Solitons could power molecular electronics, artificial muscles
...ces. Before solitons can be fully exploited in a wider range of applications, scientists must learn more about their basic properties, Li said. He's especially interested in how solitons carry a charge through conducting polymers, which consist of long, skinny chains of molecules. The tiny chains are p...Slow-frozen people? Latest research supports possibility of cryopreservation
...d successfully rewarmed. A major problem hindering wider use of cryopreservation is formation of ice crystals, which damage cell structures. cryopreservation may be most familiar, however, as the controversial idea that humans, stricken with incurable diseases, might be frozen and then revived years or dec...Teenage and 60-year-old mums are consequences of evolution
...ations, it is perhaps useful to consider it in the wider context. "Similarly, we should not be quite so prejudiced about older women who want fertility treatment. Before we criticise 62-year-old women who want to have babies, we should remember that it was not so long ago that women would only have had abo...UCSD researchers develop 'smart petri dish'
...ructures, 2 to 1,500 nanometers in diameter, or no wider than a human hair, that promote the flow of nutrients and chemicals through the cell culture and filter out larger particles such as bacteria and viruses. This design effectively persuades the cells to behave collectively the way they do in a fully f...First study to show IVF single embryo transfer as successful as double transfer in older women
... the woman. This is a finding that could encourage wider acceptance of single embryo transfer in women in their late 30s - an age group that up to now in most countries has been thought to benefit from having two embryos transferred at any one time, despite the risk of multiple births. The research, publis...Sweet success for pioneering hydrogen energy project
...rer picture of the overall potential for turning a wider range of high-sugar wastes into clean energy using the same basic technique....Tackling the social roots of health inequities
...inants of health across government departments and wider society. Irwin and colleagues discuss why the WHO has created the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which aims to strengthen health equity by "catalyzing policy and institutional change to address the social determinants of health within c...UGA study reveals a new way of looking at vaccine development
...opment of designer vaccines that protect against a wider range of diseases or work against diseases that are currently hard to prevent. In a study published in the May 23 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Robert J. Woods and his colleagues demonstrate precisely how an...New study finds key role for VEGF in onset of sepsis
...ings us back full circle to an appreciation of the wider role for VEGF in endothelial health and disease," he notes. "Despite many years of intense research, severe sepsis continues to be associated with an unacceptably high rate of mortality," adds Aird. "Each day in the U.S. between 500 and 600 individua...Bedsores and bald hides: Novel roles revealed for a 'scaffolding' protein
...rom literally falling apart turns out to have much wider utility. In a pair of reports, the protein K17 has been found to also influence wound healing and maintain the structural integrity of hair follicles, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. The wound-healing work, published in the May 18 issue of Na...Manchester plays host to international genetics network
...nother turn with the UK fertility watchdog backing wider screening. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which licenses clinics to use the technique, has approved the extension of embryo gene screening to cover breast cancer, ovarian cancer and a type of colon cancer. Carrying the singl...NYU algorithm enhances ability to detect cancer genes
...also showed that the algorithm may be applied to a wider class of problems--including the detection of oncogenes, which promote the growth of cancer when they are mutated or overexpressed. As the technology and the statistical algorithms of this nature keep improving in cost and accuracy, it will prove use...Interfering RNA silences genes in 'slippery' immune cells
...arch by Dr. Finkel's team aims to extend RNAi to a wider pool of researchers by making the technique less expensive and more widely available, as well as adapting it to T cells, a cell type previously intractable to such manipulation. Their technique combines three technologies already accessible to lab in...Key root-development pathway mapped using advanced genomic technique
... currently in epidemiological studies -- will find wider use in studying the development of organisms, Benfey said. "To our knowledge, this is the first time this statistical technique has been used in a developmental context," he said. "It is much more powerful than simply comparing the results from diffe...Bioportfolio: Life-long persistence of erythrovirus DNA genomes in human tissue
... (parvovirus) research, the ideas discussed are of wider interest because they explore in an imaginative way some fundamental biological events occurring during and after infection. The research group lead by professor Klaus Hedman at the University of Helsinki have investigated by qualitative and quantita...Open source and open medicine take centre stage at UN research symposium
...utputs. It also frames UNU-MERIT's activities in a wider global context by reporting on events and projects in other UNU Centres and Programmes, and elsewhere....UC San Diego scientists chart rapid advances of fluorescent tools for life-science research
...put drug screening, and are just beginning to find wider application in functional assays of living cells and animals....International scientists to present MRSA research in Liverpool
...acteria that cause disease in hospitals and in the wider community. This data is important to assess whether MRSA strains are increasing or decreasing in number and to provide advice to doctors on how to treat patients that might be at risk. Dr Horsburgh added: "My work in this area focuses on the mechani...Antioxidant tempol prevents pre-eclampsia, decreases fetal mortality in mice
...r's uterine blood vessels, making the vessels open wider to provide more blood supply to the fetus. The arteries of the non-tempol treated mice retained abnormally thick muscular walls, Hoffmann said. Next step The researchers will next perform studies to ensure the tempol does not have serious side effe......sponsive audience of peers, staff, mentors and the wider academic community. "This is a first for Australia and the Southern Hemisphere and UQ is delighted to be hosting such an important event catering specifically for undergraduate students and their teachers," he said. "The URC is distinguished by the...