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Life & Chemistry

Combination Treatment Halts Aggressive Breast Cancer Growth

“For the first time, we were able to cure mice of a very aggressive human breast tumor,” said Dr. Rachel Schiff, assistant professor in the Breast Center at…

Environmental Conservation

Amphibians Struggle to Adapt Amid Rapid Environmental Change

The basic constraints of evolution and the inability of species to adapt quickly enough can explain most of the causes that are leading one species after…

Environmental Conservation

Lizard Survey: Islands Host More Species Than Mainland

Besides confirming that longstanding observation, the study signals an alarm for island populations in a rapidly warming world. It suggests that climate change…

Life & Chemistry

Study Finds No Link Between Autism and Celiac Disease

Researchers compared blood samples of 34 children with autism to samples of 34 children without autism who had been referred to an outpatient clinic of the…

Life & Chemistry

Corals: Surprising Similarities in Immune Systems Revealed

And remarkably, although it is very distant from humans in evolutionary terms, it has many of the immune system genes that protect people against disease. In…

Life & Chemistry

New Electrochemical Sensor Enhances Defense and Diagnostics

A Sandia National Laboratories research team is developing a new type of electrochemical sensor that uses a unique surface chemistry to reliably and accurately…

Environmental Conservation

Helping Migrating Swans Find Forage in Wieringermeer

In Wieringermeer, a typical Dutch polder that was reclaimed from the sea in 1930, Bewick’s swans stop by during migration to feed on the leftovers of…

Physics & Astronomy

New VERITAS telescope array may help find 'dark matter'

Think of it as acquiring a new pair of glasses that allow you to see more clearly. These new “glasses” are VERITAS, (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Interactions Captured: Insights into Body Function

The body is an almost perfect machine. For it to function properly, each individual component, that is each molecule, must reliably fulfill its specific…

Business and Finance

12 new high-tech ventures to participate on NovaUCD’s 2007 Campus Company Development Programme

The aim of the NovaUCD CCDP, which is sponsored and supported by Enterprise Ireland, is to assist entrepreneurs in the establishment and development of new…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble finds multiple stellar “baby booms” in a globular cluster

New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have overturned conventional ideas about the early life of some massive globular clusters, showing that…

Machine Engineering

New Compact Control Units Enhance Cleaning Machine Safety

EUREKA project E! 3592 CLEANCONTROL has developed a compact electronic control unit to challenge this. Mainly targeted at cleaning machine manufacturers, it is…

Health & Medicine

EuroGentest Launches Genetic Testing Info Leaflets in Europe

Endorsed by Patient Information Groups across Europe, the leaflets are already in English, and are currently being translated into Polish, Romanian and…

Materials Sciences

Child-safe oil lamps are possible! – New burner design could protect children from poisoning

The permitted clear and non-perfumed variant of these fuels is being sold in increasing quantities. Unfortunately, even the smallest quantities of these…

Environmental Conservation

Industry and science join forces to strengthen the UK’s capability in monitoring the environment from space

A new Earth Observation Centre that will enable the UK to further strengthen its position in international Earth observation programmes is announced today.The…

Health & Medicine

ScienceDirect Unveils New Web Applications in Latest Release

“Our study is important because it shows that magnesium wasting will occur in all patients…[Previously,] hypomagnesaemia was thought to be restricted to an…

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