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VWR International, LLC announced on Aug. 19 that the company will build a new facility in Visalia, Calif. The location, approximately 500,000 square feet in size, will enhance VWRs distribution network and continue to provide a productive supply chai
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Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have received a $60,000 one-year National Science Foundation grant to study how naturally occurring microbes can best be used to eat away remaining crude oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Their choice
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Cooperation comes naturally to science; or at least it should, as the big problems science is called upon to address from climate change to pandemics respect no boundaries. And science at its best is a group effort, inclusive and open.
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Businesses that look only at age to bridge generational gaps among workers risk losing knowledge to retirements, higher turnover and other productivity-clogging problems, new University of Illinois research has found.
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The U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has announced the selection of the general contractor for construction of laboratory-office buildings (LOBs) for the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), which will be the
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Five researchers at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will lead projects that have been awarded almost 200 million processor-hours of computing time at Argonnes Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). The ALCF is home to
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PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced on August 3 that it has acquired VisEn Medical, Inc., an in vivo molecular imaging technology company based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
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Researchers create a myriad of technologies to prevent a deadly outbreak
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Sigma-Aldrich announced on August 5 that it has entered into an agreement with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, and Boston University (BU) to develop methods to measure several potential biom
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Carl Zeiss' "ZEISS On Your Campus" (ZOYC) 2010 traveling tour brings free workshops designed to educate scientists and their students in the fundamentals of various microscopy techniques to universities across the United States and Canada, providing
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $3 million to the Georgia Institute of Technology to fund a unique research program on stem cell bio-manufacturing. The program is specifically focused on developing engineering methods for stem cell
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Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, have been used as temperature stage suppliers to Queen's University in Canada for ten years to study the properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals.
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