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Researchers 3-D print first truly microfluidic 'lab on a chipl devices

Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D-print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 micrometers. Microfluidic…

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Studying the Sun's atmosphere with the total solar eclipse of 2017

When the Moon moves in front of the Sun on Aug. 21, it will completely obscure the Sun's bright face. This happens because of a celestial coincidence – though…

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UCLA Scientists Discover New Method to Activate Hair Growth

Hair follicle stem cells are long-lived cells in the hair follicle; they are present in the skin and produce hair throughout a person's lifetime.

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Exotic quantum states made from light: Physicists create optical “wells” for a super-photon

Light particles (photons) occur as tiny, indivisible portions. Many thousands of these light portions can be merged to form a single super-photon if they are…

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Sugar Molecules Enhance Cancer Detection With Galectin-1

Galectins are a family of proteins that have become a promising source of cancer research in recent years. A representative thereof is galectin-1.

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Exploring RNA’s Role in Leukemia Gene Mutations

For many years Rolf Marschalek has been investigating gene mutations that cause different kinds of leukemia. One particularly common mutation is a chromosomal…

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New Method Detects Nanoparticles Using Tuning Nanoscatters

Specifically, the two tuning nanoscatterers set the resonator at an “exceptional point,” a special state of a system at which unusual phenomena may occur. The…

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New Malaria Analysis Method Reveals Severity in Minutes

One way malaria wreaks havoc on the body is by causing excessive amounts of toxic heme, the non-protein component of hemoglobin, to accumulate in the…

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New SQUID Detector Enhances Sensitivity in Research Fields

Investigators at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new sensor array-based…

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Global Warming’s Impact on Subtropical Anticyclones Explained

To assess the possible responses of the subtropical anticyclones to greenhouse gases (GHG) forcing, Dr. HE Chao from China Meteorological Administration, and…

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Massive Particles Challenge Standard Quantum Theory Insights

Quantum mechanics describes how matter behaves on the smallest mass and length scales. However, the absence of quantum phenomena in our daily lives has…

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New Blood Cell Type Revealed as Autoimmunity Indicator

The team from Instituto de Medicina Molecular Lisboa, led by Luis Graça, analyzed blood samples from Sjögren syndrome patients, an autoimmune disease that…

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NASA Observes Sun Halting Its Own Eruption: A Historic Event

Because scientists had so many instruments observing the event, they were able to track the entire event from beginning to end, and explain for the first time…

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Microbe Insights: Understanding DNA Folding Origins

“If you look at the nitty gritty, it's identical,” said Karolin Luger, a professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder and an…

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Day to night and back again: Earth's ionosphere during the total solar eclipse

But the total solar eclipse will also have imperceptible effects, such as the sudden loss of extreme ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, which generates the…

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Smartphone-Powered Spectral Analyzer Detects Diseases Efficiently

“Our TRI Analyzer is like the Swiss Army knife of biosensing,” said Cunningham, the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering and director of the Micro +…

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