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Dropping The Ball

Dropping The Ball

Biophlox Admin 13/03/2016 0
 Millions just watched the ball drop in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. However, like most marvels we take for granted, a great deal of engineering went into the celebration.“There’s a winch that is directly underneath the mast and cables go up all t...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions

Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions

Biophlox Admin 10/03/2016 0
The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyThe CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the...
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Spectroscopy and Microresonators: Broad Spectrum Frequency Combs are a Reality Now

Spectroscopy and Microresonators: Broad Spectrum Frequency Combs are a Reality Now

Biophlox Admin 26/02/2016 0
 Optical solitons have been produced —light waves that retain their shape—using a microresonator. By adapting the parameters for manufacturing microresonators, the EPFL researchers additionally managed to generate a so-called soliton Cherenkov radiat...
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NQR Detector to the Rescue: Medicines and Food Supplements

NQR Detector to the Rescue: Medicines and Food Supplements

Biophlox Admin 26/02/2016 0
 There is a big problem with counterfeit and substandard medicines in poorer countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. Mandal’s research team proposes a “chemometric passport approach” for quality assurance. Data on packaged medicines will be deriv...
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Simple Mass Spectroscopy Simplified: Sciex

Simple Mass Spectroscopy Simplified: Sciex

Biophlox Admin 25/02/2016 0
 Mass spectrometry is ideal for applications that require routine, rapid, highly simplified analyses, if the equipment could be simplified and made more rugged. What has remained elusive to make this transition a reality, is the development of simpli...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions

Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions

Biophlox Admin 10/03/2016 0
The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...
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