New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
...ill become easier to detect in ready-to-eat meats, thanks to a new biosensor developed by scientists at Purdue University. A team of food scientists has developed a sensor that can detect the potentially deadly bacteria Listeria monocytogenes in less than 24 hours at concentrations as low as 1,000 cells per...New Jersey Institute of Technology professor to develop supersized virtual library
...pth reference option will be coming your way soon thanks to a professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Led by Michael Bieber, PhD, associate professor of information systems and co-director of the Collaborative Hypermedia Research Laboratory at NJIT, a group of information scientists and lib...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
...rtment at the University, with 12 faculty members, thanks largely to significant funding from the Whitaker Foundation. Nearly 150 undergraduate students have majored in biomedical engineering in the past five years. This weekend the University broke ground on a new $30 million building to house the Departme...Gladstone researchers resolve key Huntington's disease mystery in Nature cover story
...iated Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, thanks to a specially designed microscope that allows researchers to track changes in cells, including those associated with neurodegeneration, over long lengths of time. As reported in the cover story in the current issue of Nature (Oct. 14, 2004), the tea...Researchers tracking sources of arsenic contamination in water
... graduated, so two undergraduates are being added, thanks to a supplement NSF grant to support undergraduate researchers (REU)....Growth factors confer immortality to sperm-generating stem cells
...at demonstrated the success of the culture system, thanks to the expression of the GFP gene that made the mice glow green under ultraviolet light. "The identification of the exogenous factors that allow these stem cells to proliferate in culture establishes the foundation to study the basic biology of sperm...UK scientist and children's author wins EMBO Award for Communications 2004
...Me and HIV will be available from January 2005 and thanks to funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will reach 100,000 more children and educators in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2001 Frances Balkwill has also been the driving force behind another major science education project much closer ...Research effort seeks A's to gene expression Q's
...ties of gene-sequence data are pouring out of labs thanks to dramatic gains in DNA sequencing technology, but that's only a start. The real question is how genetic information translates into biological activity. Gene expression---the complex process by which some genes are turned on, others off---is an ess...2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals 15,589 species at risk of extinction
...omplete assessments of all the world's amphibians, thanks to the Global Amphibian Assessment completed in September. This year also marks the debut of the Red List Index, a new tool for measuring trends in extinction risk. Red List Indices are currently available for birds and amphibians, and show that thei...New pheromone creates buzz about the clout of older bees
...fe are biologically better suited for brood care, thanks to some boosted blood protein. Bees forced out too early aren't great navigators, and since foraging is dangerous, they risk dying before their time. "Our idea has never been disproved, but the lack of mechanism drove me crazy," said Huang. "Now w...The logic of life brings order to our genes
.... Now that the problem has been solved, it was not thanks to simulations on a powerful computer it has been sufficient with observations, logical thinking and mathematical labor....Russia- wide tiger count begins
... surveys, of course, are very expensive today, but thanks to the support of both the federal government and non-governmental organizations, we'll be able to obtain this vital information in 2005." In fact, for the first time in 10 years the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has allocated funds for tig...Dwarf mistletoe reveals its sexual secrets
...rsal stages," says Dr. Ross. "Neighbouring plants, thanks to their more mundane sex life, would likely be safe from whatever we use to kill the pathogen." Mistletoe's association with sacred winter celebrations, fertility and kissing is an ancient one, extending back into pre-Christian Europe. The European...INEEL-designed system assists army with chemical weapon destruction
...itment to destroy thousands of chemical munitions, thanks in part, to the efforts of engineers, scientists and technicians at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. Earlier this year, the U.S. Army's Technical Escort Unit at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluf...Four Max Planck Partner Groups starting in India
...nstitute for Physics, hopes for important impulses thanks to this cooperation. - The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart will be establishing a Partner Group with the topic "Clarification of chemical bonds and physical properties of new materials," which will be headed by Dr. Tansuri ...Satellites plus software equal best-ever Mediterranean heat map
...lometre of ocean to an accuracy of 0.2 C. In fact, thanks to its high accuracy, AATSR is helping to calibrate other sensors employed by the Medspiration project. Other satellites may have decreased accuracy or resolution, but potentially make up for it with cloud-piercing microwave abilities or much larger...ESA's Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
...paration after seven years of living together. Our thanks to our partners at NASA for the lift. Each spacecraft will now continue on its own but we expect they'll keep in touch to complete this amazing mission. Now all our hopes and expectations are focused on getting the first in-situ data from a new world...New technique for tracking gene regulators
...ing the genes they regulate just got a step easier thanks to a new technique developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. The technique could greatly speed the process of unraveling the role these proteins play in turning on and off the genes that establish the ...Bone specialists' hi-tech answer to patient care
...e successful delivery of the complex IT project is thanks to the collaborative nature of ESDN itself." The technology behind the system was provided by Certus Technology, a young IT company with engineering and consulting experience.Dr Mike Briggs, of the Wellcome Trust Centre For Cell Matrix Research in Ma...New method simplifies search for genetic changes associated with disease
...f DNA for genetic changes associated with disease, thanks to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers developed a method called direct genomic selection that accelerates the transition between family or population-based studies of disease inheritance patterns and ...