Initial feasibility tests show that the method not only is faster than the standard analytic technique but also effectively screens much smaller samples for…
Contrast agents are used to highlight different tissues in the body or to help distinguish between healthy and diseased tissue. NIST is working with two…
This green fluorescent protein (GFP) has allowed biologists to make many new discoveries regarding how living cells function. But one kingdom of…
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have discovered that by combining helium with 40 per cent oxygen allowed patients with chronic…
A pilot test of the system, which uses radio frequency technology to tag and identify people and equipment, was so successful at the National Geospatial…
Stacy VanDeveer, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, evaluates current U.S. climate change policy and assesses future…
Quantum theories are often considered to apply best to processes that happen on the smallest scale of atoms and molecules. By making artificial atoms larger —…
It is well known that material properties change when reducing particle sizes. However, for MoS2 nanoparticles the size-dependent deviations from the bulk…
Published in the print version of the European Heart Journal (EHJ) [1] today (Tuesday 6 February), the guidelines for valvular heart disease (VHD) highlight…
Climate change is just one of the many symptoms exhibited by a planet under pressure from human activities. “Global environmental change, which includes…
It has studied the stratosphere of the Arctic and the Antarctic, it rose into the stratosphere over South America, Australia and soared over the Indian Ocean….
Top academic teams from Durham, Oxford, Leicester and London have been selected to be the first users of one of the brightest sources of light in the world…
The team found that when the male insect population drops – killed off by the bacteria – the female butterfly becomes more sexually rampant. Males on the other…
In a multi-country study published in the March 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers found that more prominent text messages…
By tweaking these dual role regions, scientists could develop gene therapy techniques that produce proteins that are even better than those found in nature,…
In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought…
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