Applied Sciences
Laboratory managers agree that getting scientists to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) in the laboratory is a daily struggle. After repeated violations for which the use of threats was ineffective, I decided a more creative approach was in order.
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Recent discussions of methods by which biomass—grasses, trees, and other vegetation—could be turned into fuel makes a lot of sense in theory. Plant matter is composed of energy-intensive carbohydrates, but even now scientists still done
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With 125 solar-assisted electric vehicle charging stations to be built from Knoxville to Memphis, Tennessee is poised to lead the...
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Biologics Process Development Inc. (“BPD”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Viropro, will double the size of its existing bioprocess and..
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The seeds sprouting in your spring garden may still be struggling to reach the sun. If so, they are consuming a finite energy pack contained within each seed...
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The FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Foods, Mike Taylor, will deliver a major policy address that will focus on the core principle...
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In the Opening Session of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists’ 2011 National Biotechnology...
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A new hydrogen research initiative based in Japan will leverage Department of Energy (DOE)-funded hydrogen research at...
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It may be hard to believe, but the beloved gasoline engine that powers more than 200 million cars across America every day...
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An international team of researchers co-led by a University of Minnesota scientist has sequenced the genomes of two fungal...
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn's moon Titan...
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Consumers and regulatory agencies are expressing more and more interest in the true amount of sodium contained in food products. Sodium has traditionally been indirectly tested using a silver nitrate precipitation reaction.
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