New Abbott Technology Offers Rapid Alternative to Culture for Microbial Detection

Research presented today at the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) annual meeting indicates that a new molecular diagnostic technology from Abbott identified more microbes and delivered more rapid results than traditional culture testing methods.

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Researchers Begin to Decipher Metabolism of Sexual Assault Drug

4-HB is a naturally occurring brain chemical that can be abused or used as a date-rape drug if taken by mouth.

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Bioreactor for Bone Tissue Engineering Wins Professor Venture Fair

John Fisher, associate professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, won the Best Inventor Pitch at the 2009 Bioscience Research and Technology Review Day with a tissue engineering bioreactor system that grows bone and other types of tissue for implantation.

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Publication Offers Constructive Advice for Construction Industry Efficiency

A new workshop report from the National Research Council identifies five key activities to advance the competitiveness and effectiveness of the nation's construction industry.

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NIST Demonstrates ‘Universal’ Programmable Quantum Processor

Physicists at NIST have demonstrated the first 'universal' programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics. The processor could be a module in a future quantum computer, which theoretically could solve some important problems that are intractable today.

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Novel NIST Connector Uses Magnets for Leak-Free Microfluidic Devices

While fiddling one day with a pair of magnets, NIST researcher Javier Atencia realized he was holding a solution to an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, connect fluid tubes to his tiny microfluidic devices.

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