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• Making good taste measurable (02 Sep 2010)
  Does milk chocolate still contain milk? Or does cheaper vegetable fat already dominate here? Has the barrique wine really seen the inside of a barrique barrel or has it been spiked with flavoured woodchips? Both the products of global food ...
  
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• Microfluidic device allows collection, analysis of hard-to-handle immune cells (01 Sep 2010)
  Ability to gently collect neutrophils may improve understanding of immune response to serious injury
  A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) scientists has developed a new microfluidic tool for quickly and accurately isolating neutrophils – the most abundant type of white blood cell – from small blood samples, an accomplishment that ...
  
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• New device packs power to analyze genes, proteins at patients’ bedside (01 Sep 2010)
  University of Florida researchers have helped to develop a device that quickly identifies genes and proteins in body fluids — a technique that could make a vital difference to the trauma patients doctors treat. In a study published in Nature ...
  
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• Purdue-Stanford team finds radioactive decay rates vary with the sun's rotation (01 Sep 2010)
  Radioactive decay rates, thought to be unique physical constants and counted on in such fields as medicine and anthropology, may be more variable than once thought. A team of scientists from Purdue and Stanford universities has found that the ...
  
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• New genomic marker for tuberculosis may help identify patients who will develop the disease (31 Aug 2010)
  Study highlights how blood profiling techniques could change patient care
  It may soon be possible to identify patients who will develop tuberculosis, as scientists have identified changes in the blood specific to the disease. These findings are from an international study published in Nature and conducted by doctors ...
  
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• Purdue biodefense technology project awarded $1.3 million NIH seed grant (30 Aug 2010)
  Purdue University researchers have developed a technology that has the potential to more quickly identify food-borne pathogens, aiding U.S. homeland security officials in responding to a bioterrorist attack or other emergencies. The research ...
  
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• NYU Langone scientists are first to sequence the genomes of 2 ant species (30 Aug 2010)
  Research may help unlock the mysteries of human aging and behavior
  Scientists have finally sequenced the entire genome of an ant, actually two very different species of ant, and the insights gleaned from their genetic blueprints are already yielding tantalizing clues to the extraordinary social behavior of ...
  
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• Brain imaging gives new insight into mental disorders (27 Aug 2010)
  A new kind of psychiatry built on objective measures derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging (or fMRI) of the brain performed while patients play economic games could provide new insight into the diagnosis and, eventually, treatment ...
  
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• Bio Nano Consulting partner develops novel nanolitre scale technique (27 Aug 2010)
  Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) announced the availability of a new technique that screens low-yielding proteins, facilitating the evaluation of both protein denaturation and protein:drug interactions. This novel method, pioneered by researchers ...
  
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• Why fish don't freeze in the Arctic Ocean (27 Aug 2010)
  Chemists unmask natural antifreeze
  Together with cooperation partners from the U.S., the researchers surrounding Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith (Physical Chemistry II of the RUB) describe their discovery in a so-termed Rapid Communication in the Journal of the American Chemical ...
  
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