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Life & Chemistry

New Tool Advances Lab-Grown Tissue Research

Published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, their mathematical modelling tool will be useful in helping biologists and tissue engineers to move towards…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Smart Control of Renewables Stabilizes Electrical Grids

The electrical grid must be stable and always available. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF intend to make…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Fruit Fly RNA Complexity Unveiled

Scientists from Indiana University are part of a consortium that has described the transcriptome of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in unprecedented…

Trade Fair News

French Companies Shine at Aircraft Interiors Expo 2014

The French Pavilion is being organized by UBIFRANCE, the French export-support agency, in partnership with Centréco, the Midi-Pyrenees Region of southern…

Health & Medicine

10 Years Post-Esophagectomy: Patients Thrive with Quality of Life

Long-term survivors after esophagectomy with gastric pull-up can enjoy a satisfying meal and good quality of life according to a new study from a team of…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Learning Impairments in Parkinson’s Disease

Kessler Foundation scientists collaborated with colleagues in Spain to study memory and learning in patients with Parkinson Disease (PD). They found that the…

Studies and Analyses

Industry-Sponsored Research Boosts Innovation and Patents

Industry-sponsored, academic research leads to innovative patents and licenses, says a new analysis led by Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal Zebra Stripes in Space

NASA's twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft have shown that high-energy electrons in the inner radiation belt display a persistent pattern that resembles slanted…

Environmental Conservation

Dry Climate Threatens Orchid Bee Habitat: Key Findings Revealed

In previous studies, researchers have tracked male and female orchid bees and found that while females stay near their nests, male orchid bees travel, with one…

Life & Chemistry

Plants Evolve Weaponry for Survival: New Insights on Milkweed

The team, led by Dr. Andrea Cocucci from the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal of Argentina, studied a species of milkweed (Apocynaceae), found…

Earth Sciences

How Amphibians and Dinosaurs Became Top Predators Post-Permian

252 million years ago the largest extinction event occurred at the end of the Permian age. It wiped out almost 90 percent of all life in water.

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Loblolly pine's immense genome conquered

The draft genome — approximately seven times bigger than the human genome — is the largest genome sequenced to date and the most complete conifer genome…

Health & Medicine

Surgery Boosts Survival for Elderly Stroke Patients

Patients who are over the age of 60 and have suffered a major stroke due to blockage of the middle cerebral artery benefit from hemicraniectomy – removal of…

Earth Sciences

NASA Tracks Strength in Tropical Cyclone Gillian’s Remnants

Over the past few days former tropical cyclone Gillian's remnants moved from the Gulf of Carpentaria into the Timor Sea.

Awards Funding

Heidelberg University Researcher Wins Animal Welfare Prize

Professor Thomas Korff of the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology at Heidelberg University, Germany, was awarded the German Research Foundation…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Incentives to Boost Grain Markets in India: Key Insights

Two University of Illinois economists analyzed infrastructure of interstate trade for food-grain crops in three Indian states and found that grain farmers are…

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