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By identifying a novel compound that primes a plant's immune system, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Chicago may be on a path to developing disease-resistant plants.

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are looking at how developing nerve cells may hold a key to predicting and preventing diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory officials announced today that construction will start in eight to 10 weeks on a major research facility made possible by $71.2 million from President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Blindness in millions of people with diseases that starve eye tissue and nerves of oxygen might be averted with a procedure being developed by researchers at ORNL, University of Sounthern California and UT.

With a one-of-a-kind instrument at ORNL, discoveries have been made that could open new pathways for nanoscale electronics. An enzyme that converts cellulosic materials and water to hydrogen used in transportation has been discovered. An ORNL study of structural damage shows that buildings with large openings are more prone to hurricane damage. A combination of neutron, X-ray and atom-probe analysis has given researchers insight to the atomic structure of a new multicomponent bulk metallic glass.

In the blink of an eye, people at risk of becoming blind can now be screened for eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.

Researchers at ORNL and Vanderbilt University have unveiled a new technique for imaging whole cells in liquid. Scientists studying human health, agriculture and the environment have a powerful new tool to help them better understand microbial processes. Colonies of cyber robots with unique missions can in near real time detect network intruders on computers that support US infrastructure. The National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL has granted early access to a number of projects to test Jaguar.

For the first time, farmers have data that tracks at the county level on-site and off-site energy use and carbon dioxide emissions associated with growing crops in the United States.

The US Department of Energy has given its initial approval to begin plans for a second target station for the Spallation Neutron Source, expanding what is already the world's most powerful pulsed neutron scattering facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

A project to speed and safeguard the shipping of thousands of radioisotopes in the US and afar hits the highway this year, but researchers expect the benefits to extend well beyond. Assistance to Navistar in developing a new lightweight truck bumper that can save gasoline without compromising safety is being performed by a materials process team headed by Gail Ludtka of ORNL. Structural defects introduced into carbon nanotubes could lead the way to carbon nanotube circuits, research led by Vincent Meunier of ORNL shows.