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Contact: Suzanne Taylor Muzzin suzanne.taylormuzzin@yale.edu 203-432-8555 Yale University New Haven, Conn. – A team led by Yale University researchers has used nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time. Their findings, which appear December 13 in the advanced online publication of Nature Nanotechnol…
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Contact: Carmen Leibel carmen.leibel@ualberta.ca 780-492-0436 University of Alberta A groundbreaking discovery two years ago that turned ordinary skin cells back into an embryonic or “pluripotent” state was hailed as the solution to the controversial ethical question that has plagued stem-cell science for the past decade. …
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Contact: Jen Hirsch jfhirsch@mit.edu 617-253-1682 Massachusetts Institute of Technology CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that the drug hydroxyurea kills bacteria by inducing them to produce molecules toxic to themselves – a conclusion that raises the possibility of finding new antibiotics that u…
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Contact: Matthew Chin mchin@support.ucla.edu 310-206-0680 University of California – Los Angeles Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and …
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Contact: Joe Winters joseph.winters@iop.org 44-207-470-4815 Institute of Physics Using literature written by Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and Herman Melville, physicists in Sweden have developed a formula to detect different authors' literary 'fingerprints'. New research published today, Thursday 10 December, in New Journal…