FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A University of Arkansas scientist who studies constructs of a protein that are associated with the cell transformation that causes cancer has received a five-year, $661,018 grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand his research.

Paul Adams, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the J.…[more]

It’s hard to think of scientists in laboratories working toward solutions for medical problems without mice or other laboratory animals, but animals’ roles in at least one major research laboratory may soon be minimal.

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory (COL) have developed an in vitro model using small sections of joint capsule and cartilage typically discarded that mimics arthritic joints. [more]

Mp3 audio format became available back in 1993. Shortly after it became the standard internet audio format, and it is still very much used world wide. Recently another format has been introduced, the mp4 audio-video format which allows video capability, so that users can watch movies, TV shows, music videos along with mp3 songs.

As the industry of mp4 player devices evolved, more features such as fm tuner,…[more]

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is bringing together a distinguished group of scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers from across the country to help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system.

The Law and Neuroscience Project is the first systematic effort to bridge the fields of law and science in considering how courts should deal with new brain-scanning techniques as they apply…[more]

COLUMBIA, MO - At the University of Missouri-Columbia, faculty members from the Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute have been selected by federal officials to enhance and develop technologies for America’s “next generation” of nuclear reactors.

As part of a three-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), MU engineers are working with colleagues from North Carolina State University and Washington University in St. Louis to…[more]

According to technology writer David Talbot, if we think we’re doing ourselves an environmental favor by switching over to hydrogen to fuel automobiles, we may actually be doing more harm than good.

Most of us consider powering cars with hydrogen as a cleaner solution than burning fossil fuels. But Talbot…[more]

Passengers and visitors to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport® can stay connected to home or office after the completion of a new Wi-Fi network.

Wi-Fi users can access service across a majority of areas in all terminal and concourses. The cost is $7.95 per day, charged upon connection (with access up to 24 continuous hours) for users who do not have a Wi-Fi subscription.

Users who already…[more]

A new knee-surgery device investigated by University of Missouri-Columbia researchers that will help to repair meniscus tears, which were previously defined as irreparable, has been approved by the FDA for use in humans.

Previous treatment options forced surgeons to completely remove the damaged portion of the meniscus. Typically the removal of the meniscus leads to painful, debilitating arthritis in the knee. Herb Schwartz, president and CEO of Schwartz…[more]

COLUMBIA, Mo. - They look like a pair of everyday eyeglasses, but University of Missouri students have turned them into a device that allows people without speech capability to communicate.

“For people of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease), traumatic brain injury, stroke or spinal cord injury, speech can be impossible, leaving them essentially trapped in their own bodies,” said Nathan Granneman, recent MU graduate from Milan, Mo.…[more]

Arkansas’s economic goal of becoming more knowledge and technology-based made great strides with today’s announcement of $13.5 million in research grants for three state universities.

The release of $1.5 million by Governor Mike Beebe from the Accelerate Arkansas funds is part of a potential three-year $4.5 million state match to accompany $9 million awarded to the Arkansas Science & Technology Authority (Authority) by the National Science Foundation.