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Life & Chemistry

Hormone Sensitivity in Breast Stem Cells: New Drug Target Found

The discovery, by scientists in the institute's Stem Cells and Cancer and Bioinformatics divisions, also explains decades of evidence linking breast cancer…

Life & Chemistry

Key Protein Boosts DNA Repair and Fights Aging Effects

Scientists have shown in multiple contexts that DNA damage over our lifetimes is a key mechanism behind the development of cancer and other age-related…

Studies and Analyses

McMaster study unveils lifeline for 'antibiotic of last resort'

A new study led by the scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research has uncovered for the first time how bacteria…

Life & Chemistry

MIT Researchers Use Viruses to Split Water for Clean Energy

A team of MIT researchers has found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power…

Studies and Analyses

Hispanics Face Barriers in Colorectal Cancer Screening Access

Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that differences in areas' capacity for providing…

Health & Medicine

Improving Palliative Radiotherapy for Terminal Cancer Patients

Palliative radiotherapy for end-stage cancer patients is intended to control cancer-related pain and other symptoms and to help patients maintain a good…

Studies and Analyses

Link Between Hardships and Health in Low-Income Kids

Poverty influences a child's well-being through multiple environmental stressors, the report says, but research and interventions often fail to take into…

Life & Chemistry

Maternal Thyroid Hormones: Key to Fetal Development Insights

That event is very important because the maternal thyroid hormones appear to play a key role in the development of the nervous system and other organs of the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Agricultural Innovations: Connecting Classrooms to Global Trends

What do obesity trends in China, barriers to export markets facing small farmers in Kenya, or alternative soil conservation strategies in Peru have in common?…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Neural Development: Axons and Dendrites Explained

During neural development, immature nerve cells extend axons and dendrites toward their targets then form connections with other cells. At the tip of these…

Life & Chemistry

Insights to air supply

As well as being expressed in the kidney, AE1 is the most abundant protein in the membrane of red blood cells, or erythrocytes, and helps prevent tissue damage…

Studies and Analyses

Artificial Light at Night Disrupts Cell Division, Study Finds

Just one “pulse” of artificial light at night disrupts circadian cell division, reveals a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo of the University of…

Life & Chemistry

Yeast Innovation: Mainz and India Collaborate on Nanoparticle Research

Nanoparticles are already widely used in everyday products such as cosmetics, textiles, dyes, and paints. It is quite possible that these minute fragments of…

Technology Offerings

ABIOTIC STRESS MODULATOR – ASM protects plants against abiotic stress

ASM (Acibenzolar-S-Methyl) improves the resistance of plants against abiotic stresses. ASM has been tested successfully and protects crops and model plants…

Technology Offerings

EMULSION BUSTER – Emulsion separation with scCO2

A process has been developed at the Technical University of Dortmund that for the first time enables biocatalytic

reaction mixtures composed by two-phase…

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Explore the French Pavilion at IFSEC 2010: Security Innovations

The French Pavilion (Stand D125 in Hall 5) at the NEC (in Birmingham) will offer a unique environment in which security specialists, manufacturers,…

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