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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 ...





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Saliva can help diagnose heart attack, study shows

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Early diagnosis of a heart attack may now be possible using only a few drops of saliva and a new nano-bio-chip, a multi-institutional team led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin reported at a recent meeting ...


Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers worldwide are trying to economically convert cellulosic biomass such as corn stover into "cellulosic ethanol." But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that ...


A real-time diagnosis for a treatable cancer

A real-time diagnosis for a treatable cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer, America's third leading type of cancer, is also one of the most preventable. One-third of all colorectal cancer deaths could be avoided by simple ...


Foot-and-mouth lab looks for new home

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Five U.S. states are vying for a $500 million federal research center that would house highly infectious animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth.


Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Chemistry / Materials Science

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules.


Understanding Algae As An Alternative Fuel Source: Will The Real Algae X Please Stand Up

Understanding Algae As An Alternative Fuel Source: Will The Real Algae X Please Stand Up

Biology /

created Sep 07, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (59) | comments 6

The recent creation of AXI, LLC is an alliance between Allied Minds, Inc. a seed investment company and the University of Washington. The alliance came about because of Professor Rose Ann Cattolico PhD, an ...


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Missing lab mice infected with plague

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created Sep 15, 2005 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 0

The FBI and New Jersey officials have started a hushed but intensive search for three missing lab mice reportedly infected with deadly strains of plague.


'Enlightened' Atoms Stage Nano-Riot Against Uniformity

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When atoms in a crystal are struck by laser light, their electrons, excited by the light, typically begin moving back and forth together in a regular pattern, resembling nanoscale soldiers marching in a lockstep ...


Engineers hit pay dirt with clay mixture

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A watery, mud-like substance has hit pay dirt for Case Western Reserve University engineering professor David Schiraldi and his research group.


Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned Thursday, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease.



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