Non-thermal damage Al film coating on bovine spermatozoa Sperm in good condition were separated from frozen-preserved bovine sperm using a special microfluidic channel16. The adsorption of the separated sperm on the amino group-modified glass substrate was confirmed, and this adsorption was then compared with that of the sperm on a normal glass substrate using light …
As seen with the covid-19 pandemic, detection methods that are rapid, simple, accurate and sensitive are critical to detect viral pathogens and to control the spread of infectious diseases. Unfortunately, laboratory-based methods often require trained personnel and involve complex procedures. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have combined their efforts …
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More than 80 percent of the urine samples from children and adults in a US health study contained a herbicidal chemical linked to cancer, something that researchers have called “disturbing” and “worrying”. The report of a unit from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that of 2,310 urine samples taken from a …
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Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain Since September, the Perseverance rover has plucked along an ancient river delta on Mars, and its robotic arms extend with swirling steel drills to core rocks, scoop up soil and suck in small amounts of the red planet’s atmosphere into titanium tubes. The plan, under NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, …
This illustration shows a concept for several robots that would work together to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Martian surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA / ESA / JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission aims to bring 30 samples of rock, earth and atmosphere that are now collected by the Perseverance …
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HELSINKI – China’s Mars test return mission aims to collect samples from the red planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years before a joint NASA and ESA mission. Sun Zezhou, chief designer of the Tianwen-1 March orbiter and rover mission, presented a new mission profile for China March provretur during a …
A team of researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) identifies domestic lunar water based on Chang’e-5 in situ spectral analysis and lab results from returned samples. The findings will be published in Nature Communications on June 14, 2022./ CAS A team of researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) identifies domestic lunar …
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 mission returned unpolluted primitive asteroid samples to Earth. A comprehensive analysis of 16 particles from the asteroid Ryugu revealed many insights into the processes that worked before, during and after the formation of the solar system, with some still forming the surface of the current asteroid. Elemental and isotopic data …
Petrography of the Ryugu test. (A) Backscattered electron (BSE) image of Ryugu sample A0058-C1001. The black space in the figure is a pore. (B) Combined element map of the same sample, with characteristic X-rays of Ca Kα, Fe Kα and S Kα lines assigned to RGB color channels specified in the explanation. Carbonate (dolomite), sulphide …
