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Looking for Secrets to Drug Addiction in Our Blood

A new collaboration between the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Air Force's 59th Medical Wing hopes to improve on drug…

Automotive Engineering

ORNL Strengthens DOE-Funded Clean Vehicles Team

Working with the University of Michigan, which leads the consortium announced by the Department of Energy, ORNL will contribute in the areas of advanced…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Pickle Spoilage Bacteria May Help Environment

Some species of Lactobacilli-food-related microorganisms-can cause red coloring when combined with tartrazine, a yellow food-coloring agent used in the…

Life & Chemistry

Molecule 968 Binds Glutaminase and Starves Cancer Cells

The key to this research is the amino acid glutamine. Researchers have long believed that starving cancer cells of glutamine, which cancer cells require in…

Life & Chemistry

New Biosensing Technology Could Replace Microplates

Essentially arrays of tiny test tubes, microplates have been used for decades to simultaneously test multiple samples for their responses to chemicals, living…

Information Technology

Bringing health care in Africa into the electronic age

But what’s health care got to do with software design?Lots, explains Seebregts, a senior manager at the South African Medical Research Council, Executive…

Studies and Analyses

IV Aspirin: A Safe Solution for Severe Headaches

“Intravenous aspirin is not readily available in the United States and only on a ‘named patient’ basis in the United Kingdom, while it is more generally used…

Trade Fair News

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Showcases Local Innovations at SIAL 2010

The Nord-Pas-de-Calais companies will be set up in various areas within the trade show, such as those devoted to meat products, fruit and vegetables, seafood,…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Antitumoral Compounds from Tropical Lianas

Plants are an important source of pharmacologically active substances. The tropical

lianas of the families Dioncophyllaceae and Ancistrocladaceae are rich in…

Earth Sciences

NASA Study Reveals Desert Dust Impact on Colorado River Flow

The study, led by a NASA scientist and funded by the agency and the National Science Foundation, showed peak spring runoff now comes three weeks earlier than…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Farm, forest lands being protected — but not always for farming or forestry

There’s some evidence that the laws have provided a “measurable degree of protection,” scientists say in the report. However, there are also impacts that were…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Soybean Diseases: Impact on Harvest Yield and Predictions

Yield losses from both are hard to predict and depend on the variety planted and growth stage of the crop when symptoms first appear, said Kiersten Wise,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Rotating High-Pressure Sodium Lamps Boost Spring Plant Growth

When consumers visit garden centers in spring they will most likely buy flowering ornamental plants that are ready for their home gardens. Studies have shown…

Earth Sciences

NASA sees Tropical Storm Julia getting 'dusted'

NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Julia on Sept. 18 at…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Hurricane Karl’s Impact Before Dissipation

Karl had maximum sustained winds of 115 mph when it made landfall on Friday afternoon, Sept. 17. That made Karl a Category three hurricane on the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Winter Drought Stress: Impact on Orange Flowering and Harvesting

Successful mechanical harvesting of perennial fruit crops requires efficient, economical harvesting systems that do not reduce trees' production life or…

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