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Setting up a high-throughput screening lab - scale and flexibility should influence buying decisions.
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Economical options for RNA Synthesis - Price for RNA molecules spiral downward as demand goes up.
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Getting to the $1,000 Genome - DNA sequencing technologies strive for higher throughputs and lower costs.
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Reliably tracking samples as they make their way throughout the scientific process is difficult yet absolutely necessary. Nevertheless, transcription errors, wrong versions of files or other mistakes are all too common and can lead to delayed product rollouts—or may even result in a product never making it to market.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new solicitation in a program to fund repairs and renovations at the nation's academic research facilities. The grant program is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Algenol Biofuels, a three-year-old company, aims to make ethanol with blue-green algae, by feeding it a steady diet of carbon dioxide and farm animal waste.
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DuPont Co. told workers at its Marshall Laboratory in South Philadelphia that the plant will close by June, idling 265, as the company cuts 2,000 worldwide in its latest round of layoffs.
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Science-related agencies fare well in President Barack Obama's proposed federal budget for the 2010 fiscal year, according to White House science adviser John P. Holdren.
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The cracking of concrete pavements is merely a nuisance, but cracks in roads, bridges and buildings are a hazard. A way of making concrete that healed such cracks spontaneously would thus be very welcome. And a team led by Henk Jonkers at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands may have come up with one.
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Skyline Solar, a startup that today announced its existence to the world, has developed a cheaper way to harvest energy from the sun. The company's solar panels concentrate sunlight onto a small area, reducing the amount of expensive semiconductor material needed to generate electricity.
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The U.S. military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel nanotube-coated power measurement device developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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NASA is preparing to fly a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread that could help scientists better understand how effectively drugs work in space.
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