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The University of Chicago received $512 million in sponsored research funding and 2,528 awards in fiscal year 2010, surpassing previous-year funding by 8.5 percent. Sixty-three awards were for more than $I million.
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A Drexel University team of engineers, scientists and biologists have developed a carbon nanotube-based device for probing single living cells without damaging them. This technique will allow experts to identify diseases in their early stage and adva
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Cornell University researchers have joined other scientists and a biofuel research company on a mission to develop a commercial-scale algae-to-fuel facility by 2015. The effort is backed by a $9 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The University of Delaware is now one of only a handful of universities with a microscope so powerful that researchers can measure a single molecule within a cell.
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A quicker and cheaper technique to scan molecular databases developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could put scientists on the fast track to developing new drug treatments
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Right now, it looks a little like one of those plastic containers you might fill with gasoline when your car has run dry. But Scott Gallager is not headed to the nearest Mobil station. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) biologist has oth
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Computer scientists within the Tetherless World Research Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed an application to help solve the problem. A collaboration with scientific publisher Elsevier, the application utilizes the U.S.
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The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly lower temperatures. Now, pushing the regime of the very cold into the very small, a research
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Scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher Scientific will acquire Dionex for $2.1 billion to broaden its lab-equipment offerings.
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When people approach me at work for guidance, more often than not I try to equip them to find the solution on their own because I know the information will crystallize in their minds better. Yes, there are times when I have to get personally involved
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In 2011, Pittcon will host its Annual Conference and Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1997the last time Atlanta hosted Pittconthe citys bioscience industry has been rapidly expanding.
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States, not the federal government, now fund the majority of human embryonic stem cell research conducted in the United States, according to a recent study in the journal Nature Biotechnology. In addition, states varied substantially in the extent to
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