Purdue in Biological News

Protein can help cells or cause cancer, Purdue researcher finds

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University scientist has discovered a key process in cell growth that can lead to the formation of tumors. Xiaoqi Liu, an assistant professor of biochemistry, found that an overabundance of the polo-like kinase 1, or Plk1, molecule during cell growth, as well as ...

Herbicide diversity needed to keep Roundup effective

...rbicide application strategy may increase production costs, but a five-year purdue University study shows the practice will drastically reduce weeds and seeds...are resistant to glyphosate, the herbicide used in Roundup. Bill Johnson, a purdue associate professor of weed science, said changing management practices can...

Scientists are learning more about big birds from feathers

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Catching adult eagles for research purposes is no easy task, but a purdue University researcher has found a way around the problem, and, in the process, gathered even more information about the birds without ever laying a ha...

New biomarker method could increase the number of diagnostic tests for cancer

...tts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tenn.; University of California, San Francisco; purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. Proteomics studies interactions between proteins, whi...

Energy-saving method checks refrigerant level in air conditioners

...l engineering at the University of Nebraska. Another research project at purdue is nearing completion and has involved a more extensive evaluation of the v...alifornia's PIER program, has been led by graduate student Woohyun Kim. purdue has applied for a patent on the technique, developed in research based at t...

NIH expands Human Microbiome Project; funds sequencing centers and disease projects

... microbiome and its association with environmental factors, diseases and a woman's genetic makeup. J. Dennis Fortenberry, M.D., Indiana University purdue University at Indianapolis Male urethra: Puberty, Sexual Activity and Sexually Transmitted Diseases $820,000 Samples will be collected from an ...

Study of agricultural watersheds and carbon losses

...ating carbon budgets and carbon sequestration potential. Scientists at purdue University have investigated the impacts of manure application, crop rotati...rom tile drains. Research was conducted over a six-year span (1998-2004) at purdue University's Water Quality Field Station, which was designed specifically t...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 13, 2009

...LL TEXT ARTICLE: http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/jf900587m CONTACT: Lisa J. Mauer, Ph.D. Department of Food Science purdue University West Lafayette, Ind. 47907 Phone: 765-494-9111 Fax: 765-494-7953 Email: mauerl@purdue.edu ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...

ChloroFilms announces video contest winners

...e.com/watch?v=7sRZy9PgPvg ; Kris Holmes of Rochester, NY for his entry "La Bloomba" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ag6BSzvQQ , Burkhard Schulz of purdue University of his production " PSI - Are my soybeans wearing different genes?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMKN9Q5FJh4 and Mike Wilder of Portlan...

Random picks better than complicated process in gene identification

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers at purdue University have found a way to save time, money and a little frustration in searches for specific genes that shed light on the biological processes as...

Researcher: Lasers used to detect melamine in baby formula

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - With equipment readily available to health officials and businesses, a purdue University researcher has found a way to detect trace amounts of melamine in infant formula. Using infrared lasers and light spectroscopy methods, ...

Fish may actually feel pain and react to it much like humans

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Fish don't make noises or contort their faces to show that it hurts when hooks are pulled from their mouths, but a purdue University researcher believes they feel that pain all the same. Joseph Garner, an assistant professor of animal sciences, helped develop a test th...

Sugar, spice and puppy dog tails: Developing sex-typed personality traits and interests

...eristics develop differently in girls and boys. The study, by researchers at The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and purdue University, appears in the March/April 2009 issue of the journal Child Development . The researchers looked at first- and second-born siblings fro...

Purdue study finds dairy better for bones than calcium carbonate

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A purdue University study shows dairy has an advantage over calcium carbonate in promoting bone growth and strength. Connie Weaver, distinguished professor a...

Findings uncover new details about mysterious virus

...owever, many details about the virus remain unknown, said Michael Rossmann, purdue University's Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences. Now ...scientists and physicians. The paper's lead author was Chuan Xiao, a former purdue postdoctoral research associate and now an assistant professor in the Depar...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 22, 2009

...s.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/ac9000833 CONTACT: Arun K. Bhunia, Ph.D. Professor of Food Microbiology Department of Food Science purdue University West Lafayette, Ind.47907 Phone: 765-494-5443 Fax: 765-494-7953 Email: bhunia@purdue.edu ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...

Impact of floods on soils

...tus of the soil can impact soil aggregation during short-term ponding conditions. The group included Alfredo De-Campos, a former graduate student from purdue University, and Amrakh Mamedov and Chi-hua Huang, from USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory at West Lafayette...

Former NASA astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar to speak at NJIT's biomedical engineering seminar

...e it into the world of flight. The event will be held at 11:30 a.m., on Thursday, April 23, 2009, in 118 Kupfrian Hall. Event sponsors include purdue Pharma L.P. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar is currently president and CEO of The Museum of Flight in Seattle,Washington. Th...

Findings show insulin -- not genes -- linked to obesity

...ies," said Ji-Xin Cheng, an assistant professor in purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineeri... with excessive fat storage in cells. However, the purdue researchers confirmed that these fat genes were ex...tional Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at purdue who is working with Cheng. "We found that the vari...

Scaling the wall of deafness

... study, developed with an international team including Prof. Avraham's post-doctoral fellow Dr. Lilach M. Friedman, Israeli researchers and those from purdue University, the scientists sought to see what would happen if they stopped the formation of all or some microRNAs in the ears of a mouse and fish. ...

Impact of floods on soils

...tus of the soil can impact soil aggregation during short-term ponding conditions. The group included Alfredo De-Campos, a former graduate student from purdue University, and Amrakh Mamedov and Chi-hua Huang, from USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory at West Lafayette...

Image processing and mathematical morphology in new text by NJIT professor

...ew books can provide the unique tools for learning contained in this text." Shih received his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from purdue University; he has published 100 journal papers, 95 conference papers, 2 books, and 10 book chapters. He's on the editorial board of nine internationa...

Image processing and mathematical morphology in new text by NJIT prof

...ew books can provide the unique tools for learning contained in this text." Shih received his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from purdue University; he has published 100 journal papers, 95 conference papers, 2 books, and 10 book chapters. He's on the editorial board of nine internationa...

Clemson and collaborators receive $1.1 million to improve durability of concrete infrastructure

... CLEMSON Researchers from Clemson University, in collaboration with purdue University and PSI Inc., have received a four-year $1.1 million grant from the Federal Highway Administration to better understand the challenges faci...

Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings

...an forests may need to look just below the surface to find some answers. purdue University researcher Robert Swihart found that pine voles, small rodents t...ral environment." Swihart got the idea for his study from Ron Rathfon, a purdue Extension forestry specialist in southern Indiana who has studied oak morta...

Spun-sugar fibers spawn sweet technique for nerve repair

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers at purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as conduits to regenera...

CO2 drop and global cooling caused Antarctic glacier to form

...r thirty-five million years ago, 'poof,' there was an ice sheet where there had been subtropical temperatures before," said Co-author Matthew Huber of purdue University. Another theory refuted by this study is the notion that ice-expansion also occurred in the Northern Hemisphere during this time a supp...

NASA-funded carbon dioxide map of US released on Google Earth

..., geographic region, and fuel type. A science team led by researchers at purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., integrated seven primary data sets, inc...d Kevin Gurney, an assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at purdue and leader of the Vulcan Project. "From a societal perspective, Vulcan prov...

Plant soybean early to increase yield

...es on soybean yield components and the impact of early planting on seed composition. To answer this question, Andrew P. Robinson and colleagues at purdue University conducted a 2-year (2006-2007) study at West Lafayette, IN. The research was supported by the Indiana Soybean Alliance and the Indiana Crop...

Gene's past could improve the future of rice

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - In an effort to improve rice varieties, a purdue University researcher was part of a team that traced the evolutionary history of domesticated rice by using a process that focuses on one gene. Sco...

Nano-tetherball biosensor precisely detects glucose

...s anchored to electronic circuitry by a nanotube, which acts as both a tether and ultrathin wire to conduct electrical signals, said Timothy Fisher, a purdue University professor of mechanical engineering. The technology, which detects glucose more precisely than any biosensors in development, also might...

Viruses, start your engines!

...s to sabotage virus machinery. Researchers from purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and the Cathol...host is: the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli). purdue researchers studied the virus structures, such as ...s. "T4 is what's called a 'tailed virus'," says purdue biologist Michael Rossmann, one of the lead resear...

Biologists learn structure, mechanism of powerful 'molecular motor' in virus

...ability to multiply and infect new host organisms. The researchers, from purdue University and The Catholic University of America, also have proposed a mec...tholic University of America supplied the gp17 and other materials, and the purdue researchers studied the structure of the materials. "By combining the st...

Researchers find nature's shut-off switch for cellulose production

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - purdue University researchers found a mechanism that naturally shuts down cellulose production in plants, and learning how to keep that switch turned on may ...

Purdue study suggests warmer temperatures could lead to a boom in corn pests

...of offspring each year, said Noah Diffenbaugh, the purdue University associate professor of earth and atmosp..." said Diffenbaugh, who is interim director of the purdue Climate Change Research Center. "The greatest pote...pest management." Diffenbaugh collaborated with purdue professors Christian Krupke, an entomologist, and ...

DOE Joint Genome Institute completes soybean genome

...iversity of Missouri-Columbia, Randy Shoemaker of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Scott Jackson of purdue University, with support from the DOE, the USDA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). In addition, the United Soybean Board, the North Central S...

Oil spray reduces greenhouse gas emissions from pig finishing barns

...le is known about its effect on greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists at purdue University and the University of Missouri have investigated oil spray on ai...tants emissions from animal barns of different animal species is ongoing at purdue University in collaboration with other universities in the U.S. Mitigation ...

New holographic method could be used for lab-on-a-chip technologies

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers at purdue University have developed a technique that uses a laser and holograms to precisely position numerous tiny particles within seconds, representing a pot...

Jupiter's shrinking red spot

...w pattern within each row of seats that effectively confines contaminants to a single row or, at worst, its next-row neighbors. But new research at purdue University has shown that anyone -- a flight attendant or a passenger, for instance -- merely walking down an airliner's aisle will disrupt this caref...

Animal and biological science highlights: San Antonio Fluid Dynamics Conference, Nov. 23-25

...w pattern within each row of seats that effectively confines contaminants to a single row or, at worst, its next-row neighbors. But new research at purdue University has shown that anyone -- a flight attendant or a passenger, for instance -- merely walking down an airliner's aisle will disrupt this caref...