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Life & Chemistry

New Animal Models Enhance Cancer Research at IDIBELL and ICO

They have proved their usefulness in a preclinical study evaluating a new treatment for ovarian cancer developed by PharmamarSome animal models developed by…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Uncover Hormonal Influences on Fish Social Choices

The findings, published in the latest edition of the journal Animal Behaviour, help answer an important evolutionary question: why do some species develop…

Health & Medicine

Synthetic Liver Enzyme Boosts Drug Efficacy and Reduces Side Effects

Researchers based at Princeton University reported in the journal Science that they created a synthetic enzyme that acts as a catalyst to replace certain…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin C Prevents Bone Loss: Key Findings From Mount Sinai Study

“This study has profound public health implications, and is well worth exploring for its therapeutic potential in people,” said lead researcher Mone Zaidi, MD,…

Physics & Astronomy

Interstellar Travelers of the Future May be Helped by MU Physicist’s Calculations

Former President Bill Clinton recently expressed his support for interstellar travel at the 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating for…

Life & Chemistry

New Screening Method Boosts RNA Drug Development Efforts

The study was published in the October 9, 2012 issue of the journal Nature Communications.RNA has multiple biological functions, including encoding and…

Life & Chemistry

Astrocytes as a novel target in Alzheimer’s disease

The research teams of Prof. Jin-Moo Lee at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA, and Prof. Milos Pekny at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, have…

Information Technology

New interactive system detects touch and gestures on any surface

The system identifies the fingers of a person's hand while touching any plain surface. It also recognizes hand posture and gestures, revealing individual users…

Materials Sciences

Malaysian Researchers Develop Durable Wood-Plastic Composite

Wood-plastic composites (WPCs) are one of the fastest growing construction components in the wood composites industry. Their popularity is due to low…

Earth Sciences

NASA Tracks Short-Lived Tropical Storm Olivia’s Path

On Oct. 6, Tropical depression 15E was born near 14.0 North latitude and 118.7 West longitude, about 845 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja…

Earth Sciences

NASA Monitors Intensifying Typhoon Prapiroon Development

Tropical Depression 22W was born on Oct. 7. On Monday, Oct. 8, the twenty-second tropical cyclone had organized and strengthened into Tropical storm Prapiroon….

Technology Offerings

CorA as anthelmintic – Natural product as antibiotic for the treatment of dirofilariasis

Dirofilariasis is caused by Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens, parasitic nematodes, which are transmitted by blood sucking mosquitoes. The heartworms harbour…

Technology Offerings

CorA as anthelmintic – Natural product as antibiotic for the treatment of filariasis

Human filariasis (elephantiasis and river blindness) is caused by the nematodes W. bancrofti and O. volvulus, transmitted via blood sucking insects. The worms…

Technology Offerings

ULTRAPORCRETE – High Strength Porous Concrete

UPC is a high strength, chemically swelled, air curing

and mineral-binding Construction-Concrete. UPC shows a high mechanical load capacity and is at the…

Life & Chemistry

Recovering 'bodyguard' cells in pancreas may restore insulin production in diabetics

The key to restoring production of insulin in type I diabetic patients, previously known as juvenile diabetes, may be in recovering the population of…

Health & Medicine

Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy: New Insights for Advanced Cancers

The results, achieved by testing cancer cells in a laboratory, are surprising because chemotherapy generally reduces immunity and could cancel out the benefits…

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