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Highly Foamed Plastic Parts Are Stronger and Cheaper to Produce
Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng and Xiaofei Sun have developed a new method of fabricating highly foamed, injection-molded plastic parts.
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WID researchers Stephen Wright and Robert Nowak are part of a UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative project to create machine learning tools that dramatically reduce the time and cost associated with screening compounds for therapeutic relevance.
Phenotypic variability and community interactions of germinating Streptomyces spores
Systems Biology researcher Kalin Vetsigian and graduate student Ye Xu recently published findings in Nature's Scientific Reports about the stochasticity of growth within Streptomycetes spore communities.
Experiments Test How Easy Life Itself Might Be
WID scientists are combining theory with experiment to try to understand how life could arise from lifelike chemical reactions under the right conditions.
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