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(Uppsala University) Could the ability of cancer cells to quickly alter their genome be used as a weapon against malignant tumors? Researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in developing a substance that has demon...

Hirose has developed a partnership with Amphenol on the release of ix Industrial connectors. The ix Industrial is an ideal connection solution for factory and process automation, machine to machine communication, robotic...

(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine -- a nonprofit with more than 25,000 members in California --filed a lawsuit against the State of California on March 11 f...

Many of the test instruments used in industry today have inputs based on instrumentation amplifiers. This kind of amplifier, sometimes abbreviated as InAmp, is itself based on a more fundamental amplifier setup, the diff...

A look at how biosafety scientists balance the need to learn about deadly pathogens and the danger of working with them.

The coronavirus, COVID-19, has brought significant attention to accurate, consistent and widely-available medical testing and diagnosis. Sensors provide the basis of providing the data and direction for many healthcare i...

Lumentum Holdings Inc. announced it has introduced three new high-speed datacom laser chips, broadening its portfolio to enable the growth of future hyperscale data centers and 5G wireless applications. Lumentum is a fir...

The Tektronix RSA7100B wideband RF signal analyzer and streaming recorder lets engineers working on wideband designs in communications, radar, and electronic warfare capture and analyze signal in the frequency domain. It...

Low resistance values are important for high-efficiency current sensing in that lower values mean less wasted power on the current sensing measurement itself. But sensing low resistance values becomes challenging because...

Power Integrations announced an expansion of its InnoSwitch 3 families of offline CV/CC flyback switcher ICs. The new INN3x78C devices incorporate a smaller "size 8" 750 V PowiGaN transistor, enabling compact, efficient ...

Newark has launched its exclusive Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit. Featuring the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer and a range of Newark's own brand Multicomp Pro products, the new Starter Kit provides an out of the box experie...

Eleven new digitizer products are specifically intended for the capture and analysis of electronic signals in the dc to 2 MHz frequency range. Offering signal acquisition at rates from 1 kS/sec to 5 MS/sec and with 16-bi...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) The short-chain fatty acid propionic acid influences the intestine-mediated immune regulation in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). This has been shown by a team from the Department of Neurolog...

(Wiley) Newly updated evidence published in the Cochrane Library today compares Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and clinically-related Twelve-Step Facilitation (TSF) programs with other treatments, such as cognitive behavioura...

(Children's National Hospital) Factoring in the total number of days that extremely preterm infants require supplemental oxygen and tracking this metric for weeks longer than usual improves clinicians' ability to predict...

(University of Turku) New study from Eleanor Coffey's lab at Turku Bioscience Center in Finland identifies that the JNK protein triggers nerve cells to withdraw their synapses when stressed.

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows African American patients were only about half as likely as non-Hispanic whites to receive PET-CT imaging during lung canc...

(University of Minnesota Medical School) A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School recently proved the ability to grow human-derived blood vessels in a pig -- a novel approach that has the poten...

(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) Publishing in the March 16, 2020, online issue of Host, Cell and Microbe, a team of researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, in collaboration with researchers at the J. Craig ...

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Few people in low-income countries have access to cancer screening and their cancer rates are on the rise. To test the feasibility of cancer screening in a low-income country, researc...

(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute) Research from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute finds a promising avenue for addressing vaccine hesitancy around HPV vaccine. The study, 'Tailored Messages Addressing HPV V...

(Forschungsverbund Berlin) Scientists from Russia, Germany and Switzerland now confirmed a mechanism in mouse, bat and naked mole rat cells -- a 'mild depolarization' of the inner mitochondrial membrane -- that is linked...