Hybrid in Biological Technology

Bristly spheres as capsules

... and Stephan Frster have now produced amphiphilic hybrid particles made of a water-insoluble inorganic ... "bristles". If they are densely packed, the hybrid particles remain in solution as individuals, ... phases for the production of nanostructured hybrid materials. ...

DuPont and International Rice Research Institute Partner to Boost Rice Yields

... partnering with IRRI to strengthen and accelerate hybrid rice breeding efforts, we will enhance ... gains and to boost the quality and diversity of hybrid rice. Collaborating scientists will further develop the understanding of hybrid vigor in rice and will work to develop hybrids ...

New solar energy material captures every color of the rainbow

... including molybdenum and titanium to create the hybrid material. "There are other such hybrids out ... charge separation, is difficult. In the new hybrid material, electrons remain free much longer than ever before. To design the hybrid material, the chemists explored different ...

Argonne researchers win 2 R&D 100 Awards

... High-Power Lithium-Ion Battery for hybrid electric vehicles. Ultrananocrystalline Diamond ... EnerDel/Argonne Advanced High-Power Battery for hybrid Electric Vehicles The EnerDel/Argonne ... (Ni-MH) )batteries that are found in today's hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). The battery is ...

U.S. Automakers Welcome Utility Partners To FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership

... development and deployment of Plug-in hybrid Vehicles from the laboratory to the ... million program with the DOE to develop plug-in hybrid technology in collaboration with General Electric. Chrysler will launch its first hybrid electric vehicles this fall with the ...

Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology

... to combine these two functions in a single hybrid material. This new material would allow seamless ... devices. The processing costs for these hybrid materials are projected to be much less than ... for most magnetic phenomena, Vignale said. The hybrid devices that we target would allow seamless ...

Hybrid materials: Exciting interdisciplinary field offering future solutions for industry

... products and services, announced today hybrid Materials 2009: The First International Conference on Multifunctional, hybrid and Nanomaterials which will take place in Tours, France, 15-19 March 2009. Research in hybrid materials has experienced a 14% annual growth in ...

Malaysia Genome Institute Advances Bioinformatics Research Using SGI Technology

... SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC ) to design a unique SGI hybrid computing solution. Because ... time-critical computing challenges, the SGI hybrid solution enables administrators to bring all ... Source Systems) to design and develop the SGI hybrid solution for MGI. "Malaysia Genome Institute ...

'Hybrid' semiconductors show zero thermal expansion; Could lead to hardier electronics

... do not work well in electronics applications. The hybrid inorganic-organic semiconductor investigated in ... more inorganic-organic combinations. These hybrid materials hold promise for high-efficiency ... are two major problems for most hybrids, the hybrid nanostructures investigated in this work are ...

Delivering Molecular Imaging Solutions Across Clinical Specialties: Siemens Showcases New Technologies at RSNA 2007

... to the edges of the field of view. Siemens hybrid Imaging Solutions Siemens has also newly ... connectivity. With the introduction of another hybrid imaging technology, the TruePoint SPECT*CT, ... MI University demonstrates the benefits of hybrid PET*CT and SPECT*CT systems, including when and ...

Two nanostructures are better than one

... (UWM) is bringing them closer to reality with hybrid materials made with carbon nanotubes (CNTs). ... Ganhua Lu, Chen has devised a method for creating hybrid structures by coating CNTs with aerosol ... of tin oxide. Their process for producing hybrid structures is far superior to the method ...

DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers

... five years to enhance the conversion of solar energy to electricity using hybrid inorganic-organic materials. University of California, Santa Barbara ... to simultaneously explore the light absorbing and emitting properties of hybrid inorganic-organic materials for solar energy conversion and solid state ...

DuPont Adds Cotton to India Seed Product Lineup

... City, Calif., U.S.; and Beijing, China. Pioneer has been selling hybrid seed in India for more than 30 years and is one of the nation’s ... Protection, DuPont Engineering Polymers, DuPont Refinish, and Pioneer® hybrid seeds. DuPont is a science-based products and services company. ...

Zinc oxide gives green shine to new photoconductors

... making them unsuitable for flexible electronics. Features of the new hybrid material and its synthesis are detailed in a study published by the journal Nature Materials . "One property of our hybrid material that is especially important for solar-energy devices is its high ...

DuPont Partners with Indonesian Center for Rice Research to Advance Hybrid Rice

... partnering with private institutions in research and development of hybrid rice," said Hasil Sembiring, director -- Indonesian Center for Rice ... increase the rate of yield gains and to boost the quality and diversity of hybrid rice. The results of that work will contribute to making better advanced ...

New organic material may speed Internet access

... bandwidth. Demultiplexing is the reverse process. In tests, the novel hybrid device was able to extract every fourth bit of a 170-gigabit-per-second ... the silicon, Biaggio and his collaborators have fashioned silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) waveguides where silicon waveguides are covered with DDMEBT. "We ...

VIASPACE Plants Biofuel & Animal Feed Grass and Signs Land Lease in China

... IPA factory in Guangdong province in China. Giant King Grass is a natural hybrid perennial grass which is propagated from seedlings rather than seeds. In ... has a worldwide license to grow and sell the ultra-fast-growing hybrid grass in addition to its already profitable consumer products business. ...

Scientists use light to control proteins

... the journal Science . In their experiment, the scientists designed a hybrid protein by inserting a light-sensing protein from an oat plant into an ... authors, the team had to consider a number of factors when designing the hybrid protein, including the protein's shape, or what is referred to as its ...

New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications

... the researchers found. The research team's technique works because the hybrid system acts like a capacitor, Oulton said, storing energy between the wire ... detect the tiny bits of light in these devices. Oulton believes the hybrid technique of confining light could have huge ramifications. It brings ...

The most natural drug

... against the pathogens that you wanted to fight. A second method, making hybrid antibodies from mouse B cells (white blood cells that produce infection-fighting antibodies), is faster but more dangerous. If the proteins in the hybrid antibodies werent compatible, the body could reject the antibodies or ...

DuPont Partnering with China to Increase Farm Productivity

... planters. Pioneer also established a partnership with the China National hybrid Rice Research and Development Center in 2007 to advance hybrid rice in Asia to improve nutrition and living standard through enhancing ...

NIST team proves bridge from conventional to molecular electronics possible

... metal oxide semiconductor) manufacturing technology paves the way for hybrid CMOS-molecular device circuitrythe necessary precursor to a beyond CMOS ... The next step, the team reports, is to fabricate a CMOS-molecular hybrid circuit to show that molecular electronic components can work in harmony ...

Honey bee invaders exploit the genetic resources of their predecessors

... that had been in South America for centuries, one might expect that the hybrid offspring would randomly pick up both the functional and nonfunctional ... traits from western Europe are beneficial, or it may be that being a hybrid is, in and of itself, a good thing for these bees. In a separate ...

First documented case of pest resistance to biotech cotton

... are likely to encounter would be susceptible insects from the refuges. The hybrid offspring of such a mating generally would be susceptible to the toxin. In ... to Bt toxins only if both parents are resistant. In bollworm, however, hybrid offspring produced by matings between susceptible and resistant moths are ...

New force-fluorescence device measures motion previously undetectable

... CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A hybrid device combining force and fluorescence developed by researchers at the ... of a paper to appear in the Oct. 12 issue of the journal Science . The hybrid technique, demonstrated in the Science paper on the dynamics of Holliday ...

PharmatrophiX, Initially Funded by the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, Announces Exclusive Global Collaboration with Elan

... identified, Dr. Longo formed PharmatrophiX as a biotech company in order to partner with industry. PharmatrophiX is funded through a special hybrid investment vehicle begun by ADDF eighteen months ago - the Fund for Alzheimer's Drug Discovery. This novel philanthropic funding program is modeled ...

Ricardo Launches Consortium to Evaluate Lubricant Challenges of Future Low Carbon Engine Technologies

... integration, controls & electronics, hardware and software development, to the latest driveline and transmission systems and gasoline, diesel, hybrid and fuel cell powertrain technologies. Ricardo's customers include the world's major automakers and suppliers as well as manufacturers in the ...

Nuevolution Announces Worldwide Technology Cross-Licensing Agreement With GSK

... a leading lead discovery company founded in 2001 and based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The company has developed Chemetics(R), a unique, patent protected hybrid of proven wet chemistry and molecular biology which represents the ultimate fragment based lead discovery technology. Chemetics(R) enables rapid ...

DNA Software, Inc. Awarded $2.5 M in NIH Funding to Develop Pioneering Nucleic Acid-based Technologies

... computing power to large assay design projects or enterprise applications. ThermoBLAST™ quickly and accurately scans DNA, RNA, or hybrid sequences against genome databases, identifies all off-target hybridizations, and tells you if these mishybridized probes/primers are extensible by ...

Professor Fisher receives ASEE's Beer and Johnston Award

... modeling of nano-composites and materials; mechanical characterization of materials at the nanoscale ; viscoelastic behavior of polymeric materials hybrid finite element micromechanics methods; NEMS/MEMS sensors and devices; and vibration energy harvesting. ...

Pioneer Hi-Bred and Beck's Hybrids Enter into Research and Distribution Agreements

... geography,” said Scott Beck, vice president -- Beck’s Hybrids. “These agreements allow us to create, test and identify new hybrid combinations that give our growers a new source of elite products, while maintaining our family ownership, independence and freedom to ...

New MIT radio chip mimics human ear

... rhythms for wireless heart monitoring, and are also working on projects inspired by signal processing in cells. In the past, his group has worked on hybrid analog-digital signal processors inspired by neurons in the brain. Sarpeshkar says that engineers can learn a great deal from studying biological ...

Waters Introduces New SYNAPT G2 with Greater Power, Versatility and Speed Than Any Other High-End Mass Spectrometer

... levels of comprehensive TOF performance available. SYNAPT G2's novel ion detection system combines an ultra-fast electron multiplier with hybrid ADC detector electronics to provide outstanding qualitative and quantitative performance for both MS for the elevated data acquisition rates of HDMS ...

Dalton Pharma Services and ProCitius Announce a Strategic Alliance to Provide Contract Chemistry Services

... responsibility for the satisfactory execution of the contract. The contract pricing is based on attractive FTE rates. "I believe this type of hybrid service fills an important need in our industry," said Peter Pekos, President and CEO of Dalton Pharma Services. "Over the past two decades I have ...

DuPont Statement on Obama Administration Biofuels Interagency Working Group

... and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, and are proud of our contributions to this effort. By providing more than 170 Pioneer® brand ethanol hybrid varieties that are tailored to ethanol production, we are helping America's first generation biorefineries produce more fuel on less land. ...

Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow

... Vance, Karen Krafcik, Tom Zifer, and Bryan Wong created the device. The team recently published a paper, "Color Detection Using Chromophore-Nanotube hybrid Devices," in the journal Nano Letters . The idea of carbon nanotubes being light sensitive has been around for a long time, but earlier efforts ...

DNA Software, Inc. Honored as One of the 2009 "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch"

... computing power to large assay design projects or enterprise applications. ThermoBLAST™ quickly and accurately scans DNA, RNA, or hybrid sequences against genome databases and eliminates all assay false positives or probe/primer mishybridizations. The company has recently expanded ...

Chromosome breakpoints contribute to genetic variation

... cells, but with new combinations of maternal and paternal genes. The "crossing over" of segments of maternal and paternal chromosomes to form hybrid chromosomes has long been acknowledged as a driver of genetic variation. Sometimes, however, the wrong chromosomes recombine, segments of ...

QIAGEN and Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute Partner to Establish First Large-Scale Cervical Cancer Screening Program in Kolkata

... cancer. CNCI will conduct the screening and provide appropriate treatment as needed. The "QIAGENcares Kolkata Project" will use QIAGEN's hybrid capture 2 (hc2) HPV DNA testing technology (also known as the digene(R) HPV Test) to screen women for cancer-causing types of HPV to identify those ...

Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

... and devices that are lower power, higher speed and more convenient to use," said Schlom, professor of materials science and engineering. "Several hybrid transistors have been proposed specifically with ferroelectrics in mind. By creating a ferroelectric directly on silicon, we are bringing this ...