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Aspirin or No Aspirin? New Test for Heart Plaque Revealed

A study involving the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation shows that a simple test to measure plaque in the arteries of the heart may help doctors better…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Targets Leaky Blood Vessels to Preserve Vision

A new drug approach has been developed for safer clean-up of deformed blood vessels in the eye by a research team at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM Satellite See Spring Storms Hit the U.S. Great Plains

Severe weather extended from Minnesota to southern Texas on Thursday afternoon, May 8 and Friday morning, May 9. During that time there were three tornadoes…

Life & Chemistry

Broader Diversity Needed in Human Microbiome Research

Results compared the microbes on the hands of women in the U.S. and Tanzania and found that organisms that have commonly been identified in prior human skin…

Life & Chemistry

Atlas Reveals Gene Influence on Human Metabolism Insights

In the most comprehensive exploration of the association between genetic variation and human metabolism, researchers have provided unprecedented insights into…

Earth Sciences

Hydrologists find Mississippi River network's buffering system for nitrates is overwhelmed

A new method of measuring the interaction of surface water and groundwater along the length of the Mississippi River network adds fresh evidence that the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Flexible Supercapacitor Boosts Energy Density for Wearables

Scientists have taken a large step toward making a fiber-like energy storage device that can be woven into clothing and power wearable medical monitors,…

Life & Chemistry

Patient stem cells used to make 'heart disease-on-a-chip'

Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and 'organ-on-a-chip' technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited…

Earth Sciences

Ocean Winds: Why Antarctica Stays Cold and Australia Dry

New Australian National University-led research has explained why Antarctica is not warming as much as other continents, and why southern Australia is…

Earth Sciences

Ice Loss Causes Earth’s Shift: Key Findings from Newcastle Study

The study, led by Newcastle University, UK, and published this week in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, explains for the first time why the upward motion…

Life & Chemistry

Hijacking bacteria's natural defences to trap and reveal pathogens

The research was led by Professor Cameron Alexander, Head of the Division of Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering and EPSRC Leadership Fellow in the…

Event News

Exploring Safe Botanical Use: Final EU Project Conference in Vienna

A consortium of international research groups worked with botanists from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna to investigate whether botanicals…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Boosting Green Energy: The Need for Government Support

Published today, the report looks at how initiatives such as community-owned solar panels, wind turbines and hydro-electricity generators, as well as…

Environmental Conservation

UGA Research Uncovers Methane Fate Post-Deepwater Horizon Spill

In the face of a seemingly insurmountable cleanup effort, many were relieved by reports following the disaster that naturally-occurring microbes had consumed…

Life & Chemistry

Galectins Boost Immunity Against Camouflaged Bacteria

Our bodies produce a family of proteins that recognize and kill bacteria whose carbohydrate coatings resemble those of our own cells too closely, scientists…

Studies and Analyses

Children of Nicotine-Addicted Parents at Higher Smoking Risk

So warns a team of researchers led by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists in Pediatrics. The study, published online today, is among the…

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