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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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UltraVolt Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of standard-product high-voltage power supplies, announced in July the completion of its next generation catalog. The new UltraVolt 2010 full product catalog is now available for immediate download.
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With its vast 1.5 million acres of mangrove swamps, sawgrass prairies and subtropical jungles, could the Florida Everglades--the famous river of grass--be affected by the Gulf oil spill?
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Stephen "Ash" Bullard, assistant professor in the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures in Auburn University's College of Agriculture, recently received a $145,000 National Science Foundation for Rapid Response Research grant for work relat
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On August 3,U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson toured the Agency's Edison Environmental Center in Edison, NJ. Jackson was joined by Congressman Frank Pallone and Edison Mayor Antonia Ricigliano to highlight the Agencys
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A state-of-the-art laboratory in Fort Dodge, Iowa has raised the bar on biodiesel fuel quality testing, and other labs are likely to follow its lead. The nonprofit Iowa Central Fuel Testing Laboratory has become the first to earn accreditation as a B
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An ultra-secure form of coded communication could be given a boost, thanks to scientists from the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Rochester (USA). In a paper published in the journal Science, quantum physicists have demonstrated the randomne
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NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments including one from the University of Arizona for the first mission.
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LabVantage announced on July 28, 2010 the opening of its new office in Monza, Italy. Located about 12 miles northeast of the capital city of Milan, Monza is the 3rd largest city in Lombardy, one of most important economic regions of Italy.
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