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.

Research Highlights for 2003

November/December 2003

• ORNL Research Featured in Nature Biotechnology
• Genetic Variation in Tissue Responses to Low Dose Radiation
• A Gene for Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

September/October 2003

• Detection TNT via Deflagration on a Microcantilever
• Developing thermostable biocatalysts..
• High Production Volume Chemical Program - OECD
• Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLS) for Hazardous Substances

August 2003

• Mammalian Cdc14 dual specificity ...
• Biological Neutron Diffraction
• Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLS) for Hazardous Substances
• Detection of Plastic Explosives with Microcantilevers
• Detection of Hexavalent Chromium with Microcantilevers
• Microbes' "Blueprints" Promise Insights

July 2003

• Chromosome Engineering of a Mouse Reagent....

June 2003

• "Genome 101" Education Activities
• Host States Implement Chemical Warfare Agent Guidelines
• Chemical Warefare Agent Exposure Guidelines

April 2003

• Crystallography Experiment images make cover

March 2003

• Neutron Structural Biology

January/February 2003

• Macromolecular Neutron Crystallography Experiments Featured by ACA
• Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs) for Hazardous Substances
• NRC/COT Subcommittee on Selected Submarine Contaminants
• 3rd Annual Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium Retreat

Previous Years

• Research Highlights of 2002
• Research Highlights of 2001
• Research Highlights of 2000
• Research Highlights of 1999
• Research Highlights of 1998
• Research Highlights of 1997
• Research Highlights of 1996