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Mosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds

...on Aug. 12, about 34 hours after the third night's application of the pesticide. In the southern creeks, samples were collected on Aug. 14, six days before the first application, and Aug. 22, about 10 hours after the second night's application. The insecticide contained a mixture of pyrethrin, a natural pestic...

Spray-on skin relieves emotional trauma for child burn victims

...on. It is waterproof and sweat-resistant, with one application lasting three to four days. Researchers at the Stuart Pegg Paediatric Burns Centre and UQ's Department of Psychiatry collaborated to evaluate the effect of Microskin on the emotional and behavioural functioning of 20 young patients with burn scarri...

New device could cut chemotherapy deaths

...better control when delivering the drug. A patent application has been filed on the drug delivery system, and drug companies across the world are expected to express great interest in the new technology. Dr Perera has been working closely with David Coleman and Jennie Solbé from the University's Research Innova...

Science finds new fix for UV-damaged skin in arthritis treatment

...vel of research and validation on topical cosmetic application of glucosamine will help it stand apart from other ingredients when it comes to improving tone and treating hyperpigmentation." ...

New crop of technology reveals plant health

... speculating, for example, that they might have an application in hostile environments, like growing plants in space or soil-less systems. Potentially, these are situations where our system could prove very useful." The sensors and transmitters are two key elements of the system, but its heart is the management...

Plants used to detect gas leaks, from outer space!

...ing other uses for the detection system. One such application may be to detect carbon dioxide leaking from underground stores used in proposed carbon capture and storage schemes. These stores are intended to help to prevent global warming: the argument is that if CO2 is sequestered indefinitely in underground ...

FDA approves first medical device using rutgers biomaterial

...rsity. This action signals a paradigm shift in the application of biomaterials from permanent prosthetic replacements toward regenerative medicine, in which materials help the body to repair itself and are then resorbed. The device consists of a surgical mesh coated with a polymer developed using a Rutgers bio...

Legume compounds may help cancer treatment

...egume Research (CILR) has lodged a complete patent application for compounds to treat cancer. CILR researchers screened legumes (plants which obtain useable nitrogen from soil bacteria in their roots) for biological activity and they identified a number of compounds which could potentially prevent the formatio...

Retinol for combating leukemia cells

... that 95 % of these malign lymphoblasts died after application of retinamide. But what is the mechanism that really triggers this death? To explain the process, the researchers analysed the action mechanism of the retinamide at a molecular level. From the analyses it was observed that the retinamide accelerated...

Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned

...e to ignore as ecosystem engineers. "One specific application to stream restoration in the Pacific Northwest, for example, deals with the practice of fertilizing salmon streams with the carcasses of dead salmon obtained from hatcheries," says Daniel Schindler, UW associate professor of aquatic and fishery scien...

New antimicrobial compound adheres to skin to promote healing

...ium in Atlanta. The researchers envision a human application for the technology, which they're currently seekin...n of drug delivery systems. The first noteworthy application of the Tricide bioadhesive came last year in the treatment of Spirit, the Athens-area dog that was d...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...loping disease. The goal is to produce devices for application to eventual population studies, to speed up data processing, to enhance accuracy and to reduce cost. With the $14 million annual investment in the environmental component of this initiative, NIH will develop technologically advanced measures of diet...

Penguins waddle but they don't fall down, UH researchers say

...same kind of stability as the penguin." Another application for this research involves the construction of sophisticated robots. Kurz said it is very expensive to construct a robot that can successfully adjust to side to side, or medial-lateral, motion. Robots currently in use, such as the Asimo robot that ...

Basic research leads to a novel cancer therapy

...y, we're happy that our research led so quickly to application in cancer therapy. Each year, 390,000 people in Germany alone, and several million worldwide, become ill with cancer. Every fourth death is related to a tumour. We can improve the length and quality of patients' lives by treating them with very speci...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

...s: to identify areas in genetic research where the application of high-throughput sequencing resources would rapidly lead to significant medical advances; understanding of the human genome; and understanding the evolutionary biology of genomes. A coordinating committee then reviews the working groups' proposals,...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

...r Institute to Calit2 will be the first persistent application of the OptIPuter high-performance 'collaboratory'," said Calit2 director Larry Smarr, Ph.D., principal investigator on both the OptIPuter and CAMERA projects. "The architecture is quite general and will be quickly adaptable to other areas of data-int...

New DNA 'fingerprinting' technique separates hemp from marijuana

...abric, among other uses. Cotton requires pesticide application and a hot climate, whereas hemp does not, which makes it suitable for local Minnesota agriculture. Weiblen seeks to screen a wider range of Cannabis cultivars to refine the technique. He is also working to identify regions of the Cannabis genome resp...

Experimental TB drug effective against resistant and latent mycobacterium tuberculosis

... preparation for an investigational new drug (IND) application to the Food and Drug Administration, which they hope to submit in a few months, so they may proceed to clinical trials. If the drug lives up to the promise in human trials that it showed in the laboratory, it could be available for treatment of M...

Nano machine switches between biological and silicon worlds

...through its use of ATP, in human implants. Such an application is still 20 or 30 years away," says Firman "It's v...ent for the basic concepts." One hugely important application is DNA sequencing, discovering the order of the four DNA-bases, the absolutely fundamental step for ...

'Executive' monkeys influenced by other executives, not subordinates

...The neurobiologists' basic studies could also have application to understanding the origins of autism, said Platt. One theory, for example, holds that high levels of testosterone in utero cause "hypermasculinization" of the brain, which suppresses the reflexive ability to orient socially -- a characteristic of a...

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