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Iowa State University's Robert C. Brown pulled a few of his graduate students aside a couple years back and offered up an extracurricular challenge. "You are all experts on pyrolysis," he remembers telling them. "Why don't you start a company specifically to commercialize bio-oil recovery?"
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Brooks Instrument, a world-leading provider of advanced flow, pressure and level solutions, has launched a blog that will provide a venue for processing audiences in various industries to learn more about Brooks products and technologies, interesting applications, industry trends and more.
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Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. has announced that the Company is changing its brand name to MATHESON effective immediately. The legal name of the Company will remain Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., and because of this, nothing needs to be changed by our customers with regard to accounts payable procedures.
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Chromatographic separation methods can be developed on any scale. To minimize consumption of sample and solvents there is a benefit in developing separation methods on a small scale and transferring them to a larger scale.
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An independent industrial hygiene laboratory tested the ability of a Labconco XPert Balance Enclosure to contain particulates.
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Using ever-growing genome data, scientists with the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee are tracing the evolution of the bacterial regulatory system that controls cellular motility, potentially giving researchers a method for predicting important cellular functions that will impact both medical and biotechnology research.
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Effective July 1, 2010, two of the world's leading scientific membership organizations, the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) and the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA), are now one. SBS and ALA are united as Sections of the newly formed Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) an inclusive worldwide organization dedicated to advancing scientific research and discovery through laboratory automation and screening technology.
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Dr. Jim Brandle, CEO, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre issued a response on June 30 to the G20's Communiqu to "Harness the private sector for agricultural innovation" in the International Financial Institutions and Development section.
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The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) is soliciting applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The two-year fellowships are available in any U.S. laboratory carrying out space-related biomedical or biotechnological research.
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An explosion at University of Missouri this afternoon injured four people and damaged Schweitzer Hall. University officials said the four people injured, none critically, were taken to University Hospital. One person was admitted and was in good condition.
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EU researchers have developed a virtual laboratory to help doctors around the world match drugs to patients and to make treatments for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and other infectious diseases more effective.
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The non-profit Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) invites research scientists, engineers and business leaders to accelerate breakthroughs in laboratory automation strategies and technologies by submitting abstracts for podium and poster presentations at the LabAutomation2011 Conference and Exhibition, January 29-February 2, 2011 in Palm Springs, CA, USA.
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Gossip is rampant in most workplaces. Sometimes, it seems as if people have nothing better to do than gossip about each other. They gossip about the company, their coworkers, and their managers. They frequently take a partial truth and turn it into a whole speculative truth. Many employees gossip about the amount of money they make and often, they dont tell the truth. So, unhappy coworkers beat a path to the HR door asking about their own salary.
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A surprising MIT laboratory finding about the behavior of a thin sheet of material - less than a thousandth of the thickness of a human hair - could lead to improved ways of studying the behavior of electrodes and perhaps ultimately to improvements in the rate of power production from one type of fuel cell, according to a report published this week.
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Four years after a keystroke produced the first neutrons, the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has moved into a new phase, both as a neutron research facility and as one of the scientific community's foremost user centers for materials research. "We now have the world's most intense pulsed neutron source, a fact that by itself is very attractive to anybody who wants to use neutrons to investigate materials," says Stephen Nagler, chief scientist of ORNL's Neutron Scattering Science Division.
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