Leading Malaysian-born pathologist returns to help countrymen

Source: The Sun Daily Malaysia

MELBOURNE (May 26, 2012): The Malaysian-born president of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA), Professor Yee Khong, will lead a delegation of eminent pathologists to Kuala Lumpur next month ...
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Harnessing Plant-Invading Fungi for Fuel

Source: LiveScience.com

A scanning electron micrograph of fungus Nodulisporium sp. It produces a plethora of hydrocarbons that are potential fuel-related substances. CREDIT: Gary Strobel, Montana State University ...
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Human hair too big for super sensitive microscope heralded as world’s largest

Source: Toronto Star

Dr. Rodney Herring, director of University of Victoria's Advanced Microscopy Facility, stands with the base of the new STEHM microscope. The STEHM, which is the world's most powerful microscope, arrived at the univer ...
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Berkeley Lab Reports Direct Observation of Oriented Attachment in Nanocrystal Growth

Source: SciTech Daily

Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have elucidated important mechanisms behind oriented attachment that drives biomineralization and the growth of nanocrystals. Image from Jim DeYoreo A team of ...
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The need for speed

Source: Nanotech Now

Biomedical scientists are dreaming of a technique showing the distribution of all the biomolecular constituents that make up biological tissue in high-resolution, three-dimensional maps. Such a visualization tool does not currently exist. Whereas fl ...
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Nanomedicines on their way through the body

Source: Nanotech Now

Advances in pharmaceutical nanotechnology have yielded ever increasingly sophisticated nanoparticles for medicine delivery. When administered via oral, intravenous, ocular and transcutaneous delivery routes, these nanoparticles can elicit enhanced d ...
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Researchers Demonstrate Possible Primitive Mechanism of Chemical Info Self-Replication

Source: Caltech Today

DNA tile ribbons (shown here in an atomic force microscopy image) can store information in their arrangement of tiles—12.5nm x 4nm x 2nm self-assembled DNA structures. This information can be propagated during ribbon growth, and replicated in a cycl ...
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IRIS International to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences

Source: iStockAnalyst

CHATSWORTH, Calif., May 25, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IRIS International, Inc. (Nasdaq:IRIS), a leading manufacturer of automated in-vitro diagnostics systems and consumables and a provider of high-value personalized di ...
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Cost-effective, high quality carbon nanotubes

Source: Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight

(Nanowerk News) EU-funded researchers compared carbon nanotube synthesis techniques to develop the most cost-effective high quality electronic device products. Carbon nanotubes are, as their name suggests, tube-shaped carbon m ...
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