For the male canary, the ability to sing a pitch-perfect song is critical to wooing female canaries. As the seasons change, so does song quality and frequency. The hormone testosterone plays a role in this changing song behavior. ...
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United States Army researchers have found that a bio-nanomaterial can help solve a public health issue involving people showing up in emergency rooms with dangerous reactions to marijuana substitutes sold at gas stations and head shops, ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug status for Kinex Pharmaceuticals' dual src/pre-tubulin inhibitor 'KX02' for the treatment of gliomas, which are the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer. KX02 is ...
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Researchers from the University of Adelaide are trying their best to find out the ways to exploit nanoparticles and their interactions with light. A 1,700-year-old Roman glass cup has opened a gate for researchers, which they believe would ...
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Qualcomm wants to make tablets and smartphones more perceptive by giving the devices a “silicon brain,” company CEO Paul Jacobs said Wednesday. The company wants to load mobile devices with its Zeroth processor, which is ...
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By 2012, most people understand the importance of including omega-3 fatty acids to their diets. Commonly found in fish oil, omega-3 fatty acids have countless benefits to a person's health and complexion. From teens to the elderly, everyone ...
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Evotec has announced a collaboration with the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center in California to identify new targets for Alzheimer's disease drug discovery and development. Under the terms of the agreement, Janssen Pharmaceuticals ...
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The Center for Tomography Research Laboratory (CTECH Labs) introduced the latest technology in brain scanning at the 6th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference on Neural Engineering at the Sheraton Hotel, ...
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Characters in my Red McKenna series of novels have a special rapport with their robotic servants through a natural-language communication system. It allows them the same kind of person-to-person interaction we enjoy with other people, pets ...
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Arch Biopartners (Arch) has received US patent for its brain tumor cell targeting technology, which protects novel synthetic peptides that target and attach human brain tumor initiating cells (BTICs) and invasive glioma cells (IGCs). The ...
Scientists from two different fields – textile research and neurosciences – are working together to understand how we perceive, feel or evaluate clothing on our skin. The researchers use special measuring devices in the ...
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IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The new transistors would be made from strongly correlated materials, such as metal oxides, which researchers ...
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IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The new transistors would be made from strongly correlated materials, such as metal oxides, which researchers ...
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IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The new transistors would be made from strongly correlated materials, such as metal oxides, which researchers ...
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Cortexica Vision Systems, the leading provider of cloud-based image recognition systems and visual search technology, announced the commercial availability of "Visual Fashion Finder," a mobile visual search solution for the fashion ...
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