Washington University in St. Louis to invest $55 million for renewable energy research
...eek solutions for a critical factor that faces the world this century, namely creating abundant and environmentally sustainable energy sources. It also adds an important component to the regional initiative to establish St. Louis as a leader in the development of renewable energy. The Danforth Center looks...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 30, 2007
...irect interconnection of the cells to the external world by interfacing nanomaterials may afford great opportunities to probe and manipulate biological processes occurring inside cells, across membranes, and between neighboring cells," their report states. "Our results suggest that the nanowires can be pot...Researchers track how spores break out of dormant state
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Tapping into the unknown world of awakening dormant bacterial spores, researchers have revealed through atomic force microscopy (AFM) the alterations of spore coat and germ cell wall that accompany the transformation from a spore to a vegetative cell. When starved of nutrients B......rt certain membrane-bound molecules to the outside world by means of small sacs known as exosomes. By studying human T-cells under a microscope, Gould, Yi Fang, Ning Wu, and other members of his team discovered whats needed to qualify proteins for exosomal travel. Surprisingly, all thats needed for a pro...New treatment increases life time expectancy of patients suffering from advanced liver cancer
...Every year thousands of articles from all over the world are presented at ASCO, reflecting the last clinical and translational research progress within the areas of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The important role of Hospital Clnics presence at the ASCO Annual Meeting is centered in the ...Cellular message movement captured on video
...ural attachment points that link the extracellular world to the protein filaments and tubes that comprise a cells internal cytoskeleton. While researchers showed that paxillin serves as a docking station for a variety of signaling and structural proteins, they have been limited to visualizing paxillin w...2nd International EuroFIR Congress
...(European Food Information Resource Network) , the world leading European Network of Excellence on Food Composition Databank systems, is a partnership between 46 universities, research institutes and small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from 25 European countries. EuroFIR will provide the first compreh...Research finds evidence tropical cyclones have climate-control role
...on cyclone and hurricane intensity, is that as the world and the tropics warm, there will be an increase in the integrated intensity of hurricanes." Movies such as "The Day After Tomorrow" brought into the spotlight information about the ocean conveyer belt and its impact on climate. The upper part of th...Virus widely used in gene therapy research yields important clues to genomic instability
...s, the same virus that many researchers around the world use for gene therapy experiments. The results of their work are being presented at the 10th annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy, which is being held May 30 to June 3 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle. Rec...Energy 2100 Conference rescheduled to Fall 2007
...nvenience. Leading policy experts from around the world will gather to address global energy security and its environmental, economic and societal implications at Energy2100: Global Perspectives on a Sustainable Future. Noted speakers for the three-day conference will be announced. WHAT: Energy2100: G...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 23, 2007
... financially depend on selling that mercury on the world market. ARTICLE # 5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, May 28, 2007 "Mercury in Aging Chemical Plants Could End in and on the Hands of Gold Miners" This story will be available on May at: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/85/8522gov1.html FO...German-Korean collaboration in Polar and Marine research will be intensified
...ith three Korean partner institutes. "Germany is a world leader in the area of Polar and Marine Research" s...aculture, that will be very promising. Korea is a world leader in the area of marine aquaculture and this collaboration will be a great win for the AWI". T...... years, will market the system to commercial users world wide. The patented technology consists of a soil retriever that, for the first time, allows large-volume cores of earth to be removed from lysimeters without destroying the existing stratification and structure of the soil. Lysimeters are stainle...Biting discovery: MU entomologist finds host of new aquatic insect species in Thailand
...nsect species that are found in other parts of the world including the United States. Sites said the new insects, which possess names like Eotrechus elongatus and Ptilomera tennaserim, serve no specific ecological purpose other than to eat and reproduce. "From a scientific perspective, they'...Genome Canada, Gnome Qubec and Universit de Montral launch P3G Consortium and CARTaGENE Project
...ront of research on population genomics. Already a world leader in population health, Canada will now be ab... of genomics. "Our genomics researchers rank among world leaders in the development of insight into both environmental and genetic determinants of health," s...Revelle family endows UC San Diego chair honoring Roger Revelle
...f the nation's most prominent oceanographers and a world leader in the application of science and technolog...m the environment and education to agriculture and world population. He was described by New York Times science writer Walter Sullivan as one of the two or t...HIV in breast milk killed by flash-heating, new study finds
...lternatives are available. But in regions of the world where mothers cannot afford the cost of infant formula, water is contaminated, or other socio-cultural conditions make replacement feeding difficult, WHO recommends exclusively breastfeeding for up to six months. "The risks and benefits of heating ...Alarming acceleration in CO2 emissions worldwide
...ta gross domestic product. The study** divided the world into the USA, the European Union, Japan, the nations of the former Soviet Union, China, India, and three regions covering the rest of the world. Between 2000 and 2004 the developing countries accounted for a large majority of the growth in emissio...Another world-first for LCT's Xeno facilities
...ar as we know, there is no other single lab in the world that can do the testing for the full panel of viru...Dr Tan. LCT is the first and only company in the world to have established the necessary current requirements for animal cell transplants through a biocer...BioMed Central announces new interdisciplinary Biofuels Journal
...boratory. In recent years governments around the world have responded to the challenges posed by global warming by searching for new ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Many governments, research institutes and private enterprises are investing heavily in the development of improved technologies for...