Nanotubes inspire new technique for healing broken bones
...vestigate the toxicology of these materials and to measure their mechanical strength and flexibility in relation to commercially available bone mimics. ...Mosquitoes are more attracted to individuals infected with malaria
...ble to isolate the effect of just the parasite. To measure how attracted the mosquitoes were to the participants, the researchers set up a chamber of uninfected female mosquitoes surrounded by tents containing the children - one already infected with transmissible malaria, one infected with the non-transmiss...Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain
...feels painful. In both rats and people, scientists measure allodynia by touching the skin with a series of fi...ow long it takes for them to do so, scientists can measure the degree of pain the animal is feeling. One week after surgery, some of the rats received injecti...New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress
...then North America to help them integrate this new measure of safety into blood processing." Pall developed the prion reduction technology to help blood authorities around the world stop the transmission of prions as part of the Company's mission to help safeguard the global blood supply. The adoption of th...New technology shows our ancestors ate…everything!
...ve a reliable technology to quickly and accurately measure such surfaces." Teaford said future applications of the computer software include not only projects in paleontology and anthropology, but also engineering. "You could use it to examine the wear of metal surfaces on each other or to monitor clean surf...U-M scientists discover identifying markers for primitive blood-forming stem cells
...ate." Kiel and Yilmaz used microarray analysis to measure levels of gene activity in three types of cells ?hematopoietic stem cells, multipotent progenitor cells and fully developed bone marrow cells. They selected genes that were expressed at higher levels in the HSC population, as opposed to the other two...Hepatitis C complicated by morphine withdrawal
...l, i.e. precipitated morphine withdrawal (PW). To measure HCV replication, they used a virus-like replicon that mimics the events that occur in liver cells and expression of viral RNA and proteins that HCV uses. Although the replicon does not produce the infectious virus, the HCV replicon system represents...Female butterflies go for sparkle -- not size -- when choosing to mate
...owly defined features, such as eyespot pupils that measure approximately half of one millimeter. The most conclusive finding resulted when the researchers painted the white pupils in male eyespots on the dorsal side with a plant extract, rutin, which maintained the pupils' whiteness, but eliminated their ul...Grasshopper love songs give insight into sensory tuning
...characterized the OSE, they then analyzed how this measure compared to the neuronal response to natural sounds--including environmental sounds like the rustling of grass and insect communication signals such as grasshopper or cricket mating calls. They found that the OSEs of the receptors particularly match...Method slashes quantum dot costs by 80 percent
...selenide or CdSe is the most popular flavor - that measure just a few nanometers in diameter. Most of the commercial possibilities discussed for quantum dots - bioimaging, color displays, lasers, etc. - relate to their size-controlled fluorescence. For example, CdSe quantum dots have the ability to absorb hi...Weapon performance determines mating success in the collared lizard
...redictor of reproductive success. However, no size measure was correlated with any estimate of mating success or with potential reproductive output. These results counter the conventional wisdom that bigger is always better, and they support the hypothesis that weapon performance, which is likely to directly...The right drug at the right time
...selenide or CdSe is the most popular flavor - that measure just a few nanometers in diameter. Most of the commercial possibilities discussed for quantum dots - bioimaging, color displays, lasers, etc. - relate to their size-controlled fluorescence. For example, CdSe quantum dots have the ability to absorb hi...Smoking damages key regulatory enzyme in the lung
...rs. With whole-body PET imaging, researchers could measure the concentration and movement of the radiotracer and MAO A, a subtype of the enzyme crucial to mood regulation and one that breaks down chemical compounds that elevate blood pressure, said the Society of Nuclear Medicine member. In the study, "Comp...Customized gene chip provides rapid detection of genetic changes in children's cancer
...microarrays, which detect varying levels of RNA to measure the activity levels of different genes as DNA transfers information to RNA, the current microarray directly identifies changes in DNA. "These DNA changes, involving gain or loss of genetic material, are important for neuroblastoma prognosis," said Dr...Seeing the forest and the trees
...e study concludes that forest diversity provides a measure of "biological insurance" that prevents large swings in carbon sequestration or any other service a healthy forest provides such as soil stability or fruit production that might arise from a single extinction scenario. "In general, we found that whe...Mammalian Transcriptome Mapped
... the cell in any tissue at any given time. It is a measure of how human genes are expressed in living cells, and its complete mapping gives scientists major insights into how our genome works. "This is arguably the next major step after the human genome project," says Professor Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D....Research Permits First-Ever Visualization of Psychological Stress in the Human Brain
...employed in our study ?arterial spin labeling ?can measure cerebral flood-flow directly,?states John A. Detre...e magnet and used as the natural contrast agent to measure cerebral blood-flow.?Researchers at Penn’s Center for Functional Neuroimaging have been at the foref...Researchers discover why melanoma is so malignant
...logy (chips covered with fragments of DNA that can measure gene levels) and found that Slug was expressed in human melanoma. "Really, this isn't that surprising," says Gupta, "when you consider that melanocytes in the skin are direct descendants of the neural crest." In fact, Gupta points out that occasional......scope. It should be pointed out that these animals measure between 1mm and 150mm. In the laboratory itself photographs are again taken in order to identify features peculiar tot he animal and, finally, the classification of the species in question is presented in the specialist literature. In the previous...Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...iginally chosen to fly because of their ability to measure stratospheric ozone, but were also selected in order to investigate the amount of useful information that could be retrieved from the troposphere. "The instruments are now being used to monitor a significant number of key tropospheric trace gases i...