Now-Banned Hair Dyes Linked to Bladder Cancer
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Researchers have created a new family of fluorescent probes called hydrocyanines that can be used to detect and measure the presence of reactive oxygen species. Reactive oxygen species are highly reactive metabolites of oxygen that have been implicated in a variety of inflammatory diseases, includ...'Microfluidic palette' may paint clearer picture of biological processes
...e gradients in the chamber can be maintained virtually indefinitely. To demonstrate how the microfluidic palette works, the NIST researchers inject dyes of the three primary colorsred, yellow and blueseparately into the three inlets of the system. For each dye, an independent gradient forms that remain...New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments
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Key words: fluorescence • LEADseeker • Cy • Alexa Fluor • TAMRA • Brij Flexible and scalable uHTS programs demand that organizations be able to select the most appropriate or cost-effective fluorescent reagents for t...VisEn Launches New Cat-K FAST(TM) Fluorescence Molecular Imaging Agent
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... principle can be applied to infrared light and there is a lot of interest in infrared detection," says Vance. "So we're in the process of looking for dyes that work in infrared." This research eventually could be used for a number of exciting applications, such as an optical detector with nanometer s...Ancient diatoms lead to new technology for solar energy
...h photons bounce around like they were in a pinball machine, striking these dyes and producing electricity. This technology may be slightly more expensive t...e and inexpensive materials. "Conventional thin-film, photo-synthesizing dyes also take photons from sunlight and transfer it to titanium dioxide, creati...ULTROSPEC 6300 from GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences
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