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The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

... developed will be generic enough for use in other applications of mobile sensor networks, for example, climate or weather mapping. Designing nano-circuits The £5.2m NanoCMOS project, led by Professor Asen Asenov at Glasgow University, will develop e-Science methodology and tools to allow designers of tiny ele...

Taking the wrinkles out of motoneuronal disease

...he opportunities surrounding it. "The therapeutic applications of this research are important, as it could help p...d. "Also, the research potentially has important applications for the treatment of other diseases." ...

Drug dials down the energy within cells, UM researchers find

...e therapeutic." Ultimately, the findings may have applications not only for lupus, arthritis and psoriasis, but also for other conditions, Glick believes. "There are other diseases---certain cancers and a number of other immune diseases---where we think the way the cells make and utilize energy is fundamental to...

Report focuses on the role good microbes play in future medicine

...to those listed above, some other potential future applications of probiotics identified in the report include treating antibiotic-resistant infections, encouraging weight gain in newborns and children with AIDS, reducing the incidence of kidney stones, and reducing the recurrence of bladder tumors. ...

K-Staters design and build a low-cost remote sensing tool for environmental studies

... concept of using the sensing tool for nonmilitary applications opens up many possibilities for collecting reliable data in tricky or dangerous settings, such as studying dispersal of a smoke plume during a prairie fire; checking smokestack emissions; counting livestock in the pens at a feedlot; or checking crop ...

Origen publishes in Nature a robust and versatile method for creating transgenic chickens

...bute to somatic tissue. "As well as the practical applications of this work, the ability to engineer PGCs and influence them to commit in cell culture to either the germline or the somatic lineages provides a very useful new tool for understanding some of the earliest and most fundamental events in developmental...

Patients to benefit from novel technology revolutionizing high-speed molecular imaging

...ew York, N.Y., will now focus on specific clinical applications for the D-SPECT camera. "The first such application will be in cardiac perfusion (blood flow to the heart), and a multicenter study is planned for the second half of this year," said Patton. Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be among the firs...

Light-sensitive photoswitches could restore sight to those with macular degeneration

...is approach seems to be," Isacoff said, noting its applications for screening, diagnosing and treating disease. "I'm convinced that we'll come up with a therapy that will work in the clinic." ...

Iowa State researchers improving plastics made from corn and soy proteins

...o make the plastics. Grewell said the potential applications for plastics from crop proteins include disposable wraps for hay bales, pots for plants and packaging for the food industry. Grewell, Kessler, Howard Van Auken, a professor of management, and Gowrishankar Srinivasan, a graduate student in industr...

Embryo tests give parents the choice

...iscarried. However, the survey also revealed that applications of PGD have broadened to include choosing the baby's sex, as well as screening for diseases that may not strike until late in life, if at all. Non-medical sex selection accounted for 9 per cent of PGD tests conducted in the US in 2005, while 28 per c...

Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides

...However, growers that planted Bt cotton used fewer applications of broad-spectrum insecticides. As a result, growe...ss cotton types because the additional insecticide applications on the non-Bt fields cut down on the damage from whiteflies and western tarnished plant bugs. To s...

Jumping gene could provide non-viral alternative for gene therapy

...ulating the immune response. However, it has broad applications for correcting single gene disorders, such as hemophilia, sickle cell disease and muscular dystrophy. ...

What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging

... choose from. Consider three symposia: "Biomedical applications of suspended animation," "Molecular aspects of the mechanisms of hibernation," and "Comparative biology of aging in long-lived animals." How is it that: Hibernating squirrels can lose up to 60% of their blood volume and survive at least 10 hours?...

Microcapsules like it hot and salty

...s being used as medicine transporters, conceivable applications include using the capsules as a component of car paint which releases a corrosion protection agent when damaged, thereby stopping the damaged section from becoming larger. As microsensors they could supply information about the concentration of certa...

Five new technologies that promise to transform medicine

.... These scenarios illustrate potential clinical applications of technologies currently under development, says Professor Combs. For instance, devices that can sense and transmit heart and breathing rates already exist and implantable lenses are well-known. Other emerging technologies include wave technology...

PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science

...ogue. The possibilities are without limit, and the applications of this technology will no doubt hold some surprises. The beta version5 of PLoS ONE that is launched today is a work-in-progress. It is presented in beta because PLoS wishes the community to help shape PLoS ONE, and the underlying publishing platfo...

Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

... "Because of the lower cost, there also will be applications in countries where fewer resources are available for drinking water safety," Hashsham said. Looking toward the future, Hashsham has been in touch with several organizations that might be interested in the device. AquaBioChip LLC, a Lansing-based c...

MIT designs portable 'lab on a chip'

...id, or they could be made implantable. Potential applications are not limited to military use - imagine going to a doctor's office and getting test results immediately. The technology could also be useful for first responders. If emergency personnel knew immediately whether a person had suffered a heart attack...

Researchers create genetically matched embryonic stem cells for transplantation

...r, and therefore may allow us to move toward human applications sooner." In the new study, Daley, first author Kitai Kim, PhD, and colleagues at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital used unfertilized eggs of mice to create so-called parthenogenetic embryonic s...

Human stem cells delay start of Lou Gehrig's disease in rats

... physical connections. Cautioning that clinical applications are still far from possible, Koliatsos hopes to take further advantage of his rodents with ALS to learn as much as possible about how human stem cells behave when transplanted. ...

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