‘Virtual’ interferometers may overcome scale issues for optical quantum computers
Credit: R Alexander et al/APS Melbourne, Australia: It's not the size of the interferometer that matters; it's how you use it. So claim a team...
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Monitoring pollen using an aircraft
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Plant pollen and fungal spores can be found at variable heights in the air, even...
Restoration based on chemistry
Considered the pinnacle of mediaeval painting, the Ghent Altarpiece was painted around 1432 by Jan van Eyck and probably his brother Hubert. It is currently...
Pathology Atlas to be previewed at AACR17
A demo version of a new Pathology Atlas will be presented on April 2-5 at the annual meeting of American Association of Cancer Research (AACR17)...
PolyU wins top prizes in Geneva’s Invention Expo
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has brought glory to Hong Kong by winning a total of 11 prizes...
Nanoscopic golden springs change color of twisted light
Credit: Ventsislav Valev University of Bath scientists have used gold spring-shaped coils 5,000 times thinner than human hairs with powerful lasers to enable the detection...
AACR study sheds light on dark side of tumor suppressor gene, p53
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The gene p53 is the most commonly mutated gene in cancer - it is p53's job to monitor cells...
Mysterious cosmic explosion puzzles astronomers
Credit: Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Pontifical Catholic University/F. Bauer et al. A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest...
AACR: New model paves way for immune therapies against colorectal cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center About 95 percent of colorectal cancers are considered "microsatellite stable" and very few of these cancers respond to immunotherapy,...
Beyond genomics: Using proteomics to target tumors
Credit: Bo Jungmayer / Fred Hutch News Service Dr. Amanda Paulovich, whose lab has a leading role in the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot, will speak...
Nanoparticle treatment could improve immunotherapy against cancer
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a potential novel strategy for improving drugs that unleash the immune system...
Patients with lung cancers responsive to immunotherapy drug beat standard odds of survival
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine More than seven years after the start of one of the first clinical trials of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, researchers at...
2017 AACR annual meeting presentations highlight the use of bio-rad’s droplet digital PCR technology for liquid biopsies in cancer research
Washington, D.C. -- April 3, 2017 -- New research demonstrating the pivotal role of Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR™) technology in detecting cell-free DNA and...
Telomere length predicts cancer risk
WASHINGTON, April 3, 2017 - The length of the telomere "caps" of DNA that protect the tips of chromosomes may predict cancer risk and be...
Towards a mathematical theory of PID control
The well-known and nearly hundred years old "proportional-integral- derivative"(PID) controller is a linear feedback control method which adjusts the input signal by using the regulation...
