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Life & Chemistry

How Body Signals Guide Stem Cell Decision-Making

How does a stem cell decide what path to take? In a way, it’s up to the wisdom of the crowd.

Health & Medicine

New Methods for E. Coli Detection by Researchers

Lance Noll, master's student in veterinary biomedical science, Greensburg; T.G. Nagaraja, university distinguished professor of diagnostic medicine and…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on How Cells Dispose of Old Mitochondria

It's broadly assumed that cells degrade and recycle their own old or damaged organelles, but researchers at University of California, San Diego School of…

Studies and Analyses

Study Confirms Pathological Gambling Runs in Families

A study by University of Iowa researchers confirms that pathological gambling runs in families and shows that first-degree relatives of pathological gamblers…

Medical Engineering

MRI Technique Aims to Reduce ADHD Misdiagnosis Risks

ADHD is a common disorder in children and adolescents that can continue into adulthood. Symptoms include hyperactivity and difficulty staying focused, paying…

Studies and Analyses

APC Gene’s Link to Learning and Autism Symptoms Explored

Autistic-like behaviors and decreased cognitive ability may be associated with disruption of the function of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene. When…

Innovative Products

Light Echoes Make the Invisible Visible at CVPR 2023

The researchers will be reporting their results at the international Conference for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) from June 24-27 in Columbus…

Event News

Conference “Research Data Management: Organizational, Technical, and Legal Challenges“

It is the first conference in FIZ Karlsruhe’s new series of events dedicated to the topic “The Future of Information Infrastructure”.

Life & Chemistry

Three parents and a baby – Scientists advise caution with regard to artificial insemination method

The method is supposed to help in eliminating the mother's genetic defects already in the test tube. The defect lies in so-called mitochondria, the “power…

Earth Sciences

Plant Waxes Uncover 24,000 Years of Rainfall Changes

If it rains particularly hard in the Sumatran rain forest, the already arid region of East Africa is onset with drought. Researchers from the Biodiversity and…

Materials Sciences

Nanoscale Composites Enhance MRI Imaging Capabilities

Submicroscopic particles that contain even smaller particles of iron oxide could make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a far more powerful tool to detect and…

Health & Medicine

Health Psychology: Exploring the Reality of Food Addiction

This suggested that they are more instinctively stimulated by images of food as well as lacking contemplative will power. Further, some women reported food…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights into Molecules: Advancing Atomic Scale Understanding

“It is a major step towards fully understanding the natural processes at the atomic scale.” That is the conclusion a group of Würzburg experimental physicists…

Life & Chemistry

Lipids Target Leukemia Cells: New Study Insights

They may recognize unique lipids produced by cancer cells and kill tumor cells expressing these lipid molecules. A study conducted by researchers at the…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s Titan Experiments Uncover Aromatic Flavor Chemistry

The recipe is used for lab experiments designed to simulate Titan’s chemistry. With this approach, the team was able to classify a previously unidentified…

Physics & Astronomy

Cracks in Pluto's Moon Could Indicate it Once Had an Underground Ocean

Pluto is an extremely distant world, orbiting the sun more than 29 times farther than Earth. With a surface temperature estimated to be about 380 degrees below…

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