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Agilent Technologies Inc. and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) announced on March 1, 2010 that they have entered into a collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing, with the goal of solving a wide range of persistent problems facing global food supply chains.
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Most polymers, materials made of long, chain-like molecules, are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator.
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Animal rights activists protested the use of rats in a senior-level course March 3 on the southeast corner of University of Texas at Dallas campus.
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West Virginia University will construct a new biomedical research facility on its Morgantown campus with $14.5 million in funding awarded Thursday by the National Institutes of Health.
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North Carolina's attorney general has ordered an independent review of the state's crime lab following revelations about practices there that led to the exoneration of a man wrongly accused of murder.
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Geoff Horst, chief science officer of Algal Scientific Corporation, is a doctoral student at Michigan State University. Horst is also part of an award-winning team that has developed a process that uses algae for waste water treatment and nutrient recovery.
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Merck KGaA announced on Sunday that it will purchase Millipore, a supplier of life science tools and equipment to the biotech industries, for $7.6 billion (5.3 billion euros).
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The Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a new competition for grants for the construction of new or expanded scientific research buildings at institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations.
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The search for a drug to replace morphinea highly effective pain reliever but one that is associated with a variety of troublesome side effectsmay be greatly accelerated thanks to a recent discovery by scientists at Albany Medical College and the state Wadsworth Center Laboratories.
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Chemists at the University of Helsinki have managed to manufacture new polymer-stabilised silver nanoparticles. The result is significant because the antimicrobial characteristics of silver are used in textiles, floor coatings and paints even though the impact on health of silver nanoparticles are not entirely known.
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The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) releases "The Power of Place 2.0: The Power of Innovation10 Steps for Creating Jobs, Improving Technology Commercialization, and Building Communities of Innovation" in Washington, D.C.
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Some say the world's population will swell to 9 billion people by 2030 and that will present significant challenges for agriculture to provide enough food to meet demand, says University of Idaho animal scientist Rod Hill.
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