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Genetic Markers in Breast Cancer Spread to the Brain Identified

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has uncovered possible genetic origins of breast cancer that spreads to the brain, according to a…

Medical Engineering

New Micro-Robotic Technique Boosts 3-D Printing in Tissue Engineering

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Carnegie Mellon University have introduced a unique micro-robotic technique to assemble the components of…

Health & Medicine

Breast Cancer Drug Shows Promise Against Fungal Disease

The findings, which could lead to new treatments for a disease that kills more HIV/AIDS patients than tuberculosis, appear in mBio®, the online open-access…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Linking Brain Structure to Intelligence Discovered

The study is published today in Molecular Psychiatry and may help scientists understand biological mechanisms behind some forms of intellectual impairment. The…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Reveals How Lactate Affects Neuro-Hormone Release

Researchers at the University of Bristol and University College London found that lactate – essentially lactic acid – causes cells in the brain to release more…

Social Sciences

Free Toolkit to Measure Endangered Language Vitality Online

The EuLaViBar language vitality barometer is a tool that can be used to determine the extent to which a language is threatened with extinction. Academics from…

Physics & Astronomy

Helical Spin Order in Quantum Wires at Higher Temperatures

In the past, this was possible only at much lower temperatures, typically in the microkelvin range. The coupling of nuclei and electrons creates a new state of…

Technology Offerings

Furan-Pyrene Derivatives Boost OLED Efficiency and Stability

Innovative Furane-Pyrene derivatives to be used for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been synthesized at the University of Göttingen. They show an increased efficiency of the blue emission spectra and stability during doping and de-doping in polymer films.

Technology Offerings

Innovative Production of Active Formylglycine-Generating Enzyme

In a collaboration scientists from the University of Göttingen and of the University of Bielefeld developed a procedure for the production of recombinant isolated active eukaryotic full lenght C-alpha Formylglycine-Generating Enzyme (FGE) in selected eukaryotic cells for biotechnological and therapeutic uses.

Technology Offerings

Innovative Wood Composites: Hot-Air and Hot-Steam Production

Production process of wood composites combining hot air and hot steam. This reduces the production time, production line and enables the use of any current binder.

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Drifting Herbicides: Uncertain Effects of Dicamba Revealed

The researchers found a range of effects — positive, neutral and negative — when they sprayed the herbicide dicamba on old fields — ones that are no longer…

Trade Fair News

Innovative Curing Solutions: Infrared Emitters & UV Lamps

However, for the manufacturer, this can present real challenges, as very often these manufacturing steps can be costly and energy-demanding. Heraeus Noblelight…

Earth Sciences

New Maps Highlight Climate Change Impact on At-Risk Species

In research published today in the journal Nature, CSIRO and an international team of scientists revealed global maps showing how fast and in which direction…

Life & Chemistry

Computer models help decode cells that sense light without seeing

Researchers have found that the melanopsin pigment in the eye is potentially more sensitive to light than its more famous counterpart, rhodopsin, the pigment…

Physics & Astronomy

New Physics Tools Illuminate Epigenetic Memory in Biology

Specifically, the team used statistical mechanics and mathematical modeling to shed light on something known as epigenetic memory — how an organism can create…

Earth Sciences

NASA Tracks Intense Rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Edilson

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite is managed by both NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency called JAXA. TRMM can read the…

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