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A new study provides the first evidence that bacteria respond to odors, which according to one of the researchers may be the earliest evolutionary example of olfaction.

Are there too many stem cell research journals? This question has been posed by Drs. Paul Sanberg and Cesar Borlongan of the Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair at the University of South Florida. Their article appears in the current issue of Stem Cell Reviews and Reports.

Scientists in South Africa have come up with a novel way of purifying water on a small scale using a sachet rather like a tea bag, but instead of imparting flavor to the water, the bag absorbs toxins, filters out and kills bacteria, and cleans the water.

Scientists and Engineers at The University of Nottingham have built the world’s smallest ultrasonic transducers capable of generating and detecting ultrasound. These revolutionary transducers which are orders of magnitude smaller than current systems – are so tiny that up to 500 of the smallest ones could be placed across the width of one human hair.

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Clemson University is hosting Nano2010, an international conference of scientists whose research will help us understand how nanotechnology will affect our world.

The magical world of Shrinky Dinks — an arts and crafts material used by children since the 1970s — has taken up residence in a Northwestern University laboratory. A team of nanoscientists is using the flexible plastic sheets as the backbone of a new inexpensive way to create, test and mass-produce large-area patterns on the nanoscale.

(PhysOrg.com) — As part of its new iMedEd Initiative, the medical school has developed a comprehensive, iPad-based curriculum, reinventing how medicine is taught in the 21st century and becoming the first in the nation to offer entering students a completely digital, interactive learning environment.

A new transistor smaller than a virus can enter a cell harmlessly and “listen in” on crucial body functions, a new study says. Transistor – Biology – Cell Biology – Products and Services – Technology

A new test for oral cancer, which a dentist could perform by simply using a brush to collect cells from a patient’s mouth, is set to be developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The international research team, involving scientists in Sheffield, has been awarded $2 million from the USA’s National Institutes of Health to develop …

DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of Rapra Technology Ltd’s new report “Smart Polymer Systems 2010 – Conference Proceedings” to their offering.

As part of Road Trip 2010, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman spends a day at General Electric’s famed R&D labs and sees a glimpse of some of the technologies the industrial giant will be coming out with in the future.

Building on a tool that they developed in yeast four years ago, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine scanned the human genome and discovered what they believe is the reason people have such a variety of physical traits and disease risks.

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Dr. Suzanne G. Martin has joined Fallon Clinic’s medical team.

Scientists are reporting development of a substance to enhance the visibility of skin cancer cells during scans with an advanced medical imaging system that combines ultrasound and light. The hybrid scanner could enable doctors to detect melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, in its earliest and most curable stages, the report in the monthly journal ACS Nano indicates.

An ingredient in the venom of the “deathstalker” scorpion could help gene therapy become an effective treatment for brain cancer, scientists are reporting. The substance allows therapeutic genes – genes that treat disease – to reach more brain cancer cells than current approaches, according to the study in ACS Nano, a monthly journal.

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Paper with a memory Medicine bottles that alert you when a prescription needs updating and computer screens which can be rolled up to fit in a briefcase are a step closer thanks to researchers at the De Montfort University Leicester.