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Nanotech tools yield DNA transcription breakthrough

...re close," he said. "Three former Rutgers graduate students have gone on from my lab to the Weiss lab, and two other Rutgers graduate students have worked in the Strick lab during their thesis studies." ...

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

... more than 30 people, ranging from technicians and students to clinical professors, had the opportunity to perform the tests with their own hands and see the results with their own eyes. They were very impressed!" In the developing world it is not possible on cost grounds to give antibiotics to every child w...

What's next for gene therapy? Plastic

...neering, "typifies the way we are going to educate students in the future," Long said. "He is an engineer working in chemistry on gene therapy. He collaborates with researchers in the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ...

Engineer ramps up protein production, develops versatile viral spheres

... researchers in Swartz's lab, principally doctoral students Brad Bundy, supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and Aaron Goerke,supported by Merck & Co., Inc., have not only produced capsids cell-free for the first time, but also have attached uniquely reactive amino acids to the capsid surfaces. ...

Researchers make nanosheets that mimic protein formation

...fessor of chemical engineering, and their graduate students and post doctoral researchers have co-authored a paper scheduled to appear Oct. 13 in the journal Science. "The importance of this work is in making a key connection between the world of proteins and the world of nanotechnology" Kotov said. "Once w...

Electric jolt triggers release of biomolecules, nanoparticles

... and Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering graduate students Prashant Mali and Nirveek Bhattacharjee concluded that this controlled release of molecules might have important applications in the growing field of nanobiotechnology. For their experiments, the researchers used gold electrodes, each as thin as a...

New system could drastically reduce herbicide use

...came several years ago, when Tian and two graduate students were working on remote sensing systems for a CFAR ...," he continued, "and it's very hot work. The grad students who collected this information stayed in the field most of the day, and one of them was fainting fro...

Teenager moves video icons just by imagination

...ittle bit right," he said. Teamwork Graduate students in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science played major roles in the accomplishment. Nick Anderson, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering, came up with the idea of using the Space Invaders game to both help the patient...

Supercomputing equipment to advance the frontiers of computational biology

...hirley Ann Jackson. "It will allow our faculty and students to take the lead in research that will enable key nanotechnology innovations in the fields of energy, biotechnology, arts, and medicine." As biology becomes a more quantitative field, researchers need new simulation technologies to understand how ...

American scientist's research of life's first cells

...h year, aims to recognize outstanding PhD graduate students from around the world and reward their research in the field of molecular biology," said Peter Ehrenheim, president of GE Healthcare Life Sciences. "Both Science /AAAS and GE believe that support of promising scientists at the beginning of their car...

First Quantum Grant to fund stem cell repair of damage from stroke

...e jointly authored numerous publications, mentored students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as collaborated on Bioengineering Research Partnership grants," said Jennifer West, who is leading the project's efforts at Rice. West is the Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering and director of Rice's Insti...

'Failed' experiment yields a biocontrol agent that doesn't trigger antibiotic resistance

...re transforming bacterial plasmids, partnered with students from the Weinert Applied Ventures Program at the UW-Madison School of Business to develop a plan for ConjuGon. One of the students, Sal Braico, ultimately became Chief Operating Officer of the company. "Sal learned about biology and got experience w...

U of M researchers invent 'flashy' new process to turn soy oil, glucose into hydrogen

... Schmidt and his university colleagues--graduate students James Salge, Brady Dreyer and Paul Dauenhauer--have produced a pound of synthesis gas in a day using their small-scale reactor. Here's how the new process works: The oil and sugar water are sprayed as fine droplets from an automotive fuel injector...

Microbes compete with animals for food by making it stink

...y professor of biology, who led a team of graduate students conducting the research. "But when you total them ... Hay, two of his faculty colleagues and four Ph.D. students tested this notion with a field and lab study they began at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography n...

Human preference for other species could determine whether they survive

... Washington, Bothell. He and his undergraduate students calculated the popularity of various species by studying photographs in four large-format photograph books about penguins. Decisions about how many and which photographs to use and how large to make them presumably were made by the books' editors bas...

New UD technology removes viruses from drinking water

...duate fellowship program, the scientists and their students began evaluating the effectiveness of iron granules in removing viruses from water under continuous flow conditions and over extended periods. Two bacteriophages--viruses that infect bacteria--were used in the initial lab studies. Since then, Kniel...

UCLA: How does your brain respond when you think about gambling or taking risks?

...decisions. Participants in the study, mostly UCLA students in their 20s, were given $30 and then asked whether they would agree to each of more than 250 gambles in which they had a 50-50 chance of winning an amount of money or losing another amount of money. Would they, for example, agree to a coin toss in w...

Ring-around-the-cell

...uctural Biology Department, together with doctoral students Chen Luxenburg and Dafna Geblinger, and with the assistance of Dr. Eugenia Klein (electron microscopy unit) and Prof. Dorit Hanein and Karen Anderson of the Burnham Institute, San Diego, applied two different observation methods to samples of strippe...

Smokers quit after damage to brain region

...outhern California, in collaboration with graduate students Nasir Naqvi, who was first author on the study, and David Rudrauf, both from the University of Iowa. "This is the first study of its kind to use brain lesions to study a drug addiction in humans," Naqvi said. In the 1990s, Antonio Damasio propose...

How fish conquered the ocean

...he University of Bergen."It is stimulating to both students and staff at the department when our researchers are able to contribute to solving great evolutionary problems."...

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