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Life & Chemistry

Notre Dame Study Reveals Insights on Tumor Cell Microvesicles

The study elucidates mechanisms involved in the release of microvesicles –small membrane enclosed sacs– from tumor cells that facilitate creation of paths of…

Earth Sciences

Alps Height Increase: A Paradox of Growth and Shrinkage

The Alps are growing just as quickly in height, as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result could be proven by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists….

Studies and Analyses

Sabertoothed Cats: Weaker Predators Than Macho Lions

Commonly called the sabertoothed tiger, Smilodon fatalis was a large predatory cat that roamed North and South America about 1.6 million to 10,000 years ago,…

Machine Engineering

New Adapter Connects Standard Sensors to IO-Link Seamlessly

This means that the majority of sensor types available on the market can utilize the benefits of the IO-Link without any special modification, facilitating…

Health & Medicine

An Inexpensive “Dipstick” Test for Pesticides in Foods

The study is in the November 1 issue of ACS’ Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal. John Brennan and colleagues note in the new study that conventional…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Toward Home-brewed Electricity with “Personalized Solar Energy”

That's the topic of a report by an international expert on solar energy scheduled for the November 2 issue of ACS’ Inorganic Chemistry, a bi-weekly journal. It…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers Hail Innovative Plan to Save Rainforest, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Ecuadorian proposal, known as the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, would protect a large area of pristine Amazon rainforest, by leaving untouched nearly one billion…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Develop Novel Cancer Detection Method

The group's paper, “Towards Nonspecific Detection of Malignant Cervical Cells with Fluorescent Silica Beads,” is published in Small (Volume 5 Issue 20, Pages…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Visualize How Bacteria Talk to One Another

In the paper published in the November 8 issue of Nature Chemical Biology, Pieter C. Dorrestein, PhD, assistant professor at UC San Diego’s Skaggs School of…

Interdisciplinary Research

Exploring Scent: How Aromas Trigger Powerful Memories

From Proust's Madeleines to the overbearing food critic in the movie Ratatouille who's transported back to his childhood at the aroma of stew, artists have…

Health & Medicine

Antibody and Stem Cell Transplantation Breakthrough for Leukemia

All fifty-eight patients, with a median age of 63 and all with advanced acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome – a pre-leukemic condition…

Health & Medicine

New TMS Clinic Provides Noninvasive Major Depression Treatment

Psychiatrists at Rush University Medical Center were among the first to test the technique and Dr. Philip Janicak, professor of psychiatry and lead…

Process Engineering

PTB’s Terahertz Calibration Meets US Laser Standards

Terahertz radiation still lies in a metrological no man's land – a metrology gap. The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) can now close this gap. For…

Life & Chemistry

Melatonin: A Natural Sleep Regulator Outperforming Somniferous

Melatonin, a natural hormone segregated by the own human body, is an excellent sleep regulator expected to replace somniferous, which are much more aggressive,…

Environmental Conservation

Future forest monitoring in the European Union

The Conference “Future forest monitoring in the European Union. Providing information for multifunctional forest management”, which will take place 11-12…

Information Technology

New System Ensures Privacy in Internet Searches

Just imagine someone from Company X who uses the Google search engine to obtain information about a certain technology. If Company Y, a competitor of X, should…

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