Rapidly in Biological News

Scattered light rapidly detects tumor response to chemotherapy

DURHAM, N.C. -- New technology developed by Duke University bioengineers can help clinicians more precisely detect whether specific cancer drugs are working, and should give basic researchers a powerful new tool to better understand the underlying mechanisms of cancer development. By interpreti...

Columbia University scientist devises new way to more rapidly generate bone tissue

NEW YORK (Dec. 15, 2008) Using stem cell lines not typically combined, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have designed a new way to "grow" bone and other tissues. The inability to foster angiogenesis a physiological process involving the growth of new blood vessels from pre-ex...

New decontamination system kills anthrax rapidly without lingering effects

In October 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. Clearing the Senate office building of the spores with chlorine dioxide gas cost $27 million, according to the Government Accountability ...

Birds migrate earlier, but some may be left behind as the climate warms rapidly

Many birds are arriving earlier each spring as temperatures warm along the East Coast of the United States. However, the farther those birds journey, the less likely they are to keep pace with the rapidly changing climate. Scientists at Boston University and the Manomet Center for Conservation ...

'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens

Researchers in the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and their colleagues in the WHO Global Laboratory Network have developed a new tool for pathogen surveillance and discovery—the GreeneChip System. The GreeneChip is the first tool to prov...

Pheromone from mother's milk may rapidly promote learning in newborn mammals

By studying the ability of newborn rabbit pups to learn the significance of new odors, researchers have found that a mammary pheromone secreted in mother's milk may act as a chemical booster that facilitates the ability of pups to quickly associate environmental odors with the opportunity to nurse....

Silver bullet: UGA researchers use laser, nanotechnology to rapidly detect viruses

Waiting a day or more to get lab results back from the doctor's office soon could become a thing of a past. Using nanotechnology, a team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a diagnostic test that can detect viruses as diverse as influenza, HIV and RSV in 60 seconds or less. In addi...

Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity

An international research team has discovered that forest fragmentation poses an even greater threat to Amazonian biodiversity than previously thought. Their findings, to be published next week (27 November ?1 December) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, summari...

Fire ant-attacking fly spreading rapidly in Texas

Parasitic flies introduced to control red imported fire ants have spread over four million acres in central and southeast Texas since the flies' introduction in 1999, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered using new flytraps they developed. Researchers at the Brackenrid...

New strategy rapidly identifies cancer targets

In a step toward personalized medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Brian J. Druker and colleagues have developed a new technique to identify previously unknown genetic mutations that can trigger cancerous growth. By analyzing the proteins ?instead of the genes ?inside acute myeloi...

Radiation-armed robot rapidly destroys human lung tumors

Super-intense radiation delivered by a robotic arm eradicated lung tumors in some human patients just 3-4 months after treatment, medical physicist Cihat Ozhasoglu, Ph.D. of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will report in early August at the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Associatio...

Scientists must offer solutions for conserving tropical forests in a rapidly changing world

As the future of the tropics unfolds, scientists must explain the dimensions and mechanisms of forest responses to rapid human-population increase and environmental changesAs human populations and their impacts on the world increase, tropical forests are changing in many different ways. Forests ar...

Prions rapidly 'remodel' good protein into bad, Brown study shows

Two Brown Medical School biologists have figured out the fate of healthy protein when it comes in contact with the infectious prion form in yeast: The protein converts to the prion form, rendering it infectious. In an instant, good protein goes bad. This quick-change "mating" maneuver sheds impor...

New technique rapidly detects illness-causing bacteria

Cornell University scientists have developed a rapid, less costly and sensitive new technique for detecting group A streptococcus, the bacteria that cause scarlet fever. Details will be announced today at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans. The present...

AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV

State Health Commissioner Antonia C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., today announced the expansion of New York State's HIV/AIDS Public Awareness and Education campaign to help combat the potential spread of HIV and further protect New Yorkers from the virus that causes AIDS. Dr. Novello said, "I...

Mouse brain cells rapidly recover after Alzheimer's plaques are cleared

Brain cells in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease have surprised scientists with their ability to recuperate after the disorder's characteristic brain plaques are removed. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis injected mice with an antibody for a key component of br...

Neuropathic pain: The sea provides a new hope of relief

...nds also significantly reversed hyperalgesic behaviour in the experimental rats. "To provide better quality of life, we need new drugs that can act rapidly and have specific functions with low side effects. Moreover, we need better management for chronic pain conditions," says Dr Wen. "Today there are...

Stem cell 'daughters' lead to breast cancer

... Luminal progenitor cells in women with BRCA1 mutations have 'forgotten' how to behave, Dr Lindeman said. "Usually, luminal progenitor cells multiply rapidly in the presence of certain growth factors. In BRCA1 women these cells don't even require growth factors to proliferate they misbehave from the outset...

New hope for fisheries

...llowers of the successes revealed in this paper," says Pamela Mace, a co-author from the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries. "We need to move much more rapidly towards rebuilding individual fish populations and restoring the ecosystems of which they are a part, if there is to be any hope for the long-term via...

Iron isotopes as a tool in oceanography

...esis. A proportion of the carbon is exported to the deep ocean, making the oceans a major carbon dioxide sink, without which global warming would rapidly accelerate. The natural supply of iron to such 'High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) regions is therefore, albeit indirectly, an important determinant...

Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

...tant to crystallization. Although the microcrystals weren't individual protein specimens, and while the 9.0.1's x-ray beams aren't as bright or as rapidly pulsed as SLAC's LCLS will be, the experiment demonstrated the jet technique's high potential for speeds and exposures that won't subject the samples ...

Nottinghamshire Police First Law Enforcement Agency to Deploy ForensicSoft in United Kingdom

...shire Police, of Nottinghamshire, England. ForensicSoft's products, which increase the speed and effectiveness of digital forensic investigations, are rapidly gaining popularity among digital forensic and security professionals worldwide. "Nottinghamshire Police has one of England's most advanced computer fo...

Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually

...founded a sexual colony, while a clonal colony preserves the fragment from the previous colony from which it cloned." As predicted, clonal bryozoans rapidly disappeared from the record as the Caribbean was isolated. Species that survived did so by becoming increasingly robust to reduce the chances of fragm...

Microbes and their hosts -- exploring the complexity of symbiosis in DNA and cell biology

...r-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The issue is available free online at www.liebertpub.com/dna "Symbiosis is one of the most rapidly growing fields in biology.... After decades of focusing on bacteria in pure culture, it is evident that to manage them for our benefit, we need to und...

Key OSU water research receives national funding

... of groundwater supplies. This, in turn, affects every aspect of water use, be it by people or wildlife." In the Great Plains, tallgrass prairie is rapidly transforming to woodland largely because of the encroachment of eastern redcedar trees. "Of Oklahoma's 17 million acres of rangeland including prai...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...-scale numerical simulations of physical phenomena rapidly and efficiently. The ability to perform simulation...l field, the mass spectrometer can be developed to rapidly image a tumor and define the boundaries so the tum...focal Fluorescence Microscope System - This system rapidly finds all emitting fluorescence species of an imag...

Early detection and quick response are key to defense against anthrax attack

...n program," says lead author Dr. Nathaniel Hupert, associate professor of public health and medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Crucial to rapidly implementing a treatment program is early detection, including thorough use of advanced biosurveillance technologies and live, person-to-person commun...

High-tech vehicle design boosts emergency rescue capacity

...hey often have to take care of a high number of victims in a very short period. In particular, there is a need to get medical teams to a disaster area rapidly with all the equipment they require and to transfer as many patients as possible to hospital or other place for treatment as quickly as possible. Th...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes MIRTEC With the 2009 Award for Automated Optical Inspection Product Innovation of the Year

...fense," Notes Srinivasan. "With a combined installed base of several thousand systems and projected sales of over 500 systems per year, the company is rapidly gaining market share and establishing its leadership position." Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has d...

C. difficile spores spread superbug

...ir characteristics, allows researchers to use them in experimental settings and to establish their structure. " C. difficile is a high-profile and rapidly emerging pathogen and is responsible for the death of a patient every hour in our hospitals - but its biology and transmission are so far poorly under...

Promising new treatment for Alzheimer's suggested based on Hebrew University research

...ich acetylcholine levels decrease. Indeed, these carriers tend to develop the disease later than others, but when that happens, it progresses more rapidly and does not respond to medication. Therefore, the bottom line is that carriers of the mutated gene have a greater risk than others for disease progre...

A global model for the origin of species independent of geographical isolation

... Organisms spontaneously form groups that can no longer mate resulting in a patchwork of species across the area. Thus the number of species increases rapidly until it reaches a relatively steady state. "Our biodiversity results provide additional evidence that species diversity arises without specific p...

Early initiation of Arctic sea-ice formation

...e and then bloomed there in the spring when there was enough sunlight. They would have been released into stratified surface waters as the ice melted, rapidly sinking to the sea bottom as aggregates, leaving other diatom species to dominate summer production. And, indeed, these seasonal changes can be discer...

Scientists report first remote, underwater detection of harmful algae, toxins

...these algae can vary widely from little or no toxicity to highly toxic." Beyond improving forecasting of HABs, this research will contribute to the rapidly emerging U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) by adding a new way to make coastal ocean observations. IOOS is a network of people and technol...

$29.4 million grant establishes CTSI at NYU in partnership with Health and Hospitals Corporation

...poration (HHC). The funding is designed to train medical researchers, more rapidly advance science from the lab to the patient to the community and to allow r.... Enhancing ties between NYU-HHC researchers and the community to more rapidly identify health problems and apply the knowledge gained to promote the use ...

Sex involved in plant defense

...That helps them evolve defenses against generalist herbivores. Though there are short-term benefits to asexual reproduction populations can grow more rapidly and propagate even when pollination is not possible losing sex puts plants at a long-term disadvantage. "In the end, asexual reproduction appears...

Facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions advanced in Singapore

...d by IBN is a simple, room-temperature process that does not produce toxic chemicals. The IBN research team has successfully transferred metal ions rapidly from water to an organic medium by mixing a solution of metal salts dissolved in water with an ethanol solution of dodecylamine (DDA). The metals woul...

Researchers achieve major breakthrough with water desalination system

...many of these systems are deployed all around the world and their operation monitored from a central location," Bartman said. "The M3 could be used to rapidly test water sources so that desalination plants can be constructed to augment the diminishing fresh water supply. The system could also be used in the ...

ACS Technologies(TM) Selects M2SYS for Innovative Biometric Software

...eve that the addition of a biometric component to our products will give us great competitive advantage in the marketplace. As technology continues to rapidly move forward, we know that partnerships like the one we have developed with M2SYS will help our clients -- some of the most technologically savvy orga...

New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments

...ring treatment with the EmimAc ionic liquid. Their results demonstrate that this label-free visualization and mapping technique can provide a means of rapidly screening a wide range of ionic liquids for pre-treating switchgrass and other biomass material. "Our approach can be used to evaluate the deconstr...