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New technology under development at Idaho National Laboratory has been proven to safely detect hidden nuclear materials smuggled into ports and across borders. Now, the research being conducted by a team of INL and Idaho Accelerator Center engineers has earned the 2008 $25,000 Homeland ...
World's first synthetic tree is no giant redwood, but may lead to technologies for heat transfer, soil remediation
09-12-2008
In Abraham Stroock's lab at Cornell, the world's first synthetic tree sits in a palm-sized piece of clear, flexible hydrogel - the type found in soft contact lenses. Stroock and graduate student Tobias Wheeler have created a "tree" that simulates the process of transpiration, the cohesive ...
09-10-2008
Fluorotechnics Limited has signed a binding agreement to acquire US-based The Gel Company Inc (GelCo) . GelCo is a company providing over 250 products for applications such as proteomics, cell culture, DNA sequencing, liquid handling, microarray and PCR. Its customers are global ...
09-10-2008
North American Scientific, Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of its Non-Therapeutic Product Line to Eckert & Ziegler Isotope Products, Inc. "We have successfully closed this transaction in the expected time frame and we are now focused on the therapeutic areas of our business ...
09-09-2008
Corning Incorporated announced the signing of a commercial agreement with HighRes Biosolutions Inc. to develop consumables to meet the needs of medium-to high-throughput screening customers. HighRes Biosolutions is a manufacturer of high-end automation for high-throughput screening (HTS). ...
But impact on a man's risk for getting prostate cancer is unclear, physicians say
09-09-2008
Common painkillers like aspirin and ibuprofen appear to lower a man's PSA level, the blood biomarker widely used by physicians to help gauge whether a man is at risk of prostate cancer. But the authors of the study, which appears in the journal Cancer, caution that men shouldn't take the ...
09-08-2008
Just as test pilots push planes to explore their limits, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are probing the newest microscope technology to further improve measurement accuracy at the nanoscale. Better nanoscale measurements are critical for setting ...
09-05-2008
Millipore Corporation and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced they have formed a collaboration to develop ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation) kits for the fast-growing epigenetics research market. The kits will be designed to improve protein researchers’ productivity and simplify the way ...
One day soon, you may be able to pinpoint the geographic origins of your ancestors based on analysis of your DNA
09-05-2008
A study published in Nature by an international team that included Cornell researchers describes the use of DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, often within a few hundred kilometers of where they were born. "What we found is that within Europe, ...
09-04-2008
Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus settling the debate once ...
