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Promising drug candidate protects against radiation exposure from nuclear fallout
The 2011 Fukushima disaster was a stark reminder of the continuing dangers posed by nuclear fallout highlighting the need for an approved drug that can be taken after radiation exposure to protect against organ injury ... - Read MoreSoils could keep contaminants in wastewater from reaching groundwater, streams
With endocrine disrupting compounds affecting fish populations in rivers as close as Pennsylvania's Susquehanna and as far away as Israel's Jordan a new research study shows that soils can filter out and break down at ... - Read MoreNew Research Unlocks How Melanoma Can Resist Newly Approved Drug Combo Therapy
Released 15 Jan 2015 12 00 PM ESTSource Newsroom University of California Los Angeles UCLA Health Sciences more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Cancer CellJan 22 2015 ... - Read MoreNew decontamination tool expected to help Fukushima cleanup
An inexpensive and highly durable new material it is hoped that Catenaccio PA will prove effective for treating contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant The Research Institute for Sustainable and Environmental Technology of Waseda ... - Read MoreDrugs from dirt: Scientists develop first global roadmap for drug discovery
Rockefeller University scientists have analysed soils from beaches forests and deserts on five continents and discovered the best places in the world to mine untapped antibiotic and anticancer drugs The findings published in the open ... - Read MoreNew 'microcapsules' have potential to repair damage caused by osteoarthritis
A new 'microcapsule' treatment delivery method developed by researchers at Queen Mary University of London QMUL could reduce inflammation in cartilage affected by osteoarthritis and reverse damage to tissue The research was funded by Arthritis ... - Read MorePortable stimulator being tested on Parkinson's patients
Parkinson's disease is a slowly degenerative neurological disease that is expressed as impaired motor control tremors stiffness and in later stages problems with balance The symptoms are caused by a lack of the signal substance ... - Read MoreNASA mountaintop sensor finds high methane over Los Angeles
A NASA study using two years of observations from a novel mountaintop instrument finds that Los Angeles' annual emissions of methane an important greenhouse gas are 18 to 61 percent higher than widely used estimates ... - Read MoreNew 'triggered-release' mechanism could improve drug delivery
More efficient medical treatments could be developed thanks to a new method for triggering the rearrangement of chemical particles The new method developed at the University of Warwick uses two 'parent' nanoparticles that are designed ... - Read MoreNanoparticles for clean drinking water
One way of removing harmful nitrate from drinking water is to catalyse its conversion to nitrogen This process suffers from the drawback that it often produces ammonia By using palladium nanoparticles as a catalyst and ... - Read MoreCentury-Old Drug Reverses Autism-Like Symptoms in Fragile X Mouse Model
Released 15 Jan 2015 3 00 PM ESTSource Newsroom University of California San Diego Health Sciences more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Molecular AutismJan 17 2015 Autism ... - Read MoreGold nanoparticles show promise for early detection of heart attacks
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering professors have been collaborating with researchers from Peking University on a new test strip that is demonstrating great potential for the early detection of certain heart attacks Kurt H Becker ... - Read MoreFDA approves first medical device for obesity treatment targeting brain-to-stomach signaling
The United States Food and Drug Administration FDA approved EnteroMedic's VBLOC® vagal blocking therapy delivered via the Maestro® System which is the first medical device approved for obesity treatment that targets the nerve pathway between ... - Read MorePossible Treatments Identified for Highly Contagious Stomach Virus
they share the job of establishing persistence ” No studies have indicated that animals or insects carry and spread human norovirus Therefore scientists suspect that the sources of outbreaks may be people who have persistent ... - Read MoreCone Snail Venom Holds Promise for Medical Treatments for Cancer and Addiction
Released 13 Jan 2015 6 00 PM ESTSource Newsroom Florida Atlantic University more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Journal of Biological ChemistryJan 15 2015 While considered a ... - Read MoreFast sorting of CD4+ T cells from whole blood using glass microbubbles
Human immunodeficiency virus HIV disease represents a global health problem concern in the world especially in many areas of Africa According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS UNAIDS there were 24.7 ... - Read MoreResearchers create method that recovers high value metals for industries while protecting the environment
Researchers at the University of Guanajuato UGTO in middle Mexico developed an extraction column which recovers metals companies use in their production processes and thus avoid environmental pollution and lessen economic losses The column operates ... - Read MoreGift-wrapped gas molecules
A group of scientists led by researchers at the Université de Versailles' Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to stably gift wrap a chemical gas known as nitric oxide within metal organic frameworks ... - Read MoreMore safety on thermal drying plants of sewage sludge
Researchers from the Madariaga Lab at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have carried out a series of trials to study the explosiveness of sludge on thermal drying plants of sewage sludge The obtained result will ... - Read MoreNano Filter cleans dirty industry
Prototypes of nano cellulose based filters with high purification capacity towards environmentally hazardous contaminants from industrial effluents eg process industries have been developed by researchers at Luleå University of Technology The research conducted in collaboration ... - Read MoreGlobal Partners
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