News tagged with sampling method

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

created Mar 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 22

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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