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CIES and Advantest develop STT-MRAM switching current measurement for memory test systems
Credit: Advantest Corporation Tohoku University's Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), led by Professor Tetsuo Endoh (Graduate School of...
Grants aim to give veterans better access to cancer trials
Credit: SWOG Cancer Research Network/Hope Foundation for Cancer Research For the fourth year, SWOG Cancer Research Network and its charity,...
No cooperation without open communication
Credit: IST Austria/Yvonne Kemper Indirect reciprocity is a model that explores how humans act when their reputation is at stake,...
New book on Translation Mechanisms and Control from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: The authors thank Jonathan Weissman, Masaaki Sokabe, Christopher Fraser, Tsafi Pe'ery and Cheyenne Moorman for their contributions to the...
Nitrogen fixation in ambient conditions
Credit: Marta Falcone/Marinella Mazzanti/EPFL Abundant in nature (78% of the air we breathe), nitrogen is rarely used in the industrial...
First-ever prostate cancer treatment uses gold nanoparticles to destroy tumorous cells
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON - (Nov. 8, 2018) - A small clinical trial using gold nanoparticles that act as tumor-seeking missiles...
Modelling reveals dynamics of climate change, urbanization and heat-mitigating technologies
The near-term future of Earth is one of a warming planet, as urban expansion and greenhouse gas emissions stoke the...
Hidden estrogen receptors in the breast epithelium
Estrogens are hormones that play central roles in the development and the physiology of the breast, but also are involved...
In live brain function, researchers are finally seeing red
Credit: Image by Madhuvanthi Kannan and Ganesh Vasan; composite by Michael Helfenbein New Haven, Conn. -- For years, green has...
New flexible, transparent, wearable biopatch, improves cellular observation, drug delivery
Credit: (Purdue image) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind - Purdue University researchers have developed a new flexible and translucent base for silicon...
Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean
Credit: ©Science China Press The Late Mesozoic breakup of Gondwana triggered major biotic exchanges between Laurasia and Gondwanan landmasses that...
Study opens route to ultra-low-power microchips
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and...
VITAL study: How vitamin D and fish oil affect risk of heart attack, stroke and cancer
Boston, MA -- For years, it's remained an open question: What effects do dietary supplements such as high doses of...
Fish’s brain size influenced by habitat, new University of Guelph study reveals
(University of Guelph) This is the first known study to connect habitat with varying brain size in a single lake...
Weight during adolescence may affect pancreatic cancer risk in adulthood
New research has linked adolescent obesity with up to a four-fold increased risk of pancreatic cancer later in life. The...
Recipe for reusability: Biodiversity Data Journal integrated with Profeza’s CREDIT Suite
Credit: Profeza In a new partnership between open-access Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) and workflow software development platform Profeza, authors submitting...
RIP1 Kinase identified as promising therapeutic target in pancreatic cancer
An experimental drug may be effective against a deadly form of pancreatic cancer when used in combination with other immune-boosting...
Short stature in rainforest hunter-gatherers potentially linked to cardiac adaptations
Credit: Photo courtesy of George Perry/Penn State African and Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers share short stature, and now an international team...
Research brings personalized medicine to treat leukemia one step closer
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have revealed the roles that different types of gene mutations play in causing blood...
Pulling the genome apart: Chromosome segregation during mitosis explained
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan -- When a cell divides--a process known as mitosis--its chromosomes need to be separated and...
