News tagged with synthetic rubber
New model of female condom could bring wider use
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Advocates of the female condom are promoting a less costly, more user-friendly version that they hope will vastly expand its role in the global fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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US rubber company disputes Liberia pollution study
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An American-owned rubber company is disputing claims by the Liberian government that the company's waste products are polluting creeks.
Dandelion rubber
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Most natural rubber comes from rubber trees in Southeast Asia, but this source is now under threat from a fungus. Researchers have optimized the Russian dandelion to make it suitable for large-scale rubber ...
Protective garment
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2006 |
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Military personnel, chemical workers, and others could benefit from a new synthetic rubber material tailored with liquid crystals. The material might be used to make body suits to protect chemical-industry employees from ...
Nanotechnology and synthetic biology: What does the American public think?
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Nanotechnology and synthetic biology continue to develop as two of the most exciting areas of scientific discovery, but research has shown that the public is almost completely unaware of the science and its applications. ...
Perceiving touch and your self outside of your body
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 05, 2009 |
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When you feel you are being touched, usually someone or something is physically touching you and you perceive that your "self" is located in the same place as your body. In new research published in the open-access, peer-reviewed ...
FDA finds bits of steel, rubber in Genzyme drugs
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by biotechnology firm Genzyme.
Synthetic Tree Captures Carbon 1,000 Faster Than Real Trees
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have designed a synthetic tree that traps carbon dioxide from the air in an attempt to combat growing emissions. The device looks less like a tree and more like a small building, ...
Scientists train nano-'building blocks' to take on new shapes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 03, 2007 |
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Researchers from the University of Delaware and Washington University in St. Louis have figured out how to train synthetic polymer molecules to behave--to literally “self-assemble” --and form into long, multicompartment ...
The Physics Of A Bump In A Rug
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Scientists often have to make sacrifices for their work. Physicist Dominic Vella chopped his bathroom rug into strips, and L. Mahadevan's coauthor ran off with his bookshelf. With these sacrifices, these two ...
Genetically engineered bacteria compute the route
Jul 24, 2009 |
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US researchers have created 'bacterial computers' with the potential to solve complicated mathematics problems. The findings of the research, published in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biological Engineering, demons ...
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