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Studies and Analyses

PET Scans Enhance Tumor Tracking After Stereotactic Radiotherapy

For many, a radiation technique called stereotactic body radiotherapy presents a less invasive treatment option to surgery that is typically offered to…

Studies and Analyses

Smoking Linked to Breast Cancer: No Impact on Aggressiveness

But smoking does not result in more advanced stage diagnoses or aggressive breast cancers at the time of diagnosis. That is the result of an analysis of 35…

Physics & Astronomy

Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'

The birth secret of buckyballs — hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA — has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National…

Materials Sciences

Choosing Safe Plastics: Applications and Innovations Explained

Which plastic is right for what application and how technically safe these products and construction units manufactured from plastics are can only be answered…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring How Antitumor Drugs Reach the Cell Nucleus

Platinum complexes such as the well-known cisplatin are powerful antitumor medications.They cross the cell membrane and reach the nucleus, where they attach to…

Life & Chemistry

New Chemical Spray Detects Homemade Explosives Efficiently

A new chemical spray detector developed by Prof. Joseph Almog of the Hebrew University's Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry detects the home-made explosive…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Protein Interaction in Fruit Fly Olfactory System

The fruit fly antennal lobe is analogous to the olfactory bulb in humans.Researchers at the University of Illinois found that in the fly’s antennal lobe a…

Health & Medicine

HIV's Path Out of Africa: Haiti, the U.S., then the World

After the virus, HIV-1, entered the U.S., it flourished and spread worldwide.”Our results show that the strain of virus that spawned the U.S. AIDS epidemic…

Interdisciplinary Research

Innovative Foods and Services for Enhanced Well-Being

One of the challenges facing the food industry is how to create tasty, convenient and experiential products made from health promoting ingredients. Various…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Hairpin Design Targets HIV Infections Effectively

When a host cell is infected with HIV, the virus brings its own genetic material into the host cell. This cell then replicates, reads the viral RNA, and uses…

Earth Sciences

75º North: The UB sets sail for the Arctic Ocean

To mark the 125th anniversary of the 1st International Polar Year, the University of Barcelona has carried out this research project in the north of the Arctic…

Business and Finance

US and Japan Boost French Nanotechnology Innovation

France boasts several high-tech clusters dedicated to advancing excellence in nanotechnology, including the SCS cluster in Sophia Antipolis, the Systematic…

Information Technology

European Experts Unite to Measure Human Emotions

In the coming months, more than 30 scientists, engineers and other experts from 10 European countries will not only discuss ways of measuring human emotions,…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Noel: Forecasts and Impact Insights

Forecasters said Noel, the 14th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has tropical storm force winds fanning 225 km from its centre and could unleash…

Communications Media

UK Research Gains Extended Access to ScienceDirect Resources

Key to the agreement is the high usage of ScienceDirect in the UK.NESLi2 is a product of the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Lorraine Estelle,…

Earth Sciences

Scientist brings 50 million year old spider ‘back to life’

In a paper published in the latest issue of the Zootaxa journal, Dr David Penney and co-authors from Ghent University in Belgium report on the use of a…

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