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The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) and the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) hosted the Capitol Hill briefing, The Science of Cosmetics on Wednesday, February 9, with a reception following. Featuring physicians...
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The problem with phosphorus, a critical element in fertilizers and food, is, as comedian Rodney Dangerfield would say, that it “can’t get no respect.”
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NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago’s Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine’s Day encounter with comet Tempel 1.
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The National Science Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2011 National Medal of Science. The deadline for complete nominations is March 31, 2011.
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The Internet has become not only a tool for disseminating knowledge through scientific publications, but it also has the potential to shape scientific research through expanding the field of metaknowledge—the study of knowledge itself...
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Scientists are reporting discovery of an environmentally friendly way to make a key industrial material — used in products ranging from paints to diapers — from a renewable raw material without touching the traditional pricey and increasingly scarce
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The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust has renewed its funding commitment to the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, a collaboration of Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago.
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The Covaris® LE220™ high performance ultra-sonicator has received the prestigious SLAS New Product Award at LabAutomation 2011 in Palm Springs CA. With over 4,400 attendees, LabAuto is the premier laboratory automation conference and exhibition...
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CellGard ES NU-480 Labculture Class II FlexAIR CEC NuAire, Inc. www.nuaire.com Esco Technologies, Inc. www.us.escoglobal.com
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Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover. In a recent paper published online in the journal Planetary and Space Science, a team of...
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Construction of a biological research station in Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary on the east slope of the Andes mountains will allow faculty and students from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Francis Marion University to study one of..
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Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC) pursuant to which Danaher will acquire Beckman Coulter by making a cash tender offer to acquire all of the..
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