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Life & Chemistry

Melanoma uses body's immune system to spread to lungs

“Melanoma is the most aggressive and metastatic form of skin cancer,” said Gavin Robertson, professor of pharmacology, pathology, dermatology and surgery in…

Life & Chemistry

MIT Researchers Enhance Molecular Imaging in Living Brain Cells

By creating a better way to see molecules at work in living brain cells, researchers affiliated with MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Otto’s Transformation Into Tropical Storm

After a United States Air Force Reserve reconnaissance flight subtropical depression seventeen was upgraded by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) to…

Physics & Astronomy

Saturn's Icy Moon May Keep Oceans Liquid with Wobble

Some worlds, like Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa, give hints that they might harbor liquid water beneath their surfaces. Mars is about 4,200 miles across and…

Life & Chemistry

Three-Molecule Control Boosts Fetal Heart Cell Regeneration

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine describe the interconnections between three-molecules that control fetal,…

Materials Sciences

Examining Atomic-Level Bonds in Silicon-Based Devices

Manufacturers build silicon-based devices from layers of different materials. Bonds – the chemical interaction between adjacent atoms – are what give materials…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Engineer Bacteria Cell Walls with Small Molecules

The finding, described online in the journal ACS Chemical Biology this week, represents the first time scientists have engineered the cell wall of a pathogenic…

Seminars Workshops

BDBDB2 Workshop on Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Simulations in Heidelberg

In biological systems, macromolecules are constantly moving around by diffusion. How do the molecules find their binding partners? How do they fold to form a…

Transportation and Logistics

First Automatic Vehicle Navigates Real City Traffic in Braunschweig

A world’s first in Braunschweig: For the first time, an automatic vehicle is driving in everyday city traffic today.In the context of the research project…

Business and Finance

Industrial Biotechnology: Northern Europe’s Economic Champion

From the various areas of modern biotechnologies the so called industrial or white biotechnology has already biggest impact in economy, based on…

Life & Chemistry

Notre Dame researcher helps discover 'walking' properties of bacteria

Shrout, assistant professor of civil engineering and geological sciences and a member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, has been studying the surface…

Life & Chemistry

MRI Enhances Microscopic Flow Analysis with NMR Spectroscopy

Of the tools used to study material structures at the atomic and molecular scales, there is none finer than Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and…

Studies and Analyses

In Parkinson's disease, brain cells abandon mitochondria

The findings indicate that boosting the mitochondria with FDA approved drugs early on may prevent or delay the onset of Parkinson's. The study will be…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Obesity Costs Businesses More Than Medical Expenses

This is the first study to quantify the total value of lost job productivity as a result of health problems, which it finds is more costly than medical…

Environmental Conservation

Turtle, Dugongs 'at Risk Under Climate Change'

“Depletion of turtle and dugong numbers increases their vulnerability to other threats and lowers their ability to cope with climate change,” Dr Mariana…

Life & Chemistry

Key Reproductive Hormone in Oldest Vertebrate ID’d

Although the prize expired, unclaimed, long ago, University of New Hampshire professor of biochemistry Stacia Sower and colleagues at two Japanese universities…

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