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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced on OCtober 14, 2010 its nomination for three prestigious European Outsourcing Awards (EOA). The EOA nominations included two entries for Best Contract Analytical Project fo
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The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce that the 2011 Technical Program is now available on the Pittcon website.
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JALA, an official journal of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), is now accepting submissions for the 2011 JALA Video Contest. In three minutes or less, SLAS members and nonmembers are invited to show and tell JALA what really
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a total of $50 million in grants to five institutions to support the construction of new scientific research facilities that will explore topics ranging from nanometer-scale electr
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The ASU online childrens science portal, Ask A Biologist, provides the backdrop for an editors pick in the Oct. 12 online edition of Public Library of Science (PLoS). In the article Ask A Biologist: Bringing Science to the Public, ASUs Charles Kazile
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A paper by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may breathe new life into the use of a powerfulbut trickydiagnostic technique for cell biology. The paper,* appearing this week in the Biophysical Journal, demonstrat
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The Pittsburgh Conference and its sponsoring societies, the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP), are pleased to announce the 2011 PCMNCG Award Program.
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Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Writing in the journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, the chemists were
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Scientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have developed a means of representing a 3D model ear, to help redefine the standard for a pinna simulator (the pinna is the outer part of the ear) used to measure sound in the way we perceive
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The global gas chromatography market is a mature market, and is dominated by aftermarket and accessories. Despite this, the global market maintained positive momentum in recent years. However, the market slumped when the global economy plunged into r
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Despite progress in decoding the genome, scientists estimate that fully 95 percent of our DNA represents dark, unknown territory. In the October 1 issue of the journal Cell, researchers at The Wistar Institute shed new light on the genetic unknown wi
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In a major boost for X-ray science and accelerator physics, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has committed about $109 million to Cornell's continued operation of an X-ray synchrotron facility, as well as to develop a new kind of X-ray source tha
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