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'Rice University'
Microsponges from seaweed may save lives
— 10 Feb 2011 20:13 | HealthMicrosponges derived from seaweed may help diagnose heart disease, cancers, HIV and other diseases quickly and at far lower cost than current clinical methods. The microsponges are…
Researchers get a grip on nervous system's receptors
— 8 Feb 2011 18:30 | HealthA digital signal processing technique long used by statisticians to analyse data is helping Houston scientists understand the roots of memory and learning, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's…
What a ride! Researchers take molecules for a spin
— 1 Feb 2011 21:43 | Technology'This is no cartoon. It's a real molecule, with all the interactions taking place correctly,' said Anatoly Kolomeisky as he showed an animation of atoms twisting and turning about a…
Early tests find nanoshell therapy effective against brain cancer
— 1 Feb 2011 21:42 | HealthRice University bioengineers and physician-scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have successfully destroyed tumours of human brain cancer cells in…
Virus killer gets supercharged
— 12 Jan 2011 18:16 | HealthA simple technique to make a common virus-killing material significantly more effective is a breakthrough from the Rice University labs of Andrew Barron and Qilin Li…
Biomedical breakthrough: Blood vessels for lab-grown tissues
— 12 Jan 2011 18:13 | HealthResearchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have broken one of the major roadblocks on the path to growing transplantable tissue in the lab: They've found…
Bendy tubes get around
— 8 Jan 2011 14:30 | ChemistryTheo Odijk, you win. The professor of biotechnology at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has a new best friend in Rice University's Matteo Pasquali…
Rice researchers take molecule's temperature
— 14 Dec 2010 21:09 | TechnologyYou can touch a functioning light bulb and know right away that it's hot. Ouch! But you can't touch a single molecule and get the same feedback…
Mexican immigrants' health declines as they assimilate to America
— 14 Dec 2010 21:06 | HealthMexican-Americans who are most integrated into the culture - including those born in the United States, and not recent immigrants - appear less healthy and more likely to require resources…
Study probes link between magnetism, superconductivity
— 14 Dec 2010 20:15 | PhysicsEuropean and U.S. physicists this week are offering up the strongest evidence yet that magnetism is the driving force behind unconventional superconductivity. The findings by researchers…