News tagged with parts
The Medical Minute: New toy safety standards bring parents confidence
Dec 16, 2009 |
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The holiday season is here and for many kids that means one thing: toys. About half of all toy purchases in the United States occur between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Biodegradable synthetic resin replaces vital body parts
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Twente (UT) have developed a new type of resin that can be broken down by the body. This new resin makes it possible to replicate important body parts exactly and make them ...
'Beauty' injections can turn ugly: NY health officials
Apr 17, 2009 |
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New Yorkers looking for a quick beauty fix risk death from unlicensed practitioners offering oil injections to enhance prized body parts, health authorities warned Friday.
Knobbly kneed ID: Internal body parts and biometrics
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Forget LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition, the way forward for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's knees, according to a report ...
Protein that regulates hormones critical to women's health found in pituitary
Jan 11, 2009 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have solved the mystery surrounding a "rogue protein" that plays a role in the release of neurotransmitters and hormones in the brain.
Digitization work is making it possible to read Charles Dickens as his earliest fans did
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Charles Dickens is widely regarded as one of the greatest English novelists of all time, and his books continue to be enjoyed by millions of readers today, nearly 140 years after his death. But few modern readers get to experience ...
Gas pump made of minerals has no moving parts
Nov 28, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that a type of hard mineral called zeolite can provide a high rate of gas flow in a micro-scale gas pump. Because the pump is based simply on temperature differences ...
No more searching
Nov 10, 2008 |
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In warehouses, tidiness is a flexible term. Storage areas can be rearranged or moved around at any time. Forklift trucks will soon make it easy to follow the material flow and keep an overview in the warehouse automatically ...
The Future of Car Manufacturing? Sticky 'Velcro' Car Parts
Aug 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It may sound improbable but plastic car parts could one day be joined together like Velcro, and peeled apart when it comes to recycling or disposal.
Tips on how to build a better home for biological parts
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Jul 16, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have compiled a series of guidelines that should help researchers in their efforts to design, develop and manage next-generation databases of biological ...
First DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Chemists in Japan report development of the world's first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts. The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and ...
