News tagged with chemical marker
Looking for signs of early life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Deciphering the very early history of life on Earth is difficult. In the darkest recesses of the first billion years there are no 'body' fossils - no physical remains. Instead, scientists ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 08, 2009 |
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For diabetics, spectroscopy may replace painful pinpricks
Part of managing diabetes involves piercing a finger several times daily to monitor blood sugar levels. Raman spectroscopy could let diabetics monitor glucose without those daily pinpricks. In the past, this would have required ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Researchers find quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These markers, ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Knowing When Poultry Goes Foul
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mom's trusty nose may be good, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have gone her one better by designing an instrument that quickly and precisely sniffs trace ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Cardiac biomarker indicates fluid overload in dialysis patients
Nephrologists must consider fluid overload effects when prescribing dialysis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). The fluid overload biomar ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 27, 2010 |
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