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Bad aftertaste? New sensory on/off switch may 'cure' bane of artificial sweetener search

...es to study cells, so pathology labs will have the equipment needed to monitor drug delivery. Brewer is giving her invited talk, "Applications of mixed-metal supramolecular complexes in the development of chemotherapeutic and photodynamic therapy agents" (INOR 219), at 9:15 a.m. Monday Aug. 29, in room 145B o...

Vietnam war technology could aid elephant conservation

... geophone array has additional advantages. Seismic equipment is designed for rugged field use and independent arrays can be buried and left in the ground to collect the data for as long as a month." ...

Aptamer-based Biosensor screens Air Force personnel and equipment

...nel will soon know within minutes if they or their equipment are contaminated with a biological agent, thanks to a new technology developed by the Air Force and a national laboratory. Personnel will use the biosensor system to collect and isolate samples, detect and identify agents, and assess the seriousness...

Researchers identify new catfish family

...as scanned by high-resolution computer tomographic equipment at The University of Texas at Austin. "To most people it's just a catfish, and externally it looks a lot like an ictalurid, the family to which all North American freshwater catfishes belong." Hendrickson said. "But once we got into the skeleton, we...

US Army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

...ities of a non-virulent strain of anthrax, and for equipment to produce significant volumes of other biological... quantities." Other contracts are for fermentation equipment for producing 3000-litre batches of an unspecified biological agent, and sheep carcasses to test the...

Device traps, disables harmful bacteria

... Association. The study was supported by funds and equipment provided by Honeywell, Inc., UlraViolet Devices, Inc., and the National Science Foundation. Angenent's collaborators are: Elmira Kujundicz, David A. Zander, and Mark Hernandez, of the University of Colorado Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ar...

Researchers make 'embryonic-like' stem cells from umbilical cord blood

...m is able to cultivate greater numbers of cells in equipment mimicking the effects of space microgravity. "Using Synthecon's bioreactors, originally designed by NASA, means the cells are able to expand faster, giving us a greater supply to work with," Dr Forraz said. "This system provides more cells for more t...

Insight into the processes of 'positive' and 'negative' learners

...m is able to cultivate greater numbers of cells in equipment mimicking the effects of space microgravity. "Using Synthecon's bioreactors, originally designed by NASA, means the cells are able to expand faster, giving us a greater supply to work with," Dr Forraz said. "This system provides more cells for more t...

Researchers propose measures to curb lion attacks in Tanzania

...m is able to cultivate greater numbers of cells in equipment mimicking the effects of space microgravity. "Using Synthecon's bioreactors, originally designed by NASA, means the cells are able to expand faster, giving us a greater supply to work with," Dr Forraz said. "This system provides more cells for more t...

Breakthrough in micro-device fabrication combines biology and synthetic chemistry

... computer microchips, are expensive (i.e., capital equipment intensive) and not well-suited for directly producing large numbers of complex, three-dimensional, nanostructured devices with a wide variety of chemistries and properties. Nature, on the other hand, provides spectacular examples of micro-organisms ...

Toxic flood lifts lid on common urban pollution problem

... Finally, cities can use high-tech street sweeping equipment that is very effective at capturing pavement contaminants. "If you pick up this potentially toxic material before it gets into the hydrological cycle, it is far more economical than if you try to take it out of the water after the fact," he said. ...

How HIV disables the cells' call for help

...alls. A virus, especially one with its own surface equipment for seeking out specific T cells, would be hard-pressed to slip past these receptors without raising the alarm. The scientists surmised that the virus must be able to actively disable some part of the immune cell's system. They investigated a peptid...

Making plant cells work like miniature factories

...nergy Sciences provides $340,000 for operation and equipment this year and another $680,000 in 2006. Additional...mercially that meets our needs." He added that the equipment will be housed in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory on the ISU campus. Mass spectrometry works by mea...

New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network

...aintain supporting resources, including scientific equipment and trained support personnel, for use by other researchers within in the region and network * emphasize research focused on development and testing of vaccines, therapeutic and diagnostic concepts * make available core facilities to approved...

Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

... Since the tsunami, significant infrastructure and equipment replacement efforts have been launched, upgrading catch capacity. The WorldFish Centre warns, however, that the area's fisheries are "severely depleted" ?and were even before the tsunami due to overcapacity and over-fishing. Required today is a m...

Researchers get neurons and silicon talking

...ry proud of these resources. It gives us access to equipment and expertise that would be very hard to replicate elsewhere." ...

Predicting success

...search, which led to the method, was done with MRI equipment similar to that found in hospitals and clinics. A contrast agent often employed in MRI was used as a stand-in for chemotherapy drugs, and this material was injected into special mice with different cancerous growths. The team created computer algorit...

Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections

...s for general blood-flow studies. But this kind of equipment is impractical and too costly for field use. "Although the use of Doppler technology isn't new, the novel aspect of our vein finder is the system's design, which makes it both portable and economical," says Peter Rogers, a professor in Georgia Tech'...

Faster immune system testing set to improve poultry quality

...o days on blood samples from poultry houses, using equipment already available in poultry diagnostic laboratories. Current immune system tests are imprecise, expensive and take weeks ?providing information too late to be useful. Combining this test with new immune-system boosting drugs would improve poultry we...

Sea coral's trick helps scientists tag proteins

...ramatically alter their biochemistry. Further, the equipment needed to generate ultraviolet light can be expensive and in short supply. "We anticipate that Dendra will broaden considerably the circle of PAFP users," he said. ...

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