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1-Jul-2001
Faster, lighter computers possible with nanotechnology
Smaller, lighter computers and an end to worries about electrical failures sending hours of on-screen work into an inaccessible limbo mark the potential result of Argonne research on tiny ferroelectric crystals.
Contact: Richard Greb
rgreb@anl.gov
630-252-5565
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
1-Jul-2001
New life for old scrap
Scott Chumbley and Alan Russell, two Ames Laboratory researchers have refined a process that makes it commercially viable to recover the neodymium from tons of stockpiled magnetic scrap.
Contact: Steve Karsjen
karsjen@ameslab.gov
515-294-5643
DOE/Ames Laboratory
27-Jun-2001
Keeping trucks and the nation on the road to prosperity
The 21st Century Truck Partnership aims to secure the future of the nation's trucking industry by developing technologies to increase safety, fuel economy, performance, and to lower emissions. It combines the resources and capabilities of the Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, and 16 industrial partners.
Contact: Ron Walli
wallira@ornl.gov
865-576-0226
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
20-Jun-2001
2001 Discover Magazine Innovation Awards
Discover Magazine and the Christopher Columbus Foundation recognized scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in a ceremony today for developing two innovative technologies that will address vital health and humanitarian issues.
Contact: Staci Maloof
Staci.Maloof@pnl.gov
509-372-6313
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
20-Jun-2001
Scientists push enzyme evolution into high gear
The Brookhaven study offers insight into how enzymes evolve and may one day lead to methods to boost production of other useful plant products.
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
kmcnulty@bnl.gov
631-344-8350
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Disease detectives
ORNL researchers are developing two types of miniaturized devices for diagnosing diseases.
These devices are based on cantilevers and biochips.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Controlling carbon in hybrid poplar trees
ORNL scientists are helping to search for genes that could allow the creation of trees that
store more carbon and offer higher-value products.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
A model fish for pollutant studies
The zebrafish is a model organism for studying the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals
on gene and protein expression.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
SNS and biological research
Three world-class biological instruments are being designed for the Spallation Neutron
Source. They will help biologists determine the atomic-level structure of proteins and other
signaling compounds that allow cells to communicate and coordinate activities across an
organism. The research could lead to safer, more effective drugs.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Microbe probe
ORNL researchers are using gene chips, mass spectrometry, and computational analysis to
understand what microbe genes do.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Protein prediction tool has good prospects
ORNL ranks high in its ability to computationally predict protein structures. The next step is
to speed up predictions to facilitate the search for effective drugs.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Human genome analyzed using supercomputer
A computational analysis of the human genome by ORNL and UT researchers provides
insights into what our genes do.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
The mouse house: From old to new
While some ORNL mice are allowed to grow old for studies of aging, mutant mouse embryos
are being frozen, awaiting birth after the new Mouse House is built.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Lab on a chip used for protein studies
ORNL's lab on a chip is being used commercially to identify proteins and shows promise for
drug discovery and disease screening.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Rapid genetic disease screening possible using laser mass spectrometry
Laser desorption mass spectrometry is emerging as a new tool for
screening populations for various genetic diseases
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Protein identification by mass spectrometry
ORNL researchers are improving mass spectrometry tools to speed up protein identification
and to screen for disease-causing proteins and bacteria.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
19-Jun-2001
Surprises in the mouse genome
In the live organism, not all mouse and human genes have predictable functions, and
proteins with similar structures can have different functions.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18-Jun-2001
Search for signs of inflammatory disease
You fall on your shoulder and tear some cartilage, causing bone to rub against bone.
Your shoulder becomes inflamed and begins to hurt because cytokine, a small signal
protein secreted by your immune system, has recruited white blood cells to clean up the
damage.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18-Jun-2001
Curing cancer in mice
ORNL researchers have shown that a radioisotope-bearing antibody can target the blood
vessels of lung tumors in mice, destroying the tumors.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18-Jun-2001
MicroCAT 'sees' hidden mouse defects
ORNL's X-ray computed tomography system allows internal defects and organ changes in
small animals to be mapped.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18-Jun-2001
Obesity-related gene in mouse discovered at ORNL
Some mice born at ORNL have grown dangerously fat, even though they have been on
a low-fat diet since birth. Although they do not appear overweight, these mice have a
mutated gene that plays a strong role in causing obesity in the form of internal fat
deposits that are hazardous to their health.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18-Jun-2001
Mouse models for the human disease of chronic hereditary tyrosinemia
When a section of mouse chromosome 7 containing the coat color c gene is deleted by
exposing mice to radiation, "albino" mice are born with a white, hairless coat.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18-Jun-2001
Searching for mouse models of human
Mutant mice are tested by ORNL researchers and their collaborators to determine if these
mice have diseases similar to those that afflict humans. Therapies tried on mouse models
could lead to new medical treatments.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18-Jun-2001
Gene chip engineers
At ORNL, microarrays are being made faster and cheaper to study gene expression in cells
from mice, fish, and other organisms.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18-Jun-2001
Complex biological systems in mice
Using genetic engineering, gene microarrays, and computational technologies, ORNL
researchers are deciphering genetic variations in the skin that lead to increased risk of
disease from environmental factors.
Contact: Billy Stair
stairb@ornl.gov
865-574-4160
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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