Search Result for &#039;advanced&#039;

PORTLAND, Ore. - A new cancer-drug delivery system shows the ability to exploit the oxygen-poor areas of solid tumors that ...

Scientists engineer sugarcane to produce biodiesel, more sugar for ethanol

Credit: Kathryn Faith/University of Illinois A multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois have proven sugarcane can be genetically ...

Improving silver nanowires for FTCEs with flash light interactions

Credit: KAIST Daejeon, Korea (April 4, 2017) - Flexible transparent conducting electrodes (FTCEs) are an essential element of flexible optoelectronics ...

DNA double helix structures crystals

For the first time, engineers of Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU) have succeeded in producing complex crystal lattices, so-called clathrates, ...

Electronic control to ensure photovoltaic systems always work at maximum power

Credit: Nuria González (UPV/EHU) After having developed various algorithms and control systems and having applied them in a whole range ...

Touch-sensitive, elastic fibers offer new interface for electronics

Credit: North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have created elastic, touch-sensitive fibers that can interface with ...

Researchers develop a new way to study key biological processes

A team of scientists at The University of East Anglia (UEA) has developed a novel way to obtain previously inaccessible ...

Molecules in the body more visible in new detection system, say scientists

Scientists at the University of York have developed a technique that will enhance the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

Pitt researchers identify new brain pathway that controls hand movements

PITTSBURGH, April 3, 2017 - Picking up a slice of pizza or sending a text message: Scientists long believed that ...

Deploying an ancient defense to kill cancer

Credit: Bo Jungmayer / Fred Hutch News Service A recent small trial in 15 cancer patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcomas ...

Two Penn physicians awarded SU2C Immuno-Oncology Innovative Research Grants

PHILADELPHIA - Two doctors in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded Immuno-Oncology Innovative ...

Ethics complicate clinical interpretation & reporting of human genome sequence results

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2017-Medical use of a patient's genomic sequence information can ...

Solitary perturbations in the steep boundary of magnetized toroidal plasma

Throughout the history of mankind, an anthropomorphic figure transcends time and distance to appear repeatedly and consistently wherever man resides. ...

Mapping Ecosystem Services: Collection of theories, methods and practical applications

Credit: Costanza et al. 2014 The new book Mapping Ecosystem Services provides a comprehensive collection of theories, methods and practical ...

Conductive graphene ink wins science photography competition’s top prize

Credit: James Macleod, University of Cambridge/EPSRC An image of spectacular swirling graphene ink in alcohol, which can be used to ...

Restoration based on chemistry

Considered the pinnacle of mediaeval painting, the Ghent Altarpiece was painted around 1432 by Jan van Eyck and probably his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novogene adds 25 Illumina NovaSeq sequencers