News tagged with biological methods
Small investments to battle soybean pest paying off big, says MSU researcher
Mar 23, 2009 |
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The small amount of money put toward fighting the tiny, yet destructive soybean aphid will pay big dividends in the coming years, said a Michigan State University economist, thanks to a research and outreach ...
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Biological warfare in bacteria offers hope for new antibiotics
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Scientists are to study a group of proteins that are highly effective at killing bacteria and which could hold the key to developing new types of antibiotics.
DNA patterns of microbes
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The genomes or DNA of microbes contain defined DNA patterns called genome signatures. Such signatures may be used to establish relationships and to search for DNA from viruses or other organisms ...
New discovery reveals fate of nanoparticles in human cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have uncovered what happens to biomimetic nanoparticles when they enter human cells. They found that the important proteins that make ...
Time series identify population responses to climate change
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Biologists have for several years modeled how different species are likely to respond to climate change. Most such studies ignore differences between populations within a species and the interactions between species, in the ...
New initiative to automate discovery of astrophysical phenomena
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Automated methods for discovering astrophysical phenomena by sifting through massive amounts of cosmological data are being developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University and the University ...
Researchers demonstrate nanoscale X-ray imaging of bacterial cells
Dec 07, 2009 |
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An ultra-high-resolution imaging technique using X-ray diffraction is a step closer to fulfilling its promise as a window on nanometer-scale structures in biological samples. In the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
A challenge to improve Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for structural biology
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In structural biology, the only technique available to predict the three dimensional structure of large complex molecules in solution, such as proteins and DNA, is NMR spectroscopy. To catalyze improvements ...
Web-based innovation improves, eases agricultural terrace design
Sep 22, 2009 |
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A new internet-based tool for designing agricultural terraces promises to reduce the considerable labor involved and to optimize design by allowing rapid development of alternative layouts.
Purdue-developed tool can get most pollution control for the money
Jun 15, 2009 |
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There may be thousands of things large and small that can be done to better control pollution on even the smallest waterways, and a new tool developed at Purdue University may help sort out how to choose the best ones.
Fast Pandemic Detection Tool Ready to Fight Flu
Jun 09, 2009 |
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In a joint effort by national laboratory-, university- and private-sector institutions, researchers are developing new tools for rapidly characterizing biological pathogens that could give rise to potentially deadly pandemics ...
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