Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, December 2004
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30-Nov-2004
Four ORNL researchers named AAAS fellows
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
Four researchers working at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are among the 308 to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
24-Nov-2004
Isotron licenses ORNL cancer treatment technology
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
Patients with cancers previously next to untreatable may have new hope because of a license agreement between Isotron of Norcross, Ga., and UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
15-Nov-2004
New instruments at ORNL reactor will lead to dramatic increase in users
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Four new instruments installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor this year make the facility an even more attractive destination for researchers around the world. With the additions, the research reactor boasts a total of seven instruments that enable scientists to study magnetic materials, alloys, superconductors and biological materials.
10-Nov-2004
Piloting the pipeline
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
R pal. The automated pipeline. Mass spec and proteomics. These phrases are used by ORNL researchers who probe microbes to determine what these "bugs" are made of and what drives them.
10-Nov-2004
Neutron-rich mecca for biologists
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Biologists can image proteins using electron and atomic force microscopes. They can visualize the three-dimensional structure of proteins--amino-acid sequences folded in complicated ways--by using X rays at ORNL and other DOE labs.
10-Nov-2004
New tools of analysis
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
In the mid-1990s at Ohio State University, Dorothea Thompson studied a single gene and a single promoter regulating that gene as part of her doctoral thesis research.
10-Nov-2004
First, the questions
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Scientists believe they are on the brink of solving some mysteries underlying the miracle of life.
10-Nov-2004
Sequencing the first tree genome
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
In 2004 researchers from around the world finished sequencing the complete genome of Populus, the first tree and the third plant to have its molecular "parts list" revealed.
10-Nov-2004
Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are a prototype energy system, a giant screen at the Center for Computational Sciences, a state-of-the-art instrument recently installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the possiblity of a nitrogen oxide (NOx) sensor, and reducing the of increasing levels of nitrogen in rainfall.