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Liter of fuel would last UK 1 year if cars had kept pace with computers

One litre of fuel would serve the UK for a year and oil reserves would last the expected lifetime of the solar system - if efficiency in the car industry had improved at the same rate as in the computer world - a leading computer scientist will tell an audience in Manchester on Friday 20 June 2008...

Perspective: Policies must keep pace with genetic progress

Enactment of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 is a boon to individual patients and for genetic research, write Kathy Hudson, M.K. Holohan, and Francis Collins in the June 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine . But the bill is not a panacea, they note: Employ...

OHSU turns innovations into commercial opportunities at record pace

PORTLAND, Ore. By most measures of an academic medical centers success in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, fiscal year 2007 was a banner year for Oregon Health & Science University. OHSU researchers disclosed 132 inventions, more than in any previous year in the universitys historyan...

Freshwater fish at the top of the food chain evolve more slowly

...ive prey." For largemouth bass and other species that feed primarily on fish, the researchers wanted to know how this feeding strategy affected the pace and shape of evolution. "The question we wanted to ask was: What is the interplay between the evolution of diet and the evolution of form?" says Coll...

Maternal, paternal genes' tug-of-war may last well into childhood

... care for more than one child at a time. Evidence from disorders of genomic imprinting suggests that maternal and paternal genes may skirmish over the pace of human development." Previous research has offered evidence of a genetic struggle for supremacy only during fetal development: In the womb, some ...

High construction cost for cycads

...sis for leaves of Guam's Cycas is minimal, with rates of two-year-old leaves sustained at 80% of the initial maximum. Marler indicates this sluggish pace of decline is 65-80 times slower than other species for which this trait has been determined. The financial risk analogy illuminates a critical en...

Warming climate threatens California fruit and nut production

...f California's agriculturally rich Central Valley, winter chill has already declined by nearly 30 percent, the researchers found. "Depending on the pace of winter chill decline, the consequences for California's fruit and nut industries could be devastating," said Minghua Zhang, a professor of environm...

Hormone clue to root growth

... said: "We have shown that gibberellin plays a crucial role in controlling the size of the root meristem, and that it is the endodermis which sets the pace for expansion rates in the other tissues. "Understanding precisely how hormones regulate plant growth is one of the key areas of fundamental plant...

Stanford researchers publish comprehensive model for medical device development

... development process is governed by regulations that influence the manner in which medical devices are developed, approved, and brought to market. The pace at which such regulatory requirements can be met determines when the device will reach the clinic. Specifically, FDA's Quality System Regulation p...

Computers aid in cracking deception in plants

... "We expect that information resulting from the research will help scientists improve soybean cultivars for disease resistance by accelerating the pace of discovery on resistance to this pathogen," said Korkin, who also is a member of the IPG and an investigator in the Christopher S. Bond Life Science...

Another JDRF partner moves research forward with collaboration agreement for diabetes treatment

..., PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of JDRF. "This latest agreement further demonstrates that the strategy is successful in accelerating the pace of research leading to a cure for diabetes." Dr. Lewis noted that the development underscores JDRF's unique role helping to accelerate and translat...

Five outstanding young gastroenterologists receive AGA Foundation 2009 Research Scholars Award

...estive Health and Nutrition remains committed to continuing to help fund these gifted scholars, enabling them to continue their research programs. The pace of discovery must be sustained, and it is up to those of us in the profession to make it happen. The 75 grants we give out to gifted researchers each ...

Obama Budget Level Funds Career Technical Education

...sortium. "Level funding this program is like putting a temporary patch on a hole in a dam that is ready to burst. Demand for these programs is up. The pace of technological change is increasing. Equipment needs are growing. To be able to support our country properly, CTE needs a significant new infusion o...

Notre Dame researchers describe new tool for evaluating 'managed relocations'

...oblems, as has been the case with invasive species. These concerns are shared by members of the working group. However, they contend that the rapid pace of climate change makes it critical that scientists and policy makers begin to assess such actions now. This urgency does not mean that they advocate ...

P[acman]-generated fruit fly gene 'library': A new research tool

...or College of Medicine has established a library of clones that cover most of the genome of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) and should speed the pace of genetic research. In a report in the current online issue of the journal Nature Methods , Dr. Hugo Bellen ( http://flypush.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu/la...

Does mom know when enough is enough?

...gn blame. But maternal sensitivity to the infant's feeding state, as reflected by the Feeding Scale scores, suggests that an unwillingness to slow the pace of feeding or terminate the feeding when the infant shows satiation cues may be overriding the infant's ability to self-regulate its intake." Howev...

Study finds blood cells can be reprogrammed to act as embryonic stem cells

...cular and Medical Genetics at Oregon Health and Science University, who is not affiliated with the study. "These findings will immediately enhance the pace of laboratory research in this field and will ultimately help to determine whether iPS cells have a therapeutic potential equivalent to that of embryo...

AIUM Presents 2009 Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer Awards

...pied several research positions at Riverside Research Institute before assuming his current role. In addition, he is an adjunct associate professor at pace University, adjunct associate professor of surgery at New York Medical College, adjunct research associate professor of surgery at Drexel University, ...

Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications

...g single molecules through such a technique can be overcome, the method holds the potential for inexpensive DNA sequencing, operating at the breakneck pace of thousands of base pairs per second. As professor Lindsay notes, "this combination of tunneling plus the chemistry is very powerful." ...

Optimum running speed is stride toward understanding human body form

..., listen up: If your body is telling you that your pace feels a little too fast or a little too slow, it m...with speed and that each individual has an optimal pace at which he or she can cover the greatest distance...rtion required to cover a set distance at a slower pace were thought to balance out the difference in meta...

Carbon sinks losing the battle with rising emissions

...e Change Conference."Forests, grasslands and oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere faster than ever but they are not keeping pace with rapidly rising emissions," says CSIRO scientist and co-Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Dr Mike Raupach. "While these natural CO 2 sinks a...

Scripps research scientists 'watch' as individual alpha-synuclein proteins change shape

... "lipid" molecules remained separate but at higher concentration, small and then larger blobs of molecules form. The shape of the alpha-synuclein kept pace the extended helix could latch onto lipid-mimics as monomers or in a large cylinder-shaped blob, whereas the bent helix wrapped itself around smaller...

HIV adapts to 'escape' immune response

... BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adapts so well to the body's defense system that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Universit...

Duke forum to address global engineering problems

...e that generated this grand challenge list was probably thinking more about opportunities for engineering for the whole of the next century, the rapid pace of change in the world and the tenor of the challenges themselves has made the Grand Challenges unmistakably a call to arms, not just for engineers bu...

Threats to biodiversity rise in the world's Mediterranean-climate regions

...ly 2% of the Earth's land surface: portions of California/Baja California, South Africa, Australia, Chile, and the Mediterranean Basin. Increasing the pace and scale of conservation in mediterranean regions is critically important to biodiversity protection, because these regions contain 20% of the world'...

Trailblazing rural community shows green heating oil a viable option

...d from used vegetable oil and tallow by Argent Energy Ltd of Scotland. The biodiesel is stored in Norfolk and blended with conventional heating oil by pace Fuelcare of King's Lynn, which delivers the fuel to the properties. Fuel blends are being trialled that are equal or lower in carbon footprint than...

While focusing on heart disease, researchers discover new tactic against fatal muscular dystrophy

... Cellular Biophysics and Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Molecular Cardiology. "If it works in people, our drug won't be a cure, but it could slow the pace of muscle degeneration and extend the lives of people with Duchenne." The study was published online Feb. 8 in Nature Medicine . Though the new dr...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Jan. 28, 2009

...ion for Stock Car Auto Racing) left safety innovations in the hands of mechanics and engineers tinkering in the garage. These innovations haven't kept pace with NASCAR's push for faster cars, the article notes. But a series of spectacular crashes that claimed the lives of several NASCAR stars brought abou...

Far-reaching genetics topics to be addressed: 2009 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting, March 25-29

... Sunday, March 29, 2009 at the Tampa Convention Center. Clinical and medical genetics and its integration into healthcare is evolving at a dizzying pace and the 2009 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting is an excellent opportunity for the medical and scientific media to learn firsthand about the lates...

Tree deaths have doubled across the western US

...nally, increasing tree mortality rates mean that western forests could become net sources of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, further speeding up the pace of global warming. "The same way that in any group of people a small number will die each year, in any forest a small number of trees die each year...

As super-predators, humans reshape their prey at super-natural speeds

... observable trait changes by 300 percent above the pace observed within natural systems, and 50 percent fa...hange." The study is the first to calculate the pace of evolution in commercially harvested organisms a...des. We are the planet's super-predator." "The pace of changes we're seeing supercedes by a long shot ...

January GEOLOGY media highlights

...d aluminium-26, Fujioka et al. reveal that Australian desert dune fields began to form one million years ago, when global ice age cycles changed their pace from 40 thousand years to 100 thousand years. This is the first paper to use cosmogenic nuclides for dating dune deposits, combined with the conventio...

Electromagnetic phantom exorcises specters of metal detector tests

...nd passed through a WTMD at a speed of 0.5 meters per second by a computer-controlled actuator. This speed was selected because it is a common walking pace for an adult male. Engineers in NISTs Office of Law Enforcement Standards used the data from recent trials to design and support a reproducible proces...

EPSRC Science and Innovation Awards 2008

...performance computers (HPC) are theoretically capable of and the actual performance that can be achieved with current software. Improvements must keep pace with advances in computing technology if new hardware investment is to be fully exploited for the benefit of society. By bringing mathematicians and c...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 3, 2008

...thod currently prescribed by the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP), the nonprofit organization that sets standards for the pharmaceutical industry, has not kept pace with that new knowledge. That method involves a 100-year-old test that is time-consuming, difficult to interpret, and generally not quantitative, acco...

Carbon dioxide already in danger zone, warns study

...cineration of forests. As a result, global temperatures have been creeping upward. The authors say that improved data on past climate changes, and the pace at which earth is changing now, especially in the polar regions, contributed to their conclusion. Among other things, ongoing observations of fast-mel...

Turtles alter nesting dates due to temperature change says ISU researcher

... Combined with the adult females being forced to change nesting habits, the stresses could mean the species is under real pressure to adapt swiftly, a pace not popularly considered to characterize turtles, he said. ...

Bayhill Therapeutics and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announce research collaboration

...presenting approximately $29 million in diabetes science. "Our partnership with Bayhill Therapeutics reflects JDRF's commitment to accelerating the pace of science leading to a cure for type 1 diabetes," said Dr. Richard A. Insel, JDRF Executive Vice President, Research. "Bayhill's DNA vaccine protoco...

JDRF to provide $1M in funding to SmartCells, Inc.

...in may represent a practical solution to the real needs of people with diabetes, and this collaboration illustrates our dedication to accelerating the pace of science leading to cures and treatments for people with type 1 diabetes by helping innovative companies test concepts and bring their products to p...

European researchers harness unique properties of boron to develop new drugs and diagnostics

...to happen in the case of boron based compounds which would therefore make it easier for humans to remain one step ahead rather than struggling to keep pace as at present. Apart from lack of knowledge over the potential, development of boron compounds for medicine has been held back until now by the h...