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  • Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers

    ... E. Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering. The Purdue research focuses on learning how to design miniature ... ," said Garimella, director of the Cooling Technologies Research Center based at Purdue. "One challenge is that it's difficult to make ...
  • Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality

    ... they are created on a substrate, or first layer, of sapphire. The Purdue researchers have solved this problem by developing a technique ... it undergoes a chemical reaction that changes its properties. The Purdue researchers solved this problem by placing an insulating ...
  • Using live fish, new tool a sentinel for environmental contamination

    ... contamination or even biological weapons, said Purdue University researcher Marshall Porterfield, an associate professor ... said the technology could be used on other organisms. Study co-author and Purdue researcher Hugo Ochoa-Acuña has begun ...
  • New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision

    ... or assemble miniature micro and nanoscale machines. Research findings were detailed in a technical paper presented ... displacement and force that's being applied to, or by, a comb drive. The Purdue researcher is able to measure this force by comparing ...
  • More flexible method floated to produce biofuels, electricity

    ... and threatening ecosystems. The new concept, however, which Purdue researchers call a flexible carbon-to-liquid ... million gallons per day, he said. The researchers estimate the method would be economically competitive ...
  • Purdue researcher invents molecule that stops SARS

    ... Purdue University researcher has created a compound that prevents replication of the virus that causes SARS and could lead ... . "Only two of the compounds we tested were identified as having the properties researchers believed could become drugs," said Mesecar, a professor ...
  • Stress relief: Lab mice that exercise control may be more normal

    ... is true for a mouse. In a couple of different experiments, Purdue researchers tested the ability of mice to control ... of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science. The Purdue researchers propose that nest building is both ...
  • Viruses, start your engines!

    ... developing methods to sabotage virus machinery. Researchers from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind ... is: the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli). Purdue researchers studied the virus structures, such as the motor ...
  • New stretchable electrodes created to study stresses on cardiac cells

    ... its electrical capabilities after being stretched 100 times." Purdue researchers designed and fabricated the platform at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. Stanford researchers grew cardiac muscle cell ...
  • Drought, urbanization were ingredients for Atlanta's perfect storm

    ... drought conditions. In a NASA-funded study, researchers from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind ... to the bottom of how such a storm could have developed despite the drought, Purdue researchers Niyogi, Ming Lei, and Anil ...
  • New Madrid fault system may be shutting down

    ... for the communities potentially affected, said Eric Calais, the Purdue researcher who led the study. "Our findings suggest the steady-state model of quasi-cyclical earthquakes ...
  • Findings show insulin -- not genes -- linked to obesity

    ... with excessive fat storage in cells. However, the Purdue researchers confirmed that these fat genes were expressed ... .S. adults are overweight, and nearly one-third obese. The research, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, is ongoing ...
  • Findings uncover new details about mysterious virus

    ... Professor of Biological Sciences. Now a team of researchers from Purdue, the University of California at Irvine and the University ... and electron microscopist Paul R. Chipman, from Purdue; research scientist Marie Suzan-Monti ...
  • Purdue researchers create prostate cancer 'homing device' for drug delivery

    ... targeted treatment of the disease. A team of Purdue University researchers has synthesized a molecule that finds and penetrates ... to help in diagnosing patients with prostate cancer. Researchers also are investigating whether this could be used to evaluate a patient's response ...
  • Protein can help cells or cause cancer, Purdue researcher finds

    ... over sumoylation. Researchers from Sichuan University in China and faculty in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Purdue collaborated with Liu on the research. The work was funded through ...

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