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Morpho? S small footprint, Medium Speed ??Checked Bag Explosives Detection System Approved for Use by European Airports

Morpho’s Small Footprint, Medium Speed Checked Bag Explosives Detection System Approved for Use by European Airports PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Morpho Detection, Inc. today announced its small footprint CTX 5800™ explosives detection system (EDS) has been evaluated by the Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) as meeting European Union Standard 3. Read more on Business Wire

State’s West Nile Virus Detection Earliest Reported in Greene County

State’s Earliest West Nile Virus Detection Reported in Greene County State Officials Remind Public of Steps to Reduce Risk of Disease HARRISBURG, Pa., June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Pennsylvania has reported its earliest detection of a West Nile virus-carrying mosquito since testing began in 2000, the Department of Environmental Protection said today. The first detection [...]

Scientists make leap forward in early detection for Alzheimer’s and cancer

Scientists make leap forward in early detection for Alzheimer’s and cancer Scientists at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory have developed a new strategy for quicker and more precise detection of biomarkers – proteins which indicate disease. The work could pave the way for new tools to detect early stages of Alzheimer’s and cancer at the [...]

Norman Network Protection Awarded the First ICSA Labs Certification for Inline Detection Program

Norman Network Protection Awarded the First ICSA Labs Certification for Inline Detection Program Norman Data Defense Systems announced today that Norman Network Protection , an antimalware appliance that can be used as a gatewayâor placed between network nodes to block insider threatsâhas received the first certification for inline detection of malware from ICSA Labs, an [...]

XMM-Newton Line Detection Provides New Tool To Probe Extreme Gravity

XMM-Newton Line Detection Provides New Tool To Probe Extreme Gravity by Staff Writers Paris, France (ESA) Jun 22, 2010 A long-sought-after emission line of oxygen, carrying the imprint of strong gravitational fields, has been discovered in the XMM-Newton spectrum of an exotic binary system composed of two stellar remnants, a neutron star and a white [...]

xMAP® Technology- Pioneering Platform for Nucleic Acid Detection

xMAP ® is commonly referred to as “bead array technology. It has developed a novel approach to the limitations of planar micro-arrays in the array to remove the pipeline. Planar microarrays employed glass slides as solid substrate, which makes it technically demanding and expensive. With the advent of this new high-throughput platform, there is a [...]

Not all malware detection is created equal

Not all malware detection is created equal The internet is now the number-one conduit for infecting users with malware. SophosLabs reports that in 2009, 23,500 new infected web pages are discovered every day. That’s one every four seconds or so, four times worse than what it was in the same period in 2008. Malware authors [...]

AdvanDx to Offer BinaxNOW® PBP2a Test for Rapid Detection of PBP2a in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

AdvanDx to Offer BinaxNOW® PBP2a Test for Rapid Detection of PBP2a in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) AdvanDx today announced that it will offer the BinaxNOW® PBP2a test from Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. to customers in the United States.  The test provides rapid detection of the penicillin-binding protein 2a present in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly [...]

Faster Salmonella detection now possible with new technique

Faster Salmonella detection now possible with new technique A professor of food science and human nutrition wants to replace the current system of Salmonella detection with a new approach that can provide DNA sequencing-like results in hours rather than days. Read more on Science Daily