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A new use for glass is being developed by researchers in Penn State’s Materials Research Institute that could make future hybrid-electric and plug-in electric vehicles more affordable and reliable.
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Two companies launched by discoveries at an engineering research center based at Iowa State University have won business development grants to help them commercialize their biorenewable technologies.
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The National Institutes of Health plans to substantially reduce the use of chimpanzees in NIH-funded biomedical research and designate for retirement most of the chimpanzees it currently owns or supports.
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Berkeley Lab scientists image cell-to-cell connections between soil microbes.
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Imagine being able to redirect powerful immune cells to fight cancer. How about reprogramming a diabetic’s skin cell into a cell that could manufacture the insulin their pancreas no longer produces? Could we dial down the production of fat cells in obese adolescents? These are major health problems and medical challenges that may be more achievable with a new fundamental technology that gets vital control molecules into cells faster, safer, and more effectively.
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Agreement marks first partnership of its kind between a research institution and reagents company; third major deal in TSRI's new partnering strategy.
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Join us at the 2013 Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exposition for Analytical in Motion: Knowledge, Network & Career.
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An international team of information scientists has begun a study to investigate how web links in scientific and other academic articles fail to lead to the resources being referenced.
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Networks of spherical nanoparticles embedded in elastic materials may make the best stretchy conductors yet, engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered.
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Kansas State University researchers are defeating persistent bacteria known for causing infections in hospitals.
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The demand for food scientists in the U.S. will increase by 10 percent in the next seven years.
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Beautiful images from U-M research labs available at Ann Arbor Art Fair and online. Proceeds help young scientists travel to scientific conferences.
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