Location: Cambridge, United States
Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a
semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed by people safely away from the
dangers of the...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT
researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria.
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have long
enlisted bacteria and yeast to...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Satellites orbiting the Earth must occasionally be nudged to stay on the
correct path. MIT scientists are developing a new rocket that could make this
and other spacecraft maneuvers much less costly, a consideration of growing
importance as...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer
viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a
lithium-ion battery.
The new virus-produced batteries have the same energy capacity and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Living cells are bombarded with messages from the outside world -- hormones
and other chemicals tell them to grow, migrate, die or do nothing. Inside the
cell, complex signaling networks interpret these cues and make life-and-death...
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Location: Marion Doucet or Nadine Peyrolo: @ pasteur.fr marion.doucet - 01 45 68 89 28, France
Through a study of human genetics in different populations around the world,
researchers at the Pasteur Institute and CNRS have discovered how pathogens may
vary over time the evolution of our immune system.
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.
Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate...
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Location: DR Inserm North - West, 1 avenue Oscar Lambret - BP 90005, 59008 Lille Cedex - Tel. : 03 20 29 86 70 : 03 20 29 86 70 , Belgium
The Bilhvax vaccine against schistosomiasis, entered its third phase of
development, phase of development in clinical research in Senegal to confirm its
effectiveness before it is placed on the market. To date, the vaccine was tested
among...
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Location: Minnesota, United States
Genetically engineering plants is a time-intensive process. Methods currently
used to deliver genetic changes are imprecise, so it's often necessary to
generate thousands of plants to find one that happens to have the desired
alteration....
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Location: Syracuse, United States
The new technology may lead to the development of improved medical implants
This is the tale of two biological substances—cells from mammals and bacteria.
It's a story about the havoc these microscopic entities can wreak on...
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Location: washington, United States
DNA evidence is in, newly discovered species of fish dubbed H.
psychedelica-A juvenile H. psychedelica hops along a coral
reef, its course even more precarious as it is buffeted by currents. Notice
how it curves its tail around to...
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Location: COLUMBUS, United States
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have determined that a specific gene plays a role
in the weight-gain response to a high-fat diet.
The finding in an animal study suggests that blocking this gene could one day
be a therapeutic...
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Location: Wales, United Kingdom
BETHESDA, Md. (Feb. 24, 2009) − When participants performed a mentally fatiguing task prior to a difficult exercise test, they reached exhaustion more quickly than when they did the same exercise when mentally rested, a new study finds.
The...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: North Carolina, United States
A new light-bending material has brought scientists one step closer to creating
a cloaking device that could hide objects from sight.
Beyond possible military applications, it also might have a very practical use
by making mobile...
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Location: Pisa, Italy
Researchers are looking to put micro-robots to work as internal surgeons. The hope is that some of these tablet-shaped robots could perform certain gastrointestinal operations without injuring the patient's body. The process
would begin with...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human.
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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