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http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3869
Modify an old particle accelerator into a high finesse mass spec/calutron and enrich the signal into a confirmation or a denial. Indian monazite-Ce is ...
Isn't this amazing!
How long ago was it that the human geonome was first sequenced?
5-10 years ago?
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A catheter surface-grafted with less than a micron thickness of 1-vinylpyrrolidinone is biologically invisible. Glycocalyx-forming organisms ignore it, tissue is not insulted by its ...

