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Showing releases 26-50 out of 78.
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
SDSU receives Department of Energy grant for solar research The grant, from the SunShot Initiative, will enable Dr. Fletcher Miller and his team of graduate and undergraduate student researchers to take a lab-scale model and, over the next four years, develops a full-scale model that will be tested at the National Solar Thermal Testing Facility in New Mexico. 
US Department of Energy
Contact: Greg Block
Public Release: 11-Oct-2012
 Climatic ChangeEarth sunblock only needed if planet warms easily A new computer analysis of future climate change that considers emissions reductions together with sunlight reduction shows that such drastic steps to cool the earth would only be necessary if the planet heats up easily with added greenhouse gases. The analysis, reported in the journal Climatic Change, might help future policymakers plan for a changing climate.
Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 10-Oct-2012
Journal of Biological ChemistryBiologists describe details of new mechanism for molecular interactions Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that may alter principle understandings of molecular interactions within a cell's nucleus. In four papers, the scientists describe the details of how particular proteins use a "molecular sled" to slide along DNA -- much like a train running along its tracks -- to find and interact with other proteins. The findings suggest this mechanism may be universal.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Science Foundation, and others
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 8-Oct-2012
Plant PhysiologyComputational model IDs potential pathways to improve plant oil production Using a computational model they designed to incorporate detailed information about plants' interconnected metabolic processes, scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified key pathways that appear to "favor" the production of either oils or proteins. The research, now published online in Plant Physiology, may point the way to new strategies to tip the balance and increase plant oil production.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 8-Oct-2012
Nature MethodsA welcome predictability Berkeley Lab researchers have developed an adapator that makes the genetic engineering of microbial components substantially easier and more predictable.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 8-Oct-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesAdaptable button mushroom serves up genes critical to managing the planet's carbon stores The button mushroom occupies a prominent place in our diet; in nature, Agaricus bisporus decays leaf matter on the forest floor. An international collaboration led by the French institute INRA and the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has determined the full repertoire of A. bisporus genes. Their report shows the metabolic strategies of Agaricus might not be present in white-rot and brown-rot fungi and suggests implications for forest carbon management.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Gilbert
Public Release: 5-Oct-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesScratching the surface: Stanford engineers examine UV effects on skin mechanics Using mechanical stress testing methods common in materials science, researchers at Stanford found that UV rays also change the way the outermost skin cells hold together and respond to strain.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Andrew Myers
Public Release: 1-Oct-2012
Nature Climate ChangeClimate change cripples forests Combine the tree-ring growth record with historic information, climate records and projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern United States. That's the word from a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the US Geological Survey, University of Arizona, and others. In the warmer and drier Southwest of the near future, widespread tree mortality will cause forest and species distributions to change substantially.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Nancy Ambrosiano
Public Release: 1-Oct-2012
Yearlong MAGIC climate study launches A Horizon Lines container ship outfitted with meteorological and atmospheric instruments installed by US Department of Energy scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will begin taking data today for a yearlong mission aimed at improving the representation of clouds in climate models.
Department of Energy's Office of Science
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 30-Sep-2012
Nature Climate ChangeClimate change could cripple southwestern forests Combine the tree-ring growth record with historical information, climate records, and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern United States, according to a new study to be published in Nature Climate Change.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Mari N. Jensen
Public Release: 28-Sep-2012
Songs in the key of sea Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used special algorithms to create musical patterns from data collected from microbes in the western English Channel.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Jared Sagoff
Public Release: 28-Sep-2012
UA engineering leads $5.5 million DOE project to create low-cost solar energy Solar power may be clean and renewable, but solar panels are inefficient and do not work at night. Could concentrated solar power be the salty solution?
US Department of Energy
Contact: Steve Delgado
Public Release: 27-Sep-2012
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures Sandia probability maps help sniff out food contamination Uncovering the sources of fresh food contamination could become faster and easier thanks to analysis done at Sandia National Laboratories' National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC).
Department of Homeland Security
Contact: Stephanie Holinka
Public Release: 27-Sep-2012
Plant Physiology'Semi-dwarf' trees may enable a green revolution for some forest crops The same "green revolution" concepts that have revolutionized crop agriculture and helped to feed billions of people around the world may now offer similar potential in forestry, scientists say, with benefits for wood, biomass production, drought stress and even greenhouse gas mitigation.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Steve Strauss
Public Release: 27-Sep-2012
ScienceUranium-contaminated site yields wealth of information on microbes 10 feet under At sites contaminated with heavy metals, remediation often involves feeding the naturally occurring bacteria in the soil to encourage them to turn soluble metals into solids that won't leech into aquifers and streams. To find out what these microbes are doing, UC Berkeley scientists performed a metagenomic analysis of the underground microbial community at one former uranium mill site in Colorado, assigning more than 150,000 sequenced genes to 80 bacteria and Archaea.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Most biofuels are not 'green' First tops, then flops. That is one way of summing up the history of biofuels so far. A new study led by Empa gives an up-to-date picture of the ecobalance of various biofuels and their production processes. Only a few are overall more environmentally friendly than petrol.
Swiss Federal Authorities, US Department of Energy
Contact: Dr. Rainer Zah
Public Release: 19-Sep-2012
Journal of Geophysical Research - AtmospheresClimate scientists put predictions to the test A study has found that climate-prediction models are good at forecasting long-term climate patterns on a global scale but lose their edge when applied to time frames shorter than three decades and on smaller geographic scales. The goal of the research was to bridge the communities of climate scientists and weather forecasters, who sometimes disagree with respect to climate change.
NASA, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Daniel Stolte
Public Release: 18-Sep-2012
Sandia shows monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance Research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., has shown it's possible to predict how well people will remember information by monitoring their brain activity while they study. Contact: Sue Holmes
Public Release: 18-Sep-2012
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchNew NIST screening method identifies 1,200 candidate refrigerants to combat global warming NIST researchers have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids with low "global warming potential" as well as other desirable performance and safety features.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Laura Ost
Public Release: 14-Sep-2012
eLifeBerkeley Lab scientists create first 3-D model of a protein critical to embryo development Berkeley Lab researchers have constructed the first detailed and complete picture of a protein complex that is tied to human birth defects as well as the progression of many forms of cancer. Knowing the architecture of this protein, PRC2, should be a boon to its future use in the development of new and improved therapeutic drugs.
National Institutes of General Medical Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
Water-wise biofuel crop study to alter plants metabolic, photosynthesis process A five-year, multi-institutional $14.3 million United States Department of Energy grant to explore the genetic mechanisms of crassulacean acid metabolism and drought tolerance in desert-adapted plants was awarded to a team of researchers including John Cushman, a biochemistry professor at the University of Nevada, Reno; Xiaohan Yang at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); James Hartwell at the University of Liverpool, UK; and Anne Borland at Newcastle University, UK and ORNL. They aim to apply this knowledge to biofuel crops.
US Department of Energy, Genome Scineces
Contact: Mike Wolterbeek
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
Scientists use sound waves to levitate liquids, improve pharmaceuticals Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have been using an "acoustic levitator" to find new ways to achieve containerless drug processing. Please check out the brief and striking video: http://www.anl.gov/videos/acoustic-levitation.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Jared Sagoff
Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
Nature MaterialsMercury in water, fish detected with nanotechnology When mercury is dumped into rivers and lakes, the toxic heavy metal can end up in the fish we eat and the water we drink. To help protect consumers from the diseases and conditions associated with mercury, researchers at Northwestern University in collaboration with colleagues at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, have developed a nanoparticle system that is sensitive enough to detect even the smallest levels of heavy metals in our water and fish.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Erin White
Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
Jay Keasling wins Heinz Award Jay Keasling, Berkeley Lab Associate Director for Biosciences and leading authority on synthetic biology who has engineered microbial "factories" to manufacture a frontline antimalarial drug and biofuel substitutes for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, has won a 2012 Heinz Award. Presented by the Heinz Family Foundation, the award carries with it a cash prize of $250,000.
Heinz Family Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Journal of Clinical InvestigationProtein linked to therapy resistance in breast cancer Berkeley Lab researchers have identified the FAM83A protein as a possible new oncogene and linked it to therapy resistance in breast cancer. This discovery helps explain the clinical correlation between a high expression of FAM83A and a poor prognosis for breast cancer patients, and may also provide a new target for future therapies.
US Department of Energy, Office of Science, NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Lynn Yarris
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