News tagged with bio lab
Fast Pandemic Detection Tool Ready to Fight Flu
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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Amazing skin gives sharks a push
Shark skin has long been known to improve the fish's swimming performance by reducing drag, but now George Lauder and Johannes Oeffner from Harvard University show that in addition, the skin generates thrust, ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Engineers find inspiration for new materials in Piranha-proof armor
(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner?
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Most stretchable spider silk reported
The egg sac silk of the cocoon stalk of the cave spider Meta menardi is the most stretchable egg sac silk yet tested, according to a study published Feb. 8 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Scientists develop biological computer to encrypt and decipher images
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have developed a "biological computer" made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Scientists make strides toward fixing infant hearts
Researchers at Rice University and Texas Children's Hospital have turned stem cells from amniotic fluid into cells that form blood vessels. Their success offers hope that such stem cells may be used to grow ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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UT biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity
Barry D. Bruce, professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is turning the term "power plant" on its head. The biochemist and a team of researchers have developed ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Bright lights of purity: Researchers discover why pure quantum dots and nanorods shine brighter
To the lengthy list of serendipitous discoveries – gravity, penicillin, the New World – add this: Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered why a promising ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 30, 2012 |
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New technology converts seaweed to renewable fuels and chemicals
A team of scientists from Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), has developed breakthrough technology that expands the feedstocks for advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals production to include seaweed (macroalgae). The team engineered ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Breakthrough in early cancer detection
Cape Cod-TV correspondent Melissa Chartrand went into the hospital three years ago to undergo a hysterectomy, a common procedure that was supposed to eliminate her abdominal pains. But for Melissa, a far more serious pain ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Leaping lizards, dinosaurs have a message for robots: Get a tail
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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