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Life & Chemistry

New Microfluidics Imaging Platform Detects Cancer Early

Inappropriate growth and survival signaling, which leads to the aberrant growth of cancer cells, is a driving force behind tumors. Much of current cancer…

Health & Medicine

UCI’s Breakthrough in Targeted Drug Therapy for Lung Cancer

A UC Irvine oncologist’s work with a targeted therapy is showing great promise in patients with a deadly form of lung cancer. The results were published…

Studies and Analyses

After Good or Bad Events, People Forget How They Thought They’d Feel

People aren’t very accurate at predicting how good or bad they’ll feel after an event — such as watching their team lose the big game or getting a flat-screen…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer Drug Boosted by Quantum Dots Enhances Delivery Efficiency

A paper appearing online in Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine as an article-in-press describes specific delivery of a chemotherapeutic drug to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Some city trees may discourage 'shady' behavior

Along with energy conservation and storm-water reduction, scientists may soon be adding crime-fighting to the list of benefits that urban trees provide.Researchers with the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest (PNW) and Southern Research Stations have published a new study that suggests that certain types of city trees may help lower property and violent crime rates….

Studies and Analyses

UV light nearly doubles vacuum's effectiveness in reducing carpet microbes

Researchers say the findings suggest that incorporating the germicidal properties of UV light into vacuuming might have promise in reducing allergens and…

Studies and Analyses

Elderly Women Face Higher Risk of Unneeded Urinary Catheters

The study was conducted at St John Hospital and Medical Center, a 769-bed tertiary care teaching hospital in Detroit, Mich. The authors examined 532 instances…

Life & Chemistry

Impact of GMO Gene Escape on Hybrid Crops Explained

GMOs, or Genetically Modified Organisms, may raise concerns of genes escaping from crops and having unknown effects on natural, wild species. But what is the…

Studies and Analyses

Changing Perceptions: New Research on Stereotype Training

It may seem difficult to change stereotypical thinking. Perceptions can be very important in forming an individual's attitudes. Now, researchers at the…

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish Insights: Understanding Visual Processing in Humans

To scientists, it's a window into how our brain coordinates the eye motions that enable us to hit a baseball, sidestep an errant skateboarder, and otherwise…

Medical Engineering

MRI Insights: Pinpointing Stroke Onset Timing

Some patients who suffer an acute ischemic stroke — in which a blood clot or other obstruction blocks blood flow in the brain — can be treated with a drug…

Health & Medicine

Improving Medication Use by Reducing Cost-Sharing for Statins

The study, led by Niteesh K. Choudhry at Brigham and Women's Hospital, found that adherence to cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, which had been on the…

Technology Offerings

New Glass Corrosion Sensor Enhances Material Detection

The detection of glass corrosion takes place with the aid of sensor plates, which are assembled from glass segments with different corrosion sensibility. These…

Technology Offerings

New Process for Fabricating Metallic Nano-Components

The innovation deals with the fabrication of metallic nano-components utilizing three basic steps.Further Information: PDF Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland GmbH…

Technology Offerings

Enhancing High-Stress Components With New Metallic Alloy

The present invention is partly met through component cooling and application of thermal barrier coatings because the base materials used today operate close…

Life & Chemistry

Newly discovered gene enables fish to ‘disappear’

The gene is the third member of the agouti family. Two agouti genes have been identified previously in humans. One helps determine skin and hair color, and the…

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