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Australian scientists are achieving the world's best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future.
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Return on investment (ROI) resides at the very foundation of all commercial enterprises. It is unlikely that businesses will be able to scale up, prosper or even survive absent an adequate rate of return on the investments they make to produce goods or provide services.
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Selecting the most effective source for high-purity gases is a critical issue for laboratory managers. In-house generation of gases offers the following advantages: gases are continually provided; it is not necessary to replace tanks on a periodic basis; less energy is required to supply gas, since tank gas or liquid nitrogen requires distillation of air and transportation of tanks to the final point of use.
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The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Dept. of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Illuminating objects and processes at unprecedented speed and scale, the LCLS has embarked on groundbreaking research..
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Once dominated by small firms and startups, interest in used lab instruments is spreading to large, multinational companies.
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As part of its strategy to discover and develop more biotechnology medicines, Eli Lilly and Company has opened a state-of-the-art biotechnology center on the West Coast. The facility--Lilly Biotechnology Center-San Diego--opened just three months after Lilly announced it.
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Another federal research lab dedicated to animal diseases is headed for Manhattan, Kan. Congress earlier this fall approved $1.5 million to move the Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Laboratory from Laramie, Wyo., to Kansas.
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced an education based addition to the already strong collaboration with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
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The Pittcon Networking Committee is pleased to announce the topics for the Conferee Networking Sessions for Pittcon 2010 from March 1 through March 4, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
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GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces a strategic collaboration with GoIndustry DoveBid (GoIDB). The partnership enhances GE Healthcare's asset disposal capabilities and
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Alpha Analytical (www.alphalab.com) is announcing the completion of acquisition of Boston Analytical, Inc. Established in 1987, Boston Analytical (www.bostonanalytical.com) is a registered, cGMP compliant contract testing laboratory providing quality analytical and microbiological testing services to the pharmaceutical, biotech, device, cosmetic and nutritional products industries.
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A new, $500,000 instrument recently went about its work emitting and reading high-speed pulses of silent and invisible terahertz rays.
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