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Life & Chemistry

Gene Mutation Is Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice

The researchers also report that a drug affecting a specific type of nerve function reduced the obsessive behavior in the animals, suggesting a potential way…

Machine Engineering

New Engineering System for Controllers Offers Multi-Language Support

With the Chinese program interface, Step 7 Basic now has six language versions along with German, English, French, Italian and Spanish which can be selected by…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding Gene Regulation in Helicobacter Pylori Breakthrough

A breakthrough in decoding gene regulation of Helicobacter pylori has been made by an international research team led by Jörg Vogel of the Max Planck Institute…

Studies and Analyses

Sustainable Footprint of Global Chemical Companies: Key Insights

The claim has been made following an international study which assessed the sustainability performance of nine global chemical companies in monetary terms….

Power and Electrical Engineering

Waste Can Generate 7% of Spain’s Electricity Supply

Using waste to generate electricity has economic and environmental advantages. “It gives added value to waste, because it can be seen as a type of fuel with…

Environmental Conservation

Innovative Land Use and Conservation Policies in Germany

The report provides a comprehensive evaluation of national and European environmental policies covering the years 2004 to 2008. Key sections of the SRU report…

Trade Fair News

Fraunhofer IESE at embedded world 2010 in Nürnberg

Everyone is talking about model-based development and code generation nowadays – with the help of domain-specific languages, developers can use these to obtain…

Earth Sciences

First images from ESA’s water mission

Launched on 2 November, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is improving our understanding of Earth’s water cycle by making global observations…

Life & Chemistry

Mayo Clinic’s RNA Sequencing Unveils Full Tumor Genome

Mayo Clinic researchers along with collaborators from Life Technologies are reporting on the application of a new approach for sequencing RNA to study cancer…

Life & Chemistry

Protecting the Brain from Genetic Disease: New Insights

HD sufferers are born with the disease although they do not show symptoms until late in life. In a new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience, Stephen…

Materials Sciences

Durable Material Promises 150-Year-Lasting Prosthetics

Researcher Nere Garmendia, based in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián, has just published her PhD, a thesis which may well mean the first step to…

Life & Chemistry

SIBLING Proteins: A New Indicator for Oral Cancer Risk

SIBLINGs, or Small Integrin-Binding Ligand N-linked Glycoproteins, are a family of five proteins that help mineralize bone but can also spread cancer. SIBLINGs…

Power and Electrical Engineering

SmartCoDe: Innovating Local Energy Management Solutions

edacentrum GmbH announced the launch of the European Union (EU)-funded Project SmartCoDe. The project's objective is to enable the intelligent management of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Wind Tunnel Success: Controllable Flap for Turbine Blades

Today’s wind turbine blades, which can measure more than 60 metres in length, are subjected to enormous loads, which means that a blade can flex as much as 4-6…

Life & Chemistry

New Tumor Mechanism Uncovered by Leading Researchers

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth (UK), the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Cornell University in New York, Weil…

Studies and Analyses

UK Research at Risk: Study Reveals Delays Impacting Jobs

The two year study focused on identifying the key social, organisational and managerial factors that influence clinical research projects in the UK. In the…

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