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Major step toward an Alzheimer’s vaccine

Major step toward an Alzheimer's vaccine

Opens the door to the development of a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and a vaccine to prevent the illness A team of researchers from Université Laval, CHU de Québec, and pharmaceut... Read more

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Inspiration from a porcupine’s quills

Inspiration from a porcupine’s quills

Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices. Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine’s quills knows tha... Read more

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Protein injection points to muscular dystrophy treatment

Protein injection points to muscular dystrophy treatment

“This is also exciting because we think it’s a therapeutic approach that could apply to other muscle-wasting diseases” Scientists have discovered that injecting a novel hum... Read more

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Implantable Silk Optics Multi-Task in the Body

Implantable Silk Optics Multi-Task in the Body

These tiny mirror-like devices dissolve harmlessly at predetermined rates and require no surgery to remove them Tufts University School of Engineering researchers have demonstrated silk-base... Read more

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This Week’s Forecast: Sunny with a 40 Percent Chance of Flu

This Week's Forecast: Sunny with a 40 Percent Chance of Flu

New computer model takes a page from weather forecasting to predict regional peaks in influenza outbreaks Scientists have developed a system to predict the timing and severity of seasonal in... Read more

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Barrow Scientists Discover Ways to Optimize Light Sources for Vision

Barrow Scientists Discover Ways to Optimize Light Sources for Vision

Discovery Could Lead to Billions of Dollars in Energy Savings Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of light sources... Read more

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Duke researchers engineer cartilage from pluripotent stem cells

Duke researchers engineer cartilage from pluripotent stem cells

A way to take adult stem cells and convert them so they have the properties of embryonic stem cells A team of Duke Medicine researchers has engineered cartilage from induced pluripotent stem... Read more

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Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease

Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease

A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibo... Read more

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New research moves York scientists closer to lung cancer blood test

New research moves York scientists closer to lung cancer blood test

Early signs of lung cancer could be diagnosed using a simple blood test following a new discovery by scientists at the University of York. Early detection of lung cancer has been shown to sa... Read more

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Out-Of-This-World Nanoscience: A Computer Chip That Can Assemble Itself?

Out-Of-This-World Nanoscience: A Computer Chip That Can Assemble Itself?

Imagine a computer chip that can assemble itself. According to Eric M. Furst, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, engineers and scientists are c... Read more

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Half the world’s energy from wind power by 2030 new research claims

Half the world’s energy from wind power by 2030 new research claims

The financial viability of wind power has been demonstrated in Europe, China, and parts of the United States New estimates of the potential for wind power and the research that backs the est... Read more

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New Antibacterial Coating for Sutures Could Reduce Infections After Surgery

New Antibacterial Coating for Sutures Could Reduce Infections After Surgery

Responding to an urgent need for better antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures, scientists are reporting the discovery of a new coating that is almost 1,000 times more effective than the... Read more

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Camouflage bendy robot changes colour for disguise

Camouflage bendy robot changes colour for disguise

A robot that can change colour to either blend in with or stand out from its surroundings has been created by scientists. The machine, designed by researchers at Harvard University, was insp... Read more

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Ultrafast Camera Renews Promise of Blood Test for Early Cancer Detection

Ultrafast Camera Renews Promise of Blood Test for Early Cancer Detection

The biggest challenge has been quickly examining billions of rapidly moving blood cells in a sample Cells that break away from a cancerous tumor and circulate in the bloodstream are a seriou... Read more

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A statistical analysis shows how things really are heating up

A statistical analysis shows how things really are heating up

A statistical analysis shows how things really are heating up ARE heatwaves more common than they used to be? That is the question addressed by James Hansen and his colleagues in a paper jus... Read more

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