(American Association for Cancer Research) The CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium features the latest cutting-edge findings in laboratory, translational and clinical breast cancer research. This year's meeting focuses on new and promising therapeutic approaches, as well as strides being made in diagnosing and preventing breast cancer.

(Springer) Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia university, researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine, an antioxidant, can prevent the memory loss that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs sometimes induce. The WVU researchers' study has just been published in the September issue of the Springer journal Metabolic Brain Disease.

(Society of Interventional Radiology) The Society of Interventional Radiology, a national organization of nearly 4,500 doctors, scientists and allied health professionals dedicated to improving health care through minimally invasive treatment interventions, applauds the recommendations of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that uterine fibroid embolization "is a safe and effective option for women. "

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Researchers at NIST are probing the newest microscope technology to further improve measurement accuracy at the nanoscale -- a critical capability for setting standards and improving production in the semiconductor and nanomanufacturing industries.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Researchers from NIST and Seoul National university have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend. Their recent results could enable the design of practical, large-scale manufacturing techniques for a wide range of printable, flexible electronic displays and other devices.

(Durham University) Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries. Dr. Alex Densmore, a geographer from Durham university, makes the observations on returning from carrying out investigative fieldwork in the China earthquake zone.

One common chemistry class assignment is memorizing the elements. I don't think too many teachers make students learn the entire periodic table, but you'll usually have to know the first...

(North Carolina State University) The National science Foundation announced today that North Carolina State university will lead a national research center that aims to revolutionize the nation's power grid and speed renewable electric-energy technologies into every home and business.