Montana State University scientist Darla Goeres knows that there is more than one way to grow a biofilm, a fact that she uses to make sure that when a product claims it kills '99 percent' of bacteria, it really does the job.
Aug 22nd, 2008
Read moreCOMPAMED, the international leading trade fair for the supplier market of medical manufacturing opens its doors simultaneously to MEDICA from November 19 to 21, 2008 again in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Aug 22nd, 2008
Read moreA consortium of physicians and scientists in the Houston region is now undertaking a research initiative to improve diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and develop innovative treatment strategies.
Aug 22nd, 2008
Read moreDangerous disease often spreads faster than it takes to diagnose it in the lab. To remedy that, researchers at Kansas State University have developed a test to bring that time from days down to hours.
Aug 22nd, 2008
Read moreScientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new and fast method for making biological chips - technology that could lead to quick testing for serious diseases, fast detection of MRSA infections and rapid discovery of new drugs.
Aug 22nd, 2008
Read moreTwo students working on carbon naotubes are among the 20 young people named as 2008 Davidson Fellows.
Aug 22nd, 2008
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Researchers have developed a technique for directly visualizing the distribution of charge within certain manganese oxides, which is a valuable tool for learning more about charge ordering in these and other materials.
Aug 22nd, 2008
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A rare class of materials, known as multiferroics, holds great promise for future applications, for example as data storage devices or sensors. Researchers in Japan have now synthesized a multiferroic material in which electric polarization can be easily controlled by small magnetic fields.
Aug 22nd, 2008
Read moreFederal funding of academic science and engineering research and development failed to outpace inflation for the second year in a row, according to recently released fiscal year 2007 data from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Aug 21st, 2008
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When bacillus anthracis spores are weaponized, the spores are coated with silica nanoparticles that look almost like lint under the microscope. The 'lint' makes the particles 'bouncier' and less likely to clump and fall to the ground.
Aug 21st, 2008
Read moreSPIE Optics+Photonics drew 4,812 attendees this year, an impressive count for the even-year version of the symposium.
Aug 21st, 2008
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US researchers mapping the volatile chemicals emitted from skin cancers have found that the levels of just two compounds could differentiate diseased from healthy tissue.
Aug 21st, 2008
Read moreThe European Commission has launched a pilot project which will see the results of EU-funded research in seven key subject areas made freely available online.
Aug 21st, 2008
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Forget 9-volts, AAs, AAAs or D batteries: The energy for tomorrow's miniature electronic devices could come from tiny microbatteries about half the size of a human cell and built with viruses.
Aug 21st, 2008
Read morePoint-of-care diagnostics in the starting blocks.
Aug 21st, 2008
Read moreDas 'Kompetenzzentrum Analytik, Nano- und Materialtechnik' der Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule Nuernberg mit einem Projektvolumen von 1,2 Millionen Euro hat fuer die Jahre 2009 bis 2014 629.000 Euro aus dem Europaeischen Fonds fuer regionale Entwicklung (EFRE) bewilligt bekommen.
Aug 21st, 2008
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