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It significantly boosts our ability to monitor, predict, and understand cancer progression Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Health, and collaborating cancer physicians have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of an advanced blood test for detecting and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) — breakaway cells from patients’ solid tumors — from cancer patients. The findings,

With the help of light-emitting diodes as small as neurons, University of Michigan researchers are unlocking the secrets of neural pathways in the brain. The researchers have built and tested in mice neural probes that hold what are believed to be the smallest implantable LEDs ever made. The new probes can control and record the

Replacing the expensive material should allow the process to eventually create thermoelectrics as cheap as paint.   Thermoelectric materials are also currently used in the type of cooler bags that keep things cold without making use of their own cooling elements. These cooler bags are full of the elements Lead and Tellurium. Both of these

Scientists have demonstrated a new bio-inspired material for an eco-friendly and cost-effective approach to recovering uranium from seawater. A research team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of South Florida developed a material that selectively binds dissolved uranium with a low-cost

The process could ultimately make fuel-efficient transportation more affordable A lightweight metal that reduces fuel use in cars and planes could be extracted from the ocean through a unique process being developed at the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The process could ultimately make fuel-efficient transportation more affordable and expand

Shooting in 3D has traditionally required a complex, bulky and fragile rig using two cameras and additional hardware to calibrate and adjust them. Panasonic’s straight-forwardly-named Twin-lens Full HD 3D camcorder looks to radically change the 3D game, with integrated lenses and dual memory card slots allowing you to capture 3D footage immediately, with just one

The results lay the foundation for researchers to plan a future phase 1 clinical trial to test the safety of the therapy in a small group of patients Results from a recent preclinical study have shown that a new drug combination therapy being developed at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center effectively killed colon, liver,

The push to create an “internet of things” (IoT) will fail unless electronics firms collaborate more, Samsung has warned. The potential of the technology will go unrealised unless gadgets and appliances from different manufacturers can easily share data, it said. This openness will also help people manage the smart gadgets they own, said the boss

The future of transportation in waterway-rich cities such as Amsterdam, Bangkok, and Venice — where canals run alongside and under bustling streets and bridges — may include autonomous boats that ferry goods and people, helping clear up road congestion. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Senseable City Lab in

Researchers are now working to design stable micro-bubbles which, combined with ultrasound, can deliver cancer drugs straight to the target tumour. The project recently started up in Trondheim is called ‘BubbleCAN’ and is based on SINTEF proprietary technology. Researchers are making stable micro-bubbles containing chemotherapeutic drugs. The bubbles can be used in combination with ultrasound