ways to squeeze extra ethanol out of biomass from crops such as switchgrass, Weimer is concentrating his research on the leftovers. He thinks that the large heap of fermentation residue from the ethanol-making process - what many people consider a byproduct - could...Microcapsules open in tumor cells
... can use this technology to create medicines which squeeze microcapsules into tumour cells. There is still no way to "steer" the microcapsules. Helmuth Mohwald says, "we have to add some kind of feature to the capsules so that they only recognise the target cells." Only these cells would then allow microcaps...3-D model reveals secrets of metastasis
...that hinder forward progress." Cells must either squeeze through or chop up these putative vines to get any...he integrins are disabled and consequently tend to squeeze through the vines rather than pushing them aside. "Our findings help explain why two-dimensional a...ACS Weekly PressPac -- June 26, 2006
...panel liquid crystal displays (LCD) is putting the squeeze on companies that often are forgotten players in b...does not mean higher profits. One aspect of the squeeze involves shortages of key materials, such as indium, a metal essential for making indium tin oxide, ...UT Southwestern scientist honored among best in Texas research
... immune cells can change rapidly, allowing them to squeeze through extremely narrow openings in blood vessel walls to travel to the site of infection. Dr. Rosen's research is aimed at understanding the structural and biophysical bases of signaling pathways that regulate actin, a protein that is the basic b...Purdue biologists clarify how a cellular 'spacecraft' opens its airlock
...ls use for energy. When ATP causes the tweezers to squeeze shut, the membrane proteins open to reveal a small cavity that can hold a nutrient or other substance the cell requires from the outside. Once the nutrient is in place, the cell uses water to break down the ATP, signaling the "tweezers" to relax, clo...Species take care of each other in ecological communities
...ean no one species will take up too much space and squeeze others out, says new research conducted in part at the University of Alberta that shows how ecological communities regulate themselves. Dr. Fangliang He is part of a research team that studied fundamental questions plaguing scientists since Darwin's ...No small feat: First ever gene therapy success for muscular dystrophy achieved
...e makes it impossible for researchers to get it to squeeze inside viral vectors disarmed viruses that are used to shuttle genes into cells. But the team found a good stand-in in a similar protein called agrin that when miniaturized could be inserted inside an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector. Dr. Xiao's ...