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• Engineers teach old chemical new tricks to make cleaner fuels, fertilizers
• Drug to reverse breast cancer spread in development
• Highly reliable brain-imaging protocol identifies delays in premature infants

Engineers teach old chemical new tricks to make cleaner fuels, fertilizers Posted: 26 Jan 2014 10:46 AM PST University researchers from two continents have engineered an efficient and environmentally friendly catalyst for the production of molecular hydrogen, a compound used extensively in modern industry to manufacture fertilizer and refine crude oil into gasoline.

Drug to reverse breast cancer spread in development Posted: 25 Jan 2014 07:49 PM PST Researchers at Cardiff University are developing a novel compound known to reverse the spread of malignant breast cancer cells. The vast majority of deaths from cancer result from its progressive spread to vital organs, known as metastasis. In breast cancer up to 12,000 patients a year develop this form of the disease, often several years after initial diagnosis of a breast lump. In a recent series of studies, researchers identified a previously unknown critical role for a potential cancer causing gene, Bcl3, in metastatic breast cancer.

Highly reliable brain-imaging protocol identifies delays in premature infants Posted: 25 Jan 2014 02:24 PM PST Infants born prematurely are at elevated risk for cognitive, motor, and behavioral deficits -- the severity of which was, until recently, almost impossible to accurately predict in the neonatal period with conventional brain-imaging technology. But physicians may now be able to identify the premature infants most at risk for deficits as well as the type of deficit, enabling them to quickly initiate early neuroprotective therapies, by using highly reliable 3-D MRI imaging techniques developed by clinician scientists.

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