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New Drug Boosts Survival Rates in Multiple Myeloma Patients

This phase I clinical trial enrolled 38 patients, and pomalidomide provided a minimal or better response for 42 percent of the patients, a partial response or…

Health & Medicine

Targeted Drug Release Using Magnetic Nanovehicles

Researchers have discovered a method that allows for the controlled release of an active agent on the basis of a magnetic nanovehicle. The research, conducted…

Technology Offerings

Miniaturized Frequency-Doubled Lasers: Addressing the Green Problem

Kurzbeschreibung zum Projekt, EN The so-called 'green problem' became relevant with the need to miniaturize cw intracavity frequency doubled solid state…

Earth Sciences

Prediction of Asian summer monsoon rainfall and tropical storm activity close at hand

Though meteorologists and climate scientists have worked for years to develop helpful prediction systems, seasonal predictions of these two types of weather…

Studies and Analyses

Plants Adapt to Drought: New Study Reveals Limits Ahead

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, and their partners have determined that water demand by many plant communities can fluctuate in…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking Star Formation: New Telescopes for Deeper Insights

In order to better understand star formation, astronomers need telescopes that can observe at longer wavelengths, such as the submillimetre range, in which the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Organic Sensors Boost Camera Light Sensitivity with Spray Coating

They consist of electrically conductive plastics, which are sprayed on to the sensor surface in an ultra-thin layer. The chemical composition of the polymer…

Environmental Conservation

Antibacterial Agents in Soaps Rising in Freshwater Lakes

When people wash their hands with antibacterial soap, most don’t think about where the chemicals contained in that soap end up. University of Minnesota…

Environmental Conservation

Paradise found for Latin America's largest land mammal

Using a combination of camera traps, along with interviews with park guards and subsistence hunters, WCS estimates at least 14,500 lowland tapirs in the…

Studies and Analyses

Odd Biochemistry Reveals Lethal Bacterial Protein Insights

The new findings, reported in Nature Chemical Biology, should help scientists find new ways to target the enterococcal cytolysin protein, a “virulence factor…

Health & Medicine

Gene Interactions Raise Cocaine Abuse Death Risk by Eightfold

An estimated one in three whites who died of cocaine exposure is a carrier of variants that make cocaine abuse particularly deadly.The variants are found in…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

A new future for an old crop: barley enters the genomics age

Source: Okayama University, Planning and Public Information DivisionA Japanese team led by Kazuhiro Sato of Okayama University participates in the…

Environmental Conservation

Wood on the seafloor – an oasis for deep-sea life

A team of Max Planck researchers from Germany now showed how sunken wood can develop into attractive habitats for a variety of microorganisms and…

Studies and Analyses

Mapping Emotional Intelligence in the Brain: New Study Insights

The study found significant overlap between general intelligence and emotional intelligence, both in terms of behavior and in the brain. Higher scores on…

Life & Chemistry

Vitamin D Shows Potential Against Deadly Breast Cancer

In research published in the Jan. 21 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology, a team led by Susana Gonzalo, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and…

Studies and Analyses

USDA Study Reveals Plant Water Demand Shifts with Availability

The study was published this week in Nature by a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists led by Guillermo Ponce Campos and Susan Moran and an…

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