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Earth Sciences

Long-Term Sea Level Rise in Washington, D.C. Could Have Significant Impact

The rise is linked to thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of global ice sheets as a result of global warming, researchers say in a new study focused on…

Health & Medicine

Curbing Cystic Kidney Growth in ADPKD: Latest Innovations

Autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most common genetic disorders, affecting one in every 1,000 people and responsible for up to…

Technology Offerings

Stem Cell-Derived Agents for Neurodegenerative Disease Treatment

The new active agents can be used to produce

pharmaceutical substances to be used

for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Technology Offerings

Superconducting Hollow Cable Boosts Cooling and Current Density

Currently, Rutherford, CICC, or Nuclotron superconductors within a cable structure are used in order to conduct high current densities. However, the cooling…

Technology Offerings

Detecting TGF-Beta Receptor Activation: New Reporter Construct

Molecules involved in signal transduction of TGF-beta family such as TGF-beta, Activin, or Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) have important function in many…

Physics & Astronomy

Entangling Twisted Light Quanta: A New World Record

This result is a first step towards entangling and twisting even macroscopic, spatially separated objects in two different directions. The researchers at the…

Physics & Astronomy

Super-rare, super-luminous supernovae are likely explosion of universe's earliest stars

“The objects are both unusually bright and unusually slow to fade. These are properties that are consistent with what is known as pair-instability supernova, a…

Event News

21th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition <br>Bella Center – Copenhagen, Denmark

For over 30 years now, the European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EU BC&E) has combined a very renowned international Scientific Conference with an…

Studies and Analyses

In-Groups and Out-Groups: Understanding Social Dynamics

We humans organize ourselves in myriad kinds of social groups, from scout troops and sports teams to networks of friends, colleagues, or classmates. But how do…

Life & Chemistry

Bigger Genome Pool Reveals Rare Genetic Variants Insights

The scientists, including SFU doctoral students Iman Hajirasouliha and Fereydoun Hormozdiari (recently graduated), sequenced and analyzed a pool of 1092 human…

Life & Chemistry

Unveiling Genetic Insights Into Inflammatory Diseases

In one of the largest studies of its kind ever conducted, an international team of scientists has thrown new light on the genetic basis of the inflammatory…

Health & Medicine

New Lung Cancer Treatment Target Discovered by UC Davis Scientists

A team of UC Davis investigators has discovered a protein on the surface of lung cancer cells that could prove to be an important new target for anti-cancer…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Biofuel Breakthrough: Quick Cook Method Turns Algae Into Oil

“We're trying to mimic the process in nature that forms crude oil with marine organisms,” said Phil Savage, an Arthur F. Thurnau professor and a professor of…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Testing Early Warning System for West Nile Virus

Michael Wimberly, senior scientist at the Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence at South Dakota State University, has begun testing an early…

Materials Sciences

Targeting drugs with hydrogels

Better control over the delivery of drugs to specific sites in the body at specific times would reduce unwanted side effects and improve medical treatment…

Earth Sciences

Ocean Salinity Trends Reveal Human Impact on Climate Change

Observed changes agree with computer modeling of salinity trends in a steadily warming world, said Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, climate…

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