Engineer helps poor in developing nations purify drinking water
KINGSTON, R.I. March 16, 2009 -- The device looks deceptively simple a porous clay pot placed in a five-gallon plastic bucket with a spigot but Vinka Craver believes it can save millions of lives each year. The assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of ...Researchers Purify Protein That Could Regulate Male Hormones
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have managed to purify a protein and have shown that it can affect gene activity by modifying a molecular pathway// that was previously thought to be permanent. The findings, published today (May 5) in the journal Cell, also show that th...Sweetwater Announces Trademarks of State-of-the-Art Healthy Drinking Water Purification Systems
...home water purification systems." The Kitchen Defender is used to purify rainwater by numerous clients throughout the United States, Canada, and t...fectively removes these contaminants. The Kitchen Defender is also used to purify surface water such as streams, creeks, or lakes where these are used as a d...A new method for bone-marrow-derived liver stem cells isolation and proliferation
...es of the stem cells. The results suggest that BDLSCs can be purified and passaged. The selecting culture system that contains cholestatic serum can purify BDLSCs directly from bone marrow cells, which provides an easy method to separate stem cells, by avoiding complicated immunological manipulation. The ...What's in your water?: Disinfectants create toxic by-products
... perhaps the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century was the disinfection of water, a recent study now shows that the chemicals used to purify the water we drink and use in swimming pools react with organic material in the water yielding toxic consequences. University of Illinois geneticis...Researchers clone key sperm-binding proteins
... Reproduction , the researchers have become the first to clone, produce and purify a protein important for sperm maturation, termed Binder of Sperm (BSP), whi...DNA) that encodes human BSP. Through cloning, they were able to produce and purify this protein. "After considerable troubleshooting, we were able to pro...Technique for Rapidly Reprogramming Adult Cells Into Stem Cells Published in PLoS Biology
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