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Health & Medicine

Viral Therapy Enhances Limb-Saving Cancer Treatment Effectiveness

Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, tested the effectiveness of a genetically engineered version of the virus used to vaccinate against…

Studies and Analyses

High School Lacrosse Players Face Increased Injury Risks

Lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing high school sports in the United States, with more than 170,000 students now playing the sometimes hard-hitting game….

Life & Chemistry

New Planthopper Species Discovered in Southern Spain

The new species, Conosimus baenai, has been named after Manuel Baena, a Spanish hemipterologist, for his contributions to the taxonomy of Iberian Hemiptera.

Physics & Astronomy

It's go time for LUX-Zeplin dark matter experiment

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation recently gave the go-ahead to LUX-Zeplin (LZ), a key experiment in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Highly Charged Ions: A New Frontier in Science

The world is mostly neutral. That is, most of the atoms in our environment are electrically neutral. The number of electrons in the outer parts of atoms equals…

Environmental Conservation

UM Research Team Innovates Coastal Management for South Florida

A Florida-based marine research team has developed a unique formal process and modeling framework to help manage South Florida's economically important coastal…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Aqua Satellite Captures Intense Thunderstorms in Matmo

Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed very cold temperatures that indicated the high cloud tops in the powerful storms.

Trade Fair News

ACHEMA 2015: Early Registrations Surge Ahead of Event

The organisers anticipate similar participant figures as for 2012 when around 3,800 exhibitors and 167,000 participants flocked onto the Frankfurt exhibition…

Studies and Analyses

Nearsightedness Linked to Education Levels and Schooling Trends

Education and behavior have a greater impact on the development of nearsightedness than do genetic factors: With each school year completed, a person becomes…

Life & Chemistry

Novel Scaffold Boosts Neural Stem Cell Repair for Spinal Injuries

The loose layer was infiltrated with a large amount of neural stem cells before it was transplanted in vivo. Thus a plenty of neural stem cells can be provided…

Life & Chemistry

Early HIV Reservoir Seeding: Key Findings Revealed

The most critical barrier for curing HIV-1 infection is the presence of the viral reservoir, the cells in which the HIV virus can lie dormant for many years…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists map one of most important proteins in life — and cancer

mages of the gigantic protein in unprecedented detail will transform scientists' understanding of exactly how cells copy their chromosomes and divide, and…

Life & Chemistry

Metabolic Enzyme Halts Common Kidney Cancer Progression

In an analysis of small molecules called metabolites used by the body to make fuel in normal and cancerous cells in human kidney tissue, a research team from…

Medical Engineering

Speedy computation enables scientists to reconstruct an animal's development cell by cell

Now, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have developed a way around that problem. They have created a new…

Materials Sciences

Noble Gas Cage: Safeguarding Against Radioactive Pollution

When nuclear fuel gets recycled, the process releases radioactive krypton and xenon gases. Naturally occurring uranium in rock contaminates basements with the…

Materials Sciences

New Method Extracts Radioactive Elements from Air and Water

Gases such as radon, xenon and krypton all occur naturally in the air but in minute quantities – typically less than one part per million. As a result they are…

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