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Improved Metal Foams: Strengthening Structures for Safety

The french-german institution for security and defence (ISL) and Saarland University joined their efforts and developed a method to strengthen the structur of…

Technology Offerings

Clonal USSC – DLK1-positive Human Cord Blood Derived Unrestricted Somatic Stem Cells

Over the last years, there was a tremendous increase in the clinical use of allogenic cord blood (CB) for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Amongst…

Health & Medicine

New Discovery: Tregs Boost Lung Repair After Injury

The white blood cells are called regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, and their best known function is to keep the body's immune system from attacking its…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Variant Discovery Linked to Glaucoma Breakthrough

The study by Kang Zhang, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine and professor of ophthalmology and human genetics at the Shiley Eye Center at…

Health & Medicine

Image-guided treatment for deep venous thrombosis could improve patients' long-term outcomes

A patient with DVT is typically treated with anticoagulants (blood thinners) however researchers have found that image-guided interventional radiology…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Link Discovered Between Cardiac Arrhythmias and Thyroid Issues

Genes previously known to be essential to the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of cardiac muscle — a healthy heartbeat — have now also been found to…

Materials Sciences

Controlling Carbon Nanotubes for Targeted Medicine Delivery

Nanoscopic tubes made of a lattice of carbon just a single atom deep hold promise for delivering medicines directly to a tumor, sensors so keen they detect the…

Health & Medicine

Nevada professor discovers new way to calculate body's 'Maximum Weight Limit'

Charts or online calculators are then used to show a “healthy weight range” given an individual's height that corresponds to the “healthy range BMI.” For…

Studies and Analyses

Young age at first drink may affect genes and risk for alcoholism

A team of researchers, led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, studied 6,257 adult twins from Australia. They wanted to…

Information Technology

Small Satellites Innovate Navigation with GPS and Galileo

A combination of small satellites can, with innovative methods, use the signals of the navigation satellite systems GPS and Galileo to significantly improve…

Environmental Conservation

Princeton’s Portable Gas Sensor: A Breakthrough in Pollution Monitoring

Nitric oxide, a gas well known to scientists for its myriad functions, has proven challenging to measure accurately outside the laboratory. A team of Princeton…

Life & Chemistry

Antioxidant Protein Influences Spinal Cord Development

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered how one antioxidant protein controls the activity of another protein, critical for the…

Physics & Astronomy

Black Holes Unveiled: Understanding Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts

The flashes, known as gamma ray bursts, are beams of high energy radiation – similar to the radiation emitted by explosions of nuclear weapons – produced by…

Environmental Conservation

Hot Microbes Redefine Groundwater Cleanup Strategies

While investigating ways of cleaning up groundwater contamination, scientists examined how microbes break down contaminants under the soil’s surface and found…

Studies and Analyses

US Tax Breaks Boost Foreign Oil Production Over Renewables

The research demonstrates that the federal government provided substantially larger subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewables. Fossil fuels benefited from…

Health & Medicine

Daily Commute’s Impact on Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Mega-Cities

Published August 26, the paper highlights how daily commuting patterns in mega-cities may be a critically overlooked factor in understanding the resurgence of…

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