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Environmental Conservation

Ecological Cement: Cutting CO2 Emissions by Up to 100%

The development of the new ecological cement, as well as the techniques for enhancing its mechanical properties using nanotechnology, has lead to the obtention…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists grow crystals with a twist — and untwist

Their work, which appears in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, may explain some of the properties of high-polymers, which are…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists identify nature's insect repellents

But as widespread as kairomones are in the insect world, their chemical identity has remained largely unknown. New research by Rockefeller University's Joel E….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Concentration, Timing and Interactions are Key When it Comes to Dietary Compounds

Scientists do not know exactly why one person develops cancer and another does not. But they do know that certain nutrients might increase or decrease cancer…

Life & Chemistry

Redundant genetic instructions in 'junk DNA' support healthy development

New findings from a Princeton-led team of researchers suggest that repeated instructional regions in the flies' DNA may contribute to normal development under…

Health & Medicine

New Cetuximab Guidelines for Advanced Colon Cancer Treatment

Based on earlier studies, cetuximab is now indicated for treatment of patients with advanced colorectal cancer whose tumors do not have a mutation in the KRAS…

Environmental Conservation

New Insights Challenge Phytoplankton Growth Theories

The findings challenge more than 50 years of conventional wisdom about the growth of phytoplankton, which are the ultimate basis for almost all ocean life and…

Life & Chemistry

Mice Cages Impact Brain Development, Study Finds

Researchers at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus have found the brains of mice used in laboratories worldwide can be profoundly affected by…

Life & Chemistry

Florida Tech Innovations: Simplifying Lab Work for Researchers

As a national research university, Florida Institute of Technology not only involves its students in research, but also seeks to license and patent its many…

Health & Medicine

Quick and Affordable Microfluidic HIV Test Unveiled

UC Davis biomedical engineer Prof. Alexander Revzin has developed a “lab on a chip” device for HIV testing. Revzin's microfluidic device uses antibodies to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

‘Broken Symmetry’ Discovery in High-Temperature Superconductors Opens New Research Path

This simple discovery opens a door to new research that could lead to room-temperature superconductors. “Cornell has the world’s best, if not the universe’s…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Cut Years from Drug Development with Nanoscopic Bead Technology

Lab-on-Bead uses tiny beads studded with “pins” that match a drug to a disease marker in a single step, so researchers can test an infinite number of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Increasing the Shelf-Life of Cassava

The research team, led by Hernán Ceballos at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, identified four different sources of tolerance to a phenomenon…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Through Microbes, Nitrogen Alters Soil Carbon Cycle

Don Zak and Sarah Eisenlord from the University of Michigan conducted a study on the response the soil bacterial community to levels of nitrogen accumulation…

Life & Chemistry

Clogging up the plumbing

Every vascular plant contains an extensive network of xylem and phloem, specialized tissues that respectively transport water and nutrients throughout the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Imagery Reveals Weakening of Tropical Depression 6E

The image, captured on July 15 at 2105 UTC 5:05 p.m. EDT was captured when 6E was still a tropical depression. By July 16, 6E was a remnant low pressure area…

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