Spirometry Test

The gold standard in lung testing In the same way that blood pressure measurements provide a simple yet effective screening method for cardiovascular disease, spirometry tests can help to unmask t...

Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus SCLE

Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) is a nonscarring non–atrophy-producing photosensitive dermatosis. SCLE may occur in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Sjögren...

Vasodilators

Vasodilation refers to the widening of blood vessels resulting from relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, particularly in the large arteries, smaller arterioles and large veins....

Chemistry: Nanorods all in a row

Tiny carpets of gold rods, all standing upright, can be manufactured more easily and accurately thanks to a method exploiting capillary action. These nanorods have precise optical properties that can...

GHP Gold and Silver medal winners

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists presented its gold and silver medals at the 8th GHP and United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacists Association conference

Ubiquity Wins Awards for Medical Device Marketing

Ubiquity Group was honored with a Gold Key award and Silver Key award in this year’s BMA Colorado Gold Key Gala held on April 26. The annual Gold Key Competition is recognized as one of Colorado...

Pure Nickel: High Grade Copper at Tower Property 4.3% Copper, 0.5g/t gold, 1.3% Zinc, 23.5g/t Silver Across 5.5m Including 8.4% Copper, 0.9g/t Gold, 2.4% Zinc, 44.6 g/t Silver Across 2.7m

TORONTO, March 19, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pure Nickel Inc. (TSX:NIC) is pleased to report on the Tower Property located in Manitoba. A press release, outlining a new intersection of high grade copp...

Crystal structure of a nitrate/nitrite exchanger

Mineral nitrogen in nature is often found in the form of nitrate (NO3−). Numerous microorganisms evolved to assimilate nitrate and use it as a major source of mineral nitrogen uptake. Nitrate, which...

Silver Wheaton buys silver production at 2 mines

Silver Wheaton Corp. said Wednesday that it agreed to buy all of HudBay Minerals Inc.'s silver production from two mines, along with some of the gold production from one of them, for about $750 millio...

E-waste: Annual gold, silver 'deposits' in new high-tech goods worth $21B; less than 15% recovered

(United Nations University) A staggering 320 tons of gold and more than 7,500 tons of silver are now used annually to make PCs, cell phones, tablet computers and other new electronic and electrical pr...

DRC Receives Microsoft Gold ISV and Silver ISV Distinctions

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Decision Research Corporation (DRC), a technology leader specializing in insurance software development solutions, today announced it has attained Gold a...

Additive controlled synthesis of gold nanorods (GNRs) for two-photon luminescence imaging of cancer cells.

Gold nanorods (GNRs) with a longitudinal surface plasmon resonance peak that is tunable from 600 to 1100 nm have been fabricated in a cetyl trimethylammoniumbromide (CTAB) micellar medium using hydroc...

Room temperature synthesis and high temperature frictional study of silver vanadate nanorods.

We report the room temperature (RT) synthesis of silver vanadate nanorods (consisting of mainly beta-AgV O(3)) by a simple wet chemical route and their frictional study at high temperatures (HT). The...

Rapid synthesis of gold nanorods using a one-step photochemical strategy.

Rapid synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled dimensions is one of the desired aspects of nanotechnology as a result of the potential of these nanomaterials for biomedical applications. The synthesis...

Gold nanorods with finely tunable longitudinal surface plasmon resonance as SERS substrates.

Advances in nanophotonics have shown the potential of colloidal metal nanoparticles with sharp tips, such as rods, to focalize plasmonic electromagnetic fields. We report on the synthesis of Au nanoro...

Manipulation of gold nanorods with dual-optical tweezers for surface plasmon resonance control.

Gold nanorods are too tiny to be manipulated using conventional mechanical methods. In this paper, we demonstrate the trapping, transferring, positioning and patterning of gold nanorods with dual-opti...