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Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

...re Normann, who will enhance the electrode array's capabilities for operating the bionic arm; bioengineering Professor Patrick Tresco, who will test the interface device and its components to ensure they are safe when implanted in people; Reid Harrison, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineerin...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

...re Normann, who will enhance the electrode array's capabilities for operating the bionic arm; bioengineering Professor Patrick Tresco, who will test the interface device and its components to ensure they are safe when implanted in people; Reid Harrison, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineerin...

High-tech tags on marine animals yield valuable data for biologists and oceanographers

...a lion data substantially increases the predictive capabilities of the model, Costa said. "It's like predicting ...eographic location, and researchers are adding new capabilities to the tags, such as measuring the chlorophyll content of the water (an indicator of algal blooms or...

York researchers develop pollution-busting plants to clean up contaminated land

... the explosive making it harmless, it combines the capabilities of soil bacteria with the high biomass and uptake properties in plants "We are using an enzyme already existing in the soil but putting it into a more efficient machine to biodegrade the RDX. It is a sustainable, low maintenance and low cost process...

Poison + water = hydrogen. New microbial genome shows how

...crobial genome sequencing for exploring the useful capabilities of the vast realm of microbial life on Earth," says Ari Patrinos, director of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research, part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science. DOE, which funded the study, is pursuing clean fuel te...

University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome

...linn Foundation, identified UA's genomics research capabilities as one of the university's core strengths with hig...ave to be stored, accessed and interpreted. BIO5's capabilities in bioinformatics help scientists manage and analyze complex data. The software used to generate t...

Drugs from the deep blue

...sensitive instrumentation, sophisticated screening capabilities and discoveries from mapping the human genome, have created a renaissance of interest in these sources of potential medicines. Molinski's laboratory studies the chemistry and biology of marine natural products, or chemical compounds made by sea crea...

Deep sea buffet for bone-devouring worms

...a. Survival in some deep-sea environments requires capabilities that animals alone don't possess. So teaming up with a microbial partner is the secret of survival for many host animals living in such environments. Dr Goffredi says: "Measures of significant population sizes, and the discovery of four additional h...

UNC computer, marine scientists collaborate to predict flow of toxic waters from Katrina

...-afternoon on Sept. 12. "This is a prelude to the capabilities RENCI and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will provide to North Carolina, as we deploy our own large-scale computing infrastructure and continue to build disaster-response collaborations with North Carolina experts," Reed said. "With ...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

...lecule Repository and supported by the informatics capabilities of PubChem, the MLSCN should provide researchers with many new chemical tools to explore how cells function at the molecular level." "This collaborative screening effort will enable academic and government researchers to contribute in a much more vi...

Sandia completes depleted uranium study

...y Sandia scientist Al Marshall, employs analytical capabilities used by Sandia's National Security Studies Department and examines health risks associated with uranium handling. U.S. and British forces used DU in armor-piercing penetrator bullets to disable enemy tanks during the Gulf and Balkan wars. DU is a by...

Researchers develop new method for facile identification of proteins in bacterial cells

...s used a dioxin-eating organism to demonstrate the capabilities of their methodology, which they described in an article published in the May 2005 edition of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. PMF typically involves elaborate sample preparation. A protein mixture is spread across a gel and separated into in...

Bacterial genome sheds light on synthesizing cancer-fighting compounds

... revealed detailed information about the metabolic capabilities of Prochloron, details that proved to be difficult to determine by other means, " said Patrick Dennis, manager for Prochloron genome sequencing at the National Science Foundation, which funded the study. "Furthermore, " he added, "by producing patell...

Research Reveals Functions Of Harmful Shellfish Pathogens

...fish. This research may provide better diagnostic capabilities and treatment strategies to further reduce shellfish-related illnesses. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency. ...

DOE JGI launches IMG public online microbial genome data clearinghouse

...eleases of IMG will provide enhanced data analysis capabilities and mechanisms that will allow the scientific community to participate in the annotation effort. "There are hundreds of bacterial genome sequences in multiple databases with hundreds of new genomes expected this year," said Gary Andersen, Molecular ...

To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter

...o elsewhere? Do they have poorer memory or sensory capabilities and so stray out of ignorance? Or are there other factors involved? "These strays are not merely an aberration to be ignored. Much of the present range of Pacific salmon was covered by thick glaciers some 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, so most current ...

Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

... of the unparalleled polymer synthesis and R&D capabilities of Nitto Denko Corporation, Isis?outstanding oligonucleotide synthesis and drug development expertise and the worldwide marketing and customer support operations of Kinovate Life Sciences, this new product promises to deliver significantly improved t...

Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance

...tware, which provides advanced downstream analysis capabilities such as gene clustering, pattern detection, and in...s software solutions business. "We've placed these capabilities in a software tool designed for life scientists, and the result will be better quality data to accel...

Examination of internal 'wiring' of yeast, worm, and fly reveals conserved circuits

.... Such novel arrangements would have generated new capabilities or changed existing ones. Pharmaceutical companies have also not had the luxury of protein-interaction databases. They have routinely identified promising new drugs based on trial-and-error screenings of those molecules' ability to completely disabl...

Novel ultrafast laser detection of cancer cells also may improve understanding of stem cells

...ort collaborative work between the unique research capabilities of UCSD and Sandia. "There are 300 different cell types in the human body and different mitochondria for each different shape and arrangement," says Naviaux. "We want a library of spectra from different cell types and their cancers." Aiding stem cel...

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