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Mar 16 | News
If the price of a new innovation by researchers at Rice Univ. is right, the flat petri dish may soon become an endangered species in the lab. The “invisible scaffold” technique, which relies on gold nanoparticles and engineered phages, builds cultures that more closely resemble native tissue.
Mar 9 | News
A team of engineers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are working on tiny, low-power chips that could diagnose heart problems, monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease or predict seizures in epileptic patients.
Feb 19 | News
Typical microfluidic devices require complicated etching of tiny channels into glass, silicon or metal. As Australian researchers have discovered, cotton thread can be an effective alternative. The fibers wick fluids effectively, and when attached to paper they form a low-cost sensor.
Feb 18 | News
A Univ. of Missouri researcher is developing a tiny sensor, known as an acoustic resonant sensor, that is smaller than a human hair and could test bodily fluids for a variety of diseases, including breast and prostate cancers.
Feb 16 | Featured Articles
Whatever the industry, researchers and scientist are likely to be using analytical instruments such as sensors, meters, analyzers, spectrometers, and more in their daily work. The questions then, are how efficient, how cost-effective, and how easy to use are the analytical tools currently on the market.
Feb 12 | News
Arizona State scientists have come up with a new twist in their efforts to develop a faster and cheaper way to read the DNA genetic code. They have developed the first, versatile DNA reader that can discriminate between DNA's four core chemical components—the key to unlocking the vital code behind human heredity and health.
Feb 3 | RDBlog
I’ve always liked looking at the images in National Geographic. They are always so beautiful or so gut wrenching that I fell in love with the magazine during my college years. I also couldn’t live without going to Borders every Sunday and picking up the New York Times and Time to read as well. I was extremely happy when I found out that my family had subscribed to National Geographic recently, and had seen that our first issue arrived yesterday. In the issue there was an interesting article about bionics—something that I never really thought about until last year.
Jan 27 | News
Researchers at Tufts Univ. have developed a new tool for gene therapy that increases gene delivery to cells in the retina compared to other carriers and DNA alone. The tool provides a vehicle for therapeutic genes and may help researchers develop therapies for degenerative eye disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.
Jan 21 | News
Scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research have for the first time developed a highly sensitive means of detecting the seven types of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) simultaneously. Derived from antibodies found in llamas these molecularly flexible substances are well-suited for finding toxins that top the list of infectious bioterrorism agents.
Jan 21 | News
With seed money from the National Science Foundation , bioengineers from UC Berkeley and Stanford are ramping up efforts to characterize the thousands of control elements critical to the engineering of microbes so that eventually, researchers can mix and match these "DNA parts" in synthetic organisms to produce new drugs, fuels or chemicals.