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Agricultural & Forestry Science

String Blossom Thinner Enhances Peach and Nectarine Growth

Blossom or fruitlet thinning is a labor-intensive part of commercial peach and nectarine production. The use of mechanical string blossom thinners has been…

Studies and Analyses

Doctors Overlook Opioid Monitoring: A Growing Concern

Few primary care physicians pay adequate attention to patients taking prescription opioid drugs — despite the potential for abuse, addiction and overdose,…

Health & Medicine

New Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Strategies Unveiled

The research, published in the March edition of the journal Cancer Research, found that a cell-surface protein called CNT1, which transports cancer-killing…

Life & Chemistry

Glowing Spirals: Cells Navigate Using Chemical Maps

To find our way, we use maps. Cells use “chemical maps” to find the way: they orient themselves by following concentration gradients of attractants or…

Life & Chemistry

The digital side of biology

Revolutions in science come in waves. One of the epoch-making events in modern biology came in 1995 when J. Craig Venter, an American biologist, decoded the…

Physics & Astronomy

Laser physics: Getting silicon into order

The importance of silicon for almost every element in modern-day electronic devices and computers is due largely to its crystalline atomic structure….

Architecture & Construction

Elegant glass bridge at Portuguese research centre benefits from the high performance of DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayer

The glass envelope encasing the bridge consists of curved panels of laminated glass made with DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayer, specified by the structural…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Tropical Flower Adaptation for Colder Regions

Texas AgriLife Research scientists are trying to bring more beauty to the colder regions of the state by breeding winter-hardiness into a tropical ornamental…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Groundwater Use in Bioenergy Feedstock Economics

Dr. Steve Amosson, AgriLife Extension economist in Amarillo, and Dr. Seong Park, AgriLife Research economist in Vernon, are joining other economists to model…

Life & Chemistry

Scripps Research Develops Microscopic Cell Assembly Line

Borrowing a page from modern manufacturing, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have built a microscopic assembly line that…

Studies and Analyses

Breast Cancer Survivors Face Increased Fall Risks

The combined effects of chemotherapy and endocrine therapy may increase the risk of bone fractures in breast cancer survivors. In a study scheduled for…

Life & Chemistry

Human stem cells transformed into key neurons lost in Alzheimer's

Northwestern Medicine researchers for the first time have transformed a human embryonic stem cell into a critical type of neuron that dies early in Alzheimer's…

Studies and Analyses

Patients Eager for Multiple Tests in New Cancer Treatments

Cancer patients are willing to undergo many tests to receive advanced experimental treatment in clinical trials, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic,…

Physics & Astronomy

Voltage Breaks Down Plastic: New Insights on Polymer Deformation

Researchers have known for decades that polymers, such those insulating wires, may break down due to deformation of the polymers. But the process had never…

Medical Engineering

Siemens Unveils Multix Select DR for Accessible Digital X-Ray

The digital system is suitable for virtually all clinical radiography applications. It is easy to use, offering above all an outstanding price-performance…

Technology Offerings

N-Terminally Modified Tetrapeptides as Antiviral Protease Inhibitors

The invention concerns N-terminally modified tetrapeptide mimetics having a C-terminal arginine mimetic according to the general formula

P5-P4-P3-P2-P1

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