Scientists train nano-'building blocks' to take on new shapes, as reported in Science
...s could produce different shapes. Although their labs are located some 900 miles apart, the scientists say their research has been a great and synergistic collaboration. In the world of self-assembly for nanotechnology, it's challenging to make something other than the shape of a ball, Pochan noted. I......envelope in the final results of this study, other labs will likely try to repeat the results in animals. Much more research is needed before any possible human anti-aging drug could emerge, Miller says. Even if this agent turns out to be good for mice, it wont be possible to tell without careful studi...Scripps Research awarded $17 million for adult stem cell use to treat eye diseases
...f fields represented in different Scripps Research labs to address the use of stem cell therapy for treati...tem cells, and disease; from the Torbett and Crisa labs on differentiation and transcriptional regulation of myeloid progenitor cells; from the Ruf lab in v...Extremely drug resistant TB a growing problem in India
...has been under-recognized and under-treated. "Most labs in India are not equipped to perform drug susceptibility tests so exact prevalence is difficult to ascertain, and treatment in the absence of reliable sensitivity reports is difficult. Compounding the problem is the huge costs of treating these most ...Genetic marker linked to aggressive prostate cancer
...ve prostate cancer found by Northwestern and other labs over the past year are located on the long arm of chromosome 8....UD receives $1.9 million for new spintronics center
... near Chicago. "These partnerships with national labs are very important," David McCarren, co-director of the state EPSCoR office, said. "They allow Delaware researchers access to the best instrumentation available and put them at the cutting edge of their fields, working with scientists at those sites....New reagent delivers a chemical breakthrough at FSU
...d recently began marketing it to chemical research labs worldwide under the name "Bn-OPT" short for BeNzylOxyPyridinium Triflate. FSU will receive royalties from Sigma-Aldrich in the amount of 5 percent of net sales of the reagent. Bn-OPT is designed to be employed as part of what Dudley refers to as "...MIT graduate student wins $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for life-saving inventions
...ntation Laboratory, Ball was challenged to use the labs novel Lorentz-force actuator to create a dual-action, rapid-fire delivery technology that increased drug volume delivery. Within two months, he had not only come up with a solution to the problem, but had built and tested a prototype device. Nate...Physicists set 'speed limit' for future superconducting magnet
...roteins and other complex molecules. About a dozen labs around the country take advantage of the highest magnetic field now in use -- 21.1 Tesla, which produces a magnetic field 10 times larger than your average hospital machine. Increasing the field of the magnet even a small amount, from 21.1 to 22.2 Te...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
... The model's success validates work in physiology labs that have measured the tuning properties of neurons throughout visual cortex. By necessity, most of those experiments are made with simplistic artificial stimuli, such as gratings, bars, and line drawings that bear little resemblance to real-world im...Fresh use of targeted therapy advances treatment of early HER2-positive breast cancer
...to 18 percent of positive HER2 tests done in local labs are actually negative when tested at a central or reference laboratory that is experienced in finding the HER2 gene. That false positive means a significant number of patients could have been given therapies that could not possibly help them, while e...Inexpensive test detects H5N1 infections quickly and accurately
... subtype.) Working in biosafety-level-3-enhanced labs in Atlanta, CDC scientists, including Catherine B. Smith, M.S., extracted H5N1 genetic material from virus samples derived from human, feline and multiple avian hosts, including geese, chickens and ducks. The samples represented infections that had o...ICON issues survey of nanotechnology practices
...ation regarding nanomaterials risks, companies and labs have workers using conventional environmental, health and safety (EHS) practices when handling nanomaterials, even though the practices were developed to deal with bulk materials that can have markedly different chemical properties than their nano-si...Dedicated R&D lab established to spur RFID industry in Canada
... work in Canada. I saw that in the U.S., academic labs are considered an important part of the RFID ecosystem and act as catalysts to drive some of the growth. I decided there was an opportunity here and have received tremendous support from companies in Canada and from McMaster to get this going."...UVA researchers to develop office-based cancer screening test
...des easy coordination of data between the clinical labs and a database of clinical outcomes, called the clinical data repository (CDR). "Our program is highly integrated. We are able to collect, process, and analyze sample data in automated ways that are uncommon at most medical centers, owing to this c...Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS
...ng to them, are toxic in themselves. As a result, labs nationwide are urgently searching for compounds that counter such toxins, with several now in human trials. These include antioxidant medications, calcium channel antagonists, NMDA antagonists like the Alzheimer's drug Memantine, platelet activating ...Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered
...n worked in the Columbia University Medical Center labs of Joy Hirsch, Ph.D., professor of neuroradiology and psychology, and director of the fMRI Research Center and Eric Kandel, M.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute senior investigator, Fred Kavli Professor and Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain ...Quick diagnosis of flu strains possible with new microchip test
...veloped a microchip-based test that may allow more labs to diagnose influenza infections and learn more ab...ours. However, only the CDC and a handful of other labs internationally have the high-level biosafety facilities needed to perform specialized tests that re...Previously approved drugs may be helpful in fatal pediatric disorder
... Both efforts met with moderate success. When the labs combined the treatments, though, a single dose 7 days after birth extended the average mouse lifespan from 78.8 days to 135.7 days, or 72 percent. After an extensive search for indications of how the experimental treatments might be working, scienti...Montreal researchers make a major strategic breakthrough in controling the AIDS virus
...aneously reproduced by two other laboratories the labs headed by Dr. Bruce Walker at Harvard and Dr. Richard Koup at the NIH. "It's a rare occurrence for three teams to work together on attacking a major problem. Up until now, the virus has been more or less invincible. By combining our efforts, we found...