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Scientists push enzyme evolution into high gear

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

The Brookhaven study offers insight into how enzymes evolve and may one day lead to methods to boost production of other useful plant products.

Scientists find link between dopamine and obesity

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dopamine, a brain chemical associated with addiction to cocaine, alcohol, and other drugs, may also play an important role in obesity. According to a study by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, obese people have fewer receptors for dopamine, a neurotransmitter that helps produce feelings of satisfaction and pleasure.

Journal: The Lancet
Funder: US Department of Energy

New Brookhaven Lab study shows how ritalin works

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Although Ritalin has been used for more than 40 years as a successful treatment for ADHD, minimal information exists on exactly how the drug works in the brain. This latest study shows for the first time how the drug acts in the human brain and why it is so effective.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

First Results From Brookhaven Lab's New Collider

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly 700 physicists from around the world gathered at the Quark Matter 2001 Conference at Stony Brook University to hear the first physics results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Funder: US Department of Energy
Meeting: Quark Matter 2001

Scientists decode genes of microbe that thrives in toxic metals

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Understanding the genetic makeup of microbes that thrive in polluted environments may one day help scientists engineer bacteria that can clean contaminants from soil. In a step toward that goal, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has just released the draft gene sequence of one such toxin-tolerant bug, which was studied at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Funder: US Department of Energy

Brookhaven Lab researchers develop a technique to measure defects in materials with unprecedented accuracy

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a technique to detect defects in materials with picometer accuracy — the highest accuracy ever achieved in such measurements. The research is reported in Physical Review Letters (11/20/00).

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: US Department of Energy

Brookhaven scientists initiate MRI study of multiple sclerosis

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The search for clues about multiple sclerosis (MS) — a chronic, often disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord — got a significant boost today when the National Multiple Sclerosis Society awarded a $613,687 grant to scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. The grant will support a three-year study using Brookhaven’s powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to look for early signs of disease.

Funder: National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Scientists pinpoint mechanism for UV damage to rice plants

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists working at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a molecular 'weak link' that may limit the productivity of some of the world's most commercially important strains of rice. Understanding this mechanism could lead to ways to improve the production of rice, the most important food source for more than half the world's population.

Journal: The Plant Cell
Funder: Toyota, Culture and Science, US Department of Energy, Japanese Ministry of Education

Scientists combine chemistry and bioremediation to clean cadmium from soil

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have devised a way to combine chemical treatment with 'pollutant-busting' bacteria to remove cadmium from contaminated soil. The technique would potentially be less costly than digging up contaminated soil for treatment elsewhere.

Funder: US Department of Energy
Meeting: ACS 220th National Meeting

Major air pollution study launched

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A national team of over 150 researchers has begun one of the most comprehensive air quality studies ever conducted in the US. Over six weeks, the team will study air pollution in eastern Texas. Their aim is to better understand the complex interactions among various sources of pollution, meteorology, and other variables that contribute to ozone production and fine-particle air pollution.

Funder: Department of Energy, NOAA, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, others