Ovarian cancer patients get access to life-extending drug
Cancer patients in America are now receiving a life-extending drug developed by scientists at Newcastle University. Women with recurrent ovarian cancer have access to the...
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Driver privacy can be compromised in usage-based insurance systems
BEER-SHEVA, Israel...April 7, 2017 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have demonstrated that is possible to compromise a driver's private information stored in...
PET radiotracer design for monitoring targeted immunotherapy
Credit: Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, Stanford University In an article published in the April issue of "The Journal of Nuclear Medicine," researchers at Stanford University...
A moldable scaffold for bone
Credit: Texas A&M University Troy, N.Y. - A team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is developing a new material that can be used to...
Pitt designs new wheelchair powered by compressed air
PITTSBURGH -- A new waterproof motorized wheelchair that runs entirely on compressed air was unveiled today at Morgan's Wonderland, a 25-acre theme park in San...
USDA announces $4.2 million to repay educational loans for veterinarians
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 6, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $4.2 million in available...
USDA announces funding to support 1890 land-grant universities
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 6, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of more...
Puffins that stay close to their partner during migration have more chicks
Credit: Dr Annette Fayet Puffin pairs that follow similar migration routes breed more successfully the following season, a new Oxford University study has found. Many...
ERC advanced grant for Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Credit: IST Austria With two newly awarded Advanced Grants, the total number of ERC-funded projects at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)...
Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to ten meters
Led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the EU North State project has developed a new method of using satellite images to evaluate the...
Graphene Flagship researches create thin film transistors printed with layered materials
Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin. Graphene Flagship researchers from AMBER at Trinity College Dublin have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of layered materials. Published tod..
In-car cow avoidance
Driverless cars are hitting the headlines across the globe but for the foreseeable future we will still have drivers. The pressure then is how might...
ALMA captures dramatic stellar fireworks
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally/H. Drass et al. 1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies a dense and active star...
Image release: ALMA captures explosive star birth
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Gemini Observatory/AURA Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA...
Grant to support research aimed at benefitting patients with IBD
Credit: UCR School of Medicine. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine that includes Crohn's disease and...
