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Life & Chemistry

Virtual Reality Gives Insight on Protein Structures

James F. Hinton, University Professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has worked with Virtalis, an advanced visualization company, to create a computer software…

Physics & Astronomy

Video Game Processors Help Lower CT Scan Radiation

Cone beam CT plays an essential role in image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), a state-of-the-art cancer treatment. IGRT uses repeated scans during a course of…

Life & Chemistry

Major Alzheimer’s Risk Gene Causes Alterations in Shapes of Brain Protein Deposits

Sam Gandy, MD, PhD, the Mount Sinai Professor in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s…

Physics & Astronomy

New Superconductor Research May Solve Key Problem in Physics

The data Lawler analyzed have been available for several years, but have not been well understood until now. “The pattern looked so mysterious and…

Life & Chemistry

Opening the Gate to the Cell's Recycling Center

New research by University of Michigan cell biologist Haoxing Xu and colleagues reveals key details about how the cell's garbage dump and recycling center, the…

Earth Sciences

Indian Ocean Sea Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas

Sea level rise is particularly high along the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, the authors found. The rise-which…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Scientists Counter Brucellosis Threat to Livestock and Wildlife

Researchers from the ARS National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa, are using a vaccine known as RB51. By vaccinating the wild bison, scientists hope…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Finds Super Hot Planet with Unique Comet-like Tail

Observations taken with Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) suggest powerful stellar winds are sweeping the cast-off atmospheric material behind the…

Technology Offerings

Easy Method for Forming Ordered Metal Nitrides on Metals

This invention provides an opportunity for an easy formation of highly ordered hexagonal boron nitride in a three-step process. The starting material is less…

Technology Offerings

New Synthesis Method for Modified Rylene Systems

Many fluorescent dyes are based upon chromophores with a highly delocalised p-system. Especially functional rylene type dyes are of great technical importance…

Studies and Analyses

Blind mice can 'see' thanks to special retinal cells

The conventional wisdom: rods and cones. The human retina contains about 120 million rods, which detect light and darkness, shape and movement, and about 7…

Health & Medicine

Link Between High-Fat Diet and Prostate Cancer Risk Unveiled

Sanjay Gupta, MS, PhD, Carter Kissell associate professor & research director in the Department of Urology and associate professor in the Department of…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Aqua Satellite sees Tropical Storm Conson now in South China Sea

At 1500 UTC (10 a.m. EDT/10 p.m. local Asia/Manila time) on July 14, Tropical Storm Conson was located about 225 nautical miles west-northwest of Manila, the…

Earth Sciences

GOES-11 Satellite Monitors System 96E’s Tropical Formation

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-11 keeps a watchful eye over the western U.S. and that includes the Eastern Pacific Ocean….

Materials Sciences

Princeton Scientists Discover Unique Electrons That Flow Freely

The Princeton work represents the first time such behavior of electrons has been tracked and recorded, and hints at the possibilities of speeding up integrated…

Business and Finance

KfW Entwicklungsbank Fuels SME Innovation in Russia

At today's German-Russian government consultations in Ekaterinburg, KfW Entwicklungsbank signed in the presence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and…

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