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Scientists haven't quite duplicated Captain Kirk's Star Trek phaser weapon just yet, but the use of light in medicine is making some interesting new advances.

As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent.

Since the discovery in 2007 that a component of human semen called SEVI boosts infectivity of the virus that causes AIDS, researchers have been trying to learn more about SEVI and how it works, in hopes of thwarting its infection-promoting activity.

Scientists from the University of Granada have used two new techniques, capillary electrophoresis and high resolution liquid chromatography, to enable them to identify and quantify a great part of the phenolic compounds in such foods.

During its research into the application of neuroscience in business, a New Jersey based think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes, LLC made an inadvertent and amazing discovery.

Anacor Pharmaceuticals today announced that it has dosed the first patient in a Phase I clinical study for AN3365, a novel boron-based, small-molecule drug candidate in development for the treatment of hospital infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria.

The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it has published a new Company Databook: The Elements of Success.

Artist's impression of a baby star still surrounded by a protoplanetary disc in which planets are forming.

Chemical science news from across RSC Publishing. Interview: Beyond the inorganic boundaries 16 November 2009 Ian Manners talks about polymerisations, interfaces, and living in Wales.

A toy car booby-trapped with explosives, Arabic-language chemistry and electronics texts and handwritten case notes from a Taliban courtroom were among the debris left behind by fleeing Islamic militants in this remote village in the conflicted tribal region of South Waziristan.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Medical Devices / Diagnostics A first-of-its kind inhalable measles vaccine for developing countries, where the disease remains a scourge.

Purdue University and NASA examined more than a dozen chemicals, most of which are generated by humans, and have developed a blueprint for the underlying molecular machinery of global warming.

A Saskatoon-born academic who became one of Canada's top chemists has died at age 38 after apparently contracting the H1N1 flu virus.

In this photo taken Nov. 11, 2009, University of Illinois senior Tristesse Jones, whose major is crop sciences with a concentration in biological sciences and a minor in chemistry, prepares soybean DNA samples for gel electrophoresis in the Agricultural Science laboratory at the University of Illinois.

Now, a Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.

An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan cultures and of a near-perfect blue pigment.

Country singer/songwriter Darryl Worley grew up in Pyburn, TN, the son of a father who left his job at a local paper company to become a Methodist preacher and a mother who was a featured singer in the church choir.

The company has developed chemical armour that protects photoreceptors. [Local rep: Bytes Document Solutions] The polymer "super coating" for Xerox photoreceptors offers significant advantages to customers and the environment.

Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions of ionic liquids that could lead to greater understanding and manipulation of these multi-purpose, designer solvents.

" Genencor, a division of Danisco, has won the national "Sustainable Energy Award" from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for its Accellerase family of enzymes for cellulosic ethanol.