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Editor’s note: WRAL Local Tech Wire recently added more sources for news, including stories, photos and graphics produced by the news services of various universities. Such stories are labeled as UniversityTech and with the appropriate source. By adding stories and information from collegiate news services, LTW is enhancing significantly its coverage of scientific and research efforts at regional universities where many of tomorrow’s discoveries are being made and the foundations of new companies are in the process of being created. DURHAM, N.C. — By surveying the activity of thousands of genes at several different time points, researchers at the...

Editor’s note: This article is part of WRAL Local Tech Wire’s highlighting of research at universities across the Carolinas and Georgia.DURHAM, NC – After swabbing the cheeks of more than 200 lemurs and related primates to collect their DNA, researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) and Duke Lemur Center now have a much clearer picture of their evolutionary family tree. Found in nature only on the island nation of Madagascar, off Africa’s southeastern coast, lemurs and their close relatives the lorises represent the sister lineage to all other primates. And that makes lemurs key...

Editor’s note: This article is part of WRAL Local Tech Wire’s efforts to highlight research at universities across the Carolinas and Georgia. DURHAM — Contrary to predictions, Duke University engineers have found that a three-dimensional sound cloak is possible, at least in theory. Such an acoustic veil would do for sound what the "invisibility cloak" previously demonstrated by the research team does for microwaves – allow sound waves to travel seamlessly around it and emerge on the other side without distortion. "We’ve devised a recipe for an acoustic material that would essentially open up a hole in space and...

Editor’s note: WRAL Local Tech Wire is adding sources for news, including stories, photos and graphics produced by the news services of various universities. Such stories will be labeled as UniversityTech and with the appropriate source. By adding stories and information from collegiate news services, LTW will enhance significantly its coverage of scientific and research efforts at regional universities, where many of tomorrow’s discoveries and the foundations of new companies are being created. By KENDALL MORGAN, Duke University News Service DURHAM—In its first laboratory tests on human tissue, a light-based probe built by researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School...

Editor’s note: WRAL Local Tech Wire is adding sources for news, including stories, photos and graphics produced by the news services of various universities. Such stories will be labeled as UniversityTech and with the appropriate source. By adding stories and information from collegiate news services, LTW will enhance significantly its coverage of scientific and research efforts at regional universities where many of tomorrow’s discoveries and the foundations of new companies are in the process of being created. DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University biomedical engineering researchers have moved a step closer to a "smart bladder pacemaker" that might one day...