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Life & Chemistry

Artificially Control Walking and Balance via Canal Stimulation

The findings are reported by Richard Fitzpatrick and Jane E. Butler of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and the University of New South Wales,…

Health & Medicine

EMBL Scientists Launch Start-Up for Anti-Cancer Drug Development

Today EMBL scientists, EMBL’s commercial affiliate, EMBL Enterprise Management Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM) and EMBL’s venture vehicle, EMBL Ventures…

Physics & Astronomy

Proba-3: ESA’s first step towards formation flying

Proba-3 will demonstrate the technologies required for formation flying of multiple spacecraft. An instrument to observe the solar corona is being used for the…

Information Technology

Fujitsu’s SynfiniWay™ to be Airbus grid middleware for aerodynamics analysis

SynfiniWay proved to offer the most complete and integrated grid computing solution for aerodynamics analyses at aerospace group Airbus, combining…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Electronics at Kent: Leading Innovation in Education Today

Although the latest National Student Survey ranks Electronics at Kent as the best of its kind in the UK, the Department is still working hard to ensure that…

Information Technology

Smarter Call Center Automation for Public Administrations

Developed by the IST-funded HOPS project, the platform uses a variety of technologies to enable people to talk to a computer over the phone as if they are…

Studies and Analyses

Aquarium Fish May Unlock New Therapies for Birth Defects

That is one of the implications of a new study published online August 8 in the journal Cell Metabolism. The paper describes a number of striking parallels…

Studies and Analyses

Sooty Shearwaters’ Summer Migration: A Coastal Marvel

Every summer, millions of sooty shearwaters arrive off the coast of California, their huge flocks astonishing visitors who may have trouble grasping that the…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Linked to Stem Cell Self-Renewal Discovered in Planaria

In a paper to appear in the August issue of the journal Developmental Cell, scientists show that a member of the Bruno-like family of RNA binding proteins –…

Environmental Conservation

Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Uncovering Ecological Impacts

Hurricane Katrina made landfall August 29, 2005 becoming the costliest ($75 billion) and one of the deadliest (nearly 2,000 human lives lost) hurricanes in…

Environmental Conservation

Ecosystem Services Impacted by Invasive Species in Smokies

Below, a few of the highlights:Past and present declines in Hemlocks and the future of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Monday August 7, 5 – 6:30 PM,…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Reverse Evolution: Unveiling 530 Million-Year-Old Gene

University of Utah scientists have shown how evolution works by reversing the process, reconstructing a 530-million-year-old gene by combining key portions of…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Insights: How Leukemia Alters Genetic Packaging

While the research involving a cellular signaling system known as JAK/STAT focused on complex questions involving the roots of cancer, the answers the…

Life & Chemistry

Advancements in Carbon-Neutral Energy: Cellulosic Ethanol Insights

Professor Chris Somerville of the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University, explained advances in plant science research that are both needed and…

Life & Chemistry

Neural Stem Cells: Abnormal Gene Expression Discovered

Neural stem cells grown from one of the federally approved human embryonic stem cell lines proved to be inferior to neural stem cells derived from fetal tissue…

Life & Chemistry

Penn Researchers Unveil Smallpox Virus Protein Structure

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have determined the structure of an important smallpox virus enzyme and how it binds to DNA….

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