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What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging

...r from real life. Consider the scientists who will meet at The American Physiological Society's conference...tations in the animal world. Science writers can meet and interview many of these scientists at the Comparative Physiology conference. (See the box at the...

Report highlights change in Canada's forests

...s reacted decisively to improve its efficiency and meet the challenges of a changing marketplace. It continues to respond to these challenges by reducing costs, securing markets and focusing on new and improved products." Forests make up a significant part of Canada's economy, contributing $37.6 billion ...

With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane

...one of these rafts, whatever they are, and now you meet your friends, and the result is specialized function. It's an organizing principle, if you like, in an otherwise fluid environment.'' ...

Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning

... in the morning to give you the energy you need to meet the demands of the day," said Adam, assistant professor of education and social policy and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. The morning cortisol boost could help adults who went to bed with troubled or overwhelming feelings go ...

Embryos exposed in 3-D

...sing time, ease of use and are also more likely to meet future regulatory requirements," stated Judy Angelbeck, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Pall New Technologies. "Pall was able to translate its material science expertise on the interactions between media and cells based on our long-standing leadership...

New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study

...sing time, ease of use and are also more likely to meet future regulatory requirements," stated Judy Angelbeck, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Pall New Technologies. "Pall was able to translate its material science expertise on the interactions between media and cells based on our long-standing leadership...

K-Staters design and build a low-cost remote sensing tool for environmental studies

...ording to Schinstock, the remote sensing tool will meet a need shared by thousands of environmental scientists worldwide. For just a few thousand dollars, researchers will have a way to collect data for small ecosystem sites at low altitudes and at very slow speeds. Until now, climate research has require...

UNH researcher restoring oyster reefs to Great Bay

...s of them. He's helping the state of New Hampshire meet its established goal of restoring 20 acres of oyster reefs by 2010. "I hope we're going to have a bay with a healthy oyster population, and we're going to work hard to do it," he says. His research explores which are the best reef restoration techniq...

DOE publishes research roadmap for developing cleaner fuels

...rge-scale production of cellulosic ethanol to help meet this goal, including maximizing biomass feedstock productivity, developing better processes by which to break down cellulosic materials into sugars, and optimizing the fermentation process to convert sugars to ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol is derived ...

The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

... to allow designers of tiny electronic circuits to meet the very demanding challenges created by future nano-scale electronic components. These components will be so small that their behaviour will be highly variable, governed by individual atoms rather than the average behaviour of large collections o...

Biofuels researcher searches for new sources

...d States' corn crop was used for ethanol, it would meet only 10 percent of the country's fuel needs. So researchers are looking for new sources for ethanol. Since the jury is still out on what combination of sources will be best to replace petrol, Chen is working with sources that will be more universal...

Loosen up, DNA: Leukemia gene changes genetic packaging

...hen JAK/STAT frees the scofflaw, it's free to then meet up with its molecular buddies and wreak havoc on the body. It was just last year that a team of scientists in Germany showed in an article in Nature that tightly wound DNA that is unavailable, known as heterochromatin, can suppress tumor growth by ...

Mapping the protein world

...gn new revolutionary therapeutic strategies." To meet this objective the scientists intend to study crys...ent types of large molecules. "ARP/wARP needs to meet a two fold challenge: firstly, it needs to be able to work with structural information at lower reso...

Virtual realities against pain

...udio stimuli, making the techniques more likely to meet the requirements of an ideal distractor than the traditional distraction methods such as watching a film or playing a simple computer game. The ADTs simulate real-life situations, and the possibilities are infinite. For example, until now users cou...

DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome

...day. However, the sequencing process, in order to meet rigorous quality standards and to satisfy the demands of the scientific community, is an iterative one, requiring six- to eight-times coverage. The term "finished," associated with the 100 microbial genomes accomplished by DOE JGI, is a technical de...

A more powerful and efficient engine for rice: the C3-C4 challenge

...ion while using less land, labor, and water." To meet this important challenge, scientists at the workshop focused on enhancing the rice plant's photosynthetic efficiency, or what's known scientifically as converting rice from a C3 plant to a C4 plant, where the "C" refers to the carbon captured by phot...

Attacking cancer's sweet tooth is effective strategy against tumors

...ttractive is their potential safety. Healthy cells meet 90 percent of their energy needs through OXPHOS. People who lack the LDHA enzyme appear to function normally though they cannot be pushed toward anaerobic exercise. "They have muscle destruction because they lack an alternative route for producing en...

APS lecturer shows rare video of 'teacher-student' immune cell interactions in live animal

...ic cells get to the right spot, the lymph node, to meet the T-cells T cells and antigen-presenting cells find each other once in the lymph node dendritic cells "educate" the T cells while in the lymph node T cell and dendritic cell interactions change over time In addition, the research focuses on h...

Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic

...babilities that any two people in a community will meet on any given day in any one of a number of settings, such as home or workplace. Thus, simulated disease transmission is more likely for two people in the same household and less likely for two people who have less in common. "So we are only computing...

Salmon go veggie to save wild fish stocks

...th canola oil. "We are finding that as long as we meet the basic essential omega-3 fatty acid needs of the salmon with some dietary fish oil, such as those for EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), the fish can be reared successfully on these alternate diets", says Professor Brauner...

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