News tagged with researchers
New method can capture catalysis, one molecule at a time
Nov 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers have developed an ingenious microscopic method to observe the behavior of single nanoparticles of a catalyst, down to the resolution of single catalytic events.
Researchers aim to over-stress already taxed mantle cell lymphoma cells
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Cancer cells are already stressed by the fast pace they require to grow and spread and scientists believe a little more stress just may kill them.
Stretching silicon: A new method to measure how strain affects semiconductors
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that could lay the foundation for faster flexible electronics.
Tuning in to the virtues of virtual labs
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The grid’s huge communication and computation capacities could let scientists gather data and run remote experiments anywhere in the world. European researchers have now mapped out how that can be done.
Smokers see decline in ability to smell, rise in laryngitis, and upper airway issues
Nov 03, 2008 |
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As Americans prepare for a day without cigarettes and tobacco products as part of the American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout (R) (November 20), new research gives them more reasons to extend that break to a lifetime, ...
Dutch researchers crack Internet security of the future
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands have managed to crack the so-called McEliece encryption system. This system is a candidate for the security of Internet traffic in the age of the ...
Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemistry researchers at The University of Warwick and the John Innes Centre, have found a novel signalling molecule that could be a key that will open up hundreds of new antibiotics unlocking them from the ...
Researchers hone in on new strategy to treat common infection
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have successfully tested a genetic strategy designed to improve treatment of human infections caused by the yeast Candida albicans, ranging from diaper rash, vagini ...
Study will examine how children with Down syndrome learn
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Denver (DU) Morgridge College of Education are conducting a groundbreaking study that will compare two early literacy intervention approaches to educating young children with Down syndrome. ...
Inmates conduct ecological research on slow-growing mosses
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College currently advises a team of researchers who sport shaved heads, tattooed biceps and prison-issued garb rather than the lab coats and khakis typically worn by researchers. ...
New kids on the block: Latecomers must be unique to outperform pioneer brands
Oct 14, 2008 |
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What is it that allows some brands to succeed and some to fail? Why is it sometimes better to be first and other times more advantageous to reach the market later? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research takes a clos ...
Researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Ratnesh Kumar keeps his prototype soil sensors buried in a box under his desk. He hopes that one day farmers will be burying the devices under their crops.
Researchers discover that SLC2A9 is a high-capacity urate transporter in humans
Oct 07, 2008 |
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An international team of researchers led by Professors Mark Caulfield and Patricia Munroe, from the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry with Chris Cheeseman at the University ...
Mayo researchers explore issues related to multiple myeloma treatment
Oct 06, 2008 |
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Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of plasma cells that affects approximately 3 in 100,000 people each year. Although there is no cure for this disease, researchers have developed treatments that help relieve pain, control ...
Duke researchers show reading can help obese kids lose weight
Oct 04, 2008 |
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It's no secret that reading is beneficial. But can it help kids lose weight? In the first study to look at the impact of literature on obese adolescents, researchers at Duke Children's Hospital discovered that reading the ...
