Each year, millions of tissue samples are collected from cancer patients and preserved in formaldehyde. The chemical "freezes" the cancer cells within the sample, allowing physicians to look at the disease and plan a specific ...
Materials Science
Aug 4, 2015
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It started with a letter, a brief reference to samples taken from the bodies of Holocaust victims used in Nazi medical research. Decades later, the jars and test tubes found behind a glass cupboard in a locked room testified ...
Archaeology
Jul 20, 2015
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Chemists at Caltech have developed a new sensitive technique capable of detecting colorectal cancer in tissue samples—a method that could one day be used in clinical settings for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 25, 2015
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Fishermen off Australia who accidentally caught a whopping basking shark have provided scientists with a rare opportunity to study the second-biggest fish on the planet.
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2015
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In the middle of Europe nearly every sixth couple of reproductive age is involuntarily childless iAbout 50% of cases are due to male infertility. In about 10% of all infertile men, azoospermia is diagnosed, i.e. no spermatozoa ...
Biochemistry
May 29, 2015
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An endangered orca found dead off Vancouver Island in Canada earlier this month died after a failed pregnancy caused a bacterial infection, officials said Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2014
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An international team of scientists has completed the largest whole genome study of a single class of animals to date. To map the tree of life for birds, the team sequenced, assembled and compared full genomes of 48 bird ...
Biotechnology
Dec 11, 2014
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With the successful completion of mission operations for Rodent Research-1, NASA has brought an important new biological research capability into space. NASA's rodent research hardware system enables researchers to study ...
Space Exploration
Nov 26, 2014
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Could human tissue samples be dried for storage, instead of being frozen? Researchers are looking at the salt cod industry for a potential tissue sample drying technology that could save money without sacrificing tissue quality.
Other
Nov 19, 2014
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In a significant technical advance, a team of neuroscientists at The Rockefeller University has devised a fast, inexpensive imaging method for probing the molecular intricacies of large biological samples in three dimensions, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 10, 2014
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