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In a feat of biological prestidigitation likely to turn the field of regenerative medicine on its head, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) co-director Doug Melton and post doctoral fellow Qiao "Joe" Zhou report directly turning one type of fully formed adult cell into another type of adult cell.
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Purdue University yesterday formally reprimanded and sanctioned a faculty member after a university appeal committee unanimously denied an appeal from two findings of research misconduct.
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Franek Technologies has made available online a course titled "Power Protection of Mission Critical Medical and Laboratory Equipment."
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Members of the California state Senate voted unanimously Aug. 22 to approve the state bill requested by the University of California to help stem the campaign of violence and intimidation by animal-rights terrorists against researchers and their families.
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MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) isn't just for capturing detailed images of the body's anatomy. Thanks to novel imaging reagents and technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University scientist Eric Ahrens, MRI can be used to visualize with "exquisite" specificity cell populations of interest in the living body.
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Bedsprings aren't often found in biology. Now, chemists have succeeded in making a layer of tiny protein coils attached to a surface, much like miniature bedsprings in a frame.
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Federal R&D funding for science and engineering in academia fell 1.6 percent from fiscal 2006-2007.
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Using DNA barcoding technology, University of Guelph researchers have found that 25 per cent of fish are mislabelled and in a majority of the cases, the fillets are sold as species of higher values.
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Bruker AXS GmbH has signed an agreement to acquire all of the equity of S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems GmbH, a company with annual revenues of approximately $3 million.
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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. has introduced www.mytetracell.com, a new online social networking site created for current and new Bio-Rad Mini-PROTEAN system users to share and exchange ideas and information.
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Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. has received a $1.1 million task order under the United States Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) ToxCast screening program.
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