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Explosion on chip sets liquid in motion
Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- PhD student, Dennis van den Broek, of the University of Twente, Netherlands, has developed a new type of miniature motor, the micro-bubble actuator. This ‘motor’, which can be used in laboratories ...
DNA layer reduces risk of reserve parts being rejected
Mar 20, 2007 |
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Dutch researchers Jeroen van den Beucken and John Jansen have given body implants a DNA layer. This layer ensures a better attachment, more rapid recovery of the surrounding tissue and less immune responses. ...
Surrogacy still stigmatized, though attitudes changing among younger women
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Although younger people are becoming more positive towards surrogate mothers, current day attitudes to surrogacy are still broadly negative, a scientist will tell the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human ...
Achieving optimal efficiencies for nanoengines
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "There's a lot of recent interest in understanding the functioning and optimal performance of small systems," Katja Lindenberg tells PhysOrg.com. Lindenberg is a scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Bi ...
Safer shipping by predicting sand wave behaviour
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Joris van den Berg has developed a mathematical model to predict the movement of sand waves.
Tumor-killing virus selectively targets diseased brain cells
Feb 19, 2008 |
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New findings show that a specialized virus with the ability to reproduce its tumor-killing genes can selectively target tumors in the brains of mice and eliminate them. Healthy brain tissue remained virtually untouched, according ...
Manipulating the Brain Network Could Improve IQ
Jun 10, 2009 |
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In an attempt to investigate why some brains are more intelligent than others, researchers have found that efficient wiring between different brain regions is associated with a higher IQ. This understanding ...
Bikini-clad women make men impatient
May 30, 2008 |
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Images of sexy women tend to whet men's sexual appetite. But stimulating new research in the Journal of Consumer Research says there's more than meets the eye. A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled ...
Study finds acceptable levels of anxiety among men living with early, untreated prostate cancer
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Men with early stages of prostate cancer who delay radical treatment in favor of an approach of "expectant management" do not have high levels of anxiety and distress. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the ...
Chip simulates metabolism of medicine in human body
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny electrochemical cell, developed by researchers of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, The Netherlands, is able to mimick the behaviour of medicine inside a human body. This chip ...
Female human embryos adjust the balance of X chromosomes before implantation
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Dutch researchers have found the first evidence that a process of inactivating the X chromosome during embryo development and implantation, which was known to occur in mice but unknown in humans, does, in fact, take place ...
Pressure sensors in the eye
Sep 03, 2007 |
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Sensors can monitor production processes, unmask tiny cracks in aircraft hulls, and determine the amount of laundry in a washing machine. In future, they will also be used in the human body and raise the alarm ...
Dutch scientists first to sequence female DNA
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May 26, 2008 |
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Geneticists of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) are the first to determine the DNA sequence of a woman. She is also the first European whose DNA sequence has been determined. This has been announced by the researchers ...
Talking increases kidney donation
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Get-togethers with a kidney disease patient's family and friends can improve their willingness to consider donation, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific ...
Intensified ice sheet movements do not affect rising sea levels
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Meltwater is rapidly increasing the tempo of glacial movements on the rim of the Greenland ice sheet. Over the long term, however, this process is interrupted as meltwater drains away via broad channels, as a result of which ...
