Flu Virus Ill-Suited For Rapid Transmission, But Researchers Say New Strain Bears Watching, Could Mutate
A team from MIT and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found a genetic explanation for why the new H1N1 "swine flu" virus has spread from person to person less effectively than other flu viruses.
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46 R&D 100 Awards For 2009 Won By DOE-Funded Research Projects
are capable of long-distance power transmission, interconnecting entire continents and providing local energy storage. * Thermomagnetic Processing Technology - enhances materials performance with 85 percent higher stretch capability strength, enabling lighter weight designs. The technology uses superconducting magnets to cut down on energy use in the typical heat treat processing. High magnetic fields processing reduces residual stress (post-heat treating stress) and eliminates material phases, thus eliminating specialized thermal processing steps. This technology could revolutionize the U.S. heat-treating industry with reduced energy and processing costs. (Jointly with Eaton Corp., American Magnetics, Inc. and AJAX-TOCCO Magnethermic Corp.) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Wash.) * The Perpetua Power Puck™ - harvests energy from its surrounding environment with the capability for replacing outright conventional chemical batteries. The Power Puck is a renewable energy that has no moving parts, which makes it more efficient and cost-effective than other technologies. The technology can save time and money in situations where information needs to be collected and power s need to be maintained at remote sites, such as monitoring the structural integrity of dams, bridges and pipelines. The technology has been licensed to Perpetua Power Technologies, in Corvallis, OR. (Jointly with Perpetua) * Ultrasensitive ESI-MS & Interface - integrates four technologies to provide greater sensitivity and precise measurements from mass spectrometry instrumentation while requiring smaller samples. Mass spectrometry instrumentation is commonly used for environmental and health analyses, as well as by industry for pharmaceutical and petrochemical product development. Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, N.M.) * High-temperature Silicon Carbide Power Module - This module converts electrical energy from one form to another and reduces the size and volume of power electronic systems. Applications are being examined for hybrid and electric vehicles, renewable energy interfaces, and aircraft. * Ultra-Low-Power Silicon Microphotonic Communications Platform - The ultra-small components enable optical data transmission and routing on a silicon platform at nanosecond switching speeds with up to 100-times less power consumption and 100 times the bandwidth density compared to traditional electronic approaches. * Catamount N-Way (CNW) Lightweight Kernel - This technology leverages hardware capabilities of multicore processors to deliver significant improvements in data access performance for parallel computing applications. CNW provides enhanced data access capabilities beyond other equivalent operating systems by employing a new technique that targets memory bandwidth. * NanoCoral™ Dendritic Platinum Nanostructures - An innovative nanotechnology for producing platinum catalysts that offers unique control over the shape, size, porosity, composition, stability, and other functional properties of platinum nanostructures compared with those achieved by existing methods. * Sandia"s Hyperspectral Confocal Fluorescence Microscope System - This system rapidly finds all emitting fluorescence species of an image, determining their relative concentrations without any a priori information. This patent-pending technology has been combined with Sandia"s proprietary algorithms to form a complete system for the extraction of quantitative image information. * The Artificial Retina Project - see Lawrence Livermore National Lab Jeff Sherwood DOE/US Department of EnergyPages: 1 2 [3]