The Hunt for New Antibiotics
October 10, 2005
Bacterial infections are responsible for one quarter of all deaths, a number that may rise with the alarming increase in multi-drug resistant strains.
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| September 12, 2005
Political, ethical, and family conflicts catapulted Terri Schiavo's case to international prominence earlier this year.
Blast
| August 29, 2005
You've just cloned and sequenced a gene, but you don't know what it does.
Maldi
| August 29, 2005
that's the basic concept behind MALDI, an ionization technique developed in the late 1980s to enable mass spectrometric analysis of large biomolecules.
Microfluidics
| August 29, 2005
Jerry Radich is looking for a needle in a haystack, and he's counting on a microfluidics device to help him find it.
The Automated DNA Sequencer
| August 29, 2005
As a graduate student at Stanford University in the early 1990s, Jonathan Eisen convinced a friend with access to one of the first automated DNA sequencers to run 10,000 base pairs for him.
The DNA Microarray
| August 29, 2005
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The Optical Trap
| August 29, 2005
When Art Ashkin, Steve Chu, and their colleagues at Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ, first invented optical tweezers, they spent their days pushing around tiny, glass spheres.
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