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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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Designed to store high value, critical samples, reagents, vaccines, blood and plasma.
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William Lohry took a seat before a projector-camera combination and offered his best smile. And there, on a nearby computer monitor, was a perfect, but colorless, 3-D image of every line, contour and movement on the face of the senior chemical engineering major from Sioux City. It was like a moving mask, digitally and exactly executed.
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Carbolite The Peak Series laboratory incubators have been designed and engineered to perform processes ranging from simple drying to more complex and demanding heat treatment processes and long term stability testing of materials or components.
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Although they could revolutionize a wide range of high-tech products such as computer displays or solar cells, organic materials do not have the same ordered chemical composition as inorganic materials, preventing scientists from using them to their full potential. But an international team of researchers led by McGill's Dr. Dmitrii Perepichka and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique's Dr. Federico Rosei have published research that shows how to solve this decades-old conundrum.
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The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University is planning to build a state-of-the-art magnet system that will transform the study of complex environmental and biological samples. A better understanding of fossil and biological fuels, for example, could lead to applications for reducing carbon emissions and the development of new, sustainable fuels.
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ATMI, Inc., and Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A. (SSB) announced June 14 that they have extended their marketing and distribution alliance by adding new technologies. The new agreement grants global marketing and distribution rights to ATMIs patented Magnetic Mixer technology to Sartorius Stedim Biotech.
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ERT (eResearchTechnology, Inc.),a global provider of technology and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, announced the successful closing of the acquisition of the Research Services Division of CareFusion Corporation (CRS).
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Ingen Biosciences, a developer and marketer of advanced in vitro diagnostic kits for clinical use, announced June 4 that the company will market in Europe the first in vitro diagnostic kit to detect infections in prosthetic replacements.
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The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) announced on June 14 that they are accepting abstracts for the SBS 17th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Advancing the Science of Drug Discovery, which will take place March 27- 31, 2011 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
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Almost all drug compounds will elicit deleterious effects on cells at some concentration. Lysosome perturbation as a result of ion trapping of amine containing compounds has been demonstrated to cause the formation of autophagosomes and autophagic cytopathology. Here we describe the use of the EL406 Combination Washer Dispenser to automatically aspirate media, wash cells and dispense reagents for the Lyso-ID Red Detection kit, part of the CELLestial Live Cell Analysis platform from Enzo Life Sciences.
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Researchers have discovered a new strain of bacteria that can produce non-toxic, comparatively inexpensive rhamnolipids, and effectively help degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs environmental pollutants that are one of the most harmful aspects of oil spills.
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