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Life & Chemistry

Dual-Role Gene: Cancer Fighter or Catalyst? New Research Insights

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery…

Power and Electrical Engineering

ORNL Energy Harvesters Turn Waste Heat Into Electricity

The high-efficiency thermal waste heat energy converter actively cools electronic devices, photovoltaic cells, computers and large waste heat-producing systems…

Life & Chemistry

Sporadic Mutations Found in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Scientists at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Genome Sciences have identified several sporadic or “de novo” genetic mutations in children with…

Medical Engineering

Digital imaging software to create a 'Google Earth' view of the bladder

After initial diagnosis and surgery, patients must return to the urologist at least yearly for a costly, time-consuming and uncomfortable bladder scan. Tumors…

Seminars Workshops

Experts explore digital technologies' potential to improve health care

Digital Infrastructure for the Learning Health System: The Foundation for Continuous Improvement in Health and Health Care recaps presentations and discussions…

Life & Chemistry

Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog: Insights on River Management

The team examined how altered water flows caused by hydroelectric dams impact the life cycle of the foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii). The frog, which…

Health & Medicine

Protein Target May Reduce Lung Damage from Smoking Emphysema

The research, conducted in mice, suggests that the protein, a cytokine named EMAPII, could provide a target for drugs to treat emphysema, said Irina Petrache,…

Health & Medicine

Child-Size Mannequin Enhances Pediatric Training for Students

The students created Ped.IT, short for Pediatric Evaluation Device Intended for Training, as their senior design project at the request of doctors at Texas…

Business and Finance

How Your Story Can Enhance Peer-to-Peer Lending Success

These days a bad credit score will get you turned away by a bank, but if you tell a good story about that score, you can improve your chances of getting a…

Studies and Analyses

When to Choose Remanufacturing: Insights from MIT Study

Not so fast, says a new study by researchers at MIT.In some cases, the conventional wisdom is indeed correct. But out of 25 case studies on products in eight…

Environmental Conservation

OU Grad Innovates Solutions for Ethiopia’s Water Challenges

Laura Brunson, graduate student in the OU College of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, works with researchers in the OU Water Center on global water…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Advancing Soybean Rust Resistance With Molecular Techniques

Hartman and his team of researchers successfully used quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) assays to assess fungal DNA in soybean leaf tissue to…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring The Dark Side of Happiness in Psychology

But even happiness can have a dark side, according to the authors of a new review article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the…

Health & Medicine

New A+PSA Prostate Cancer Test Outperforms Traditional Methods

The test, called the A+PSA assay, also reduced the rate of false-positives, tests that indicate the presence of cancer when no disease is actually present,…

Life & Chemistry

Colorblind Animals: Mastering Camouflage for Survival

U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, N.Y.—How could a colorblind animal know how to change its skin color to blend into its surroundings? And what will the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Solar Product Captures 95% of Light Energy Efficiently

Efficiency is a problem with today's solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed…

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