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Illinois Engineer Wins Humboldt Research Award for Innovation

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, annually honors up to 100 researchers elected by a multinational, multidisciplinary panel of scholars….

Health & Medicine

Predicting Colorectal Cancer Response to Chemotherapy

“Our study demonstrates that systems medicine approaches (i.e., quantitative analysis of multiple factors in patients' samples combined with mathematical…

Health & Medicine

Integrated neglected tropical disease control and elimination programs: A global health 'best buy'

A recently released report, entitled “Social and Economic Impact Review on Neglected Tropical Diseases,” highlights links between neglected tropical diseases…

Machine Engineering

Siemens Unveils Efficient Process for Affordable High-Tech Steel

Developed by Siemens, this innovative process makes it possible to more precisely dose the various desulfurizing agents that are injected into the molten metal…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Mixed-Oxide Catalysts Transform Chemical Production

Heterogeneous catalysis is the basis of the large-scale industrial production of chemicals. The invention deals with a new synthetic route consisting of the…

Technology Offerings

Efficient Lithium Recovery Device Transforms Battery Tech

The invention is about a new proposed device, based on battery technology, that can efficiently recover lithium as LiCl from brines. Further Information: PDF rubitec – Gesellschaft für Innovation und Technologie der Ruhr-Universität Bochum mbH…

Technology Offerings

Unlocking T7 Promoter: Advancements in Cell-Free Expression Systems

Cell-free expression systems are widely used for RNA and protein production. The majority of systems available are based on the T7 RNA polymerase together with…

Physics & Astronomy

ChemCam follows the ‘Yellowknife Road’ to Martian wet area

Instrument confirms presence of gypsum and related mineralsResearchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French Space Agency have tracked a trail of…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Mutation Linked to Rare Solitary Fibrous Tumor

It started with a 44-year-old woman with solitary fibrous tumor, a rare cancer seen in only a few hundred people each year.By looking at the entire DNA from…

Health & Medicine

Breakthrough Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Once in a while, those results give them a giant leap forward. In a preliminary study in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), University of…

Materials Sciences

New Insights into Graphene Grain Boundaries Revealed

When graphene is grown, lattices of the carbon grains are formed randomly, linked together at different angles of orientation in a hexagonal network. However,…

Studies and Analyses

Family Life’s Impact on Consumer Response to TV Ads

“It is common to link advertising viewing at home to increased levels of materialism and domestic tension stemming from 'pester power' (children getting…

Health & Medicine

Major step toward an Alzheimer's vaccine

This major breakthrough, details of which are presented today in an early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), opens…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Device Tosses Out Unusable PV Wafers

All those refinements are too much for 5% to 10% of the costly wafers. They have micro-cracks left over from incomplete wafer preparation, which causes them to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Ornamental fish industry faces problems with antibiotic resistance

The risk to humans is probably minor unless they frequently work with fish or have compromised immune systems, researchers said, although transmission of…

Earth Sciences

Global warming may have severe consequences for rare Haleakalâ silverswords

Known for its striking rosette, the silversword grows for 20-90 years before the single reproductive event at the end of its life, at which time it produces a…

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