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Scientists form alliance to develop nanotoxicology protocols

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A team of materials scientists and toxicologists announced the formation of a new international research alliance to establish protocols for reproducible toxicological testing of nanomaterials in both cultured cells and animals. ...


GTRI is developing protocols for testing effects of RFID systems on medical devices

GTRI is developing protocols for testing effects of RFID systems on medical devices

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are widely used for applications that include inventory management, package tracking, toll collection, passport identification and airport luggage security. More ...


NIST issues draft IPv6 technical profile

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 01, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) yesterday issued a draft profile that will assist federal agencies in developing plans to acquire and deploy products that implement Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). ...


Ethical implications of modifying lethal injection protocols

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 10, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A team of medical, ethical, and legal scholars argues in this week's PLoS Medicine that in some US states the modification of lethal injection protocols is tantamount to experimentation upon prisoners without the prisoners' consen ...


Positive exercise testing in athletes: What does that mean?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) during sports activity is an uncommon, but catastrophic event. Different efforts to reduce the risk of SCD related to sports have been undertaken. What is the role of the exercise test in this context? ...


Fast Pandemic Detection Tool Ready to Fight Flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a joint effort by national laboratory-, university- and private-sector institutions, researchers are developing new tools for rapidly characterizing biological pathogens that could give rise to potentially deadly pandemics ...


Hospital diabetes care standards not met by US academic medical centers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A benchmarking study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine evaluated contemporary hospital glycemic management in United States academic medical centers, determining glucose control practices are suboptimal and do ...


Testbeds to breed next-generation systems

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The systems that let you zap a photo to a friend, or an astronomer to control a telescope continents away, require intensive simulation and testing. Research has now made those key steps far easier.


Low level herbicide use can damage potato reproduction

Biology /

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Currently, plant testing in the United States to determine potential ecological risks from chemical pesticides to nontarget plants requires two tests, both of which use immature plants. Protection of the plant development ...


Fetal alcohol syndrome testing expands

Fetal alcohol syndrome testing expands

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improved technology, partnerships and collaboration across two provinces have allowed Queen's University scientists to dramatically expand the use of eye-movement tests that help identify and assess children ...


Researchers test new 'space Internet' system on International Space Station

Researchers test new 'space Internet' system on International Space Station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space ...


K-State lab gives researchers the tools to study porcine circovirus associated diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Porcine circovirus associated diseases cost pig producers around the world hundreds of millions of dollars each year.


Web 3.0: user-generated networks?

Web 3.0: user-generated networks?

Technology / Internet

created Jan 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 3

European researchers took the concepts of Web 2.0, like user-generated content and social networking, into the real world. They hope to create user-generated physical networks so internets could be set up, ...


NTT DoCoMo Achieves 250Mbps Downlink in Super 3G Field Experiment

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has recorded a downlink transmission rate of 250Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test of an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications.


Making sure the internet delivers

Making sure the internet delivers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 04, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

European researchers have developed affordable test suites that businesses can use to check whether their software will work with the next-generation internet.