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Faster Genetic Testing Method Enhances Breast Cancer Care

Those are among the conclusions of a study published recently in the BJS (British Journal of Surgery). The findings provide insights into how genetic advances…

Materials Sciences

Automated Component Conversion: IFB’s New Joint Project

Together with three companies the Institute for Aircraft Construction (IFB) at the University of Stuttgart researched the automated conversion of components…

Medical Engineering

Ultrasound Liver Therapy: Non-Invasive Tumor Removal Solution

Tumor removal without a scalpel or x-rays is now possible due to a special type of ultrasound. Strong, concentrated ultrasonic waves are directed at the…

Studies and Analyses

Swiss School Heads Question Role of School Boards: Insights

Traditionally, Swiss school boards, composed of volunteers, have held responsibility for the management of compulsory schools. As greater autonomy has been…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer Cells’ Secret Hiding Spots Revealed by Scientists

Scientists from the Division of Genetics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in collaboration with Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have…

Studies and Analyses

Long-term productivity higher in university spin-offs than in other companies

The study compares what is known as the total factor productivity of these two samples. According to the study, in the university spin-offs this productivity…

Physics & Astronomy

Lick's Automated Planet Finder: First robotic telescope for planet hunters

Lick Observatory's newest telescope, the Automated Planet Finder (APF), has been operating robotically night after night on Mt. Hamilton since January,…

Physics & Astronomy

First Images Available from NASA-JAXA Global Rain and Snowfall Satellite

The images show precipitation falling inside a March 10 cyclone over the northwest Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,000 miles east of Japan. The data were…

Earth Sciences

VIMS model now capable of street-level storm-tide predictions

The water that surged into the intersection of New York City’s Canal and Hudson streets during Hurricane Sandy—to choose just one flood-ravaged locale—was…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Understanding plant-soil interaction could lead to new ways to combat weeds

“Plant scientists have been studying plant-soil feedback for decades,” said U of I microbial ecologist Tony Yannarell. “Some microbes are famous for their…

Trade Fair News

New melt-extrudable perfluoroplastics from DuPont allow 300 °C continuous service temperatures

DuPont Chemicals and Fluoroproducts (DC&F) will be exhibiting its wide range of fluoroplastics for the wire and cable industry in hall 17, stand D59 at Wire…

Earth Sciences

NASA sees remnants of TD04W dissipating in South China Sea

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite passed over the South China Sea on March 25 at 02:56 UTC/March 25 at 10:56 p.m. EDT and gathered…

Earth Sciences

NASA satellite sees wind shear whipping Tropical Cyclone Gillian

When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Gillian on March 25 at 06:30 UTC/2:30 a.m. EDT, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument took…

Life & Chemistry

Brain differences in college-aged occasional drug users

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered impaired neuronal activity in the parts of the brain associated with…

Life & Chemistry

Haynes is First to Identify Cellular Patterns of Contraction in Human Hearts

Some 20 years and a twist of fate later, today Haynes is defending her Ph.D. thesis in physiology at the University of Kentucky, where she's made a significant…

Hannover Messe

Materials Research Requires Insights Down to the Nanometre Scale

Several groups are working in different research topics at NEXT ENERGY towards intelligent solutions for integrated energy systems. This interdisciplinary…

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