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Ultrasound may help regrow teeth

...TEC Edmonton, the U of A's exclusive tech transfer service provider, filed the first patent recently in the U.S. Currently, the research team is finishing the system-on-a-chip and hopes to complete the miniaturized device by next year. "If the root is broken, it can now be fixed," said El-Bialy. "And becaus...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

... problem that affects civilians as well as injured service members: wound bacteria. "The flora of wound infections is very complex," he said. "At times there can be 12 or more organisms present, and most clinical laboratories are not proficient in isolating and identifying anaerobes, which often predominat...

Harmful Algal Blooms monitored from space in Chile

...re Project (CAP), has implemented an early warning service based on Earth Observation (EO) data, which delive... CAP project. In particular, the HAB early warning service has been tested by Mainstream Chile, part of the Norwegian holding company CERMAQ, a world leader in...

NAU researchers chirping over discovery of new cricket genus

...nne said. Crickets provide a valuable ecological service to the environment. Some species are often the primary decomposers in cave ecosystems. The researchers also found a new cricket species (genus Ceuthophilus), possibly two new cricket species and a new barklouse (Psocopertan) species. The barklouse ...

High tech help to prevent further heart disease

...re developing an on-line outpatient rehabilitation service for people who have had heart surgery to see if it...that this easy access, high quality rehabilitation service can deliver better community health outcomes by guiding patients to make healthy and positive lifest...

Edge density key to controlling gypsy moth spread

... county-level quarantine records as well as forest service data from more than 100,000 pheromone traps set along the expanding gypsy moth population front for their theoretical model. The pheromone trap data were collected from 1988 to 2004. They used a theoretical model to show how an interaction between...

Telemedicine robots help improve health

...pportunity to investigate how this ground-breaking service can be expanded to other regional hospitals throughout Queensland and to evaluate its capacity to deliver high quality clinical care to patients, as well as professional support and educational opportunities to health staff in regional areas, such as...

Supercomputing equipment to advance the frontiers of computational biology

...,024 dual processor compute nodes, 32 I/O nodes, a service node, a front-end node, and multiple terabytes of SAN-based disk storage. Announced in May 2006, the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) is a $100 million partnership between Rensselaer, IBM, and New York state to create one...

One signal elicits thousands of answers

...ective listings in other databases. An interesting service for scientists with widely varying expertise, not the least for tumour researchers because they have to investigate defects in cellular signaling which often occurs in progressed forms of cancer. The new technology will allow the search for new data ...

Proteins necessary for brain development found to be critical for long-term memory

...pment is retained in the adult and recycled in the service of memory formation," said Thomas J. Carew, Donald Bren Professor and chair of UCI's Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. "It is a striking example of how molecular rules employed in building a brain are often reused for different purposes throug...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...(MOST); and CNIC will develop a transparent web service layer for data access. USM will contribute its natural compound database for use in virtual screening for new inhibitors and drug discovery. CNIC will also become the central repository for the project’s research data. The database will be d...

Glucose triggers brain cell death in rats after hypoglycemic coma

...son, MD, chief of the neurology and rehabilitation service at SFVAMC. Furthermore, says Swanson, he and his fellow researchers have identified the cause of the damage: the sudden return of glucose to the brain activates the enzyme NADPH oxidase, which in turn initiates a process of oxidative stress that ...

The mouflons of the Kerguelen archipelago

...mouflon population while doing his French civilian service in 1991. For 16 months, he participated in an ecological research program under the supervision of Jean-Louis Chapuis of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He studied the ecology and behaviour of mammals (mouflons, sheep and reindeer)...

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