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Scientists and engineers apply nature's design to human problems

.... "They can provide solutions for more efficient manufacturing and design of materials with new capabilities, for example. These are things the biological world has solved, and if you study them, you have the opportunity to apply that knowledge in the human sector. You can also extend that reasoning to ecologica...

Amphetamines reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice

...dopamine with a drug that also prevented them from manufacturing the brain messenger. The brains of the mice therefore lack detectable levels of dopamine and the animals exhibit all the symptoms of Parkinson's disease for up to 16 hours. Those symptoms included severely impaired movement, rigidity and tremor. When...

DNA self-assembly used to mass-produce patterned nanostructures

...tform for tiny circuits, as is done in the current manufacturing technique of photolithography, the Duke researchers used DNA strands to create grids less than one ten-millionth of a meter square. The smallest features on these square DNA lattices are approximately five to 10 billionths of a meter (nanometers), ac...

A New Era of Hope for the World's Most Neglected Diseases

... in education, health research infrastructure, and manufacturing capacity. These countries can begin controlling their endemic tropical diseases themselves by developing their own treatments and vaccines with only modest technical or financial assistance from more developed countries. Secondly, in addition to the...

Human trial proves ricin vaccine safe, induces neutralizing antibodies; further tests planned

...ve license for RiVax and is developing large scale manufacturing processes. DOR officials hope to produce a large stockpile for more advanced human clinical testing, product licensing and potential purchases from the U.S. government and other interested parties. Other UT Southwestern researchers from the Cancer I...

Ebola DNA vaccine produces immune responses in all fully vaccinated volunteers in Phase 1 trial

...tective. Our processes allow rapid development and manufacturing of vaccines without handling potentially dangerous pathogens." The vaccine used in the Phase 1 trial vaccine included three plasmids (closed loops of DNA), one each encoding the surface glycoprotein (GP) from the Zaire strain of Ebola, GP from the S...

New influenza vaccine takes weeks to mass produce

...ext pandemic (H5, H7, H9, and H2) at a level where manufacturing costs are expected to be equal to or less than tha...tter of Intent which will support commercial scale manufacturing with the capacity to produce 6 Million doses of monovalent pandemic vaccine per week. ...

Research could lead to better drugs and whiter whites

...ploit enzymes more successfully and lead to better manufacturing processes in a number of commercial sectors. "In cleaning products, for instance, enzymes help speed up the chemical reactions that break down protein and starch stains; a better understanding of how this process works could one day lead to more eff...

Secrets of the sea yield stronger artificial bone

... are imperative, such as dental implants, airplane manufacturing and computer hardware. As reported in the January 27, 2006 edition of the journal Science, the Berkeley Lab scientists developed a composite that mirrors the intricate structure of nacre, which is a finely layered substance found in some mollusk she...

Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria

...ting impurities on silicon wafers in computer chip manufacturing and measuring the size and speed of fuel droplets in jet engines. "We adapted some ideas from that research to build a scatterometer for food safety, and now we're using the second generation of that instrument," Hirleman said. A major motivation...

Sticky surfaces turn slippery with the flip of a molecular light switch

...hat could be easily incorporated into a commercial manufacturing process," Belfort says. "The relative ease of this grafting and switching process suggests many industrial opportunities." In addition to bioseparations, Belfort envisions a number of potential applications for the materials, ranging from new membra...

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

... proteins from eggs is relatively simple, and good manufacturing practices have long been established for vaccine production in chicken eggs. Moreover, the overall cost of facility and operations is a fraction of that associated with fermentation methods of manufacture. The ability to readily create transgenic chi...

Plant-cell-produced technologies-cutting edge approach to bringing solutions to the market

...e disease causing agent to stimulate immunity in a manufacturing process that is totally free of animal components:"Being the first company to ever register a plant-made vaccine is another example of Dow AgroSciences' cutting edge approach to bringing highly novel and differentiated solutions to the market," said ...

New finding points way to foiling anthrax's tricks

...capturing iron in order to reproduce, and finally, manufacturing a toxin that kills the cells and releases thousands of new spores into the bloodstream. Because the iron-capture stage is critical to growth, it has become a recent focus of attention as a possible drug target. Raymond, who has studied bacterial s...

H9N2 avian flu vaccine paired with adjuvant provokes strong human immune response at low doses

...ses of an experimental H9N2 vaccine at its vaccine manufacturing facility in Siena, Italy. Some of the vaccines were formulated with Novartis's MF59 adjuvant. (See http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2004/h9n2.htm .) Dr. Atmar and his colleagues tested the vaccines in volunteers aged 18 to 34 in this ...

History-hunting geneticists can still follow familiar trail

...NA, because DNA contains a species' blueprints for manufacturing protein -- and the French scientists agreed that protein diversity did correlate with population size. All that remained for UF researchers to do to reinstate mtDNA diversity as indicative of population size was to determine that protein diversity...

First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza

...rease vaccine supply using pioneering cell-culture manufacturing technologies that do not rely on conventional egg based vaccine production," commented Dr Bram Palache, study author and member of Solvay Pharmaceuticals Influenza Pandemic Preparedness team. "Production capacity for influenza vaccines is currently...

Antioxidant protects against lung damage in silicosis

... blasting operations and at stone, clay, and glass manufacturing plants. Crystalline silica induces the production of reactive oxygen species, which can cause scar tissue to develop in the lungs. About 1 million workers are believed to have been exposed to silica dust in the U.S. More than 10,000 silicosis pa...

Exposure to dioxins influences male reproductive system, study of Vietnam veterans concludes

...ses such as incineration, smelting, paper and pulp manufacturing and pesticide and herbicide production. Humans are exposed to these chemicals primarily through consumption of animal fat and dairy products. Babies are exposed to the highest levels of dioxins through breast milk. Dioxins are eliminated extremely...

Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection

...r in the related fields of biomedical engineering, manufacturing and materials, information technology, and nanotechnology," said Elbestawi. "Funding support from government is seeding a nanotechnology cluster in Canada that can compete internationally."...

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