Iowa State researchers improving plastics made from corn and soy proteins
...Corp. of Danbury, Conn. He has used ultrasonics to freeze strawberries, process rice and handle many other applications. The researchers are also using microcellular foaming technologies from Trexel Inc. of Woburn, Mass., to mold and extrude the plastics. The processing technology is expected to enhance ...What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging
...og through wetlands, studying frogs that literally freeze during the winter, then hop away in the spring as though nothing unusual occurred Comparative physiologists study all kinds of animals -- bears, frogs, snakes, squirrels, seals, oysters and a host of other animals to answer the question "How do t...Fast-freeze snapshot yields new picture of nerve-muscle junction
...echnique described in the new study, high-pressure freeze electron microscopy and immuno-gold staining, now ...aboratory in New York, developed the high-pressure freeze technique to view synapses while working in the laboratory of coauthor Jean-Louis Bessereau at INSER...Freeze! Scientists film proteins at work by freezing them at different states
...he team used the ESRF-IBS “Cryobench?laboratory to freeze the protein in three different states while the reaction took place. In order to make sure that they “trapped?the right intermediate states, the researchers used the technique of Raman spectroscopy. This technique provided them with strong evidence t......ad experience is determined based on how much they freeze in response to the "scary" place or sound 24 hr later. Importantly, the researchers also showed that treatment of animals with a small molecule that increases eIF2a's phosphorylation led to poorer performance on the memory tests. “These data st...