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For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, MIT scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of which kill by poking holes in bacterial cell membranes.
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For the past 18 months, the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) and the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) have been strategizing a merger to unite their complementary missions within the context of one inclusive organizationthe Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS).
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Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has partnered with Cerno Bioscience to offer Shimadzus LCMS quadrupole systems along with Cernos MassWorks software so users can improve data calibration for more accurate mass determination.
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More than a year after an internal audit highlighted widespread deficiencies within the Baltimore Police Department's crime lab, the division has a backlog of thousands of analysis requests.
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Demolition projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory have recovered more than 136 tons of metal to recycle since work began last year.
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Burlington Laboratories Inc. recently made a $50,000 challenge grant to commemorate Lund Family Center's 120 years of strengthening families by helping children survive.
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A year before a UCLA staff research assistant was fatally burned in a lab fire, a graduate student was seriously injured in a similar accident that university officials failed to report to state regulators, records released Friday show.
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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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These awards honor the best and most innovative new products at Pittcon.
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