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Power and Electrical Engineering

Optical Nano-Tweezers: Mastering Control of Nano-Objects

As science and technology go nano, scientists search for new tools to manipulate, observe and modify the “building blocks” of matter at the nanometer scale….

Life & Chemistry

New Catalyst Promises Low-Cost Clean Methanol Production

Scientists from Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Technical University of Denmark combined theory and experimentation to…

Life & Chemistry

Visualizing Small Biomolecules Inside Live Cells

Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward visualizing small biomolecules inside living biological systems with minimum…

Earth Sciences

Global Warming’s Impact Reaches Deep Ocean Zones

In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell…

Health & Medicine

Food Allergy Rates Surge Among Black Children: Key Study Insights

Children's food allergies are gradually increasing, but they may be as much as doubling among black children. According to a study published today in the March…

Health & Medicine

Ancient Chinese Medicine Tested for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

The bark of the Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense) has traveled a centuries-long road with the healing arts. Now it is being put through its paces by…

Studies and Analyses

Yosemite Bears Adapt: Study Reveals Changing Diets Over Centuries

Black bears in Yosemite National Park and elsewhere are notorious for seeking out human food, even breaking into cars and cabins for it. A new study reveals…

Studies and Analyses

College Athletes Struggle With Healthy Lifestyles Later On

An Indiana University study found that elite college athletes — typically the picture of health and vitality — often struggle to stay active in later years,…

Life & Chemistry

New Cancer Measurement Method Advances Treatment Insights

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in Switzerland. There are many reasons why in the era of cutting-edge medicine it is still difficult to cure…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Relativity Research: Shaking Up Magnetic Innovations

The research group of Professor Jairo Sinova at the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), in collaboration with researchers from…

Earth Sciences

What sculpted Africa’s margin?

Break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana about 130 Million years ago could have lead to a completely different shape of the African and South American continent…

Technology Offerings

Light-Dark Incubation Device for Microtiter Plates

The present development is a device that allows an incubation for specific areas, particularly for each individual vessel, providing these light/dark conditions and at the same time the implementation of optical measurements without interacting with experimental conditions in other areas

Technology Offerings

Thermo-Induction and Dye-Based Ion Channel Activity Screening

This is an innovative application for life science industry. Furthermore, this application is a universal utility in screenings of drug efficiency e.g. against human-pathogenic microorganisms. It is also possible to test drugs against ion channel function of viruses or molecule libraries for selection of small molecules as new targets or for side effects.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Next-Gen Fuel Cells: Breakthrough in Bimetallic Electrolyzers

A big step in the development of next-generation fuel cells and water-alkali electrolyzers has been achieved with the discovery of a new class of bimetallic…

Environmental Conservation

Bison Migration Study: USDA Explores New Pasture Options

A new study from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) demonstrates that it is possible to…

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish Neural Crest Cells: Insights on Purification and Culture

This important study is reported in the February 2014 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine. Neural crest is a unique cell population induced at the…

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