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New bone-in technique tests therapies for breast cancer metastasis
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A new laboratory technique developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions...
Atomic-level motion may drive bacteria’s ability to evade immune system defenses
Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A study from Indiana University has found evidence that extremely small changes in...
Hubble’s cosmic bubbles
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This entrancing image shows a few of the tenuous threads that comprise Sh2-308, a faint and...
Saarland University professor receives top research award for improved image compression
Credit: Oliver Dietze According to the statistics portal statista.com , the amount of digital data created worldwide in 2015 was...
NASA and NOAA satellites watch Arlene, first Atlantic Tropical Storm of the season
Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA GOES Project The first tropical storm of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season formed 40 days before the...
Renowned researchers present at ASN Scientific Sessions to advance the science of stevia
CHICAGO, IL, April 19, 2017 - To examine the latest scientific evidence related to non-caloric sweeteners, focused on stevia, the...
How Venus flytrap triggers digestion
Credit: (Picture: Sönke Scherzer/Dirk Becker) Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant. Catching its prey, mainly insects, with a...
Quantum mechanics is complex enough, for now…
Credit: Copyright: MSc. Jonas Schmöle, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna Quantum mechanics is based on a set of mathematical...
Probing into the molecular requirements for antioxidant activity
Free radicals are derived either from normal essential metabolic processes in the human body or from external sources such as...
Molecular libraries for organic light-emitting diodes
Credit: AG Matthias Wagner The rising demand for increasingly sophisticated smartphones, tablets and home cinemas is a growing challenge for...
Northeastern researchers’ discovery could aid in detecting nuclear threats
Just one example: In its 2017 Budget-in-Brief, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security lists among its priorities allocating $103.9 million...
Plant’s parent genes cooperate in shaping their child
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of...
ALIVER — an EU funded project to develop a liver dialysis machine revealed at ILC 2017
April 21, 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) today announced that ALIVER...
Nanoimprinted hyperlens array: Paving the way for practical super-resolution imaging
Credit: Image provided by POSTECH The concept of a perfect lens that can produce immaculate and flawless images has been...
Electrochemical performance of lithium-ion capacitors
Credit: Nanchang University How do internal short circuit? Researcher Minho Kim has published his paper "A fast and efficient pre-doping...
Nonlinear waves in bounded media
Credit: World Scientific Waves are ubiquitous in nature, allowing us to see, hear and observe. Because of such pervasiveness, the...
Princeton course inspires textbook on matrix structural analysis & finite element methods
Credit: World Scientific Princeton's Dr. Jean H. Prévost and Serguei Bagrianski have released a book with World Scientific, entitled, An...
Ethereum –fFoundations of cryptocurrency and blockchain programming
Credit: apress Cryptocurrencies are on the rise, and blockchain protocols are taking the world by storm. Ethereum is an open-source...
Antibody delivery mediated by recombinant adeno-associated virus
Monoclonal antibody (mAb) based-therapies have revolutionized treatments of cancer and autoimmune diseases because of their specificity and limited toxicity. Vectored-antibody...
Heine H. Hansen award given to Rafal Dziadziuszko
Lugano, Switzerland, 21 April 2017 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Association for the Study...
