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Health & Medicine

Cancer survivors are living “in limbo” with unmet needs for care

Currently, there are approximately 25 million people around the world (10 million in the USA) living with cancer, and over 60% of adults newly diagnosed with…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Fibrils: A Sustainable Alternative to Plastics?

Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as…

Life & Chemistry

Federal Grants Fund Innovative Fabrics to Neutralize Toxins

Potential applications include safety gear for U.S. soldiers and filtration systems for buildings and vehicles.Hinestroza, assistant professor of fiber science…

Physics & Astronomy

$5 Million Gift Fuels Innovation in Particle Physics Research

“This is a marvelous gift,” said Robert Zimmer, President of the University. “A generous family has stepped forward and is making an investment in high-energy…

Environmental Conservation

Green Highways: New Research on Eco-Friendly Asphalts

As part of a new national research program called the Asphalt Research Consortium (ARC), Bahia is now using $5 million in funding to study ways of making…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Ice Shelves: How Robots Aid Climate Research

Scientists are diligently working to understand how and why the world’s ice shelves are melting. While most of the data they need (temperatures, wind speed,…

Studies and Analyses

Tropical Biodiversity Linked to Heat, Not Sunlight

The answer is not necessarily “both.” According to a study published online this week in PNAS Early Edition, the explosion of species at the tropics has much…

Environmental Conservation

Fungus Boosts Efficiency in Corn-to-Ethanol Production

“The process could change ethanol production in dry-grind plants so much that energy costs can be reduced by as much as one-third,” said Hans van Leeuwen, an…

Environmental Conservation

New Study Questions Environmental Impact of Popular Biofuels

But new research led by a biologist at the University of Washington, Bothell, shows that some of the most popular current biofuel stocks might have exactly the…

Physics & Astronomy

Oregon Physicists Don't Flip Spin but Find Possible Electron Switch

Physicists in recent years have been pursuing a variety of routes to tap electron spins for their potential use in quantum computers that can perform millions…

Technology Offerings

Controlling Ion Energy and Flux in RF Plasma Discharges

The energy of ions impacting surfaces during plasma processing is crucial in determining both

the properties of materials being deposited by plasmas and for…

Technology Offerings

New Monoclonal Antibodies Target Human Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor

Scientists at the Georg-August-University generated monoclonal antibodies which specifically react with beta2-adrenergic receptor (b2AR) on human leukocytes…

Technology Offerings

New Antibodies Target PIWIL2 Tumor Marker for Diagnostics

Scientists at the University of Göttingen generated polyklonal and monoclonal antibodies against the new diagnostic tumor marker PIWIL2. The tumor marker…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Innovation: Camping in Kamchatka Peninsula Wilderness

Led by ecology lecturer Dr Markus Eichhorn, the team will spend 10 weeks camping in the wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far East Russia, an area of…

Earth Sciences

Young Mineral Scientists Explore Earth’s Core and More

What’s going on in the earth’s core, why are there magnetic anomalies in rocks, how is water incorporated in minerals, and how do pearls grow? These and many…

Life & Chemistry

Securing the future of Europe’s biological data resources

The consortium ultimately aims to establish a sustainably funded infrastructure for biological information in Europe, to support innovation in life science…

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