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Transportation and Logistics

Flying Car Completes Successful Maiden Flight in Netherlands

During the past two weeks, several test flights were conducted at the Gilze Rijen Airport (The Netherlands). The patented vehicle flies in the air like a…

Life & Chemistry

Bees ‘Self-Medicate’ When Infected with Some Pathogens

“The colony is willing to expend the energy and effort of its worker bees to collect these resins,” says Dr. Michael Simone-Finstrom, a postdoctoral research…

Life & Chemistry

Newly Identified Stem Cells May Hold Clues to Colon Cancer

This new stem cell population, reported March 30 in the journal Cell, appears to be relatively quiescent (inactive) – in contrast to the recent discovery of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NTT develops a current-injection laser with ultralow power consumption

Explosive diffusion of broadband services such as FTTH and smartphones are expected to lead to network traffic 200 times increase and the total power consumed…

Power and Electrical Engineering

The World’s First Sterilizable Flexible Organic Transistors

This organic transistor is robust under high temperature medical sterilization processes. The high thermal stability of the gate layer was confirmed by a…

Health & Medicine

Maintaining restraint in the face of danger

Some bacterial infections trigger the formation of structures known as granulomas, which essentially quarantine compromised cells. “Infected macrophages get…

Life & Chemistry

Measuring attention to detail

Our ability to ignore some, but not other stimuli, allows us to focus our attention and improve our performance on a specific task. The ability to respond to…

Life & Chemistry

Inside a plant’s pharma factory

Plants of the genus Glycyrrhiza are best known as key ingredients in the popular treat licorice, but they also have a valuable place in the medicine cabinet….

Life & Chemistry

Cancer Stem Cell Vaccine Shows Promising Antitumor Effects

“This is a major breakthrough in immunotherapy research because we were able to use purified cancer stem cells to generate a vaccine, which strengthened the…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Study Identifies Key Genes Linked to PTSD Risk

Why do some persons succumb to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while others who suffered the same ordeal do not? A new UCLA study may shed light on the…

Studies and Analyses

TGen Unveils Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Genome Study

Because cases of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) are so genetically different, whole-genome sequencing is needed to detect the subtle molecular…

Earth Sciences

Wadden Sea’s Future: Can Increased Rain Save It from Drowning?

The Wadden Sea of the southwestern North Sea, the world’s largest area of connected intertidal flats, has existed for several thousand years, despite a more or…

Event News

TU9 goes Asia: Germany’s Leading Institutes of Technology travel to Thailand

The TU9 universities will be represented with a joint stand at the International Education Conference APAIE 2012 in Bangkok (Thailand) from 4.-6. April 2012.The Asia Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) Conference is a network conference held annually at different locations in the Asian-Pacific area….

Life & Chemistry

MDC Researchers Uncover Key Mechanism in Cardiomyopathy

Forms of the disease were tied to the alternative splicing of titin, a giant protein that determines the heart`s structure and biomechanical properties, but…

Health & Medicine

Traumatic Stress Tied to Higher Inflammation in Heart Patients

In the first study to examine the relationship between cumulative traumatic stress exposure and inflammation, the scientists found that the more traumatic…

Technology Offerings

Bone Replacement by Dental Progenitor Cells – Repair or replacement of damaged or destroyed craniofacial tissue

Periodontal disease, edentulism (tooth loss), cysts and malignant tumors are some of the major causes of bone loss in the periodontium. For these patients a…

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