Biological Sciences
The traditional method of testing for microbial contamination has changed very little in the past 100 years. A sample of product is added to a growth medium in a plate or sample container.
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The National Institutes of Health has awarded Virginia Tech researchers a $2.13 million grant to develop new systems biology approaches to study...
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Tests of a new antibody-based “biosensor” developed by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science show that it can...
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Wally Thompson is the Microbiology Supervisor at Gambro in Daytona Beach, Florida. Gambro is a global medical technology company, with manufacturing facilities in countries all over the world including Italy, Sweden, Germany, France, Korea, and China, that develops and manufactures products and therapies related to kidney diseases.
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The University of Maryland, Columbia University and the Smithsonian Institution have pooled their expertise to create the world's first plant...
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Simply put, people develop diabetes because they don't have enough pancreatic beta cells to produce the insulin necessary to regulate...
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Take millions of puzzle pieces containing partial words and put them back together into full words, sentences, paragraphs and...
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Eppendorf® and the world-renowned journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2011 Eppendorf & Science Prize for...
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Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have for the first time observed the activity of a single...
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Eating more n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, commonly known as omega-3 fatty acids, may help carriers of a genetic variant on the...
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Whether you’re talking about genes, or neurons, or the workings of a virus, at the most fundamental level, biology is a matter of...
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One way of discovering a gene’s function is to switch it off and observe how the loss of its activity affects an organism...
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