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Starving cancer’s fuel source could boost treatment effectiveness

Targeting how cancer cells adapt and survive in nutrient-deprived environments could slow tumour growth and make existing treatments more effective, according to new University of Sheffield research.
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Rethinking Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Treatment Through EGFR Co-Targeting and Nanotechnology

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains one of the most challenging forms of breast cancer to treat because it lacks the estrogen, progesterone and HER2 receptors that enable targeted treatment ...
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Could Moon dust provide propellant for future spacecraft?

Could magnesium found in Moon dust help future spacecraft travel further into deep space? A new European Space Agency (ESA)-funded project led by the University of Surrey aims to find out. Researchers ...
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How 30,000 archaeological treasures were saved from imminent destruction during Syria’s civil war

A new study sheds light on how Syrian archaeologists risked their lives to rescue approximately 30,000 priceless artifacts from the Deir ez-Zor Museum during the summers of 2014 and 2015 as the city ...
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The Italian agricultural simple partnership (società semplice agricola): an agricultural enterprise, a non-commercial legal form and its registration in the Business Register

This article examines the Italian società semplice agricola as a distinctive model of non-commercial partnership for the collective exercise of agricultural enterprise. Its civil-law flexibility makes ...
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Science training helps Tanzanian banana farmers curb virus

[DAR ES SALAAM, SciDev.Net] Lush banana plants once stood bright and green across a farm in central Tanzania’s Morogoro district. But three weeks ago, science journalist Ashton Balaigwa noticed ...
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Uma scientists develop a new technology that improves the diagnosis of allergy to antibiotics such as amoxicillin and other penicillins

A multidisciplinary scientific team at the University of Malaga has developed a new technology based on magnetic nanoparticles that enables precise, rapid and reliable diagnosis of allergy to ...
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Superfluid-based qubit design could be key to scaling up quantum computers

Superfluid helium could offer a new way to tackle one of the biggest challenges in scaling up quantum computers, say researchers from the University of Surrey. The research team has introduced a ...
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In vivo immune cell engineering from bench to clinical reality

Adoptive immune cell therapies, particularly CAR-T-cell therapy, have achieved remarkable success in hematological malignancies. However, conventional treatment requires cell collection, ex vivo ...
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The crust of the Atlantic slope of the Basque-Cantabrian Range has risen 88 m more than the crust of the Mediterranean slope

An University of the Basque Country-EHU research group has determined the causes for the 255 m crustal uplift of the Atlantic slope and the 167 m uplift of the Mediterranean slope, as well as the ...
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Deep Eutectic Solvents in Tribology - Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

The advanced manufacturing technologies have driven mechanical equipment toward higher speeds, greater loads, and longer service lifetimes. The intensive and high-frequency operation inevitably leads ...
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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet

It is thought the Sun may have engulfed a super-Earth-sized planet early in its history. Now a new study has gone a step further by suggesting that such an event may have left behind detectable clues ...