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New Insights Into Ductal Carcinoma in Situ From UC Davis Research

New UC Davis research supports the recent hypothesis that both ductal carcinoma in situ and invasive breast cancer develop from the same breast cancer…

Life & Chemistry

MIT’s Peptide Gel Quickly Stops Bleeding in Seconds

When the liquid, composed of protein fragments called peptides, is applied to open wounds, the peptides self-assemble into a nanoscale protective barrier gel…

Information Technology

Robotic Whiskers Enhance 3D Sensing Inspired by Rats

Two Northwestern University engineers have been studying the whisker system of rats to better understand how mechanical information from the whiskers gets…

Life & Chemistry

Mass-Rearing Parasitic Wasps to Fight Wheat Stem Sawfly

This fall, the entomologists are concluding a two-year study that involved mass-rearing parasitic wasps that attack wheat stem sawfly larvae that tunnel the…

Studies and Analyses

Genes and Diet: Unraveling Heart Disease Risk Factors

The results show that people who carry a particular variant of APOA5 may have elevated risk factors that are associated with heart disease, but only if they…

Health & Medicine

Cola Consumption Linked to Osteoporosis Risk in Older Women

According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, approximately 55 percent of Americans, mostly women, are at risk of developing osteoporosis, a disease of…

Life & Chemistry

Blood Cells Linked to Heart Attacks and Inflammation Issues

It's a case of miscommunication with catastrophic consequences.Two human blood cells that help fight blood loss, infection, and inflammation are responsible as…

Life & Chemistry

USC Researchers Identify Breast Cancer Stem Cells in Bone Marrow

Almost all tumor cells found in the bone marrow of early stage breast cancer patients appear to be breast cancer stem cells, suggesting the risk of disease…

Health & Medicine

Omega-3 fatty acids may slow down early Alzheimer’s in some cases

However, the positive affect of Omega-3 do not appear in cases with more advanced Alzheimer’s. This is the first clinical trial ever made in the field and the…

Information Technology

Finland acquires a new supercomputer for research

The new system enables new kinds of research and increases accuracy of current simulation models. At the same time CSC extends its super-cluster system as…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Observations Confirm How Planets Form Around Stars

More than 200 years ago, the philosopher Emmanuel Kant first proposed that planets are born from disks of dust and gas that swirl around their home stars….

Information Technology

Dissertation paves the way for tomorrow’s supercomputers

Many of today’s server computers contain several processors (the ‘brain’ of the computer) and support for so-called shared memory. Shared memory makes these…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Collaborate on Hawaiian Super-Telescope Project

Leading UK astronomers based at Durham University, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Edinburgh have now joined a select group of US and German…

Business and Finance

Five Catalan universities form Europe's first inter-university network of business angels

This agreement between the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the University of Barcelona, the University of Girona, the Technical University of Catalonia and…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Childhood Blindness in Mice

Injection of normal Rpe65 into the retina of mice deficient in Rpe65 led to expression of the protein product of Rpe65 in the retina. Electrical recordings of…

Health & Medicine

Addressing Alcohol Abuse in Botswana’s HIV Prevention Efforts

The results argue for the need to deal with alcohol abuse within HIV prevention programs in African countries. Strategies to do this could include education…

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