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MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) isn't just for capturing detailed images of the body's anatomy. Thanks to novel imaging reagents and technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University scientist Eric Ahrens, MRI can be used to visualize with "exquisite" specificity cell populations of interest in the living body.
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Bedsprings aren't often found in biology. Now, chemists have succeeded in making a layer of tiny protein coils attached to a surface, much like miniature bedsprings in a frame.
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Federal R&D funding for science and engineering in academia fell 1.6 percent from fiscal 2006-2007.
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Using DNA barcoding technology, University of Guelph researchers have found that 25 per cent of fish are mislabelled and in a majority of the cases, the fillets are sold as species of higher values.
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Bruker AXS GmbH has signed an agreement to acquire all of the equity of S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems GmbH, a company with annual revenues of approximately $3 million.
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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. has introduced www.mytetracell.com, a new online social networking site created for current and new Bio-Rad Mini-PROTEAN system users to share and exchange ideas and information.
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Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. has received a $1.1 million task order under the United States Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) ToxCast screening program.
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Bruce Roths name may not be on the tip of many tongues, but his invention has been on more than 26 million in the United States alone. Inventor of Lipitor, Roth was among 25 unsung scientific heroes who were inducted into an American Chemical Society (ACS) hall of fame called the Heroes of Chemistry.
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At Florida State University, the collective strength of biomedical research and the scientists who lead it has earned a $2 million High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Understanding the form and function of certain proteins in the human body is becoming faster and easier, thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Illinois.
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An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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