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Life & Chemistry

Biosensor Chip Boosts Protein Analysis for Disease Diagnosis

In the battle against cancer and other diseases, precise analysis of specific proteins can point the way toward targeted treatments. Scientists at…

Materials Sciences

New ORNL Carbon Composite Enhances Bionic Prosthetics

While these nanostructures have electrical and other properties that make them attractive to use as artificial neural bundles in prosthetic devices, the…

Studies and Analyses

Physician Training Enhances Mammogram Interpretation Accuracy

A multi-site study led by an Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researcher has identified set criteria that could be used to help …

Materials Sciences

Caltech Team Develops Innovative Negative-Index Metamaterial

A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has engineered a type of artificial optical material—a…

Life & Chemistry

Key Discovery in Regulating Embryonic Development Unveiled

Deleting a gene in mouse embryos caused cardiac defects and early death, leading researchers to identify a mechanism that turns developmental genes off and on…

Life & Chemistry

Transforming Algae: New Advances in Biofuel Development

University of Michigan professors are working to understand and improve this procedure in an effort to speed up development of affordable biofuels that could…

Medical Engineering

UCLA engineer invents world's smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope

Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his…

Life & Chemistry

Controlling Plant Cell Types to Enhance Biofuel Production

This discovery has broad implications in a wide range of fields, including medical gene therapy and bioengineering of crop plants. The discovery could be…

Studies and Analyses

Study of Williams syndrome patients reveals specific gene's role in intelligence

Although genetics is the most significant known determinant of human intelligence, how specific genes affect intelligence remains largely unknown. A…

Environmental Conservation

Biocontrol Success: Insect Pest Management in Galapagos Islands

The Galapagos Islands, made famous by Charles Darwin, have a unique biota now highly threatened by invasive species because of increased tourism and population…

Earth Sciences

91S Becomes Tropical Cyclone 24S as NASA's TRMM Captures its Rainfall

TRMM, managed by NASA and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) passed over System 91S early today, April 22 at 3:08 Eastern Daylight Time (0708 UTC) and captured a…

Physics & Astronomy

Microfluidic Integrated Circuits for Home Diagnostic Tests

Just as electronic circuits intelligently route the flow of electricity on computer chips without external controls, these microfluidic circuits regulate the…

Health & Medicine

New Cancer Detection Method Using Gold Nanoparticles

“When injected into the body, the Gastrin Releasing Peptide (GRP) cancer receptor serves as a signaling device to the gold nanoparticle, which allows for…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering Similarities Between Brains, Worms, and Chips

“Brains are often compared to computers, but apart from the trivial fact that both process information using a complex pattern of connections in a physical…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NIFTi – The Robot as a Team Player in Urban Search and Rescue

Since early 2010, these questions are being addressed in the collaborative research project “Natural Human-Robot Interaction in Dynamic Environments,” (NIFTi)….

Health & Medicine

Heart Rate Patterns in Premature Infants: Key Insights

In work published in the April issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, simple and interesting heart rate dynamics in premature human infants is reported –…

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