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Machine Engineering

Enhance Motor Protection with IO-Link Monitoring Relays

The relays communicate with the control level via IO-Link to transfer, for example, measured values and messages. The Sirius 3UG48 monitoring relays for…

Life & Chemistry

Helicobacter Pylori: How Stomach Bacteria Damage Human DNA

Molecular biologists from the University of Zurich have now identified a mechanism of Helicobacter pylori that damages the DNA of cells in the gastric mucosa…

Health & Medicine

New Method Predicts Heart Transplant Survival Rates

“Donor hearts are a limited resource,” says John V. Conte, M.D., a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the senior…

Health & Medicine

New Cancer Treatment Strategy Shows Promising Results

Today cancer is a public health disease that statistically afflicts every third Swede some time during their lifetimes. Although certain external factors such…

Materials Sciences

Study on the nanoprocessing of fluorinated polymers using quantum beams

In Washio's laboratory at Waseda University, highly advanced scientific research is carried out on the generation and applications of quantum beams such as…

Physics & Astronomy

Photonics: Better solar cells around the corner

Silicon is readily available, easy to process, highly stable and non-toxic. It is also one of the best materials for making solar cells. The high quality and…

Materials Sciences

3D Atomic Imaging by Internal-Detector Electron Holography

Institute for Materials Research (IMR) of Tohoku University, HORIBA Limited, and Tohoku Techno Arch Company, Limited announced on July 19, 2011 that a research…

Event News

Asia-Pacific Research Conference 2011: Innovations in Economics

The world is at a major turning point. Recent changes in global economics and industrial priorities, environmental and energy policies, food production and…

Materials Sciences

Cell collection: Catapulting with Near-IR Laser light

The selective detachment of the cells is achieved by the near-IR (NIR) irradiation of the cells cultured on a dish coated by single-walled carbon nanotubes…

Life & Chemistry

A rare partnership pays off

Boron is an intriguing member of the periodic table because it readily forms stable compounds using only six electrons—two fewer than most other main-group…

Materials Sciences

Detecting CO2 Quickly and Affordably with New Fluorescent Material

Overcoming these deficiencies with a unique approach, a team based at Kyoto University has designed an inexpensive new material capable of quick and accurate…

Life & Chemistry

Soil Bacteria Clostridium Sporogenes Targets Cancer Cells

The therapy uses Clostridium sporogenes – a bacterium that is widespread in the soil. Spores of the bacterium are injected into patients and only grow in solid…

Life & Chemistry

Crowd-Sourcing Insights on E. Coli O104:H4 Outbreak

The unprecedented level of collaboration across the scientific community should give insight into how the outbreak arose, says a scientist at the Society for…

Event News

Synthetic DNA – Writing with the letters of life

Genes and complete gene clusters, even artificial chromosomes and viral and bacterial genomes can be sythesized today.The potential for biological research,…

Life & Chemistry

World's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule

In research published online September 4 in Nature Nanotechnology, the Tufts team reports an electric motor that measures a mere 1 nanometer across,…

Life & Chemistry

Yale Researchers Uncover Secrets of Disappearing Bird Digit

Yale scientists now have a good handle on how these developmental changes are orchestrated in the embryo, but there is still one outstanding debate on birds:…

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