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University of Iowa graduate student Alok Shah spends many hours in the lab studying the genetic causes of developmental defects and cystic fibrosis. In his free time, he takes part in what he calls a "wonderful nerd-fest" at "LabSpaces," a social-networking site aimed at individuals with a specific interest or career focus, such as biomedical research.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to the Georgia Institute of Technology to create a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)- The Georgia Tech Laboratory for New Electronic Materials. The Laboratory will focus its efforts on the development of new materials to serve as the successors to silicon in the semiconductor industry.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $20 million to the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to improving and developing materials for uses ranging from alternative energy production to quantum computing.
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Indiana University and Purdue University may be oil and water when it comes to athletics, but thanks to an effort to foster life sciences research and partnerships throughout Indiana, they're more like Indiana corn and butter.
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It's Cinderella time for solar. And a German company is playing fairy godmother.
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Chemists at Oregon State University have developed a new organocatalyst that will play a major role in new drug development.
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To gauge demand for lab automation, bioMerieux, Inc. conducted a survey during the recent AACC meeting. More than 75 percent of respondents said they planned to add new microbiology lab automation solutions to their laboratories within the next year.
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A new, multi-institutional research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy, to be headquartered at the University of Virginia, will use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth.
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Candidates answer questions about innovation, climate change, energy, education, national security, pandemics and biosecurity, genetics, stem cells, ocean health, water, space, scientific integrity, research, and health.
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In its best year ever for securing royalty income from technology licenses, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory garnered more than $9 million in the recently completed 2008 fiscal year.
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Brookhaven Science Associates awarded five local nonprofit organizations grants to promote science and math to under-represented members of the community.
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Professor Steve Woolgar of the Said Business School has been awarded the prestigious J. D. Bernal Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).
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