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Since beginning operations in 1966, ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor, known among the research community as "HFIR," has provided a uniquely powerful and versatile resource tool for visiting scientists from industry, academia and other national laboratories.
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Like a Venus flytrap, a newly discovered chemical material is a picky eater - it won't snap its jaws shut for just anything. Instead of flies, however, its favorite food is radioactive nuclear waste.
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A new software could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically important gene-activity changes specific to any one of those cell types.
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From the spray-on variety to the small sheets of laboratory-grown skin used in burns treatment, the quest to recreate the body's largest organ has made big strides in the 20th century.
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Lab Design has been awarded the 2009 Premium Partner of the Year title from Sovella, Inc., a leading manufacturer of flexible laboratory furnishings.
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A technology that can enhance collecting of data from studying the compositions on a material surface has earned the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory the Excellence in Technology Transfer Project of the Year Award from the Southeast Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.
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Consider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summers day. What about a pillow that monitors your brain waves, or a solar-powered dress that can charge your phone or MP3 player? This is not science fiction this is cotton in 2010.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) announced on March 1, 2010 that they have entered into a collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing, with the goal of solving a wide range of persistent problems facing global food supply chains.
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Most polymers, materials made of long, chain-like molecules, are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator.
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Animal rights activists protested the use of rats in a senior-level course March 3 on the southeast corner of University of Texas at Dallas campus.
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West Virginia University will construct a new biomedical research facility on its Morgantown campus with $14.5 million in funding awarded Thursday by the National Institutes of Health.
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North Carolina's attorney general has ordered an independent review of the state's crime lab following revelations about practices there that led to the exoneration of a man wrongly accused of murder.
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Geoff Horst, chief science officer of Algal Scientific Corporation, is a doctoral student at Michigan State University. Horst is also part of an award-winning team that has developed a process that uses algae for waste water treatment and nutrient recovery.
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Merck KGaA announced on Sunday that it will purchase Millipore, a supplier of life science tools and equipment to the biotech industries, for $7.6 billion (5.3 billion euros).
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Purchasing the correct fume hood for your laboratory is a very important, long-term decision.
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