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The advantages of the “one-stop” shop have long been recognized in the retailing and services industries.
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to put your signature up in lights – tiny lights, that is. Using thousands of nanometer-scale wires, the researchers have developed a sensor device that converts mechanical pressure – from a signature or a fingerprint – directly into light signals that can be captured and processed optically.
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Due in part to pressure from Kentucky, U.S. Congress is looking into making hemp legal for research purposes in the 2013 farm bill, which could benefit universities or institutions looking into pursuing studies involving the crop.
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The U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI), part of the Deapartment of Health and Human Services, gave notice last week that it has taken final action in the case of a researcher from Case Reserve Western University.
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Nobel laureate Mario J. Molina, Ph.D., a 42-year member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, is among 16 individuals named by President Obama to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor — the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Concern over research involving the creation of bird flu that spreads more easily is in the news again. An international group of scientists published an outline Aug. 6 in Science and Nature for similar experiments that could involve even stronger strains of the type of bird flu known as H7N9.
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Top 5 Signs that You Should Replace Your Gas Chromatograph
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Top 5 Signs that You Should Replace Your Gas Chromatograph and Mass Spectrometer
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Top 5 Signs that You Should Service or Replace Your Automated Liquid Handling System
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A glove box consists of a sealed box with the inside accessible only by gloves. Though their uses are expanding, they are essentially utilized for two basic purposes: Protect what you work on from the environment, such as an analytic balance on a production floor, or protect you from what you work on, such as a virus. Despite the fact that most glove boxes provide a relatively simple process, different applications require different boxes.
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Turning a sample into a suspension—the essence of homogenizing—occurs in a wide range of laboratory applications. In life science and clinical research, scientists often homogenize tissue samples for various analytical studies.
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Top 3 Signs That You Should Service or Replace Your Clean Room Furniture
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Mobile technology is finally picking up steam in laboratory information markets. The sweet spots for mobile access are sample collections occurring outside the lab, for example, taking health and safety samples throughout a pharmaceutical facility, in collecting environmental samples in the field, or when testing labs become too cramped to house stand-alone data systems and hardware. On one hand developers of mobile applications strive to be platform-agnostic, but many are now developing dedicated “apps” as well.
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