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Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Model Sheds Light on Inherited ALS Causes

The work, published in the June 2011 online issue of the journal Human Molecular Genetics, could help scientists overcome a major hurdle in the study and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Potato Psyllid Research: Best Management Practices for Producers

The potato psyllid is the insect that transmits a bacterium that causes the relatively new disease in potatoes known as zebra chip, according to Dr. Charlie…

Earth Sciences

NASA sees Hurricane Beatriz 'wink' on the Mexican coast

Last night (June 20, 2011) by 8 p.m. EDT, heavy rains were spreading over the southwestern Mexican coast. At that time, Beatriz was still a tropical storm. By…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Infrared Imagery Shows Weaker Tropical Cyclone 06W

On June 21 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT) the newly weakened Tropical Depression 06W was located about 480 nautical miles east-southeast of Hanoi, Vietnam near 18.8…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Delivers Turnkey Equipment for Turkey Tunnel Project

The order was placed by KGM (Karayollari Genel Müdürlügü), Turkey's General Directorate of Highways, and has a value in a single-digit million euro figure. The…

Environmental Conservation

Grizzly Bear Habitats: Future Ranges and Conservation Insights

The independent assessment, written by WCS Senior Conservation Scientist Dr. John Weaver, is a compilation and synthesis of the latest information on these…

Life & Chemistry

New Curation Tool Empowers Genetic Biologists’ Research

The project was a collaboration between researchers at the Institute for Genomic Biology and the department of computer science. Led by Bruce Schatz, professor…

Materials Sciences

Stretching Old Materials Enhances Fuel Cell Efficiency

Researchers at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. recently found a way to improve electricity generating fuel cells, potentially making them more efficient,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method Translates Electron Spin for Computing Advances

In a recent publication in Physical Review Letters, physicists at the University of Arizona propose a way to translate the elusive magnetic spin of electrons…

Studies and Analyses

Pine Bark Enhances Heart Function: New Study Insights

A recent study published in Panminerva Medica reveals that a Pycnogenol® and Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) combination (PycnoQ10®) taken by stable heart failure…

Health & Medicine

Cause of hereditary blindness discovered – RUB Medicine: new protein identified

Medics at the RUB have found the cause of hereditary, progressive blindness: they have identified the previously unknown protein CCDC66, the loss of which…

Information Technology

World-Record Low Noise Optical Amplifier Boosts Fiber Reach

The breakthrough enables a reach increase for optical fiber signals from e.g. 1000 km to 4000 km, paving way for increasing the capacity of data…

Life & Chemistry

Horse-Chestnut Leaf Miner Invades Balkans: 1879 Discovery

The present study by an international and interdisciplinary team around David Lees (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France and Natural History…

Technology Offerings

Extractive Recovery of Organic Substances Using Bioemulsifiers

In the method according to the invention the culture medium is added olafluor and/or stannous fluoride at the end of the cultivation time. The bioemulsifiers…

Transportation and Logistics

Innovative Solutions for Safer, Efficient Railway Systems

The forum, the First European Forum on Railway Running Gears, organized by the European Association of Railway Personnel, UC3M’s Pedro Juan de Lastanosa…

Health & Medicine

Scientists develop first ever drug to treat 'Celtic gene' in cystic fibrosis sufferers

The study, which was carried out by scientists at Queen's University Belfast, the University of Ulster, the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and teams of…

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