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Materials Sciences

World’s largest aluminium rolling plant cooled with non-ozone-depleting DuPont™ ISCEON® MO29

By so doing, the company has made a timely response to new legislation, which will suspend the market availability of virgin HCFC refrigerants for service…

Life & Chemistry

How Intracellular Parasites Outsmart the Immune System

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a mechanism by which intracellular pathogens can shut down one of the body's key chemical…

Communications Media

DVR Fast-Forwarding: Impact on TV Advertising Explored

While digital video recorders and products like TiVo allow television viewers to skip past commercials, Boston College researchers have found that…

Life & Chemistry

Red-Eyed Treefrog Embryos Dodge Asphyxiation in Eggs

Red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis callidryas, lay jelly-covered egg clutches on leaves overhanging tropical ponds. Each clutch of several dozen transparent eggs…

Life & Chemistry

Being unique has advantages: 'Rareness' key to some insects being favored by evolution

A new study at the University of Melbourne has discovered that genetic variation in an asexual insect – insects that reproduce by cloning themselves – is…

Studies and Analyses

HIV Vaccine Study Reveals Surprising Infection Risks

A new study by a team of researchers at the Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics in France shows how the vaccine could have enhanced HIV infection. The…

Life & Chemistry

Native birds might restock poultry industry's genetic stock

Purdue University animal sciences professor Bill Muir was part of an international research team that analyzed the genetic lines of commercial chickens used to…

Automotive Engineering

New SIMDAT Tech for CAE-CAT Integration Evaluated at AUDI

Professor Ulrich Trottenberg, head of Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI that co-ordinates the SIMDAT project describes the…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovery Sheds Light on Stomach Acid Control

This data is published in the Nov. 3 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).UC professor Manoocher Soleimani, MD, and colleagues…

Life & Chemistry

Protein-Printing Technique Reveals Immune Defense Insights

Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have borrowed a technique from such “intaglio” printing to create snapshots…

Health & Medicine

Fibromyalgia can no longer be called the 'invisible' syndrome

Using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in France were able to detect functional abnormalities in certain regions in the brains…

Physics & Astronomy

Boston University’s Nanomachine Measures Tiny Twists Precisely

Researchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial Clotting: New Insights from Nature Study

Bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot—a process that was previously thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution,…

Life & Chemistry

Human Genes Create Unique Tunes Across Different Tissues

Scientists have long known that it's possible for one gene to produce slightly different forms of the same protein by skipping or including certain sequences…

Studies and Analyses

UCLA Study: Personalized Treatment Boosts Kidney Cancer Survival

A study of nearly 1,500 patients treated for kidney cancer at UCLA in the last 15 years shows that an aggressive, tailored treatment approach results in better…

Medical Engineering

Mayo Clinic's new imaging technology accurately identifies a broad spectrum of liver disease

The technology, called magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), produces color-coded images known as elastograms that indicate how internal organs, muscles and…

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