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New 10-MW offshore wind generator prototype
A huge market volume in offshore wind turbines is expected over the next few years, but a significant cost reduction...
Physicists gain new insights into nanosystems with spherical confinement
Credit: Ill./©: Arash Nikoubashman, Mainz University Theoretical physicists led by Professor Kurt Binder and Dr. Arash Nikoubashman at Johannes Gutenberg...
Queen’s University Belfast researcher turning dirty tinfoil into biofuel catalyst
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into...
Stanford researchers engineer 3-D hydrogels for tissue-specific cartilage repair
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, N.Y., July 26, 2017--Unlike the one-size-fits-all, homogeneous approach to tissue engineering for...
Study sheds light on how body may detect early signs of cancer
Fresh insights into how cells detect damage to their DNA - a hallmark of cancer - could help explain how...
Inventions by young KTU researchers can identify early stages of flatfeet condition
Credit: KTU A team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have designed a device for measuring pressure on...
Understanding cell segregation mechanisms which help prevent cancer spread
Credit: David Wilkinson Scientists have uncovered how cells are kept in the right place as the body develops, which may...
Quantifying lower limb muscle weakness in Osteogenesis Imperfecta type IV
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disorder characterized by increased bone fragility. In OI Type IV muscle weakness has important...
Identified the component that allows a lethal bacteria to spread resistance to antibiotics
Credit: Radoslaw Pluta, IRB Barcelona Antibiotic resistance of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for 11,300 deaths a year in...
A new bird which humans drove to extinction discovered in Azores
Credit: Pau Oliver Inside the crater of a volcano on Graciosa Island in the Azores archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean,...
CU Cancer Center study may explain failure of retinoic acid trials against breast cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Estrogen-positive breast cancers are often treated with anti-estrogen therapies. But about half of these...
Scientists identify gene mutations in smoking-related cancers
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 25, 2017 - African-Americans typically have worse outcomes from smoking-related cancers than Caucasians, but the reasons...
Results of NRG-RTOG 0436 highlight need for biomarkers in treatment of esophageal cancer
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- NRG-RTOG 0436 has determined that adding an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor to a chemo-radiation regimen...
Shedding light on cause of resistance to tumor immunotherapy
In tumor immunotherapy, the body's own defense system is activated against the tumor cells. However, for the majority of patients,...
Americans say discussions about clinical trials should be part of standard of care
Arlington, Va. - July 25, 2017 - An overwhelming majority of Americans (86%) agree that health care professionals should discuss...
Physical activity could combat fatigue, cognitive decline in cancer survivors
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study indicates that cancer patients and survivors have a...
Nanoparticles loaded with component of common spice kill cancer cells
Attaching curcumin, a component of the common spice turmeric, to nanoparticles can be used to target and destroy treatment-resistant neuroblastoma...
New discovery could reverse tissue damage caused by heart attacks
A new discovery by University of Bristol scientists helps to explain how cells which surround blood vessels, called pericytes, stimulate...
Possible treatment for deadly weight loss
"Our goal is to know more about what happens in cancer patients who develop rapid and severe weight loss," says...
No gene is an island
Credit: Magdalena Steinrück Genes do not exist in isolation. Like beads on a string, they sit next to each other...
