Hubble gazes at a cosmic megamaser
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (geckzilla) This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most -- it hosts a megamaser....
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Biomarker tests in breast cancer: Decision on chemotherapy remains difficult
The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) investigated the benefit of biomarker tests to support the decision for or against adjuvant...
Gene therapy to prevent vision loss: Studies in primates needed to optimize human trials
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 29, 2016--Many gene therapy-based approaches are in development to combat genetic and other causes of...
Omega-3 supplements can prevent childhood asthma
Credit: Light Imaging Taking certain omega-3 fatty acid supplements during pregnancy can reduce the risk of childhood asthma by almost one third, according to a...
A parallel hybrid controller based on the backstepping method
The semi-pelagic trawl is a relatively advanced trawl system which is mainly adopted to catch demersal fish such as squid and butterfish. Now aiming at...
Diamonds are technologists’ best friends
Credit: Alexander Obraztsov Physicists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University have obtained diamond crystals in the form of a regular pyramid of micrometer size. Moreover,...
Coping with arthritis: What you do isn’t associated with how much information you want
Chapel Hill, NC - Arthritis patients were more likely to be high monitors (health detail oriented) than high blunters (health detail avoidant) in a study...
Possible treatment targets found for pre-malignant bone marrow disorders
CINCINNATI - Cincinnati Children's researchers report in Nature Immunology a new mechanism that controls blood cell function and several possible molecular targets for treating myelodysplasia...
Millions of tons of food could be saved with better logistics
Credit: Caroline Örmgård Each year, around 88 million tonnes of food is discarded in the EU. This is something that Kristina Liljestrand, researcher at Chalmers...
Researchers fabricate high performance Cu(OH)2 supercapacitor electrodes
Credit: NANO Copper based nano structures have gained much attention in today's modern devices. A team of Nano-fabricated Energy Devices lab in University of Tehran...
Researchers produced nitrogen doped bimodal cellular structure activated carbon
Cellular activated carbon, a new type of activated carbon we prepared, is based on carbon foams, the inner surfaces of which are activated physically by...
Responsive filtration membranes by polymer self-assembly
Credit: TECHNOLOGY A team of researchers from Tufts University in Medford, MA have put together a review article, which discusses recent developments in stimuli-responsive membranes...
Image-based modeling
Credit: TECHNOLOGY A team of researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, NJ in collaboration with their colleagues from the University...
Early-phase trial demonstrates shrinkage in pediatric neural tumors
In an early-phase clinical trial of a new oral drug, selumetinib, children with the common genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas, tumors...
For welders, Parkinson-like symptoms get worse with exposure
MINNEAPOLIS - Welders can develop Parkinson's disease-like symptoms that may get worse the longer and more they are exposed to the chemical element manganese from...
