Maine Slated to Get Advanced Microscope
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The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor is awaiting delivery next year of what may be the world's most advanced microscope, a &#36;1 million machine it will share with other members of a Maine scientific consortium.
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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States are close to mending broken hearts. They have managed to create a small swatch of heart tissue that displays many of the hallmarks
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Researchers get a new tool to determine protein structures.
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A machine that assesses nerve fibers in the retina may offer a better way to measure the progression of multiple sclerosis, researchers said.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  State legislators have enacted a bill banning a potentially hazardous chemical used in household products and are poised to approve a measure enrolling Maine in a regional compact on climate change.
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Scientists from across the globe gather to learn more about the ways in which light can be used in medicine.
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Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have started using a 12-foot tall microscope that they expect will one day boosts nanotechnology research.
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Technology that doctors expect will help detect precancerous cells faster and less painfully also could someday take cameras to parts of the body where no camera has gone before.
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As regulators struggle to find a better way to manage the region's fish stocks, a Maine group offers a potential solution that should be included in any study of alternative management plans.
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PHILADELPHIA _ Surrounded by files and boxes _ "amoeba to chemical,""salt marsh to zooplankton" _ Ruth Patrick bends her head to peer into the microscope. "Ah, here," she says with a smile of satisfaction.
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By Ann Doss Helms, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 12--elementary schools step up attention to science   Eight-year-old Nicholas Zanzot, busy shaping clay mountains to study lake formation, isn't worried about a new N.C. science exam.
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Researchers at MIT are working on a nanotechnology project aimed at dispensing medication to patients from inside the body.
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Scientists in Manchester develop new technology to "print out" human skin and bones.
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The American Geophysical Union got a peek at techniques and tools from Microsoft Research's eScience group.
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A Calgary doctor aiming to find a way to eliminate the superbug C. difficile now has a new &quot;stadium-size microscope&quot; to use as a research weapon.
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Researchers at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. hope to produce better drugs with medical-imaging equipment usually used to examine patients.
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TROY, N.Y., Feb. 16  /PRNewswire/ -- "T-rays" have been touted as the next breakthrough in sensing and imaging, but the need for bulky equipment has been an obstacle to reaching the field's potential. Enter Brian Schulkin, winner of the first-ever $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize.