New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown
...idi Spratt, and biochemistry and molecular biology professors David Gorenstein and Bruce Luxon. Funding for the investigation was provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health, and the NIAID’s Western Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infect...New biofuels process promises to meet all US transportation needs
...student Navneet R. Singh, and chemical engineering professors Fabio H. Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass. A conventional method for turning biomass or coal into liquid fuels involves first breaking down the raw material with a chemical process that "gasifies" it into carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydroge...Protein discovery targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria
...ity of the protein ?called YihE or RdoA ?a team of professors and students from the departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology & Immunology has opened up possibilities for new drug development. “Our group is the first to solve the structure and to begin to understand the function of this particular pr...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
...e Sloan School. This center helps MIT students and professors bridge the gap between an intriguing idea or technology and a commercially viable concept. Recognizing Scenes The IEEE paper describes how the team "showed" the model randomly selected images so that it could "learn" to identify commonly occu...Noise echoes in cell communications
... up the white noise, says a team of Rutgers-Camden professors who have produced a mathematical explanation for the benefits of noise. Their findings could lead to major improvements in hearing aid technology. Dawei Hong, an assistant professor of computer science, Joseph Martin, a professor of biology, and Wil......e of Naval Research, University of Cincinnati (UC) professors Vesselin Shanov and Mark Schulz collaborated with post-doctoral researcher Yun Yeo Heung and students to develop the technique. The researchers partnered with First Nano, a division of CVD Equipment Corp. of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., to use their laborato...