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Information Technology

Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Streamline Privacy Compliance for Big Data

Web services companies, such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft, all make promises about how they will use personal information they gather. But ensuring that…

Environmental Conservation

Oil And Gas Development Impacting Core-Forest Bird Communities

The commonwealth's Northern Tier — one of the largest blocks of Eastern deciduous forest in the entire Appalachian region — is an important breeding area for…

Life & Chemistry

11-Gene Panel Unveils Alcoholism Risk Insights

“This powerful panel of just 11 genes successfully identified who has problems with alcohol abuse and who does not in tests in three patient populations on two…

Health & Medicine

Radiofreqeuncy ablation and complete endoscopic resection equally effective for dysplastic Barrett's esophagus

Barrett's esophagus is a condition in which the lining of the esophagus changes and becomes more like the lining of the small intestine. It is believed that…

Medical Engineering

Siemens RAPIDComm System Boosts Workflow at Point of Care

The upgrade includes support for the new RAPIDComm Web Application enabling management of blood gas analyzers from an iPad, as well as an interface to PEP…

Environmental Conservation

Dryland Ecosystems: Key Players in the Global Carbon Cycle

Surprised by the discovery, Poulter and his collaborators explained their findings in Nature. At the same time, they urged global ecologists to include the…

Health & Medicine

Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Inflammatory Disease

A disruption of circadian rhythms, when combined with a high-fat, high-sugar diet, may contribute to inflammatory bowel disease and other harmful conditions,…

Life & Chemistry

How Our Brains Interpret Car Designs as Faces

The headlights – two eyes, the radiator cowling – a smiling mouth: This is how our brain sometimes creates a face out of a car front. The same happens with…

Health & Medicine

Pulsed Electrical Fields Target Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Application of a technology currently used to disinfect food products may help to get around one of the most challenging problems in medicine today, the…

Studies and Analyses

Cannabis for Seizures: Insights from Experts and Case Studies

In a case study, Dr. Edward Maa, Chief of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Denver Health in Denver, Colo., details one mother's experience of providing…

Environmental Conservation

Top 10 New Species of 2014: Discover Unique Discoveries

An appealing carnivorous mammal, a 12-meter-tall tree that has been hiding in plain sight and a sea anemone that lives under an Antarctic glacier are among the…

Corporate News

GE’s 10th X-Ray Forum 2014: Insights from Hamburg Event

Welcome in Hamburg!

Health & Medicine

Streptococcal Bacteria: A New Approach to Colon Cancer Treatment

By engineering a streptococcal bacterial toxin to attach itself to tumour cells, they are forcing the immune system to recognize and attack the cancer.

Information Technology

LRZ, TUM, to join Intel in establishing an Intel® Parallel Computing Center

There are already a number of Intel Parallel Computing Centers existing and their mission is to facilitate software development of highly parallel programming…

Physics & Astronomy

Engineers build world's smallest, fastest nanomotor

With the goal of powering these yet-to-be invented devices, UT Austin engineers focused on building a reliable, ultra-high-speed nanomotor that can convert…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Study Uncovers New Humpback Whale Subspecies

The team, led by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and Oregon State University, analysed the largest and most comprehensive genetic dataset so far…

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