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Life & Chemistry

Tumors feel the deadly sting of nanobees

In mice, nanobees delivered the bee toxin melittin to tumors while protecting other tissues from the toxin's destructive power. The mice's tumors stopped…

Life & Chemistry

NYU Chemists Uncover Twisted Molecules for Targeted Innovation

The research, reported in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), could yield valuable methods for making…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Technique Captures Calmodulin’s Action in Cells

It's well known that the protein calmodulin specifically targets and steers the activities of hundreds of other proteins – mostly kinases – in our cells, thus…

Health & Medicine

New Study Reveals Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant TB Strains

Australian researchers from the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Sydney have published the new finding in the latest issue of the…

Information Technology

New Programming Method Exposes Voting Machine Vulnerabilities

Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Creates White Blood Cells From Stem Cells

While clinical use is some years away, the new technique could produce cells with enormous potential for studying the development and treatment of disease. The…

Studies and Analyses

Breastfeeding Lowers Breast Cancer Risk in Family History

“This is good news for women with a family history of breast cancer,” says Alison Stuebe, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of…

Health & Medicine

Breakthrough in Alzheimer's research

The results were published in this week's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).Alzheimer's is one of the most common dementia…

Physics & Astronomy

New Laser Technique Enhances Supernova Discovery Efforts

The problem is how to find such an atom – among billions of others. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a laser technique that,…

Technology Offerings

Bacterial TIR Domain Mimics: New Hope for Autoimmunity and Infections

Pathogenic microbes possess sophisticated molecular tools to suppress the immune response of their mammalian hosts. Recently, a novel mechanism used by…

Technology Offerings

Electromagnetic Microsystem for Magnetic Bead Manipulation

The invention describes an electromagnetic microsystem for manipulating and separating magnetic micro and nanobeads conjugated with biomolecules. Further…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Treatment for Oxygen-Deprived Newborns Unveiled

New research findings from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden, in collaboration with Zhengzhou…

Life & Chemistry

Manganese’s Impact on Marine Animals’ Immune Response

Water eutrophication and the resulting hypoxia is an ever-current issue, not least in connection with summer algal blooms. A more recently acknowledged problem…

Social Sciences

Cultural Evolution: How Lifelong Learning Shapes Growth

The number of learning opportunities a person is exposed to is of great importance to that individual's cultural evolution during his/her lifetime, according…

Physics & Astronomy

Particles Illuminate Massive Explosions in the Milky Way

But scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have shown that there is another explanation of the flux.Several independent studies recently…

Health & Medicine

Limb-Sparing Surgery vs. Amputation: Quality of Life Insights

The analysis, published in the September 15, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, indicates that patients and…

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