Gene therapy reduces drinking in rats with genetic predisposition to 'alcoholism'
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19-Apr-2004
Exposure to food increases brain metabolism
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced new evidence that brain circuits involved in drug addiction are also activated by the desire for food.
- Journal
- NeuroImage
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy, NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
11-Apr-2004
Scientists 'beef up' plant-dwelling bacteria to boost phytoremediation
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists transfer genes from pollutant-degrading bacteria into bacteria residing in plants to improve the plants' use in phytoremediation. They describe their proof-of-principle experiment, in which test plants inoculated with the "beefed-up" bacteria increased the degradation of toluene, in the May 2004 issue of Nature Biotechnology.
- Journal
- Nature Biotechnology
- Funder
- European Commission, Quality of Life, Ford Motor Company, Brookhaven National Laboratory
26-Mar-2004
Bright light yields unusual vibes
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
By bombarding very thin slices of several copper/oxygen compounds, called cuprates, with very bright, short-lived pulses of light, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has discovered an unusual property of the materials: their ability to emit it long-lived sound waves -- which might be useful for applications in the electronics industry.
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Meeting
- March 2004 American Physical Society Meeting
26-Mar-2004
Protein folding on a chip
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are proposing to use a supercomputer originally developed to simulate elementary particles in high-energy physics to help determine the structures and functions of proteins, including, for example, the 30,000 or so proteins encoded by the human genome. Structural information will help scientists better understand proteins' role in disease and health, and may lead to new diagnostic and therapeutic agents.
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
- Meeting
- March 2004 American Physical Society Meeting
26-Mar-2004
Studying 3-D materials in one dimension
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Research by Young-June Kim, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, may help determine how a class of materials already used in electronic circuits could be used in optical, or light-based, circuits, which could replace standard electrical circuits in telecommunications, computer networking, and other areas of technology.
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
- Meeting
- March 2004 American Physical Society Meeting
25-Mar-2004
Carbon nanotubes with big possibilities
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, working with colleagues at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, has caused an individual carbon nanotube to emit light for the first time. This step in research on carbon nanotubes may help to materialize many of the proposed applications for carbon nanotubes, such as in electronics and photonics development.
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
- Meeting
- March 2004 American Physical Society Meeting
23-Mar-2004
Another twist in the field of superconductivity
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an interesting type of electronic behavior in a recently discovered class of superconductors known as cobalt oxides, or cobaltates. These materials operate quite differently from other oxide superconductors, namely the copper oxides (or cuprates), which are commonly referred to as high-temperature superconductors.
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
- Meeting
- March 2004 American Physical Society Meeting
23-Mar-2004
Physicists see golden needle in a micro-cosmic haystack
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
An international team of physicists examining an extremely rare form of subatomic particle decay -- a veritable golden needle in a micro-cosmic haystack of 7.8 trillion candidates -- has discovered evidence for the highly sought process, which could be an indication of new forces beyond those incorporated in the Standard Model of particle physics.
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy, Japanese and Russian governments, National Research Council of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
3-Mar-2004
Just say 'no' to adenovirus
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Description of research on adenovirus at Brookhaven National Laboratory suggesting that nitric oxide might work as an antiviral agent.