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European Competences Yellow Pages for Future Nanoelectronics

The NANO-TEC project announces its ‘Yellow Pages‘ (YP) to be publicly available. The Yellow Pages comprise an information repository which offers search for…

Science Education

Version One of new STN® – the foundation for the future of patent searching

The STN partners, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe, are pleased to announce that Version One of the new STN platform is now available in beta…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into DNA Repair: How Proteins Unravel Strands

Specialized proteins unzip the intertwined DNA strands while others follow and build new strands, using the originals as templates. Whenever these proteins…

Life & Chemistry

pH Sensors Enhance Understanding of Cell Organelles

Acidity (pH) and its changes play an important role in many physiological processes, including protein folding, and can act as indicators of cancer. In the…

Life & Chemistry

Human Cytomegalovirus: Immunity’s Molecular Showdown

Most people become infected with the human cytomegalovirus (CMV) at some point in life. Over millions of years, our immune system has evolved a trick or two to…

Life & Chemistry

Bipolar Cells Generate Action Potentials in Retina Breakthrough

Until now, it was widely believed that this step takes place in the retinal ganglion cells, the output neurons of the retina. Scientists in the lab of Thomas…

Life & Chemistry

Key Gene Linked to Microcephaly: Insights on Brain Development

About one in ten thousand babies is born with an abnormally small head. The cause for this disorder – which is known as microcephaly – is a defect in the…

Life & Chemistry

Isolating Kidney Tumor Stem Cells for New Cancer Treatments

The researchers have used these cancer stem cells to test a new therapeutic approach that one day might be used to treat some of the more aggressive types of…

Awards Funding

Stuart Parkin Honored with Von Hippel Award for Research Innovation

Professor Dr. Stuart Parkin of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, USA has received the 2012 Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Algae Oils: A Path to Affordable Biofuels Production

As global supplies of fossil fuels continue to shrink, biofuels derived from algae represent one promising source of low-cost, scalable renewable energy. The…

Materials Sciences

New Geometries: Innovative Shapes for Artificial Microcompartments

In nature, biological functions are often carried out in tiny protective shells known as microcompartments, structures that provide home to enzymes that…

Awards Funding

DHL seeks innovative scientists and entrepreneurs

DHL, the world's leading logistics group, is looking for the most innovative scientist/entrepreneur in the field of logistics to honor them with the 2013 DHL…

Studies and Analyses

Climate Change and Water Conflict: Insights from Cyprus Forum

International researchers from 14 institutions met in Nicosia (Cyprus) on the 10th and 11th of December to present and debate the results of studies on water,…

Life & Chemistry

Raccoon Virus Insights May Unlock Cancer Connection

Their findings, published today in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, could lead to a better understanding of how viruses can cause cancer in animals…

Business and Finance

Solar Power Prices Set to Drop Through 2025, Experts Predict

Prices for solar modules—the part of solar panels that produce electricity—will continue to fall, in line with the long-term trend since 1980, according to a…

Health & Medicine

Family History Tied to Aggressive Colorectal Cancer Risk

The finding, reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, draws on data from studies that have tracked the health of tens of thousands of people…

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