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DuPont in collaboration with customers to get process efficiency up and system costs down with Kalrez® and Vespel® parts

At Achema 2012, DuPont representatives demonstrated how DuPont™ Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer parts and DuPont™ Vespel® CR-6100 parts enable chemical processors…

Life & Chemistry

How Grasshoppers’ Diet Changes Impact Soil Carbon Release

A grasshopper's change in diet to high-energy carbohydrates while being hunted by spiders may affect the way soil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Bugs have key role in farming approach to storing CO2 emissions

Scientists have discovered how microbes can be used to turn carbon dioxide emissions into soil-enriching limestone, with the help of a type of tree that…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer’s Next Magic Bullet May Be Magic Shotgun

A new approach to drug design, pioneered by a group of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Mt. Sinai, New York, promises to…

Life & Chemistry

Best of the rest – Farmers and biotechnologists source added value from waste

The simple disposal of these by-products does not just lead to waste; the industry additionally loses potential resources. The TRANSBIO research project aims…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Modifications in Biofilm Pathogens Uncovered

The scientists in Prof. Urs Jenal’s team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have discovered that genetic modifications in a pathogen causing…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Repair Linked to Key Cell Signaling Network Discovery

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found a surprising connection between a key DNA-repair process and a cellular signaling…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Heavy Rainfall Around Compact Typhoon Guchol's Center

NASA's TRMM satellite analyzed rainfall within the storm and found heavy rainfall around the center of circulation, falling at a rate of over 2 inches/50 mm…

Earth Sciences

Hurricane Carlotta Approaches Mexico: Warnings Issued

As Carlotta neared the western coast of Mexico, warnings and watches were posted. On Friday, June 15, 2012, a hurricane warning was in effect for the Pacific…

Life & Chemistry

Engineered Nanoparticles Enhance Blood Cancer Treatment at Notre Dame

One of the difficulties doctors face in treating MM comes from the fact that cancer cells of this type start to develop resistance to the leading…

Health & Medicine

U of M Researchers Discover GPx3 Antioxidant for Heart Health

The enzyme – glutathione peroxidase, or GPx3 – is a natural antioxidant that helps protect organisms from oxidant injury and helps the body naturally repair…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Ionic liquid improves speed and efficiency of hydrogen-producing catalyst

The design of a nature-inspired material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas has gone holistic. Usually, tweaking the design of this particular catalyst…

Health & Medicine

Chemotherapy Shows Promise for SCLC and Neuroendocrine Carcinoma

Research presented in the July 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of Thoracic Oncology, concluded that…

Health & Medicine

Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Boosts Quality of Life in Stage I NSCLC

Until recently, many elderly patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer were left untreated because treatment may not improve their quality of life….

Business and Finance

UNU-IHDP and UNEP launch sustainability index that looks beyond GDP

The world's fixation on economic growth ignores a rapid and largely irreversible depletion of natural resources that will seriously harm future generations,…

Materials Sciences

Researchers Create Giant Atoms with Ordered Nanoparticles

Through their findings, the researchers are now able to make precisely defined structures from nanoparticles. Normally, nanoparticles form rather disordered,…

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