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Life & Chemistry

Multitasking Nanobubbles: Targeting Diseased Cells Effectively

Researchers at Rice University have found a way to kill some diseased cells and treat others in the same sample at the same time. The process activated by a…

Environmental Conservation

Dartmouth Study Reveals Mercury Impact on Ocean Fish

In new research published in a special issue of the journal Environmental Research and in “Sources to Seafood: Mercury Pollution in the Marine Environment”— a…

Health & Medicine

Western University’s Breakthrough in Arthritis Research Discoveries

According to The Arthritis Society, the second most common form of arthritis after osteoarthritis is “diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis” or DISH. It…

Environmental Conservation

New Butterfly Species Discovered in Jamaica Highlights Biodiversity

Belonging to the family of skipper butterflies, the new genus and species is the first butterfly discovered in Jamaica since 1995. Scientists hope the native…

Life & Chemistry

Probiotics Boost Fish Growth: Faster and Healthier Development

This research could help increase the success of raising rare ornamental fish to adulthood. It also has implications for aquaculture, since accelerating the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Ames Laboratory’s Indium-Free OLEDs: A New Era in Displays

The metal-oxide, indium tin oxide (ITO), is a transparent conductor used as the anode for flat screen displays, and has been the standard for decades. Due to…

Environmental Conservation

Declining Air Pollution Boosts Life Expectancy in the US

The study appears in the December 3, 2012 online edition of the journal Epidemiology.”Despite the fact that the U.S. population as a whole is exposed to much…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Super-Typhoon Bopha Near Philippines

Since Dec. 2, Bopha's maximum sustained winds have fluctuated up and down from its previous high of 155 mph and today, Dec. 3, the storm has reached its…

Life & Chemistry

Oil and Water: How Chain Length Affects Interaction Dynamics

Water plays a huge role in biological processes, from protein folding to membrane formation, and it could be that this transformation is useful in a way not…

Health & Medicine

Teen Smoking Reduces Bone Growth in Girls, Raises Osteoporosis Risk

In a study published Dec. 4, researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report the data can be useful for developing strategies to help…

Life & Chemistry

Insights Into Lyme Disease Bacteria: Common Strains Explained

New clues about the bacteria that cause Lyme disease could lead to a novel strategy to reduce infections, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the…

Awards Funding

Mainz neuroscientist Robert Nitsch receives the EU's most highly remunerated research funding award

The European Research Council (ERC) has earmarked some EUR 2.5 million to fund research being conducted by neuroscientist Professor Dr. Robert Nitsch at the…

Awards Funding

Innovation Prize 2013: Funding Life Science Projects

Altogether, 6,000 Euros are honoured to ideas from life science research projects with application aims. In 2013, the BioRegio Regensburg with its office…

Life & Chemistry

Cost-Effective Innovation in Dye-Based Solar Cells

Photovoltaics continues to be an expensive technology. Dye-based solar cells may represent a more cost-effective alternative to traditional solar cells. In…

Life & Chemistry

A*STAR’s ICES to develop technologies to produce high value chemicals from biomass

The Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), a research institute of The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), officially opened…

Materials Sciences

ORNL Develops Lignin-Based Thermoplastic Conversion Process

In a cover article published in Green Chemistry, the research team describes a process that ultimately transforms the lignin byproduct into a thermoplastic – a…

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