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A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and sensors that detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scientists because its structure was too difficult to examine.
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MIT biological engineers have found a way to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, an advance that paves the way for "artificial noses" to be created and used in a variety of settings.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced that its Atlas Chromatography Data System (CDS) now supports the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.
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PerkinElmers environmental market Web site enables environmental scientists to quickly obtain information on regulatory compliance, methods or standards, applications and product information.
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At Georgia Tech, researchers from the Colleges of Sciences and Engineering have joined forces to create the Center for Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry. Understanding biology at the systems level is difficult, especially when studying complex specimens like tissue slices or communities of organisms in a biofilm. Scientists must be able to identify, quantify and locate the molecules present in the samples. The Center for Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry aims to tackle these types of challenges.
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The business manager for Syntrix Biosystems (Auburn, WA) was charged with defrauding the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute out of federal grant money that was supposed to be used for drug and cancer research.
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An advisory issued by KPMG, Inc. this month notes that the company's survey of 600 senior-level procurement professionals found that "42 percent of respondents regularly evaluate suppliers on environmental and human rights performance."
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Genzyme Corp. recently marked the grand opening of its new Science Center. The new facility received a Gold certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED.
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Environmental scientists studying the world's shrinking polar ice sheets will soon get a substantial boost in computing power thanks to Indiana University's Polar Grid Project.
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With the donation of Invensys Process Systems' InFusion(TM) enterprise control technology, the UMass Lowell BioManufacturing Center will provide a full-scale manufacturing operation, giving students a greater appreciation of the transition of biotechnologic products from research to commercial production.
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A University of Illinois at Chicago research group may have found a faster, cleaner, "greener" way to synthesize N-heterocycles, and the National Institutes of Health has just awarded the team a five-year, $1.48 million grant to prove its effectiveness.
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A person's trash can reveal valuable information, as detectives, historians and identity thieves well know. Likewise, a cell's trash may yield certain treasures, University of Delaware researchers have found.
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