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GE Scientists Developing Wearable RFID Sensors to Detect Airborne Chemical Agents

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Nov 20, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors ...

IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

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Nov 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (10) | 0

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...

'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers wanting to use these microfluidic devices to analyze ...

New evidence supports 19th century idea on formation of oil and gas

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Nov 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 1

Scientists in Washington, D.C. are reporting laboratory evidence supporting the possibility that some of Earth's oil and natural gas may have formed in a way much different than the traditional process described ...

An inexpensive 'dipstick' test for pesticides in foods

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Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists in Canada are reporting the development of a fast, inexpensive "dipstick" test to identify small amounts of pesticides that may exist in foods and beverages. Their paper-strip test is more practical ...

NIST quantifies low levels of 'heart attack risk' protein

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Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Searching for a needle in a haystack may seem futile, but it's worth it if the needle is a hard-to-detect protein that may identify a person at high risk of a heart attack circulating within a haystack of ...

The 'e-Nose': Scientists try to develop an electronic sniffer

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

Sniff, sniff, sniff -- Yum! Sniff, sniff, sniff -- Oh, yuck!!! For almost 25 years, chemists and other scientists have tried to build a machine that can do exactly that.

Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time

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Oct 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows ...

EphA4 -- the molecular transformer

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Oct 23, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- EphA4 is a protein which is attached to the surfaces of many types of human cells and plays a role in a wide range of biological processes. EphA4 functions by binding to ephrin ligands, cell ...

Scientist shines laser light on methane in pursuit of clean fuel

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Oct 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

An abundant greenhouse gas could someday help clean up the earth. Converting methane to liquid methanol could produce clean, low-cost fuel and prevent the potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere. Exploiting methane ...

Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment

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Oct 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical ...

New technique paves way for medical discoveries

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Oct 19, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Researchers have previously been able to analyse which sugar structures are to be found on certain proteins, but not exactly where on the protein they are positioned. This is now possible thanks to a new technique developed ...

Chemist Develops High-Speed Test to Improve Pathogen Decontamination

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Oct 19, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft. This new method may also ...

Open Lid Reveals Mercury

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Oct 15, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mercury, the silvery liquid formerly used in thermometers, is now known to be highly toxic. The worst of the toxins are organic mercury compounds, such as methylmercury. Most previous analytical procedures ...

Nanoscale structures revealed on Diamond's latest beamline

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Oct 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

On Monday 12th October, a team of scientists from the University of Bath became the first researchers to use the UK’s national synchrotron facility’s latest experimental station (I07). Designed for investigating ...

Tracking down the human 'odorprint'

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Oct 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Each of the 6.7 billion people on Earth has a signature body odor -- the chemical counterpart to fingerprints -- and scientists are tracking down those odiferous arches, loops, and whorls in the "human odorprint" for purposes ...

Tiny motes sniff out chemical, biological threats

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Oct 12, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research to develop a new method to detect biological and chemical threats may also lead to new approaches for removing pollutants from the environment.

New tracer for better melanoma image

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Oct 06, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The Australian research published this week in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Medicinal Chemistry describes a new radiopharmaceutical tracer that promises to give clearer pictures of melanoma and could lead t ...