Microbes lurk almost everywhere, from fresh food and air filters to toilet seats and folding money. Most of the time, they are harmless to humans. But sometimes they aren't. Every year, thousands of people sicken from E. coli ...
Michigan Technological University (MTU) researcher Jaroslaw Drelich has developed a new copper-based antimicrobial compound which can make the food supply safer. Drelich, a professor of materials science and engineering, has developed a ...
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Menu Warning: Things Can Change Beware of Greenwashing Everything Natural isn't Safe, and Vice Versa Learn to Read the Labels Routes of Exposure Pollution in People Nanoparticles - Something New to Watch Out For Essential ...
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Nanometer-scale silicon crystals have been shown to generate high luminous potential, and scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany and the University of Toronto in Canada have succeeded in using these crystals to ...
ilicon nanocrystals have a size of a few nanometers and possess a high luminous potential. Scientists of KIT and the University of Toronto/Canada have now succeeded in manufacturing silicon-based light-emitting diodes (SiLEDs). They are ...
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Silicon nanocrystals have a size of a few nanometers and possess a high luminous potential. Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto/Canada have now succeeded in manufacturing silicon-based ...
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The MSU Department of Virology headed by Professor Joseph Atabekov is studying the in vitro assembly of compositions, consisting of artificial plant virus particles and antigens, potentially attractive for vaccines development. Artificial ...
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TA Instruments has presented the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award to two scientists: Dr. Anson W. K. Ma, of the University of Connecticut, and Dr. Ali Mohraz, of the University of California, Irvine. The Award cited Dr. Ma’s ...
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Biodistribution studies are critical in the investigation of novel pharmacological agents, yielding vital information about tissue distribution of drug formulations as well as to characterize non-pharmaceutical agents, particularly in an in ...
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U.S. 8,178,160 B2 PPG Industries has been granted a patent for a method for preparing a decorative and durable coating having a homogeneous hue comprised of dry-blend mixing a first powder coating composition having a first hue and a ...
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Ilya Kurochkin is Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Postgenomic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Lomonsov Moscow State University. His research requires characterisation of size distribution, concentration and to ...
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The new CF2000 Series for high-resolution separation and fractionation of nanoparticles, from Postnova Analytics, has won the prestigious GIT Innovations Award 2012 in the category ‘Analytical Instrumentation and Software’. The ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has announced that The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), has adopted a Thermo Scientific iCAP Q inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) for research supporting EU ...
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NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterisation technology, reports on the breakthrough cancer metastasis research of Dr Hector Peinado Selgas and Dr David Lyden's research team from Weill Cornell Medical College. ...
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Alexium International Group Ltd. — an Australia- and Greer, S.C.-based developer of specialty chemicals and solutions such as eco-friendly flame-retardant (FR) treatments on man-made-fiber materials — and Duro Textiles LLC ...