A new high-powered microscope has allowed scientists to watch a zebrafish develop from a single cell into an embryo with a beating heart, the first time this has been possible in vertebrates. They created a...
YUCK! Do you suppose they were made in China?"Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Some latex examination gloves being used by dentists and doctors across Canada contain flies, larvae and unidentified black matter, a Global B.C. investigation has...
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"New discovery could help treat epilepsy
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 10/03/2008
Drugs that could treat pre menstrual tension and epilepsy are two of the long term possibilities...
A new technique for printing extraordinarily thin lines quickly over
wide areas could lead to larger, less expensive and more versatile
electronic displays as well new medical devices, sensors and...
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"By combining the worldwide first battery-operated and mobile fluorescence microscope "CyScope," developed by Partec, with dedicated test kits, for the first time diagnostic services are being offered in high burden countries also to those patients living far from the few...
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The Nanolab at Simon Fraser University has produced the world's smallest book. How cool. I was reading it (the press release, not the book itself) and thinking - is the book really called "Teeny Ted From Turnip Town" and why was it written by the artist's brother? But I found...
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"Seattle Public Schools will be under a constitutional microscope Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the district acted properly when it used race to assign students to its most popular schools."Attorneys representing the Seattle Public School...