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Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud to Enable Researchers to Analyze Cancer Data
May 20, 2013 The University of Chicago has launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome ... > full story -
Competition in the Quantum World
May 19, 2013 Physicists have gained a deep insight into the nature of quantum mechanical phase transitions. Scientists have simulated the competition between two rival dynamical processes at a novel type of ... > full story -
Why We Need to Put the Fish Back Into Fisheries
May 19, 2013 Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world’s oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable shellfish. However, ... > full story -
Molecular Marker from Pancreatic 'Juices' Helps Identify Pancreatic Cancer
May 19, 2013 Researchers have developed a promising method to distinguish between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis — two disorders that are difficult to tell apart. A molecular marker obtained ... > full story -
Commonly Used Catheters Double Risk of Blood Clots in ICU and Cancer Patients
May 19, 2013 Peripherally inserted central catheters – an often preferred route for delivery of IV medications — increase risk of blood clots in sickest ... > full story -
Engineered Microbes Grow in the Dark
May 19, 2013 Scientists have engineered a strain of photosynthetic cyanobacteria to grow without the need for ... > full story -
Bacteria Use Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide to Produce Electricity
May 19, 2013 Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of ... > full story -
Kinks and Curves at the Nanoscale: New Research Shows 'Perfect Twin Boundaries' Are Not So Perfect
May 19, 2013 Since 2004, materials scientists and nanotechnology experts have been excited about a special of arrangement of atoms called a "coherent twin boundary" that can add enormous strength to metals like ... > full story -
Roots of Future Tropical Rainfall: Sea Level Influenced Tropical Climate During the Last Ice Age
May 19, 2013 How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the ... > full story -
Heat-Related Deaths in Manhattan Projected to Rise: Killing Season May Push Into Spring and Fall
May 19, 2013 Researchers say deaths in Manhattan linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s, and, in some worst-case scenarios, 90 percent or more by the 2080s. Higher winter temperatures may ... > full story
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