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Stroma genomic signature predicts resistance to anthracyclin-based chemotherapy in breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research in Molecular Oncology in Lausanne have developed a new test to predict how breast cancer patients respond to chemotherapy, ...





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Protein misprediction uncovered by new technique

Biology /

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new bioinformatics tool is capable of identifying and correcting abnormal, incomplete and mispredicted protein annotations in public databases. The MisPred tool, described today in the open access journal BMC Bioinformatics, curren ...


This undated picture released by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich shows the new Monte Rosa refuge

Swiss to inaugurate high-tech, green mountain hut

Technology / Energy

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Switzerland will inaugurate on Saturday a new mountain refuge in the Alps that looks more like a futuristic space station than the no-frills stonewall huts that alpinists are more familiar with.


Swiss nano-microscope delivers first images recorded on Mars

Swiss nano-microscope delivers first images recorded on Mars

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA "Phoenix" Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution (one nanometer roughly corresponds ...


US chemist leaves Zurich post over doctored data

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Switzerland's top technology institute says a U.S. chemist has resigned as head of research after scientific data were found to have been manipulated.


Ski tourism stresses European capercaillie

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 12, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Swiss, German and Austrian scientists said ski tourism might be harming capercaillie -- an old world grouse -- by affecting their ability to breed.


200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists across the world are building an extensive repository of genetically modified rice plants in the hope of understanding the function of the approximately 57,000 genes that make up the genome of Oryza sativa. The ...


Increased risk of injury even after first glass

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most alcohol-related damage occurs after moderate consumption, according to a new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet on the association between alcohol and injury.


Expos showcase future of renewable energy: Fuel-efficient car, high-tech batteries shine at exhibitions

Technology / Energy

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

One of the few bright spots in the dark days of the global economic downturn is the field of renewable energy.


Smithsonian scientists highlight environmental impacts of biofuels

Technology / Energy

created Jan 03, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 8

Biofuels reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in comparison to fossil fuels. In the Jan. 4 issue of the journal Science, Smithsonian researchers highlight a new study that factors in environmental costs of biofuel production. ...


Researchers unveil landscape of human-pathogen protein interactions

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created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech have provided the first global analysis of human proteins interacting with viral proteins and proteins in other ...



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