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Right Counter Height Can Improve Fingerprint Capture
January 19, 2007 — Once a tool primarily used by law enforcement, biometric technologies such as fingerprint readers increasingly are being used by governments and private industry for a personal ID that can't easily ... > full story -
Dead Giveaway: Odors Released From Corpses Leave Chemical Fingerprint
January 18, 2007 — A tiny microbe may hold the key to simpler, lower-cost production of ethanol from biomass sources such as trees, grasses and cornstalks. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are studying a ... > full story -
Adenine 'Tails' Make Tailored Anchors For DNA
December 23, 2006 — Researchers from NIST, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a deceptively simple technique for chemically bonding single strands of DNA to gold. The ... > full story -
Professors To Develop Hand-Held Pathogen Testing Device
December 19, 2006 — Testing for deadly food, air and water pathogens may get a lot easier and cheaper thanks to the work of a Michigan State University researcher and his team. Syed Hashsham, an associate professor in ... > full story -
Fingerprint Technology Pioneered In Leicester -- To Identify The Dead
November 28, 2006 — Technology developed for roadside fingerprints using hand-held devices -- announced in the media this month -- has also been pioneered in identifying the dead, it has been ... > full story -
Taking 'Chips' To The Next Level Of Gene Hunting
November 16, 2006 — Researchers at the Johns Hopkins' High Throughput Biology Center have invented two new gene "chip" technologies that can be used to help identify otherwise elusive disease-causing mutations in the 97 ... > full story -
Solving The Structure Of XDNA
November 13, 2006 — James Watson and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of regular DNA 53 years ago. Now, scientists from Stanford University have determined the structure of xDNA. That's "expanded DNA," a strange ... > full story -
Sports Cheats Beware -- New Test Detects Previously Undetectable Drug
November 12, 2006 — Injecting performance enhancing corticosteroid hormones for other than medical treatment is banned, and tests exist that can detect injected hormones. Injecting synacthen, which stimulates the body ... > full story -
Few Clues About African Ancestry To Be Found In Mitochondrial DNA
October 12, 2006 — Mitochondrial DNA may not hold the key to your origins after all. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Biology reveals that fewer than 10 percent of African American mitochondrial ... > full story -
Fingerprinting Hackers: Technique Demonstrates Wireless Device Driver Vulnerabilities
September 12, 2006 — The next time you're sipping a latte and surfing the Net at your favorite neighborhood wireless café, someone just a few seats away could be breaking into your laptop and causing irreparable ... > full story
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