News tagged with sampling method
Better analysis methods for vitamin D
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers with the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Md., design, develop and improve analytical methods for measuring nutritional components ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Taming uncertainty in climate prediction
(PhysOrg.com) -- Uncertainty just became more certain. Atmospheric and computational researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used a new scientific approach called "uncertainty quantification," ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2012 |
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NanoCAGE reveals transcriptional landscape of the mouse main olfactory epithelium
The problem in biology of how to identify the promoters of olfactory receptor genes (>1000 genes) has remained unsolved due to the difficulty of purifying sufficient material from the olfactory epithelium. ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Stanford group creates miniature self-contained fluorescence microscope
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working at Stanford University have devised a means for building the smallest self-contained fluorescence microscope ever. Weighing just under 2 grams and slightly larger ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Nanotechnology for water filter
Nanotechnology has developed tremendously in the past decade and was able to create many new materials with a vast range of potential applications. Carbon nanotubes are an example of these new materials and consist of cylindrical ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 21, 2011 |
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New non-destructive method to estimate leaf area index in vegetables
The productivity and health of horticultural crops depends on the ability of the plant cover to intercept light energy. This ability is a function of the amount of leaf area, the architecture of the vegetation cover, and ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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New DNA analysis thousand times more sensitive
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has developed a new DNA technology which makes it possible to perform reliable analyses on DNA quantities that are a thousand times smaller than was previously the case. ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Mathematical innovation turns blood draw into information gold mine
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a software algorithm that could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 07, 2010 |
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DNA from old insects -- no need to destroy the specimen
In a new study published April 1 in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, ancient DNA (aDNA) is retrieved from various insect remains without destruction of the specimens.
Apr 01, 2009 |
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New technique boosts protein NMR imaging speeds
Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, or SSNMR, is a valuable tool to image and analyze the chemical makeup of proteins and other biomolecules. But the imaging process is time-consuming and requires large amounts of costly ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 09, 2009 |
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