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A healthier start to a pig's life

...p, Sweden, studied pig behaviour and the practical application of lectin in Swedish pig production. Professor Pierzynowski feels that being part of a EUREKA project has been invaluable in making contacts in other countries and in raising the profile of the project....

DNA layer reduces risk of reserve parts being rejected

...investigate whether DNA layers can be used for the application of DNA membranes to prevent post-operative adhesions, and in biosensors such as an implanted glucose sensor for diabetic patients. ...

'Terror bird' arrived in North America before land bridge, study finds

...chnique that analyzes rare earth elements in a new application to revise the ages of terror bird fossils in Texas and Florida, the only places in North America where the species has been found. Rare earth elements are a group of naturally occurring metallic elements that share similar chemical and physical prope...

Backache beaten by good vibrations?

... nerve roots could potentially be reduced with the application of TU, a form of electrotherapy commonly used by physiotherapists to accelerate the resolution of the inflammatory process in a multitude of soft-tissue injuries. The study aims to address the unanswered question of whether TU is effective in reducin...

Weighty viruses

...ing plates. This special construction is what made application of the precise light-scattering technique for the mass determination of a single virus possible. ...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...oration with a group at Columbia University. This application is focused on the development of the subsystems required to construct high-density sample arrays on glass chips and to run sequencing by synthesis reactions on them in an automated, high-throughput fashion. ...

Edible coatings will be the packaging of the future

...humidity. The final part of the PhD outlined the application of edible coatings with WPI on chicken breasts. Th...uture, although the commercial exploitation of the application is yet to materialize. There are many possibilities ?on the one hand, they will prolong the useful l...

The power of one: A simpler, cheaper method for cell fusion

... Lu's research, and Lu has submitted a U.S. patent application based on the technique. He plans to continue to his work on the technology at some point in the future....

'Failed' experiment yields a biocontrol agent that doesn't trigger antibiotic resistance

... discovery has just been issued. "We see a broad application for this work," he explains. "We can build things that don't exist in nature. It's a versatile concept that doesn't apply to just one antimicrobial agent." Filutowicz and Burgess, wine enthusiasts who are as comfortable fermenting grapes as they ...

Robotic whiskers can sense three-dimensional environment

... flow. A paper about the arrays, which may find application on assembly lines, in pipelines or on land-based autonomous rovers or underwater vehicles, was published in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Nature. "We show that the bending moment, or torque, at the whisker base can be used to generate three-dime...

'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens

...linical settings. The GreeneChip system and its application in an outbreak investigation when other methods failed to implicate a microorganism in a fatal hemorrhagic fever case is described in the January 2007 issue of the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases (online December 6 at www.cdc.gov/EID/13/1/06-0837...

First Quantum Grant to fund stem cell repair of damage from stroke

... of disease. Funding was awarded to only one grant application out of more than 100 submitted. Karen Hirschi, deputy director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center within the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at BCM, is the principal investigator for the "Neuro-Vascular Regeneration" project, which...

American scientist's research of life's first cells

...ay in Drosophila and humans, and the therapeutic application of RNAi to diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Schwarz' thesis work was recognized with a 2005 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. She is currently a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Erin K. O'Shea at H...

Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing

...y contain so little copper. However, if the target application -- such as a coating for a biomedical stent -- absolutely requires the removal of residual catalyst, companies will now have much less of it to take out, significantly lowering removal costs, according to the authors. The new ATRP technique also a...

Nanoscale microscope sheds first light on gene repair

...he nucleus can now be visualized. "The general application of these methods will provide unprecedented insights into cellular molecular events," said Bewersdorf. "This study represents a significant advance in our ability to visualize and quantify nuclear proteins in 3D." Bewersdorf, Bennett and Knight ex...

New sunscreen ingredient to heal sunburn and help prevent skin cancer

...ive and will last longer (up to three hours) after application on the skin than conventional sunscreen lotions. Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in the UK and the number of people who get it is increasing. There are over 70,000 new cases of skin cancer diagnosed each year in the UK and many case...

New system could drastically reduce herbicide use

...pplies herbicide to the cut weed. "This type of application is extremely effective," said Tian, "because it applies herbicide directly to the plant, instead of broadcasting uniform rates across a field." With this level of precision, Tian says the system has clear environmental benefits. In addition to cut...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

... six criteria in their rankings: Burden: Will the application address some of the most pressing health needs of developing countries? Impact: Will the application be an improvement over existing treatment options and have a clear impact towards improving health i...

Climate experts search for answers in the oceans

...ational weather and ocean predictions based on the application of these products," Dr Craig Donlon of the Met Office, United Kingdom, said. "ESA should be proud of their leading role in supporting these efforts through the International GODAE High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project Office (GHRSST-P...

Particle size matters to bacteria ability to immobilize heavy metals

...echanisms of metal reduction by Shewanella and its application in environmental bioremediation of contaminated DOE sites. "It will help build a whole picture of Shewanella ?how it reacts with metal oxides and how the rate of this interaction is influenced by size" Bose said. So far, the research shows that par...

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