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Toxin detection as close as an inkjet printer
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 13, 2009 |
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If that office inkjet printer has become just another fixture, it's time to take a fresh look at it. Similar technology may soon be used to develop paper-based biosensors that can detect certain harmful toxins ...
Colorful columns: Simple method for the production of microcylinders with multiple compartments
May 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Under a microscope they look like tiny pie charts or colorful candy canes: A team led by Joerg Lahann at the University of Michigan has been able to produce micrometer-wide discs and elongated rods precisely ...
Fresh Pot of Tea Strikes Anticancer Gold
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia report in the Journal of Materials Chemistry that chemicals in tea are the best yet discovered to make consistent, biologically safe gold nanoparticles. More i ...
Researchers devise a fast and sensitive way to detect ricin
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a simple, accurate, and highly sensitive test to detect and quantify ricin, an extremely potent toxin with potential use as a bioterrorism ...
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Vegetable soup chemical reactions
Mar 05, 2007 |
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Chemists working on tight budgets in developing countries may be able to substitute extracts of potatoes, celery, eggplant, carrot, cassava, horseradish or an array of inexpensive and locally available vegetable products ...
New method for gene expression experiments a kin to watercolor painting in water
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Like oil and water, two water-based liquids can mingle without mixing in a new University of Michigan technology developed for biological experiments.
Single Crystals as Reaction Vessels
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo have made a complex that crystallizes as a porous solid. Common reagents, even bulky ones, can easily diffuse into these pores and are sufficiently mobile to react with embedded ...
Peptides-on-demand: Researcher's radical new green chemistry makes the impossible possible
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- McGill University chemistry professor Chao-Jun (C.J.) Li is known as one of the world leading pioneers in green chemistry, an entirely new approach to the science which eschews the use of ...
Nanotechnology, biomolecules and light unite to 'cook' cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 16, 2008 |
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Researchers are testing a new way to kill cancer cells selectively by attaching cancer-seeking antibodies to tiny carbon tubes that heat up when exposed to near-infrared light.
FDA approves blood typing tests
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 14, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed 14 new tests for determining a person's blood type.
Ring closure as warning: New reagent for the detection of organophosphate neurotoxins with an extremely fast response
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Soman, Tabun, and Sarin (which has already been used in terrorist attacks) are chemical weapons that attack the nervous system. When inhaled, these extremely toxic organophosphates can lead to death within ...
Drug discovery process more accurate, less expensive using novel mass spectrometry application
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new mass spectrometry-based tool they say provides more precise, cost-effective data collection for drug discovery efforts.
Fixing by Filtration: New testing strips for detecting heavy metals
Jan 03, 2006 |
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Many heavy meals are toxic to the environment or to humans. Legal limits for these pollutants in drinking water and run-off are thus correspondingly low. Rapid on-the-spot analysis and routine water quality tests demand a ...
New drug protects nerve cells from damage in mice
Mar 14, 2008 |
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the brain and spinal cord. Individuals with MS develop progressive neurological disability, and this is thought to be caused by degradation of the nerve cells. ...
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