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  Robot Device Dusts Potential Bombs For Fingerprints

  April 20, 2004 — Police who need to dust suspicious packages for fingerprints could someday rely on a robotic device to do this dangerous ... > full story
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  Using Telltale Toolmarks To Fight Crime

  April 14, 2004 — Law enforcement has a new tool to help bring criminals to justice, thanks to research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames ... > full story
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  Controlling Biomolecules With Magnetic 'Tweezers'

  April 12, 2004 — An array of magnetic traps designed for manipulating individual biomolecules and measuring the ultrasmall forces that affect their behavior has been demonstrated by scientists at the National ... > full story
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  Carnegie Mellon U. Develops Microgel To Recover Enzymes For Manufacturing, Research Assays

  April 9, 2004 — Carnegie Mellon University scientists have employed biological molecules to create a microgel that could recover costly enzymes for repeated use in catalyzing commercially important ... > full story
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  Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

  April 6, 2004 — The comb, that simple device millions of people pass through their hair every day, could become the latest tool in the battle against ... > full story
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  Stanford Study Questions Identity Of Alleged Romanov Bones

  March 3, 2004 — One of the most riveting detective stories of the last century supposedly ended in 1998, when the Russian government declared that bones excavated from a Siberian mass grave seven years earlier ... > full story
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  New Technology Will Speed Genome Sequencing

  November 21, 2003 — The BioMEMS 768 Sequencer can sequence the entire human genome in only one year, processing up to 7 million DNA letters a day, about seven times faster than its nearest rival. Scientists began ... > full story
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  Saliva Spits Out Information On Chemical Exposure

  October 24, 2003 — Home testing of saliva to measure personal hormone levels is gaining popularity, with dozens of companies offering do-it-yourself, mail-in test kits. Battelle scientists at the Department of ... > full story
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  UCI Researcher Pinpoints Cause Of Inherited Auditory Neuropathy

  June 26, 2003 — UC Irvine neurologist Arnold Starr has pinpointed one of the causes of auditory neuropathy, a hearing disorder that prevents sound from reaching the brain in the normal ... > full story
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  Hot Proteins May Sharpen DNA Tests; Help Bioprocessing

  June 24, 2003 — Unique heat shock proteins that protect bacteria in undersea hot vents could be used to improve the sensitivity of PCR, the common technique used to amplify bits of DNA for medical and forensic ... > full story

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