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Health & Medicine

New Therapy Shows Promise for Childhood Neuroblastoma

The study tested the principle that combined positron emission tomography and X-ray computed tomography (PET/CT) may be used to select children with primary…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Boron Nitride Nanotubes: New Pathways for Mass Production

For Hollywood celebrities, the term “splitsville” usually means “check your prenup.” For scientists wanting to mass-produce high quality nanoribbons from boron…

Materials Sciences

Silver Ink Pen: Write Electrical Circuits on Any Surface

University of Illinois engineers have developed a silver-inked rollerball pen capable of writing electrical circuits and interconnects on paper, wood and other…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Scientists Create Sensitive Skin for Enhanced Robot Navigation

This will not only help robots to better navigate in their environments, it will also enable robot self-perception for the first time. A single robotic arm has…

Health & Medicine

New Research Reduces Side Effects in Anti-Cancer Antibiotics

Most of us have had a doctor prescribe an antibiotic for a stubborn bacterial infection, or for a cut that gets infected. However, prescribing an antibiotic…

Studies and Analyses

Climate Change Increases Chemical Toxicity to Aquatic Life

Some areas of the southern United States are suffering from the longest dry spell since 1887 and a new Baylor University study shows that could prove…

Life & Chemistry

A happy life is a long one for orangutans

Dr. Alexander Weiss and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Arizona, who are presenting their paper published in Royal Society…

Life & Chemistry

Beyond Darwin: Evolving new functions

At a recent Kavli Futures Symposium, 19 experts from a diverse range of fields discussed the promise of using the lab to understand and exploit the evolution…

Health & Medicine

Monkeys Reveal New Insights into MS-Like Disease

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered a naturally occurring disease in monkeys that is very much like multiple sclerosis in humans…

Materials Sciences

Cobalt-Doped Titanium Dioxide: Switchable “Chameleon” Magnets

*Note: This news was first mentioned in the June 2011 issue of Nanotech Japan Update*Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the University of Tokyo and…

Materials Sciences

Magnetic Control of Anomalous Hall Effect Induced by Spin Chirality

*Note: This news was first mentioned in the June 2011 issue of Nanotech Japan Update*Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo and RIKEN…

Materials Sciences

Directly Measuring Electron Spins in Topological Insulators

*Note: This news was first mentioned in the June 2011 issue of Nanotech Japan Update*Tohoku University, Osaka University and Japan Science and Technology…

Materials Sciences

Creating new advanced R&D tools that can build molecule-sized computer chips

The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), hosts the…

Life & Chemistry

Mount Sinai researchers develop new gene therapy for heart failure

Patients receiving a high dose of the therapy, called SERCA2a, experienced substantial clinical benefit and significantly reduced cardiovascular…

Life & Chemistry

The Smell of Danger

The mechanics of instinctive behavior are mysterious. Even something as simple as the question of how a mouse can use its powerful sense of smell to detect and…

Awards Funding

The Balzan Prizes 2011: History, Enligthenment, Bioinformatics and Astrophysics

The four Balzan Prizewinners for 2011 will be officially announced in Milan on 5 September, 2011. The General Prize Committee of the Balzan Foundation “Prize”,…

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