Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
... These awards are a fitting tribute to scientific work of the highest rank, and a testament to the quality of research that happens every day at Argonne, he said. This years winners from Argonne are: Access Grid, a piece of open-source teleconferencing software. A passive millimeter-wave spec...High-intensity ultrasound may launch attack on cancer, wherever it lurks
...hem. But Duke researchers now find that HIFU might work even better if it is first delivered in a manner that just shakes the cells. That shaking ruptures tumor cell membranes, causing them to spill their contents. The toxic spill then alerts the immune system to the cancer threat, leading to the producti...Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing more rapidly than expected
...ill offset climate change, Bruno said. We can also work on mitigating the effects of other stressors to corals including nutrient pollution and destructive fishing practices. Although reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean globally, they play an integral role in coastal communities, Bruno said....Taking a supplement of glycine helps prevent degenerative diseases such as arthrosis or osteoporosis
...e difficulty of repairing physical injuries. The work of De Paz Lugo was developed at the Cellular Metab...or influence the development of the disease. The work carried out by the scientist from the CMI shows that collagen has a unique structure with a right-ha...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...ment to the training of younger scientists. Scotts work on the AKAP family of scaffold proteins has transformed the field of intracellular signaling. He has also been an exemplary trainer of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have gone on to make their own contributions to the field of signal ...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...ordeiro and colleagues have shown that drugs which work to prevent the build up of the beta-amyloid protein in Alzheimer brains can be used to treat glaucoma in animal models. One such drug, Bapineuzumab, is already being used in clinical trials to treat Alzheimer's patients by pharmaceutical companies El...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...del will render the color of the water. The new work extends well beyond milk and ocean water to a wide...ed the milk example to show that the new model can work backwards and determine how much fat and protein a sample of milk contains, based on just a digital ...Biologist traces coconut's history through DNA
... historical relationships among populations. The work will be done in collaboration with Bee Gunn, a research specialist at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Portable nutrition The coconut played a crucial role in the history of human exploration and dispersal across the tropics, and it cont...Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice
...he extent of gender differences in the brain. The work of Dulac and her colleagues promises to open a new window to the neural mechanisms that underlie gender-based behavior in animals by bringing the senses and an animal's ability to process what it sees, hears, and smells into the equation. What occur...A sensory organ, not the brain, differentiates male and female behavior in some mammals
...x-specific behavior," Dulac says. "Remarkably, our work suggests that neuronal circuits underlying male-specific behaviors develop and persist in the female mouse brain, but are repressed by the normal activity of the vomeronasal organ." "In fact, our research suggests a new model where exactly the same...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
... European Unions MARBEF Network of Excellence, the work is part of the History of Marine Animal Population...fishing throughout the last century. We hope our work will inspire a more precautionary approach to the management of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic, with m...ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
...ld Circle awards are a great testament to the hard work and thought we put into to create these programs. The awards recognize innovative ideas and achievement in association communication campaigns and will be presented at special ceremony during ASAEs annual meeting on August 11 in Chicago. MicrobeW...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...pursue his project and build on five years of hard work culminating in the solution of an equation in stri...ng young researchers from anywhere in the world to work in Europe for the further development of European science, contributing to building up the next gene...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...very hospital staff member, the survey found. More work and new work are inevitable, as are increasing system demandsUnless we make a concerted effort to avoid, manage, ...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...ow planning to investigate which E2 and E3 enzymes work with UBE1L2 and determine whether they also work with the original E1. The scientists also would like to investigate a potential role for UBE1L2 in m......rking to fix what's broken, but whether the repair work happens "on the road" right where the damage occurs or "in the shop" at specific regions of the nucleus is an unanswered question. That question may now be closer to an answer. By comparing computer models of damaged human DNA with microscopic...Biologists at Tufts University discover 1 reason why chromosomes break, often leading to cancer
...hat gene or delete part of that gene so it doesn't work anymore, that can lead to tumors. The fact that there is fragility in the same region that this gene is located is a bad coincidence." "Fragility can cause deletions and deletions can cause cancer, so you want to understand the fragility because th...Success or failure of antidepressant citalopram predicted by gene variation
...er understanding of which treatments are likely to work for each patient. Results of the study are in the August issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, reported by lead researcher Francis J. McMahon, MD, Silvia Paddock, PhD, of NIMH, and colleagues. Scientists from the National Human Genome Research......m, Friedman said. Shoshonia also supports recent work by the University of Chicagos Neil Shubin, Marcus Davis and Randall Dahn that showed genetic expression of developmental patterns in fish fins and tetrapod limbs are conserved (Nature, May 24, 2007). With this fossil, we have a conservative pattern i......s, called macrophages, and begins to multiply. The work is a significant advance because it will make it much easier to identify precise new targets for better anthrax drugs and vaccines, says Bergman, a research assistant professor of Bioinformatics at the U-M Medical School. In strategies to quell the...