Biosimilars create opportunities for sustainable cancer care
Lugano, Switzerland, 18 January, 2017 - Biosimilars create opportunities for sustainable cancer care, says the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) in a position paper...
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A new prognostic classification may help clinical decision-making in glioblastoma
Columbus, Ohio - New research shows that taking molecular variables into account will improve the prognostic classification of the lethal brain cancer called glioblastoma (GBM)....
Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hikers provide data for Sandia study of health, performance
Credit: Michael Padilla LIVERMORE, Calif. - It takes a special type of person to hike from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the other...
New insights in genetic defect allow prevention of fatal illnesses in children
A team of scientists led by prof. Adrian Liston (VIB-KU Leuven) and prof. Isabelle Meyts (UZ Leuven - KU Leuven) were able to characterize a...
Motivation of students in special education improves if they use gestures with computers
Bossavit has tackled the pedagogical potential of Natural User Interfaces (NUI). These natural user interfaces are remote interactions with computing programs or systems based on...
NTU Singapore and NXP Semiconductors launch Singapore’s first Smart Mobility consortium
Credit: NTU Singapore Soon, your car could have a smart display that alerts you in advance to tolls, road works and traffic jams, while switching...
Faster recharging batteries possible after new insights
Credit: The Royal Society Faster recharging lithium batteries could be developed after scientists figured out why adding charged metal atoms to tunnel structures within batteries...
Luminescent proteins provide color to ecological and cheap bio-displays
Credit: Katharina Weber Mobile phone, computer and TV displays all use very expensive colour filters and other components, which cannot be easily recycled. German and...
Ultra-precise chip-scale sensor detects unprecedentedly small changes at the nanoscale
Credit: (Photo by Patricia Alvarado Núñez - graziosopictures.com) Chip scale high precision measurements of physical quantities such as temperature, pressure and refractive index have become...
Virtual renaissance
Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena (Germany) Visiting a museum usually means looking at objects. Taking exhibits from their display cases, holding them, illuminating and examining them...
A big nano boost for solar cells
Credit: Kyoto University/Noda Lab Japan -- Solar cells convert light into electricity. While the sun is one source of light, the burning of natural resources...
UK’s Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund announces latest grant awards
Credit: Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund Two of the projects - a diagnostic test for early-stage pancreatic cancer and a new peptide-drug, both developed thanks to...
In Rett syndrome model, team shows how adult learning is impaired in females
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Neurodevelopmental disorders like autism very likely have their origin at the dawn of life, with the emergence of inappropriate connectivity...
Explaining how 2-D materials break at the atomic level
Credit: IBS Cracks sank the 'unsinkable' Titanic; decrease the performance of touchscreens and erode teeth. We are familiar with cracks in big or small three-dimensional...
Improved measurements of antiproton’s magnetic moment deepen mystery of baryonic asymmetry
One of the deepest mysteries of physics today is why we seem to live in a world composed only of matter, while the Big Bang...
