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A Forceful New Method to Sensitively Detect Proteins

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory recently reported the detection of toxins with unprecedented speed, sensitivity, and simplicity. The approach can sense as few as a few hundred molecules in a drop ...





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Partnerships of Deep-Sea Methane Scavengers Revealed

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created May 12, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The sea floor off the coast of Eureka, California, is home to a diverse assemblage of microbes that scavenge methane from cold deep-sea vents. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a technique ...


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Environmental fate of nanoparticles depends on properties of water carrying them

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The fate of carbon-based nanoparticles spilled into groundwater – and the ability of municipal filtration systems to remove the nanoparticles from drinking water – depend on subtle differences in the solution ...


Tattoo Inks in Microcapsules

What's in your microcapsule? Tattoo ink -- and more

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created Jul 09, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In her Brown University laboratory, Edith Mathiowitz makes tiny particles coated in polymers. These microcapsules, some as small as the point of a pin, can carry medicines, genes, paints, pesticides – any ...


Detecting Disease

Detecting Disease

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 14, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...


Researchers transform stem cells found in human fat into smooth muscle cells

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created Jul 24, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA today announced they have transformed adult stem cells taken from human adipose – or fat tissue ...



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