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Researchers predict age of T cells to improve cancer treatment

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Manipulation of cells by a new microfluidic device may help clinicians improve a promising cancer therapy that harnesses the body’s own immune cells to fight such diseases as metastatic melanoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemi…

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Scientists unravel the mysterious mechanics of spider silk

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Scientists now have a better understanding of why spider silk fibers are so incredibly strong. Recent research, published by Cell Press on February 15th in Biophysical Journal, describes the architecture of silk fibers from the atomic level up and …

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TU Delft simulates breaking waves

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The SWAN (Simulating WAves Nearshore) wave prediction model developed at TU Delft has been a huge international success for many years. This model predicts the distribution of wave heights close to the shore. It was recently expanded to include the …

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Study shows rapamycin reverses myocardial defects in mouse model of LEOPARD syndrome

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BOSTON — Congenital heart diseases affect approximately one in 100 patients, making them the most common type of birth defect and the number-one cause of pediatric deaths.
Now a new study showing that the mTOR inhibitor drug rapamycin can rev…

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Fountain of youth from the tap

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(Jena, Germany) Professor Dr. Michael Ristow’s team along with Japanese colleagues from universities in Oita and Hiroshima have demonstrated by two independent approaches that even a low concentration of lithium leads to an increased life expectan…

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British scientists develop control system to allow spacecraft to think for themselves

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The world’s first control system that will allow engineers to programme satellites and spacecraft to think for themselves has been developed by scientists from the University of Southampton.
Professor Sandor Veres and his team of engineers have de…

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Culling can’t control deadly bat disease

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Culling will not stop the spread of a deadly fungus that is threatening to wipe out hibernating bats in North America, according to a new mathematical model.
White-nose syndrome, which is estimated to have killed over a million bats in a th…

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3-D digital dinosaur track download: A roadmap for saving at-risk natural history resources

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Portable laser scanning technology allows researchers to tote their latest fossil discovery from the field to the lab in the form of lightweight digital data stored on a laptop. But sharing that data as a 3D model with others requires standard f…

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JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information

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Most of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions like “.jpg” or “.png” signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more efficient format, reducing file size by a factor of 10 or m…

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New mode of dementia care improves health, lowers hospitalization rates

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INDIANAPOLIS — An innovative model of dementia care developed by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute significantly reduces emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and encourages use …

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44-year-old mystery of how fleas jump resolved

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If you thought that we know everything about how the flea jumps, think again. In 1967, Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that fleas store the energy needed to catapult themselves into the air in an elastic pad made of resilin. However, in the inte…

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Virtual laboratory predicts train vibrations

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The construction of new rail lines, or the relocation of old ones underground, has increased society’s interest over recent years in the vibrations produced by trains, especially among people who live or work near the tracks. Now a study headed …

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