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Beating the backup blues
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Thomas Brunschwiler, Urs Kloter, Ryan Linderman, Bruno Michel from the IBM's Zurich Research Lab in Switzerland and Hilton Toy from the IBM Server & Technology Group in Fishkill, New York, have been honored with the 2008 ...
Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Researchers develop an intelligent chip which regulates diabetes
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Scientists of the Electronic Technology group of the University of Seville (Spain), led by Professor José Manuel Quero, have completed the first phase of Mireia, a research project financed by the Plan Nacional del ...
People only eat 1 when the chips are brown
Jul 16, 2008 |
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Dr. Don Henne isn't wasting his degree when he's standing by the deep fryer waiting for potato slices to turn brown. He's conducting research that will help the potato industry and consumers.
Researchers find a new role for a 'Foxy Old Gene'
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a protein called FOXA2 controls genes that maintain the proper level of bile in the liver. FOXA2 may become the focus for ...
Sewing DNA thread with lasers, hooks and microbobbins
Jul 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a uniq ...
'Lab on a chip' to measure water stress in plants
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fifteen years ago, when Alan Lakso first sought to enlist Cornell's nanofabrication laboratory to develop a tiny sensor that would measure water stress in grapevines, the horticultural sciences ...
Micromagnetic-microfluidic device could quickly pull pathogens from the bloodstream
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Sepsis, an infection of the blood, can quickly overwhelm the body's defenses and is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Premature newborns and people with weakened immune systems are especially ...
New laser method reproduces art masterworks to protein patterns
Nov 11, 2008 |
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Canadian researchers have created a new protein patterning technique that's enabled them to reproduce complex cellular environments and a miniature version of a masterpiece painting. According to a new study ...
Researchers: Molecular forklifts overcome obstacle to 'smart dust'
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 18, 2009 |
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Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of ...
Smaller, cheaper cell phones possible
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ph.D. candidate Sataporn Pornpromlikit played a critical role in research at UC San Diego that made a big impact at a recent conference, and might provide manufacturers with the means for making cell phones ...
Cheap, sensitive sensors could detect explosives, toxins in water
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A sensitive new Stanford-developed disposable chip detects low concentrations of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a close chemical cousin of the dreaded toxic nerve agent sarin in water ...
Silicon chip beams light through a liquid-core waveguide to detect one particle at a time
Jul 03, 2007 |
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By guiding light through liquid-filled channels smaller than a human hair, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Brigham Young University have succeeded in building a silicon chip that can detect tiny ...
'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
Toward 4G Phones: LG Develops World's First LTE Handset Modem Chip
Dec 09, 2008 |
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LG Electronics announced today that it has independently developed the first handset (user equipment) modem chip based on 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)technology standards. The modem chip can theoretically ...
