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Language Barriers in Pre-Natal Testing for Bangladeshi Families

A recent study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), investigated how Britain’s Bangladeshi community understand the disorders, and make…

Science Education

Qatar Boosts Research Fund 80% – seeks international partners

The aim is to build human capital for Qatar. Additionally, it is hoped that the research will result in the creation of intellectual property rights and the…

Medical Engineering

Measuring Cell Footprints: Insights from Jena and Bremen Researchers

Researchers in Jena and Bremen are planning something similar. However, their work is not with athletes but with tiny somatic cells. The experts have developed…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Streamlining Production: Innovations Ending Battery Dependence

Production often comes to a standstill until the error has finally been pinpointed – and that can take hours. The causes are legion; in many cases it is all…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fuel Cell Innovations in Helicopter Design: A New Era

Manufacturers normally stack the fuel cells – a structure consisting of several metal plates, each containing one channel for air and one for hydrogen. This…

Life & Chemistry

New pathogen from pigs' stomach ulcers

The bacterium that commonly causes stomach ulcers in humans is called Helicobacter pylori. Extensive research has been carried out on this bacterium and the…

Life & Chemistry

Complex Synapses: Key to Brain Evolution Insights

The research suggests that it is not size alone that gives more brain power, but that, during evolution, increasingly sophisticated molecular processing of…

Studies and Analyses

Diet prior to pregnancy determines sheep’s gender

This study was carried out by a team of researchers from the Division of Animal Sciences at the University of Missouri and led by R Michael Roberts. Roberts…

Health & Medicine

Designing Warning Sounds: Insights from Chalmers PhD Research

In his PhD dissertation at Chalmers in Sweden, Anders Sköld has investigated the emotional reactions generated by various types of sound. How happy or worried…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Checking Soil Properties

Engineers and scientists on the Phoenix team assembled at the University of Arizona are determining the best approach to get some of that material into the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

ORNL and GE Team Up for Energy-Efficient Water Heater

The GE ® Hybrid Water Heater is affordable and designed to be 50 % more energy efficient than a standard 50 gallon electric water heater, which should help…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking Nanoparticle Haloing: New Insights in Colloids

Colloids require a delicate balance of opposing forces for them to be stable: attractive forces must be matched by repulsive ones. A new colloidal…

Information Technology

School of Robofish: Pioneering Teams of Underwater Robots

In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite…

Technology Offerings

Discover DRPevader: Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy

A novel ex vivo method for immediate early diagnosis and prognosis of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (DRP) is provided with DRPevader.

DRPevader is based…

Technology Offerings

Chitinosanase – Novel chitosan-cleaving enzyme with defined specificity for the production of chitosan-oligomers

Chitosan is a linear co-polymer of glucosamine (D) and N-acetyl-glucosamine (A) units. Enzymatic degradation of this co-polymer by chitinases or chitosanases…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s New Method for Building Giant Lunar Telescopes

“We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting a large mirror from Earth,” says Peter Chen of NASA…

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