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Music drives samples through a new lab-on-a-chip device

Music, rather than electromechanical valves, can drive experimental samples through a lab-on-a-chip in a new system developed at the University of Michigan. This development could significantly simplify the process of conducting experiments in microfluidic devices.

Jul 22nd, 2009

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The largest parity violations ever measured in an atom

Measurements with ytterbium-174, an isotope with 70 protons and 104 neutrons, have shown the largest effects of parity violation in an atom ever observed - a hundred times larger than the most precise measurements made so far, with the element cesium.

Jul 22nd, 2009

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The enigma of signaling in olfaction

Dr Jenny Brookes has been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. She will work to understand the mystery of olfaction at the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

Jul 22nd, 2009

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