Talking robots, green buildings, and shockwave healing
...ck waves, high-pressure acoustic disturbances that travel from one region to another, are already used to break up kidney stones. But new uses have emerged. Austrian surgeon Wolfgang Schaden ( ismst@aon.at ) will describe the use of shock waves on patients to heal non-union fractures, those that fail to ...Early Universe was packed with mini black holes
...ed through a critical point, letting CMB radiation travel freely for the first time as though a cosmic fog had lifted. But new evidence shows that 10 to 15 percent of this radiation has been scattered since then. This indicates a re-warming of the universe which nobody had expected. Haehnelt explains that ...A little stress gives beneficial oomph! to immune system
...roops of these immune cells into motion. The cells travel to potential battle stations primarily the skin along with the lymph nodes that drain the skin. "Most immune challenges or wounds involve on the skin or other epithelial linings of the body," Dhabhar said. "If nothing happens immunologically followi...To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
...ic salmon, of whom the vast majority but not all travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched. There are chinook salmon populations in Idaho in which an occasional male stays put and matures when only 6 inches long that is, he's able to fertilize eggs at even that diminuti...National Academies news: Conference on genomics revolution set for November 2005
...in late July. The FUTURES INITIATIVE will pay all travel expenses, including lodging and meals, for invited researchers. Each year the National Academies Keck FUTURES INITIATIVE hosts a conference to bring together more than 100 of the nation's best and brightest researchers from academia, industry, and g...Migration study finds that sweeping management changes are needed to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna
...900 pounds. The tags track individual fish as they travel thousands of miles across the sea, to depths below... tagged bluefin frequently ignore the boundary and travel back and forth across the Atlantic, raising serious questions about whether ICCAT quotas protect vul...3-D study of immune cell interactions reveals details of an effective antibody response
...ing in different organs of the body, T and B cells travel to distinct regions in the spleen and lymph nodes - B cells amassing in follicles and T cells in T zones - in search of alien antigens. Upon encountering antigens, B and T lymphocytes migrate to the edges of their respective zones and compare notes. ...Scripps research scientists identify infertility molecule
... produce healthy eggs. The sperm has to be able to travel up the fallopian tubes to reach the egg, and once there, it must be able to fertilize the egg. Finally, the fertilized egg must become a viable embryo and implant in the uterus. Problems can occur in any one of these steps along the way...Researchers develop new method for facile identification of proteins in bacterial cells
...s protein fragments based on the time they need to travel a defined distance when being accelerated in a vacuum. In their study, Rolf U. Halden, PhD, PE, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences Bloomberg School of Public Health and his colleagues demonstrate how PMF and mass s...Discovery of an American salamander where it shouldn't be: Korea
...reserved specimens, though Vieites is scheduled to travel to Korea in May to scout the area, which is heavily populated and in the past has been nearly deforested. "The Korean people, already well sensitized to the importance of their natural heritage and the symbolic value of their previously known and bel...Cancer exploits the body's wound-healing process
...r cells. Found primarily in the blood, these cells travel throughout the body and help aid wounded tissue by enabling new blood vessels to form, a process called angiogenesis. They are an integral part of the body's ability to heal itself. The stromal cells in the breast cancer tumor produce SDF-1, which i...Motor transport in bio-nano systems
...x patterns of intracellular traffic: some vesicles travel from the cell center to the periphery and vice versa, some shuttle between different organelles or cellular compartments. An extreme case is provided by the long-ranged transport of vesicles and organelles along the axons between our nerve cells, whi...Cigarette smoke exacerbates alcohol's effects on defense against Streptococcus pneumoniae
... that is able to evade the action of the cilia and travel from the nasopharynx into the lungs." Gentry-Nielsen said that alcoholics are more susceptible to S. pneumoniae infections for several reasons. "They have a decreased gag reflex and an increased risk of movement of nasopharyngeal and gastric conte...Tiny toads fitted with backpacks
...kpacks' containing radio transmitters. The signals travel up to one kilometre and will allow Browne to locate the toads and to take note of their preferred habitat. Browne began radio-tracking toads at Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton, Alberta last year, and confirming earlier research, was unable...More than 250 experts attend NJIT's math conference
...appy to report that 60 junior researchers received travel subsidies to attend and at least 40 junior researchers were from institutions other than NJIT." ...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
... atmospheric conditions, low-frequency calls could travel 6 miles or more through the air. Now in private in...do, indeed, generate measurable seismic waves that travel along the surface of the ground. In 1999, the UC-Davis team developed a mathematical model predictin...Decoding the logic of olfaction
...ry bulb. Signals from the olfactory bulb, in turn, travel to the brain's olfactory cortex. Information from the olfactory cortex is then sent to many regions of the brain, ultimately leading to the perceptions of odors and their emotional and physiological effects. Although there are about a thousand differ...Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus
...ew York Racing Association (NYRA) on May 18 issued travel restrictions for all horses that might have been exposed to equine herpes virus, with special attention paid to those stabled at Churchill Downs since May 1. In some 90 percent of infected horses, equine herpes virus type 1 (EHV-1) leads to a mild u...Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain
...es into living cells, HSV has a natural ability to travel long distances along nerve fibers to reach the neural cell's nucleus, which makes it the perfect gene delivery vehicle for use in the nervous system. "When we inject our HSV gene carrier under the skin of a laboratory rat, the vector is taken up by s......ing microbe "arms" the dendritic cells, which then travel from the infection site to the lymph nodes where they activate specific T cells. These stimulated T cells proliferate and go through a transformation process, first becoming effector cells that can fight the infection and then developing memory chara...