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Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Researchers Uncover Reason Why the Adult Human Heart Cannot Regenerate Itself

The study, done in cell lines and mice, may lead to methods of reprogramming a patient’s own cardiac myocytes within the heart itself to create new muscle to…

Life & Chemistry

‘Good’ Prion-Like Proteins Boost Immune Response

This study marks the first discovery of so-called “good” prion-like proteins in human cells and the first to find such proteins involved in innate immunity:…

Environmental Conservation

Ecologist: Up-and-Coming Forests Will Remain Important Carbon Sinks

The aging forests of the Upper Great Lakes could be considered the baby boomers of the region’s ecosystem.The decline of trees in this area is a cause for…

Awards Funding

Vote for Your Favorites in the INDEX: Award 2011

Want to have a say in who's going to win INDEX: Award 2011? And want to catch a glimpse of the Danish Crown Prince and Crown Princess at the grand Award Show…

Health & Medicine

New Immune Therapy Targets Ovarian Cancer Treatment

Prima BioMed Ltd. is developing an autologous (the body's own) immune therapy for the treatment of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (ovarian cancer). Before the…

Technology Offerings

Efficient H2S Removal Using Modified Porphyrins

Hydrogen sulphide is a highly toxic and corrosive environmental pollutant with an obnoxious smell, the removal of which is necessary for pollution control and processing requirements within industry.

The invention demonstrates that specially modified iron, manganese, cobalt and nickel porphyrins can be used for the efficient catalytic removal of hydrogen sulphide species (H2S, HS-, S2-), here labelled “H2S”.

Technology Offerings

Natriuretische Peptidrezeptoren: Neue Substanzen Entdeckt

Das natriuretische System bei Menschen und Tieren weist Rezeptoren für das Atriale

Natriuretische Peptid (ANP), das B-Typ Natriuretische Peptid (BNP) und das…

Life & Chemistry

Neutrons Reveal Secrets of the Elusive Hydronium Ion

A Los Alamos National Laboratory research team has harnessed neutrons to view for the first time the critical role that an elusive molecule plays in certain…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Struggles of Tropical Depression Emily

At 5 p.m. EDT on Saturday, August 6, Emily became a tropical depression for the second time in her life about 70 miles west-northwest of Great Abaco Island,…

Architecture & Construction

Increase in storm damage brings call for more stringent standards

Researchers from a team funded by the National Science Foundation have examined some of last spring’s massive tornado damage and conclude in a new report that…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Tropical Storm Muifa Over Yellow Sea

Tropical Storm Muifa is filling up the Yellow Sea on NASA satellite imagery as it continues moving north today to a landfall in East China's Shandong province….

Environmental Conservation

Rats Manage Poisonous Diet in Southwest Deserts

Life is tough for woodrats in deserts of the U.S. Southwest. There are few plants for food, and those plants produce poison to deter rodents, insects and other…

Health & Medicine

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Patients Value Collaborative Care Decisions

Patients receiving treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) prefer to play a more collaborative role when it comes to making decisions about their medical or…

Earth Sciences

Tohoku Tsunami’s Impact: Icebergs Formed in Antarctica

Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere specialist at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues were able to link the calving of icebergs from the…

Health & Medicine

Fine-Tuning Flu Vaccine for Enhanced Protection Against Virus

An antibody that mimics features of the influenza virus's entry point into human cells could help researchers understand how to fine-tune the flu vaccine to…

Interdisciplinary Research

Disney Research Innovates Motion Capture with New Approach

But by turning the cameras around — mounting almost two dozen, outward-facing cameras on the actors themselves — scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh…

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