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U-M study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in cancer occurs

Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown…

Earth Sciences

New Insights Into Ancient Ocean Chemistry and Oxygen Rise

Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic change when oxygen levels rose sharply. Called the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Single-Layer Superconductivity Achieved at Brookhaven Lab

Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National…

Information Technology

New Japanese Supercomputer RICC Breaks PC Cluster Performance Record

Named RICC (RIKEN Integrated Cluster of Clusters), the supercomputer is made up of four distinct computer clusters connected through InfiniBand…

Life & Chemistry

Cellular secrets exposed in living color

One of the best ways to watch the complex workings of living cells is to label components, such as DNA segments, with fluorescent probes—small molecules with…

Physics & Astronomy

Sifting out the sources of spin

Along with the neutron, the proton is the basic building block of the atomic nucleus. But, the source of the proton’s spin—a fundamental property, along with…

Environmental Conservation

FSU, Duke Partner to Study Impact of Gulf’s ‘Dead Zone’ on Shrimp Fishery

Florida State will serve as the lead institution for the collaborative project, which is funded by a four-year, $702,969 grant from the National Oceanic and…

Life & Chemistry

With Venom and Vigor Bugs Vie to be Crowned ‘Ugliest’

“The Shocker,” a paper wasp whose sting can cause anaphylactic shock and “The Stinger,” a scorpion that crushes it's prey with pincers and injects them with a…

Information Technology

Cell Phones Become Handheld Tools for Global Development

Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Use Drug-radiation Combo to Eradicate Lung Cancer

In a study appearing in the October issue of Cancer Research, UT Southwestern researchers found that if they administered BEZ235 before they damaged the DNA of…

Physics & Astronomy

Explaining Bizarre Helium 4, a Likely Supersolid

Suggesting that atoms in a solid can move or be transported through it seems as impossible as using a syringe to inject material into a billiard ball. It…

Technology Offerings

Network Formation Assay (NFA) – Rapid and reliable method to analyse neurite outgrowths

The novel network formation assay enables simple, rapid and reproducible analysis of neurite generation and outgrowth by cell patterning techniques. Therefore…

Technology Offerings

Searching with Semantic Similarity in Ontology Databases

The invention provides techniques

for indexing and searching

document collections and

databases using ontologies.

Further Information: PDF ipal GmbHPhone:…

Technology Offerings

Flexible SERS-Substrate: A Breakthrough in Raman Technology

The technology provides a flexible and reusable

surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate.

For this purpose sub-surface-silver nanoparticles…

Technology Offerings

New Multi-Segment All-Fiber Laser Device for Optical Pulses

Here we introduce a new multi-segment all-fiber laser device

· that emits well-defined optical pulses and/or pulse trains of well-defined
…

Studies and Analyses

Genetic Links to Bad Driving: Insights from UC Irvine Study

Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.People with a particular gene variant performed more than…

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