
Biosensing Nanodevice To Revolutionize Health Screenings
One day soon a biosensing
nanodevice may eliminate
long lines at airport
security checkpoints and
revolutionize health
screenings for diseases like
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Fake Malaria Drugs Made In China: Tracking Down The Threat To Global Health
A unique collaboration
between scientists, public
health workers and police
has led to the arrest by the
Chinese authorities of
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The Eyes Have It: Researchers Can Now Determine When A Human Was Born By Looking Into The Eyes Of The Dead
Using the radiocarbon dating
method and special proteins
in the lens of the eye,
researchers can now
establish, with relatively
... > full story
New Microchip For PCR Testing At Crime Scenes, Doctors' Offices
Researchers in Hong Kong
have miniaturized technology
needed to perform the
versatile polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) -- widely
... > full story
- Biosensing Nanodevice To Revolutionize Health Screenings
- Fake Malaria Drugs Made In China: Tracking Down The Threat To Global Health
- The Eyes Have It: Researchers Can Now Determine When A Human Was Born By Looking Into The Eyes Of The Dead
- New Microchip For PCR Testing At Crime Scenes, Doctors' Offices
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New Method For Processing Rape Evidence Could Eliminate Crime-lab Backlogs
May 7, 2008 Approximately 250,000 items of sexual assault evidence are mired in three- to 12-month backlogs awaiting analysis in US forensic laboratories. A forensic chemist has now developed a method for ... > full story -
Psychiatric Profile Of Teenagers At Risk For Committing Violent Acts, School Shootings
May 7, 2008 A psychiatrist will present new research on the psychiatric factors that can lead to school shootings. The presentation will be mainly based on research of the 1999 Columbine high school shootings, ... > full story -
'Crime Scene Investigation' Methods Could Help In The Battle Against Hospital Infections
April 23, 2008 Inspired by the popular television drama CSI, investigators in the Netherlands have trialed methods used by forensic scientists at crime scenes to highlight infection risks in their hospital. ... > full story -
Handheld DNA Detector
March 17, 2008 Scientists have taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem -- how to design a portable DNA detector. A mathematical simulation shows how a new type of nanoscale transistor might be coupled ... > full story -
Brothers And Sisters Of Abuse Victims Often Help Cover Up Or Even Commit Abuse, Study Suggests
March 6, 2008 Authorities often fail to recognize or treat the physic damage suffered by siblings in families where only one child is abused. In chilling anecdotes extrapolated from cases, the study chronicles how ... > full story -
Violent Shaking Pulps The Infant Brain, Forensic Researchers Find
January 8, 2008 Each year in the United States, one thousand infants die after being shaken. An equal number of cases result in brain damage. Many people who are guilty of this type of abuse go free due to a lack of ... > full story -
Dads Break Bones Of Children More Often Than Moms
December 6, 2007 Dads break or fracture the bones of their children far more often than moms, and they tend to inflict their abusive rage on infants younger than five months old, according to a study in Child Abuse ... > full story -
Forensics Go High-tech With CT Autopsies
November 28, 2007 Radiologists are investigating the use of computed tomography as a tool for civilian medical examiners' autopsies in the US. CT autopsy has the potential to replace conventional autopsy in ... > full story -
New Automated System IDs Victims Of Mass Disasters In Minutes
November 28, 2007 A new, high-tech identification system developed in Japan will improve accuracy and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify victims of mass disasters, according to a new ... > full story -
New Technique To Determine The Age Of Immigrant Minors Through Ribs And Teeth
November 7, 2007 Researchers have devised a new technique to determine the age of living subjects using chest and dental x-rays. This is of special interest in the case of alleged illegal minors, since this technique ... > full story
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