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Medical Engineering

Electronic Tool Cuts Pneumonia Deaths in Emergency Care

The findings, which will be presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress in Barcelona tomorrow (11 September 2013), could lead to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Human-Machine Cooperation: Insights from Robo-Mate

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO is partner in the Robo-Mate project, starting in September 2013. Together with 11 European partners…

Studies and Analyses

New Avian Flu Strain H7N9 Shows Potential Threat to Humans

A new study has found that a novel avian-origin H7N9 influenza A virus, which has recently emerged in humans, attaches moderately or abundantly to the…

Life & Chemistry

Engineered MERS Coronavirus Strain Boosts Vaccine Development

The mutant MERS virus, rMERS-CoV-ΔE, has a mutation in its envelope protein that makes it capable of infecting a cell and replicating its genetic material, but…

Technology Offerings

Exploring Minimal Retroviral Vector Systems for Genetic Innovation

Retroviral vector systems are used for more than three decades for applications requiring a stable genetic modification of target cells. In recent years they…

Awards Funding

French Bacteriologist Wins Prestigious Balzan Prize Award

THE 2013 BALZAN PRIZEWINNERS750,000 Swiss Francs (approx. EUR 610,000; USD 800,000; GBP 515,000) for each of the four subjects. Half of the amount must be…

Life & Chemistry

Singapore Scientists Uncover New RNA Pathway in Stem Cells

Scientists at A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), in collaboration with their counterparts from Canada, Hong Kong and US, have discovered a protein…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Crop Diversity’s Impact on Pest Control in Microlandscapes

Professor GE Feng and his group from State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Perfect Gene Movement for Enhanced Crop Insights

An international team of scientists led by the UK's John Innes Centre and including scientists from Australia, Japan, the US and France has perfected a way of…

Materials Sciences

Carbon Saws: Reducing Sawdust Waste in Wafer Manufacturing

You can’t saw without producing sawdust – and that can be expensive if, for example, the “dust” comes from wafer manufacturing in the photovoltaic and…

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Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Tropical Storm Lorena Bringing Heavy Rains to Mexico's West Coast

On Friday, Sept. 6, a tropical storm warning was in effect for Baja California Sur from Agua Blanca to Buenavista, and a tropical storm watch was in effect for…

Materials Sciences

Stanford Scientists Create DNA-Based Graphene Transistor

DNA is the blueprint for life. Could it also become the template for making a new generation of computer chips based not on silicon, but on an experimental…

Information Technology

Inflatable antennae could give CubeSats greater reach

The future of satellite technology is getting small — about the size of a shoebox, to be exact. These so-called “CubeSats,” and other small satellites, are…

Life & Chemistry

Promising Muscular Dystrophy Treatment VBP15 Shows Early Success

The results, which are published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine, show that VBP15 decreases inflammation in mice with symptoms similar to those found in…

Life & Chemistry

Humpback Whales’ Winter Sounds Uncovered in Antarctica

The scientists report this in a current issue of scientific journal PLOS ONE. This surprising discovery based on underwater recordings from the Antarctic…

Event News

Keynote Insights: Kai Simons on Membrane Structure at EMBO 2013

Kai Simons will deliver the opening keynote lecture and explain how intricate changes in membrane structure can influence how cells work. In further keynote…

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