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Life & Chemistry

Safe, Effective Viral Therapy Shows Promise Against Difficult Cancers

Combining a herpes virus genetically altered to express a drug-enhancing enzyme with a chemotherapy drug effectively and safely reduced the size of highly…

Life & Chemistry

High-Quality Protein Crystals Grown in Weightlessness

If the crystals are grown upside down in a strong magnetic field, fluid flows that disrupt crystal growth are suppressed. Therefore, high-quality proteins no…

Information Technology

Unlocking Optimal Online Communication Through Innovation

An optimisation problem describes a situation in which an optimal solution is sought from among all possible solutions. Mathematicians study an optimisation…

Communications Media

Stream TV and Films Seamlessly with New Mathematical Model

An optimal configuration of components is essential for providing good quality under all conditions. If the system becomes overloaded because the chip cannot…

Life & Chemistry

Insects Communicate Through Plants Like Nature’s Phone

Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using…

Health & Medicine

Listening to the urinary stream – Microphone replaces catheter for diagnosis of voiding symptoms

Elder men with voiding symptoms, such as a weak urinary stream and frequent voiding, often suffer from an enlarged prostate, clinically known as 'Benign…

Information Technology

Simulating Surgery: Reducing Complications in Implant Ops

Each year surgeons across Europe perform a staggering 900,000 hip, knee and spinal implant operations. Implant surgery is one of the most remarkable advances…

Information Technology

Discover Tesaurvai: A Smart Tool for Building Thesauruses

Tesaurvai can extract, annotate and organize specialized terms taken from a collection of digitalized texts. Tesaurvai complies with the ISO thesaurus building…

Life & Chemistry

Early parents didn’t stand for weighty kids

Carrying babies that could no longer use their feet to cling to their parents in the way that young apes can has long been thought to be at least one…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Info System Inspired by Road Signs Unveiled

Now, a new information icon system has been developed by researchers in France. The researchers describe their system, a graphical language for medical…

Health & Medicine

Cuddle Therapy: How Kangaroo Care Aids Preterm Recovery

Celeste Johnston of McGill University, Montreal, Canada and colleagues have already shown that skin-to-skin contact, known as kangaroo mother care (KMC) helps…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Enhance Water Quality Benefits

The residual herbicides commonly used in the production of corn and soybean are frequently detected in rivers, streams, and reservoirs at concentrations that…

Earth Sciences

Understanding Earthquakes: Ohio’s Hidden Fault Lines Revealed

Although many people think that California “owns” all the earthquakes, Ohio also has its share of faults. Unlike another earthquake that woke people on another…

Studies and Analyses

Cisplatin’s Effectiveness Questioned in Anal Cancer Study

When administered before chemoradiation, the common anti-cancer drug cisplatin neither improved disease-free survival nor reduced the number of colostomies…

Studies and Analyses

Pin1 is beneficial in Alzheimer's disease, detrimental to some forms of dementia

The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and a relatively rare hereditary form of dementia, frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-17, share a…

Life & Chemistry

Key Driver of Stomach Cancer Development Uncovered

In a discovery that could lead to the development of new treatments for gastric cancer, scientists at the Melbourne Branch of the international Ludwig…

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