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The food and beverage giant opened a research laboratory last week at 25 Science Park. In New Haven, the corporation will also fund a graduate fellowship in the M.D.-Ph.D. program at the Yale School of Medicine to support research on nutrition and obesity-related diseases.
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The U.S. Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization.
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Berkeley Labs National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) provided the technology and a Visiting Scientist Fellowship that helped a Missouri State University researcher make a key discovery which should boost efforts to use carbon nanotubes as catalytic supports in direct ethanol fuel cells.
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According to industry estimates, the global market for microscopes and accessories is literally thriving. Around 4 years back it was pegged at $1.65 billion (1.34 billion) and is expected to touch $2.77 billion in the year 2009, with a healthy average annual growth rate(AAR) of around 11%.
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A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has determined a hierarchical set of criteria that explain how the molecular precursors of gene-regulating small RNAs are sorted by the cellular machinery.
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The beginning of a new year, let alone a new decade, is the perfect time to rethink the processes used in your lab to procure new equipment. Thanks to evolving online resources, forward-thinking print media content and new solutions offered by vendors, there is likely room in every lab buyer's procedure for improvement.
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Physicists who do research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at The Florida State University got a brand new, high-tech toy for the holidays a world-record magnet.
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To honor scientific achievements that have made seminal impact toward addressing key biological and medical quandaries, the Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA) seeks nominations for The JALA Ten.
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) Office of Public Affairs has launched a Chinese-language news site on EurekAlert! to further extend its publicity about research reported in ACS publications into the Peoples Republic of China.
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The 60-year-old U.S. laboratory science exposition, The Pittsburgh Conference, is fast approaching. With that in mind, last month we conducted a Lab Manager Magazine Pittcon 2010 Attendance Survey in which we asked our readers to weigh in on their ex
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PerkinElmer, Inc. today announced that OneSource, a component of the Analytical Sciences and Laboratory Services business, has entered into an agreement with laboratory supply and distribution company VWR International, LLC, to develop a joint service offering.
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