Sentences with phrase «detect tiny amounts»

His invention of an electron capture device that was able to detect tiny amounts of chemicals enabled other scientists both to understand the dangers of DDT to the egshells of birds and to figure out the ways in which chlorofluorocarbons were eroding the ozone layer.

Scientists reported that they've developed a CRISPR - based tool that can detect tiny amounts of Zika and Dengue virus, distinguish pathogenic bacteria, and identify tiny DNA variations.

The new method was developed by chemist Chad Mirkin and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who modified a technique they'd used previously to detect tiny amounts of protein (ScienceNOW, 26 September 2003).

The sensor is simple to use and it can detect tiny amounts of contamination in water, making it more sensitive than existing detection methods.

More work is needed to refine the tests so that they can detect tinier amounts of target molecule, and ensure the rates of false positives and negatives meet the standards required for diagnostic tests.

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Ishida's IX - GA - 4075 high performance X-ray inspection system can reliably detect even tiny amounts of foreign bodies down to 0.3 mm in size, including bone, stones, glass and metals such as iron and stainless steel as well as dense plastics.

Ishida's advanced high performance X-ray inspection system, the IX - GA - 4075, can reliably detect even tiny amounts of foreign bodies down to 0.3 mm in size, such as steel, aluminium, tin, glass, stones, hard rubber, plastic, some bones and shell.

Ishida's advanced high performance X-ray inspection system, the IX - GA - 4075, can reliably detect even tiny amounts of foreign bodies down to 0.3 mm in size, including stone, glass and metals such as iron and stainless steel, as well as dense plastics.

Even tiny amounts of pathogens can create serious health risks, but the available sensors are unable to quickly and easily detect these quantities.

The scientists were still able to detect a small amount of viral DNA in the genital secretions of the animals, but only a tiny fraction of this viral DNA was capable of replicating in cells.

Professor Zhang Yong from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering and his team have developed a tiny microfluidic chip that could effectively detect minute amounts of biomolecules without the need for complex lab equipment.

The ability to accurately measure tiny displacements of microscopic bodies has applications in sensing trace amounts of hazardous biological or chemical agents, perfecting the movement of miniature robots, accurately deploying airbags and detecting extremely weak sound waves traveling through thin films.

The amounts crossing the Pacific to places like Sacramento are vanishingly small — they were detected there because the CTBT network is designed to sniff out the tiniest traces.

Whereas technically the potential threats detected by the system in the past were not false positives — they did accurately pick up tiny, background amounts of DNA from organisms naturally present in the environment — in effect, they were false alarms because they signaled the potential occurrence of a terrorist attack when none had occurred.

They showed the antibodies could detect even tiny amounts of both forms of irisin, and that they were the expected sizes of 20 and 13 kilodaltons.

To calculate the amount of fuel inside Earth by 2025, the researchers will rely on detecting some of the tiniest subatomic particles known to science — geoneutrinos.

This tiny chip can detect minute amounts of microcystin in water — as little as one part per trillion.

In a bid to detect cancers early and in a noninvasive way, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report they have developed a test that spots tiny amounts of cancer - specific D...

As the exoplanet blocks a tiny amount of light by passing in front of its star, Kepler detects the transit and can gauge the physical size of the world based on how much starlight it blocks.

Focused on keeping you moving, the advanced 4MATIC system equipped on this Mercedes - Benz smartly uses tiny computers to send messages back and forth from tire to tire, detecting even the smallest amounts of slippage where it is ready to engage.