Satellite fire alarms keep watch on raging California fires
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...py. Author of the landmark "350 patent" covering a specially engineered moleculethat fixes "snips" (single nucleotide polymorphisms) in nature's blueprintingmaterial, Kmiec will focus on sickle-cell anemia, Huntington's Disease andfood-crop advances. He also will develop a gene therapy course while supervising...AAAS seeks public comment on stem cell research recommendation meeting on August 25th
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...hniquesfrom electrical engineering, they created a specially prepared surface thatholds millions of cell-sized squares of an artificial membrane that closelymimics the surface of living cells. The membrane chip provided an entirely newapproach to studying membrane-related cellular processes. Boxer and van Oude...Pacific Northwest developments earn spots in top 100 list
...high rates of heat andenergy mass transfer through specially fabricated microchannels carrying hotwater. Compact Microchannel Fuel Vaporizer. This miniature fuel vaporizer is akey component of a multi-step fuel processing system that will convert gasolinein a vehicle to hydrogen. Hydrogen is requir...Purdue study: Aquariums may pacify Alzheimer's patients
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... with gold and sandwiched between tiny electrodes, specially designedpolymer beads provide a cheap, disposable device for detecting disease,University of Delaware scientists say. A prototype, "gold-on-plastic" biosensor, protected by a provisional patent anddescribed in the May 25 issue of Langmuir , also may......yo Clinic Jacksonville scientists have shownthat a specially created molecule injected into the belly of a rat can cross thenearly impassable blood-brain barrier and can stop the chemical reaction in thebrain that the molecule was designed to impede. The discovery is an amazing and unexpected finding. It could...For DNA, it's all about fitting in
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... device could skip theprism step and simply employ specially tuned photoreceivers with a VCSEL thatcreates the three desired colors. The designs converge again when the lasersstrike the processing unit. Bhattacharya said the artificial eye will improve on the human version in atleast two key respects. Where...Urban Residents Rebut Argument That Tree Removal Enhances Safety
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