News tagged with lab
Obama stepped up cyberattacks on Iran: report
US President Barack Obama accelerated cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear program and expanded the assault even after the Stuxnet virus accidentally escaped in 2010, the New York Times reported Friday.
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New lab turns SD gold town into scientific hub
(AP) — Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.
May 30, 2012 |
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Through a Sensor, Holographically
(PhysOrg.com) -- The power and resolution of lens-based optical microscopes have improved by orders of magnitude since their invention around 1595. Nevertheless, relying on a high-magnification lens for image ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
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New screening technique yields elusive compounds to block immune-regulating enzyme
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found the first chemical compounds that act to block an enzyme that has been linked to inflammatory conditions such as asthma and arthritis, as well as some ...
May 11, 2012 |
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In a new microchip, cells separate by rolling away
Cell rolling is a common mechanism cells use to navigate through the body. During inflammation, for example, the endothelial cells that line blood vessels present certain molecules that attract white blood ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 24, 2012 |
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Researchers say Twitter algorithm can predict movie profits
Want to know how "Clash of the Titans" will fare at the box office this weekend? Check Twitter.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Engineer invents world's smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope
Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his work a step further -- or tinier: The UCLA engineer ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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New lab-on-chip advance uses low-cost, disposable paper strips
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have invented a technique that uses inexpensive paper to make "microfluidic" devices for rapid medical diagnostics and chemical analysis.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 25, 2011 |
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How research goes viral
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers to follow up on them: The chance to use the ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier
Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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LEGO toy helps researchers learn what happens on nanoscale
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Paper medical lab the size of a fingerprint (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard University chemistry professor is aiming to produce a blood analyzer for the developing world that will be the size of a human fingerprint, and will cost around a penny.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Scientists control living cells with light; advances could enhance stem cells' power
University of Central Florida researchers have shown for the first time that light energy can gently guide and change the orientation of living cells within lab cultures. That ability to optically steer cells could be a major ...
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Researchers create living human gut-on-a-chip
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a gut-on-a-chip microdevice lined by living human cells that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Computer scientists develop an interactive field guide app for birders
A team of researchers led by computer scientist Serge Belongie at the University of California, San Diego, has good news for birders: they have developed an iPad app that will identify most North American birds, with a little ...
May 08, 2012 |
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