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Cyborg Crickets Could Form Mobile Communications Network, Save Human Lives

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the way crickets communicate, researchers are building "cyborg crickets" that could form a mobile communications network for emergency situations, such as detecting ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 6 weblog

Study on free-space optical communication shows experimental evidence of a unique atmospheric effect

Three members of the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology recently collaborated on a paper focusing on free-space optical communication, which appears in the latest issue of Optics Express.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2




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Short fasting cycles work as well as chemotherapy in mice

Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

When the isolated lung runs out of air

A lung transplant is the only treatment option for patients faced with imminent pulmonary failure. But suitable donor organs are highly susceptible to damage in transit. A team of researchers based at LMU's Walther Straub ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Russian doll' polymer vesicles mimic cell structure

Nanomedicine faces two main challenges: controlling the synthesis of extremely small vectors containing one or several active ingredients and releasing these agents in the right place at the right time, in ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers indentify a cell-permeable peptide that inhibits hepatitis C

Researchers from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a cell-permeable peptide that inhibits a hepatitis C virus protein and blocks viral replication, which can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In lab, Pannexin1 restores tight binding of cells that is lost in cancer

First there is the tumor and then there's the horrible question of whether the cancerous cells will spread. Scientists increasingly believe that the structural properties of the tumor itself, such as how tightly ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Many bodies make one coherent burst of light: Researchers see superfluorescence from solid-state material

In a flash, the world changed for Tim Noe – and for physicists who study what they call many-body problems. The Rice University graduate student was the first to see, in the summer of 2010, proof of a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Nanotube-based terahertz polarizer nears perfection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Spin-out targets better cancer treatment

A new Oxford University spin-out firm, Oxford Cancer Biomarkers Limited, is to develop technology to ensure that only patients who are likely to benefit from anti-cancer drugs will receive them and that the best treatment ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Avalanche of reactions at the origin of life

The origin of life is seen as the formation of the first biomolecules which may be subject to multiplication and further development. Hitherto it was unclear, which reactions could have triggered the evolution of this ur-metabolism. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Study uncovers mechanism by which melanoma drug accelerates secondary skin cancers

Patients with metastatic melanoma taking the recently approved drug vemurafenib (Zelboraf) responded well to the twice daily pill, but some of them developed a different, secondary skin cancer. Now, researchers at UCLA's ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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