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Life & Chemistry

Probing changes to infant milk formulations

Infant milk formula is a widely accepted alternative to breast milk for babies in their first year of life. Since breast milk contains all the nutrients…

Studies and Analyses

Fish Oil Benefits: Preserving Brain Cells with Omega-3s

For the study, the levels of omega-3 fatty acids EPA+DHA in red blood cells were tested in 1,111 women who were part of the Women’s Health Initiative Memory…

Life & Chemistry

“Molecular switch” discovered in Parkinson’s protein

Scientists at the University of Kassel have now discovered a mechanism that controls the activity of LRRK2. This opens up new approaches for the development of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Increase in Hemlock Forest Offsetting the Effect of Invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid — at Least for Now

The key word is “appear,” said Talbot Trotter, the study’s lead author and a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station.In…

Trade Fair News

LZH Showcases Cutting-Edge Laser Innovations at Photonics West

The Laser Development Department of the LZH will be presenting systems and components from the fields of space lasers, fiber optics, single frequency lasers…

Seminars Workshops

Jointly offered course by Haus der Technik and APV-Mainz about crystallizations in the chemical and life-science industry

The course will take place in English from May 07-08, 2014 and in German from May 08-09, 2014 (Grundlagen und Auslegung von Kristallisationen in der…

Corporate News

Kardemir Adopts Siemens Meros Tech for Sinter Off-Gas Cleanup

Siemens Metals Technologies has received an order from Karabük Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir), a Turkish steel producer, to supply key…

Awards Funding

Fraunhofer ISE Wins 2014 Zayed Future Energy Prize

This dedication to renewables over many years has now been recognized in the form of the Zayed Future Energy Prize 2014. Awarded to Fraunhofer ISE on January…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

UM Study Finds Wolf Predation of Cattle Affects Calf Weight in Montana

The study found that wolves living on the landscape with cattle have no effect on herd weight, but once a ranch has a confirmed wolf kill, average calf weight…

Physics & Astronomy

Mass Matters: New Insights on Nano-Scale Movement in Fluids

The findings help to better understand movement of nano-sized objects in fluid environments that can be characterized by a low Reynolds number, which often…

Physics & Astronomy

Sneak Peek at Survey Telescope’s Stunning Stellar Discoveries

This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright young stars, and is home to young stellar clusters. This image is a tiny part of just one of…

Life & Chemistry

Bio-Inspired Robotic Device Enhances Ankle-Foot Rehab

Park, working with collaborators at Harvard University, the University of Southern California, MIT and BioSensics, developed an active orthotic device using…

Health & Medicine

Fever Reducers May Fuel Influenza Spread, Study Finds

New research from McMaster University has discovered that the widespread use of medications that contain fever-reducing drugs may lead to tens of thousands…

Life & Chemistry

Silenced – Overcoming multidrug resistance in cancer cells by silencing genes with RNA

In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of Chinese and American researchers has now introduced a new approach to gene therapy that could counter this problem:…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Production of biodiesel from crude palm oil (cpo) and waste cooking oil (wco) through transesterification method

Conversion of palm oil to fuel is one way to add value to waste and also resources of palm oil. Palm oil can be changed to biofuel through several ways, the…

Life & Chemistry

Fish Fins to Limbs: Unraveling Evolution’s Fascinating Journey

The transition from water to land is one of the most fascinating enigmas of evolution. In particular, the evolution of limbs from ancestral fish fins remains a…

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