Sep 12, 2007

Male-Female Crabs Split their Difference

Posted in Bio, Chemistry, Health, spectroscopy at 12:00 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

David Johnson and Robert Watson thought they had seen all there was to see in the Chesapeake Bay in almost three decades until they pulled out a crab from the way that had a male left half and a female right half. Now, that crab, acquired by Romuald Lipcius of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William & Mary, has moved sideways into the world …

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Sep 4, 2007

Post-Labor Day SpectroscopyNOW

Posted in Science, spectroscopy at 4:00 pm by David Bradley -- 1 Comment

My latest science news round-up for SpectroscopyNOW.com is now live:

The problem of the core - Understanding how the bulk iron at the earth’s core is packed together and with what other lighter elements is critical to revealing the origins and evolution of the earth and precisely how it generates its magnetic field.

Fluorinated agents at the ready Intrusive biopsies for people with cancer could be sidestepped thanks to the development …

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Jul 30, 2007

Mice and a slice

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A new methodology for fibre-optic Raman mapping and FTIR imaging of secondary cancer cells, metastases, and detecting tumour cells has been developed by researchers in Germany. The technique facilitates imaging of samples thicker than 50 micrometres and could be used in detecting cancer cells, as a tool for molecular histopathology, in metabolic fingerprinting, general disease diagnostics.

Team member Christoph Krafft is currently in the Department of Materials and Natural Resources, …

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