Biosciences Division

News

• New ORNL process brings nanoparticles into focus

  Scientists can study the biological impacts of engineered nanomaterials on cells within the body with greater resolution than ever because of a procedure developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

• Audio Spot: New medicine therapeutics company is spinout from ORNL

  A Company, NellOne Therapeutics, has been formed through Battelle Ventures to research the potential for a new therapy that could help heart patients, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Cymbeline Culiat.

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• ORNL Review
• Other Press

Thomas Thundat has been elected a Fellow in the American Physical Society, an honor that is limited each year to no more than one-half of one percent of the society's current membership. Thundat is being honored for "...his pioneering work in developing micromechanical sensor platforms for biomolecular detection and the elucidation of the fundamental physical principles underlying the adsorption-induced forces." Thundat is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member and Group Leader of the Nanoscale Science and Devices Group in the Life Sciences Division.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review and ORNL Reporter

• ORNL Review, Volume 36, Number 2, 2003:
  • Sailing Into Uncharted Waters
  • Nano-needles to Cells

• ORNL Review, Volume 36, Number 1, 2003:
  • Cleaning With Bateria
  • Glimpses of Life's Fabric
  • Finding Genes, Predicting Protein Structure
  • Detecting and Preventing Disease
  • Helping Set Guidelines for Radiation
    Protection
  • From Benchtop to Marketplace

• ORNL Review, Volume 35, Number 2, 2002:
  • Gas Pipeline Safety: ORNL's Role
  • ORNL and Oil Research

• ORNL Review, Volume 35, Number 1, 2002:
• Probing Cells by Computers
• ORNL, IBM, and the Blue Gene Project


• ORNL Review, Volume 34, Number 2, 2001:
  • Human Susceptibility and Mouse Biology
  • New Hope for the Blind from a Spinach Protein
  • Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers: The Self-Assembly Challenge
  • Quantum-Dot Arrays for Computation

• ORNL Review, Volume 34, Number 1, 2001 features Life Science Division research:
  • Editorial: Unraveling Complex Biological Systems
  • Systems Biology: New Views of Life
  • Complex Biological Systems in Mice Gene Chip Engineers
  • Searching for Mouse Models of Human Disorders
  • Mouse Models for the Human Disease of Chronic Hereditary Tyrosinemia
  • Obesity-related Gene in Mouse Discovered at ORNL
  • MicroCAT "Sees" Hidden Mouse Defects
  • Curing Cancer in Mice
  • Search for Signs of Inflammatory Disease
  • Surprises in the Mouse Genome
  • Protein Identification by Mass Spectrometry
  • Rapid Genetic Disease Screening Possible Using Laser Mass Spectrometry
  • Human Genome Analyzed Using Supercomputer
  • Protein Prediction Tool Has Good Prospects
  • Microbe Probe: Studying Bacterial Genomes
  • SNS and Biological Research
  • Accessing Information on the Human Genome Project
  • A Model Fish for Pollutant Studies
  • Disease Detectives
  • The Mouse House: From Old to New
• Obesity-related gene in mouse discovered at ORNL ORNL Reporter February 2001
• Good PROSPECT: ORNL group’s software unravels protein structure puzzle ORNL Reporter February 2001
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News Articles

• Arpad Vass:Death Equals Science at Body Farm from Newsday.Com, November 24, 2003
• D. Smyser: Life Sciences: New Life for ORNL's once acclaimed Biology Division, from The Oak Ridger, April 11, 2003
• "Mouse House renamed for distinguished ORNL couple" from The Oak Ridger, November 14, 2001
• ORNL tech to aid in disease detection' from The Knoxville News-Sentinel, October 25, 2001
• "ORNL-GST graduate student Millsaps researching 'green power' from The Oak Ridger, October 11, 2001
• "Cancer-Detecting Microchip - A Micromachined Cantilever - Is Sensitive Assay For Prostate Cancer And Potentially Other Diseases, Researchers Report" from ScienceDaily Magazine, Sept. 3, 2001
  
• "Mouse House construction contract awarded" from The Oak Ridger, August 3, 2001
• "New ways to scan DNA with lasers, vacuums, firefly enzymes could transform medicine" from ABC News, July 28, 2001; quotes Winston Chen of LSD.
• "ORNL adds two R&D 100 Awards" from The Oak Ridger, July 5, 2001; one award was to Ying Xu and Dong Xu of LSD
• "House OKs funding for SNS, Mouse House, Y-12" from The Oak Ridger, June 29, 2001
• "Chemical analyzer result of research done at lab" from The Oak Ridger, May 24, 2001
• "Three teams vie to build new MouseHouse" from The Oak Ridger, February 20, 2001
• "The Price of Excellence: The first nine Centers of Excellence cover a range of scientific endeavors, from genomics to computer-driven micro-organisms." from MetroPulse, January 11, 2001
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