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Stem Cell Bandage Approved for Knee Injury Clinical Trials

Millions of people with knee injuries could benefit from a new type of stem cell bandage treatment if clinical trials are successful. The world's first…

Life & Chemistry

Power Grid Buffer: Celebrating 50 Years of Innovation

Angewandte Chemie celebrates the 50th anniversary of its International Edition with symposia in Tokyo and Beijing on June 20 and 22. Several Nobel laureates…

Event News

Outlook on the BRIC’s Economy

Due to their high growth rates, Brazil, Russia, India and China were considered the economic high-flyers of the past decade. Thus, Goldman Sachs’ Head…

Health & Medicine

Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Linked to Diabetes Risk

“These patients may benefit from counseling, screening and closer monitoring for the development of these complications,” said the study's lead author, Maria…

Health & Medicine

Surgery-Related Weight Loss Boosts Testosterone in Obese Men

“Morbidly obese men have a high prevalence of hypotestosteronenemia, or low testosterone, and of sexual dysfunction,” said study co-author Jean-Paul Thissen,…

Health & Medicine

UB’s Role in Study Showing Drug Reduces Breast Cancer Risk

Today's major announcement at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting that the drug exemestane significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer…

Physics & Astronomy

ALPHA stores antimatter atoms for over a quarter of an hour — and still counting

The ALPHA Collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, has created and stored a total of 309 antihydrogen atoms,…

Life & Chemistry

Genetics Behind Melanoma Chemoresistance Revealed

While cellular senescence has been thought of as a natural mechanism to combat uncontrolled cell growth, or cancer, recent studies have shown that some cell…

Health & Medicine

Stem cell treatment may offer option for broken bones that don't heal

The UNC study team led by Anna Spagnoli, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and biomedical engineering, demonstrated that stem cells manufactured with the…

Studies and Analyses

Early light refines the brain’s circuitry for vision

Any parent knows that newborns still have a lot of neurological work to do to attain fully acute vision. In a wide variety of nascent animals, genes provide…

Health & Medicine

New Asthma Drug May Enhance Metabolism, Research Reveals

The research team comprises members of Professor Ken Ho's lab from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research as well as Professor Ric Day, a clinical…

Health & Medicine

Indiana University Neuroscientists Identify Pain Relief Target

The peptide, CBD3, has been shown in mice to interfere with signals that navigate calcium channels to produce pain. Unlike other substances that block pain…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Cancer Cell Survival from Leading Researchers

Now the immunologist Dr. Uta Höpken (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, MDC, Berlin-Buch in the Helmholtz Association) and the hematologist Dr. Armin…

Earth Sciences

Columbia Engineers Enhance Extreme Weather Forecasting Accuracy

Moisture and heat fluctuations from the land surface to the atmosphere form a critical nexus between surface hydrology and atmospheric processes, especially…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists use super microscope to pinpoint body’s immunity 'switch'

Using the only microscope of its kind in Australia, medical scientists have been able for the first time to see the inner workings of T-cells, the front-line…

Physics & Astronomy

CERN Successfully Traps Antihydrogen Atoms for 16 Minutes

Trapping antihydrogen atoms at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has become so routine that physicists are confident that they can soon…

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