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Technology Research News January 12, 2005	Ultrasound Makes Blood Stand Out Researchers have found a way to use ultrasonic vibrations to take images of tumors. The method involves using ultrasonic vibrations to image colloidal objects, which are spherical objects like particles and blood cells that are suspended in fluid.
The Motley Fool January 11, 2005 Charly Travers	The Future of Cancer Vaccines Biotech companies developing cancer vaccines have been in investors' doghouses for a long time. Can a vaccine help stave off forms of the disease?
Wired January 2005 Oliver Morton	Life, Reinvented A group of MIT engineers wanted to model the biological world. But, damn, some of nature's designs were complicated! So they started rebuilding from the ground up - and gave birth to synthetic biology.
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Bruce Einhorn	Asia Is Stem Cell Central Singapore isn't the only country in the region trying to profit from the U.S. restrictions. Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea all see stem cell research as a way to get ahead in biotech.
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	Alcohol Fuel Cell Goes Micro Researchers, who earlier this year developed a fuel cell using enzymes to generate electricity from ethanol, have built a microchip-based version of the device.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Robert M. Frederickson	New Weapons of Mass Detection Desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) could bring mass spectrometry to wider markets -- even consumers. The potential applications of the new technology include environmental screening, healthcare and homeland defense.
PC Magazine January 18, 2005 John R. Quain	Research Prescription The new program Iridescent (for Implicit Relationship IDEntification by in-Silico Construction of an Entity-based Network from Text) analyzes data like a research scientist. It can recognize about half a million biomedical terms and variants and apply a statistical model to any discovered correlations.
PC Magazine January 18, 2005 Karen Jones	Setting Sights on Bionics Optobionics has completed a series of clinical trials involving implanting a 2-milimeter silicon chip inside the eye in patients with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease with no cure.
Science News December 18, 2004 Janet Raloff	Vinegar as a Sweet Solution? Research by nutritionist Carol S. Johnston shows one easy measure that might have a notable impact on type 2 diabetes is to consume more vinegar.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Nancy Weil	Running Interference The revolution in RNA interference has galvanized basic research. Now, some biopharmas are pushing the technology from the laboratory to the clinic.
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