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Health & Medicine

Sea Sponge Drug Improves Advanced Breast Cancer Survival by 5 Months

Researchers led by Professor Chris Twelves, based at the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, looked at two major clinical trials of…

Life & Chemistry

New technique efficiently turns antibodies into highly tuned 'nanobodies'

Unfortunately, their promise hasn't been fully realized, because scientists have lacked an efficient way of identifying the nanobodies most closely tuned to…

Health & Medicine

New Mechanism Behind Febrile Seizures in Young Children Uncovered

The gene mutations lead to an impaired regulation in the release of certain nerve cell messenger substances. The consequence of this is an increase of…

Technology Offerings

New Technique Checks Web Page Layouts with Computer Vision Algorithms

This novel software technique automates the comparison of HTML pages across many browsers and a diverse range of formats. In a first step, screen shots from different browser and format combinations are automatically superimposed and compared. Relevant differences are highlighted in color to alert the web designer where additional work is required. To scale up for a large number of pages, the process can generate key numerical metrics that characterize the visual match.

Corporate News

Siemens Gains Two New Orders for Ontario Wind Projects

Siemens' Wind Power and Renewables Division has received two new orders for onshore wind projects in Ontario, Canada. The contracts include the supply,…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Vance's Center Looks Like a Pumpkin to NASA's Terra Satellite

Tropical Depression 21E formed on Oct. 30 after struggling for days as a low pressure area. Just a day later it strengthened into a tropical storm and was…

Business and Finance

Improved funding for innovative companies: KfW introduces "Entrepreneur Loan Plus"

The Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) is being officially launched in Dublin today by Michael Noonan (Ireland's Minister for Finance) and Brendan…

Life & Chemistry

Biology Meets Geometry: Innovative Spiral Ramps in Parking Garages

Architecture imitates life, at least when it comes to those spiral ramps in multistory parking garages. Stacked and connecting parallel levels, the ramps are…

Process Engineering

Breakthrough in Laser Tech: Lord of the Microrings

A significant breakthrough in laser technology has been reported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UW Leads Ice Drilling Innovations in Greenland and Antarctica

Less well known are the state's big-league ice drillers — specialists who design huge drills and use them to drill deep into ice in Greenland and Antarctica,…

Health & Medicine

New Screening Threshold for Gestational Diabetes in Twins

A common complication, gestational diabetes affects approximately 6-7% of pregnant women. Currently, screening is done in two steps to help identify patients…

Materials Sciences

3D Printing Innovates With Quasicrystals for Stronger Products

Automotive, aerospace and machinery industries, among others, are resorting more and more to the use of 3D printing methods to produce manufacturing…

Life & Chemistry

Blocking DNA Replication Forks: A Key Innovation Explained

In a developing organism, few cellular processes are as critical as accurate DNA replication. When successful, replication transmits genetic material from…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Tracking Heat-Driven Decay in Electric Vehicle Batteries

Scientists specializing in nanotechnology continue to hunt for the perfect molecular recipe for a battery that drives down price, increases durability, and…

Physics & Astronomy

Here's Looking At You: Spooky Shadow Play Gives Jupiter a Giant Eye

This happened on April 21, 2014, when Hubble was being used to monitor changes in Jupiter's immense Great Red Spot (GRS) storm. During the exposures, the…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetic Fields Around Baby Star Revealed in New Study

Looking at a bright, nearby baby star and the dust swirling in its cradle, astronomers from the University of Illinois and six collaborating institutions were…

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