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• Researchers develop drug that may be used to treat spinal injuries, multiple sclerosis.
  Nov 19, 2009

  Researchers have shown how an experimental drug might restore the function of nerves damaged in spinal cord injuries by preventing...
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• Purdue leads research team in developing better vaccines and antiviral drugs.
  Nov 19, 2009

  Purdue University is leading a team of researchers in a federally funded effort aimed ultimately at developing better vaccines...
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• Karthik Ramani wins 2009-2010 Outstanding Commercialization Award
  Nov 04, 2009

  Karthik Ramani, a professor of mechanical engineering, has won the 2009-2010 Outstanding Commercialization Award for Purdue University...
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• Purdue kicks off national center to visualize homeland security data
  Nov 04, 2009

  Purdue University on Monday (Nov. 9) will kick off a national center to develop specialized software to help homeland security...
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• Purdue researchers develop laser processes that promise better artificial joints, arteria...
  Oct 06, 2009

  Researchers are developing technologies that use lasers to create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants that could...
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• New findings could help hybrid, electric cars keep their cool
  Oct 06, 2009

  Understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny "microchannels" has led to formulas and models that will help engineers design...
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• Purdue, India researchers form center on nanomaterials and energy
  Sep 30, 2009

  Researchers at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center are collaborating with Indian colleagues at the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for...
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• Purdue receives $105 million award to lead national earthquake engineering network
  Sep 11, 2009

  The National Science Foundation awarded $105 million to a Purdue-led team to spearhead a center that will serve as headquarters...
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• New technology helps Parkinson's patients speak louder
  Sep 01, 2009

  Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new technology that will help Parkinson's patients overcome the tendency to...
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• Study of 16 developing countries shows climate change could deepen poverty
  Aug 21, 2009

  Purdue University researchers examined the potential economic influence of adverse climate events, such as heat waves, drought...
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• Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips
  Aug 21, 2009

  Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class...
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• New nanolaser key to future optical computers and technologies
  Aug 21, 2009

  Researchers have created the tiniest laser since its invention nearly 50 years ago. Because the new device, called a "spaser...
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• Discovery to aid study of biological structures, molecules
  Aug 21, 2009

  Researchers in the United States and Spain have discovered that an atomic force microscope - a tool widely used in nanoscale...
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• Protein can help cells or cause cancer, Purdue researcher finds
  Aug 21, 2009

  Purdue University scientist Xiaoqi Liu, an assistant professor of biochemistry, found that an overabundance of the polo-like...
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• Scientists are learning more about big birds from feathers
  Aug 21, 2009

  Catching adult eagles for research purposes is no easy task, but a Purdue University researcher has found a way around the problem...
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