UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
...fuel standard. The LCFS, together with Californias vehicle greenhouse-gas standards, will advance automobile ...made in innovation and learning. Passenger vehicle owners: The LCFS will bring a greater variety of fuels to the market. Fueling infrastructure will ev...Under magnetic force, nanoparticles may deliver gene therapy
...ven delivery system also may find broader use as a vehicle for delivering drugs, genes or cells to a target organ. This is a novel delivery system, the first to use a biodegradable, magnetically driven polymer to achieve clinically relevant effects, said study leader Robert J. Levy, M.D., the William J. Rash...Discoverer of Sly Syndrome finds way of delivering medicine to fight rare genetic disorder
...les. If you can get the enzyme into the brain, the vehicle that delivered it could work to deliver other chemicals, too, says William A. Banks, M.D., professor of geriatrics and pharmacological and physiological sciences at Saint Louis University, and a leading researcher on the blood-brain barrier. Sly Sy...New research seeks to enhance alternative fuel integration in public vehicle fleets
...anol on propulsion system durability, reliability, vehicle availability and life-cycle cost. CIMS will also b...ship will study the potential expansion of the E85 vehicle fleet, explore additional types of flex-fuel vehicles that meet County work requirements, analyze me......n and migrate to it, and so might be utilized as a vehicle for treatment that can find both primary tumors and small metastases. These stem cells also have some plasticity, which means they can be converted by the micro environment of a given tissue into specialized cells, Altaner says. After extracting th...Today's waste, tomorrow's fuel
...ing to recycle precious metals from road dusts and vehicle exhausts to create greener energy. The innovative research by scientists from the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Science working with the University of Birmingham is to be featured at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (2-5 July). ...Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs
...gy at Penn State. "Mushrooms could make the ideal vehicle for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals to treat a broad array of human illnesses. But nobody has been able to come up with a feasible way of doing that." Dr. Romaine and his colleague, Xi Chen, then a post-doctoral scholar at Penn State and no...Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life
...search team. We used a small, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to explore the submerged sides of the icebergs and the waters between the bergs and where the ship was, standing off at a safe distance, said Bruce Robison of MBARI, an oceanographer and ROV pilot. We flew the ROV into underwater caves and to t...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... for 14 d received intrathecal injection of either vehicle or the irreversible EGFR inhibitor PD168393 (4-[3(bromophenyl)-amino]-6-acrylamidoquinazoline) at the injury site. Treated rats showed greater and faster recovery in locomotion, sensory function, bladder control, and weight gain compared with control...NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole
PITTSBURGH -- A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeat...enerating a sonar map of its inner dimensions. The vehicle employed autonomous navigation and mapping systems developed by Carnegie Mellon Universitys Robotics...Virus widely used in gene therapy research yields important clues to genomic instability
...binant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is a powerful vehicle to deliver genes into various tissues in cells and animals, and these viruses, or vectors, are of great interest not only in the field of human gene therapy but also as a tool to express genes of interest in target cells for research on various human...Ants show us how to make super-highways
...ry road user who has ever inwardly cursed as their vehicle bounced across a pothole jarring every bone in their body will identify with this story. When it comes to rapid road repairs, the ants have their own do-it-yourself highways agency." "When the traffic has passed, the down-trodden ants climb out ...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
.... The authors trained rats to discriminate between vehicle and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in cannabis. The α 7 receptor-selective antagonist methyllycaconitine (MLA) diminished the ability of the rats to make this discrimination, whereas the non-α 7 receptor antagon...New research advances energy efficiency, safety and performance of public transit
...rch project designed to implement state-of-the-art vehicle monitoring technology into public transit fleets. ...e fleet in increasing energy efficiency, improving vehicle performance and increasing overall safety. Ultimately, the project will also assist the authority in...Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence
...omass will be sufficient to provide 100 percent of vehicle transportation fuel through this technology." In addition, the use of carbohydrates from biomass as transportation fuels will produce zero net carbon dioxide emissions and bring benefits to national energy security and the economy, Zhang said....ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 16, 2007
... from coal, with increased OC emissions from motor vehicle exhaust. With less sulfur dioxide (toxic to microorganisms) and more OC, microbes can grow in crusts on buildings and transform compounds contributing a color change. "In particular, one should note that modern deposits have taken on a slightly dif...NASA mission explores world's deepest sinkhole
...science program. Its an ambitious program, but the vehicle performed well in two earlier field tests at the La Pilita cenote in Mexico." DEPTHX is unique among autonomous underwater vehicles in its ability to navigate untethered in complicated, sometimes closely confined underwater spaces. Much of the cenot...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 25, 2007
...na appears to be the ideal production and delivery vehicle for HBV vaccine, and the further research and development needed to exploit bananas in the global battle against HBV. ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE"Production of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen in Recombinant Plant Systems: An Update" DOWNLOAD PDF...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2007
...available diesel fuels. The fuels can also improve vehicle operating characteristics. Savings would be derived from royalty-free nonexclusive licenses to petroleum refiners. DOEs Office of Policy and International Affairs funded development of the methodology and the patented fuels. [Contact: Ron Walli, (865...'Junk' DNA now looks like powerful regulator, Stanford researcher finds
.... "Now we've shown that transposons may be a major vehicle for evolutionary novelty," he said. The paper's first author, Craig Lowe, a graduate student in Haussler's lab at UC-Santa Cruz, said finding the transposons was just the first step. "Now we are trying to nail down exactly what the elements are doi...