NTU successfully launches its 7th satellite into space
Credit: JAXA Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has successfully launched its 7th satellite into space from the International Space ...
Biosimilars create opportunities for sustainable cancer care
Lugano, Switzerland, 18 January, 2017 - Biosimilars create opportunities for sustainable cancer care, says the European Society for Medical Oncology ...
A new prognostic classification may help clinical decision-making in glioblastoma
Columbus, Ohio - New research shows that taking molecular variables into account will improve the prognostic classification of the lethal ...
Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hikers provide data for Sandia study of health, performance
Credit: Michael Padilla LIVERMORE, Calif. - It takes a special type of person to hike from one rim of the ...
New insights in genetic defect allow prevention of fatal illnesses in children
A team of scientists led by prof. Adrian Liston (VIB-KU Leuven) and prof. Isabelle Meyts (UZ Leuven - KU Leuven) ...
Motivation of students in special education improves if they use gestures with computers
Bossavit has tackled the pedagogical potential of Natural User Interfaces (NUI). These natural user interfaces are remote interactions with computing ...
NTU Singapore and NXP Semiconductors launch Singapore’s first Smart Mobility consortium
Credit: NTU Singapore Soon, your car could have a smart display that alerts you in advance to tolls, road works ...
Faster recharging batteries possible after new insights
Credit: The Royal Society Faster recharging lithium batteries could be developed after scientists figured out why adding charged metal atoms ...
Luminescent proteins provide color to ecological and cheap bio-displays
Credit: Katharina Weber Mobile phone, computer and TV displays all use very expensive colour filters and other components, which cannot ...
Ultra-precise chip-scale sensor detects unprecedentedly small changes at the nanoscale
Credit: (Photo by Patricia Alvarado Núñez - graziosopictures.com) Chip scale high precision measurements of physical quantities such as temperature, pressure ...
Virtual renaissance
Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena (Germany) Visiting a museum usually means looking at objects. Taking exhibits from their display cases, holding ...
A big nano boost for solar cells
Credit: Kyoto University/Noda Lab Japan -- Solar cells convert light into electricity. While the sun is one source of light, ...
UK’s Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund announces latest grant awards
Credit: Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund Two of the projects - a diagnostic test for early-stage pancreatic cancer and a new ...
In Rett syndrome model, team shows how adult learning is impaired in females
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Neurodevelopmental disorders like autism very likely have their origin at the dawn of life, with ...
Explaining how 2-D materials break at the atomic level
Credit: IBS Cracks sank the 'unsinkable' Titanic; decrease the performance of touchscreens and erode teeth. We are familiar with cracks ...
Improved measurements of antiproton’s magnetic moment deepen mystery of baryonic asymmetry
One of the deepest mysteries of physics today is why we seem to live in a world composed only of ...
Mount Sinai researchers involved in successful phase 3 trial of drug for liver cancer
(New York, NY - January 18, 2017) An international phase 3 trial has found that the drug regorafenib improved survival ...
Mitochondrial DNA shows past climate change effects on gulls
Credit: C. Contreras To understand the present and future, we have to start with the past. A new study in ...
New broad-spectrum antiviral protein can inhibit HIV, other pathogens in some primates
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered that a protein-coding gene called Schlafen11 (SLFN11) may induce a broad-spectrum cellular response ...
New colorectal cancer targeted therapy combination shows promise
PORTLAND, OR - New SWOG study results show significantly better outcomes for patients with a treatment-resistant form of metastatic colorectal ...
