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- Baxter and Northwestern University partner to target new life sciences projects (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Northwestern University) Northwestern University and Baxter Healthcare Corporation will create a multidisciplinary research and innovation alliance, the two entities announced today. Under the three-year renewable agreement, Baxter will fund research-collaboration projects at Northwestern. Funding levels for each year may reach approximately $1 million, and Baxter will determine specific project funding levels on a case-by-case basis. - Particulate emission from natural gas burning home appliances (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Natural gas, believed to be among the cleanest forms of fuel, does emit ultrafine airborne particulate matter when burned in home appliances such as stove tops and water heaters. - URMC, Lighthouse Biosciences awarded US patent for diagnostic technology (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(University of Rochester Medical Center) The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has received a US patent for a diagnostic technology that can rapidly and accurately screen for organisms such as bacteria and other infectious agents. Lighthouse Biosciences, LLC, a Rochester-based life sciences company, is the exclusive worldwide license holder of the technology. - RIT and Lockheed Martin enhance sustainable mobility and economic growth (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Rochester Institute of Technology) America's military fleet is on the road to improving performance and environmental quality due to new technology implemented through a partnership between Rochester Institute of Technology and Lockheed Martin Corp. The project is a component of a $150 million competitive contract with the US Marine Corp Systems Command, won by Lockheed Martin, which is equipping 7,000 to 12,000 military vehicles with new systems monitoring technology that can better assess the "health" of vehicles in the field. - Adding high doses of sludge to neutralize soil acidity not advisable (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Elhuyar Fundazioa) A University of the Basque Country Ph.D. thesis has analysed the application of waste sludge from EDAR (Estaci - Rice University psychologist finds women's brains recognize, encode smell of male sexual sweat (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Rice University) A new Rice University study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that socioemotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat. - New tool enables powerful data analysis (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(University of California - Davis) A powerful new tool that can extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex data sets has been developed by scientists at University of California, Davis, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The tool -- a set of problem-solving calculations known as an algorithm -- is compact enough to run on computers with as little as two gigabytes of memory. - Researchers control the assembly of nanobristles into helical clusters (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Harvard University) From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have discovered a way to synthesize and control the formation of nanobristles, akin to tiny hairs, into helical clusters and have further demonstrated the fabrication of such highly ordered clusters, built from similar coiled building blocks, over multiple scales and areas. - New MicroBiome Analysis Center to explore health effects of microorganisms within the human body (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(George Mason University) The human body contains billions of microorganisms. Microbial cells in the human gut are estimated to outnumber human cells by 10 to one in healthy adults, according to the National Institutes of Health, but very little is known about the ways in which these minute life forms influence health and disease. - NASA balloon mission tunes in to a cosmic radio mystery (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected. - Montville resident and NJIT professor receives engineering honors (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Nirwan Ansari, of Montville, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has received two notable honors. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has named him a Fellow for his contributions to broadband networks and communications. - Converting adult somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells using a single virus (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Boston University) A Boston University Medical School research team has found a more efficient way to create induced pluripotent stem cells using a single virus vector instead of multiple viruses in the reprogramming process. The ability to combine four vectors into single "stem cell cassette" containing all four genes using a combinatioin of 2A peptides and IRES dramatically improves iPS cell productioin efficiency -- 10 times higher than previously reported studies. - Logical reversal (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Inderscience Publishers) During an economic downturn companies, particularly in the computer sector, could gain an advantage of their competitors by adopting reverse logistics, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development. - Louisiana Tech physicists highlight top 10 science stories of 2008 (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Louisiana Tech University) Discover, one of the world's premier science and technology news magazines, released its list of the top 100 stories for 2008 and features two projects involving physicists from Louisiana Tech University in its top 10. - Tilting at wind farms (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Inderscience Publishers) A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of Power Electronics. - P2P traffic control (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Inderscience Publishers) Could a concept from information technology familiar to online file sharers be exploited to reduce road congestion and even traffic accidents? That is the question answered in the affirmative by researchers in California, writing in the International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems. - NIH grants Phylonix Phase II SBIR to develop high-throughput in vivo zebrafish assays (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Phylonix Pharmaceuticals) Phylonix Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that it has been awarded a $1,250,369 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to develop in vivo zebrafish assays for assessing drug effects on Cytochrome P450s. CYP profiling, a critical step in drug development, is required by the Food and Drug Administration for all new drug approvals. - First Science from the Compact Light Source: A miniature synchrotron for your home lab (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Lyncean Technologies, Inc.) Today, at the 39th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Ronald Ruth, Ph.D., president of Lyncean Technologies, announced that the Compact Light Source, a miniature synchrotron, has achieved three key milestones using its unique X-ray beam: first scientific publication featured by the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation on its January 2009 cover, first micro-tomographic images from the CLS, and the first protein crystallography data set. - Researchers measure elusive repulsive force from quantum fluctuations (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(Harvard University) Researchers from Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health have measured, for the first time, a repulsive quantum mechanical force that could be harnessed and tailored for a wide range of new nanotechnology applications. - Health-monitoring technology helps seniors live at home longer, MU researchers find (Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:00:00 -0800)
(University of Missouri-Columbia) University of Missouri researchers are using sensors, computers and communication systems, along with supportive health care services to monitor the health of older adults who are living at home. According to the researchers, motion sensor networks installed in seniors' homes can detect changes in behavior and physical activity, including walking and sleeping patterns. Early identification of these changes can prompt health care interventions that can delay or prevent serious health events.
