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New Targets May Hit Bull's-eye For Chip Makers
The bull's-eye solution to the semiconductor industry's hunt for more exact means to measure the relative positions of ever-tinier devices squeezed by the millions onto silicon chips might be new types of targets, and not expensive new equipment, according to modeling studies by NIST. [Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c
The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying... Psychiatric Problems In Teens Difficult To Pinpoint
Your teen is moody. He's not doing well in school. He wants to be left alone. Does he have a learning disability? Depression? Or maybe he's just a normal teen? Pinpointing a diagnosis of psychiatric and behavioral problems in teens can be tricky, even for experts in mental health. The human brain is still developing during adolescence, and as any parent of a teen can attest, mood and behavior can fluctuate wildly at this age. Doctors Need To Prepare For Blood Shortages Now
Doctors need to prepare for shortages in the supply of blood for transfusion, warns an expert in this week's British Medical Journal. Quantum Device Traps, Detects And Manipulates The Spin Of Single Elect
Engineers have made a novel device that simply and conveniently traps, detects and manipulates the single spin of an electron, overcoming some major obstacles that have prevented progress toward spintronics and spin-based quantum computing. Diagnostic Test For Range Of Blood Disorders On The Horizon
Scientists have discovered a single mutation that is responsible for a number of blood disorders, reporting their findings in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Team Builds Viruses To Combat Harmful 'Biofilms'
In one of the first potential applications of synthetic biology, an emerging field that aims to design and build useful biomolecular systems, researchers from MIT and Boston University are engineering viruses to attack and destroy the surface "biofilms"that harbor harmful bacteria in the body and on industrial and medical devices. Study Yields Insights Into Pathogenic Fungi -- And Beer
Chemotherapy and organ transplantation not only take a huge toll on patients, but they can compromise the immune system and leave patients vulnerable to infections from microbes such as pathogenic fungi -- the fastest-growing cause of hospital-acquired infections. Now researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have discovered one possible reason why these fungal microbes are such a scourge. Recycling plastics sorted
Plastic waste is a mess. Disposal in landfill is the worst option but recycling post-consumer plastic waste presents a technological nightmare given the huge range of polymers used in packaging and products. A rapid, online method of identifying the different plastics in a recycling stream would provide a way to sort them and allow recycling [...] Novel Ultrafast Laser Detection Of Cancer Cells Also May Improve Under
To investigate tumors, pathologists currently rely on labor-intensive microscopic examination, using century-old cell-staining methods that can take days to complete and may give false readings.
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