From ScientificBlogging.com Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. The treatment will involve transfusing specific white blood cells, called granulocytes, from ...

By taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper, researchers at Harvard's Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper. The result could be disposable diagnostic tests simple and abundant enough for use in the developing world. The field of microfluidics deals with the ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Martine Rothblatt founded Sirius Satellite Radio from a desire to link people together. She founded United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR), which has a research and development facility in Research Triangle Park, N.C.,  from a desperation to save her daughter's life. With no background in medicine, ...

A research nuclear reactor may lead the way to the power plant of the future. Irradiation studies at the nuclear core predict a safer, greener and cheaper atomic energy by the middle of the century. The first stage in research of a new generation of nuclear power plants.

Nanosciences and nanotechnologies represent a formidable challenge for the research community and industry. World-class infrastructure, new fundamental knowledge, novel equipment for characterisation and manufacturing, multi-disciplinary education and training for innovative and creative engineering, and a responsible attitude to societal ...

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Research being done in Dr. Eagleman's lab; piloting free fall experiments to explore time warping during high adrenaline situation.

Call it the ''''Super Bowl of Science.'''' The players at this match-up are among the brightest young minds in the United States. They are the winners of the nation's premiere math, science and technology competition for high school students. And for the first time in the nine year-history of the Siemens Competition, girls swept the top ...

Nanotechwire.com reports on clever work at UCSD on detecting cancer using today’s early nanotechnology-based particles: There is a growing recognition among cancer researchers that the most accurate methods for detecting early-stage cancer will require the development of sensitive assays that can identify simultaneously multiple biomarkers ...