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Life & Chemistry

Polyester vs. Cotton: Which Fabric Stays Fresh After Exercise?

In the study, the investigators collected t-shirts from 26 healthy individuals following an intensive, hour-long bicycle spinning session, and incubated the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights into Solar Cycle Timing Unveiled by Researchers

However, the timing of the solar cycle is far from precise. Since humans began regularly recording sunspots in the 17th century, the time between successive…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Tropical Storm Norbert Affecting Mexico's West Coast

On Wednesday, September 3, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued a Tropical Storm Warning from La Paz to Santa Fe, Mexico. There is also a Tropical Storm…

Life & Chemistry

New Protein Discovery Could Transform Type 2 Diabetes Treatment

Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg have discovered a protein that may open the door to a new method of treating type 2 diabetes and…

Studies and Analyses

Balancing Biodiversity: Insights from Evolutionary Ecology

The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, brings together evolutionary theory and ecology to explore one of the big questions in ecology: How is…

Health & Medicine

Rebooking Surge: Over One-Third of Scheduled Operations Delayed

Postponed or cancelled operations are a problem both for the individual patient, who may have to wait longer for treatment, and for the hospital providing…

Technology Offerings

Ang-2 – Angiopoietin-2 predicts the efficacy of an angiogenesis inhibitor in colorectal cancer therapy

The invention provides a novel predictive biomarker to help identify the patient population with the most
favorable clinical outcome to angiogenesis-targeted treatment in mCRC patients. Experiments revealed that patients with low pretherapeutic Ang-2 serum levels
receiving a bevacizumab-containing treatment were associated with a better Response rate compared to patients with high pretherapeutic Ang-2 levels. Additionally to a reduced risk of death (>90%) patients with low pretherapeutic Ang-2 levels showed a
significant increase in progression-free survival (up to five months).

Corporate News

Siemens Powers Up Dangjin 4 Plant with H-Class Tech

Siemens will deliver the power island for Dangjin 4 combined cycle power plant in South Korea. Customer is the South Korean construction company GS Engineering…

Awards Funding

Timing is everything—Bernstein Award 2014 for Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer

The physicist deals with the question of how nerve cells communicate by temporally precise electrical signals. The award was presented by State Secretary Dr….

Communications Media

Apple Launches iPay: A New Era in Mobile Payments

According to various sources, Apple plans to introduce a comprehensive m-payment solution with the iPhone 6 and signed respective agreements with Mastercard,…

Event News

BALTIC 2014: Baltic Sea Geologists meet in Warnemünde

The focus of the in total 48 oral presentations is set on the Baltic Sea and its postglacial development. With a broad range of geological methods applied, a…

Life & Chemistry

News from the Mailroom of the Cell – Max Planck Researchers elucidate mechanism of protein

Researchers at the MPI of Biochemistry (MPIB) have now shown in detail how the ‘mailroom of the cell’ sorts a subset of the proteins that are transported out…

Health & Medicine

So… do you know what is in your water?

Would you like your glass of water with a little iron it? Or do you prefer a copper taste? Possibly manganese? Did you realize that there are more than two…

Environmental Conservation

Lowering Coal Emissions Saved 1,700 Lives in One Year

Scientists assessed the effects of one state's prescient restrictions on plant emissions in a report in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology….

Materials Sciences

Next-Gen Solar Panels: IK4-Ikerlan’s Innovative Breakthrough

Conventional photovoltaic technology uses large, heavy, opaque, dark silicon panels, but this could soon change. The IK4-Ikerlan research centre is working…

Studies and Analyses

Clean Air Cuts Health Costs in Taiyuan, China

Air pollution regulations over the last decade in Taiyuan, China, have substantially improved the health of people living there, accounting for a greater than…

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