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New Retinal Implants Enhance Vision Restoration Techniques

Our invention describes an implantable electrode array with tripolar, quadrupolar or higher multipolar electrical cells. Furthermore the direction of the…

Technology Offerings

Ethynylated Duplex Drugs: Advancing Cancer Therapy Solutions

Our invention describes so called duplex drugs by using phosphodiester bounding as a linker between two nucleoside analogues. Their in vivo metabolism delivers…

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14th IFF Science Days: Innovations in Digital Factories

How important will the digital factory be for industrial production? What technologies are enabling us to work hand-in-hand with robots in manufacturing and…

Materials Sciences

New Method Tackles Harmful Radioactive Iodine Effectively

Iodine radioisotopes are produced by fission of uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor. Radioactive iodine is of concern because it is highly mobile in the…

Medical Engineering

PET Scans Enhance Treatment Outcomes for MDR-TB in HIV Patients

Research in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, however, shows that the use of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) scans can help to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Keeping Dairy Cows Outside Benefits Farms and Ecosystems

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) agricultural engineer Al Rotz led a team that evaluated how different management systems on a typical 250-acre Pennsylvania…

Physics & Astronomy

Eclipsing Helium Dwarfs: A Rare Discovery by Warwick

We know of just over 50 close double white dwarfs but this was only the second ever eclipsing close white dwarf pair to be found. The University of Warwick…

Studies and Analyses

Baylor Study Reveals Fire Retardant Risks to Aquatic Life

A new study by Baylor University environmental health researchers found that zebra fish exposed to several different technical mixtures of polybrominated…

Life & Chemistry

Teaching algae to make fuel

Many kinds of algae and cyanobacteria, common water-dwelling microorganisms, are capable of using energy from sunlight to split water molecules and release…

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Scripps Geochemist Wins Francis Shepard Medal

Kastner’s research has taken her around the world to study sub-seafloor deposits, how sediments form and the process called diagenesis in which sedimentary…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Illuminates the Future of Lighting

University’s Pair of World-Class Research Centers Investigate the “Whys and Hows” of LightingLighting technology touches nearly everything we do—from…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Pick Top 10 New Species

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of taxonomists from around the world – scientists responsible…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Soggy Spring Ups the Odds of More Late Blight Crop Destruction

“Concern is a good thing. It reflects knowledge gained from experience with one of the most destructive plant diseases, unknown to many in 2009. Awareness of…

Environmental Conservation

Research Tackles Effects of Dredging on Fish and River Habitats

Melinda Daniels, associate professor of geography, and Keith Gido, associate professor of biology, are collaborating on a project that involves habitat and…

Environmental Conservation

In Living Collar: Elk Don Neckwear to Steer Clear of Danger

Researchers like Northern Arizona University’s Paul Beier, a conservation biology and wildlife ecology professor in the School of Forestry, said this…

Power and Electrical Engineering

SUNY-ESF Produces ‘Next Generation of Biofuels’

Researchers in the college’s Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering are experimenting with different strains of bacteria that can ferment sugars…

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