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Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a new tool for controlling ultracold gases and ultracold chemistry: electric fields. As described in the April 29 issue of Nature,* JILA scientists discovered that applying a small electric field spurs a dramatic increase in chemical reactions in their gas of ultracold molecules.
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Researchers have found evidence that "marine snow"--aggregates of organic material floating in water bodies--may act as microscopic, island-like refuges for pathogens, or disease-causing organisms. This detritus may skew water sampling procedures and mathematical models used to predict the transmission of waterborne diseases to humans.
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Hydrogen would command a key role in future renewable energy technologies, experts agree, if a relatively cheap, efficient and carbon-neutral means of producing it can be developed. An important step towards this elusive goal has been taken by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Eppendorf North America has committed to donate over $1,000,000 worth of liquid handling equipment (pipettes and tips) and other Eppendorf products to help educate and inspire young scientists.
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Analtech, Inc., the only U.S. manufacturer of thin layer chromatography plates and equipment, marks one year of operating on a four-day work schedule this week.
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Brookfield Engineering will be offering a course, featuring its CT3 Texture Analyzer, that helps manufacturers deliver consistent products.
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UCLA researchers report in the April 30 edition of the journal Cell that they have imaged a virus structure at a resolution high enough to effectively "see" atoms, the first published instance of imaging biological complexes at such a resolution.
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The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) announced April 30 the top ten poster winners of the SBS 2010 Conference and Exhibition. Posters were on display in the exhibit hall at the conference, which took place at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, April 11 15.
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A generous grant from the National Science Foundation will provide participation support through a limited number of travel scholarships for students to attend the 14th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in downtown Washington, DC, June 21-23, 2010.
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The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) announced April 27 that University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) graduate student, Sam Hasson was awarded the JBS Academic Excellence Award for his presentation Developing New Chemical Tools to Study Mitachondrial Protein Translocation.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Professor Bruno Domon, director of the new Luxembourg Clinical Proteomics unit (LCP), announced on April 22 a collaboration to develop workflows that overcome current bottlenecks in biomarker discovery and assay development for clinical proteomics research.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making it easier to find chemical information online. EPA is releasing a database, called ToxRefDB, which allows scientists and the interested public to search and download thousands of toxicity testing results on hundreds of chemicals.
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