Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, June 16, 2005

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Quantum dots for detecting respiratory viral infections: "In what may be one of the first medical uses of nanotechnology, a chemist and a doctor who specializes in infectious childhood diseases have joined forces to create an early detection method for a respiratory virus that is the most common cause of hospitalization among children under five." [Biology News Net]


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'Sinkers' provide missing piece in deep-sea puzzle: "One of the biggest questions in modern oceanography is how animals in the deep sea get enough to eat. Marine biologists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) recently published a paper that helps answer this question, at least for animals that live on the deep seafloor..." [Biology News Net]