Treating a peanut allergy with oral immunotherapy changes the DNA of the patient's immune cells, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. The DNA change could ...
Tags: Peanut Allergy, food allergies, allergic reaction, Oral Immunotherapy
(Phys.org) —A small team of mathematicians, led by Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson of the of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has uploaded a paper to the preprint server arXiv describing a mathematical process they used to ...
Tags: mathematical process, tie, knot, The Matrix Reloaded
On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, according to new research. While individual nanotubes are ...
South Carolina again posted a record year for export activity, with more than $26.1 billion in goods sold last year to 202 countries around the globe. The 2013 figures, released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s ...
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At the next Geneva Motor Show (March 6 - 16, 2014), it will also pack an all-new, three-cylinder turbo gasoline engine endowed with benchmark-setting running refinement, low-end torque and efficiency. And that's not all: this new ...
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Flint Group Flexographic Products has introduced the new high durometer digital photopolymer flexographic printing plate, nyloflex ACE UP Digital. Specially designed to be used with water based inks in corrugated preprint and aseptic ...
Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf—or one of many other new models—shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in electric cars in 2013. That's a tiny slice of the auto market, but it's up ...
Longstanding Myer CEO and managing director Bernie Brookes has put pen to paper on a new, open-ended contract worth $2 million per annum, plus performance based cash and equity bonuses. At the same time, the experienced retail head as ...
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Big Data is everywhere, and we are constantly told that it holds the answers to almost any problem we want to solve. Companies collect information on how we shop, doctors and insurance companies gather our medical test results, and ...
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A Dartmouth-University of Connecticut study of the northeast United States shows that methylmercury concentrations in estuary waters—not in sediment as commonly thought—are the best way to predict mercury contamination in the ...
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Fractals—patterns defined by their scale-invariance that makes them look the same on large scales as they do on small scales—are found in nature everywhere from snowflakes to broccoli to the beating of the heart. In a new study, ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet—the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy—of high-energy particles. The pulsar, a ...
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Food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has announced the launch of a new shape for its Tetra Brik Aseptic carton packaging, offering brand differentiation opportunities. The new version, which has two crystal shaped panels on the ...
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US-based health care products manufacturer Vireo Systems has unveiled new packaging and design for its flagship product AminoActiv, a non-toxic pain reliever. The new labeling and packaging formats have been designed to increase ...
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US-based flexible packaging company Bemis has signed an agreement with Hood Packaging to sell its paper packaging division. As part of the deal, Hood Packaging will acquire offices and manufacturing facilities of the division, situated in ...