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Scientists trace origins of now extinct plant population from volcanically active Nishinoshima
Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have determined the genetic lineage of a now extinct plant…
New Study Reveals How Cells ‘Feel’ Their Way Through Tissue
ST. LOUIS — Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have uncovered how groups of normal cells can…
ISSCR Urges NIH to Reconsider Stance on Human Fetal Tissue Research
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), the world’s leading organization of stem cell scientists, has expressed…
Scientists in Saudi Arabia repurpose greenhouse gas into valuable chemical product
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; Saudi Arabia) have unveiled a breakthrough system that…
New Insights Reveal Metabolism–Immunity Link in Head and Neck Cancer
Head and neck cancer continues to rank among the six most prevalent cancers globally, claiming hundreds of thousands…
Researchers quantify rate of essential evolutionary process in the ocean
The movement of genetic material between organisms that aren’t directly related is a significant driver of evolution, especially…
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$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development
Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China. (Cambridge, MA) — MIT has received one of the largest gifts in its history, from alumnus Samuel Tak Lee ’62, SM ’64, to establish a real estate entrepreneurship lab that will promote social responsibility among entrepreneurs and academics in the real estate […]
MED-EL Founders Ingeborg Hochmair, PhD, and Professor Erwin Hochmair Awarded 2015 Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering announced today that bioengineering pioneers and MED-EL Medical Electronics GmbH co-founders Ingeborg Hochmair, PhD, and Professor Erwin Hochmair have been awarded the 2015 Fritz J.…
Last of Nepal’s car porters recalls life without roads
By Ammu Kannampilly | AFP Chitlang (Nepal) (AFP) – At 92, Dhan Bahadur Gole is the last known survivor of a generation of porters who carried luxury cars on foot across…
University of Malaya young researcher won the Outstanding Journal Article Award at the AECT 2014 convention in USA
Dr. Farrah Dina Yusop, the Deputy Director of the Curriculum Development Center and senior lecturer of the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Malaysia has been awarded the prestigious Outstanding…