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Health & Medicine

New Research Fights Motor Neurone Disease Challenges

Scientists from the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) conducted pioneering research assessing how the devastating…

Information Technology

Learn Keyboard Shortcuts Effortlessly with New Program

If somebody wants to shift text elements within a Word document from one position to another, he usually uses the mouse. This procedure is rather cumbersome…

Physics & Astronomy

New Paradigm in Nanoscale MRI Boosts Imaging Sensitivity

This represents a significant advance in MRI sensitivity—modern MRI techniques commonly used in medical imaging yield spatial resolutions on the millimeter…

Health & Medicine

Folic Acid Deficiency: Multigenerational Impact Revealed

Researchers from the universities of Calgary and Cambridge, UK, have discovered that a mutation in a gene necessary for the metabolism of folic acid not only…

Seminars Workshops

Workshop “Laser Processing of Glass Materials” on November 26th, 2013 at the LZH

In many areas of manufacturing and processing industries, processing of glass materials using the laser plays an important role. The laser has established…

Awards Funding

Helmholtz Funds Five Key German-Chinese Research Projects

Since 2012, the association, together with the CAS, has been supporting German-Chinese research projects that are of key importance to society. This year, five…

Life & Chemistry

Immune Cells Found to Boost Beta Cell Growth in Type 1 Diabetes

Joslin researchers have identified immune cells that promote growth of beta cells in type 1 diabetes. This study provides further evidence of a changed role…

Awards Funding

ERC Funds Million for Cutting-Edge Polymer Research

The European Research Council (ERC), an institution established by the EU Commission, announced on 26th September 2013 in Brussels that Professor Hans-Jürgen…

Life & Chemistry

Mapping Oncogenic Signatures: A Guide to Personalized Cancer Therapy

It is well known that the emergence of cancer is a multi-step process, but because of the efforts of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), funded by the US National…

Health & Medicine

Yoga in menopause may help insomnia—but not hot flashes

Taking a 12-week yoga class and practicing at home was linked to less insomnia—but not to fewer or less bothersome hot flashes or night sweats. The link…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Breakthrough Reduces Plants’ Nitrogen Fertilizer Needs

Nitrogen fertilizer costs U.S. farmers approximately $8 billion each year, and excess fertilizer can find its way into rivers and streams, damaging the…

Life & Chemistry

How Fossils Reveal Plant Responses to Environmental Change

As the only direct evidence of past life, fossils provide important information on the interactions between plants and environmental change. After ten years'…

Health & Medicine

New Advances in Thyroid Cancer Treatment Unveiled by Penn Medicine

For many years, patients with advanced thyroid cancer faced bleak prospects and no viable treatment options. But now, building on recent discoveries about the…

Earth Sciences

Tiny Sensors in Smartphones Could Build Urban Seismic Networks

Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) accelerometers measure the rate of acceleration of ground motion and vibration of cars, buildings and installations. In…

Life & Chemistry

Wagon-Wheel Pasta Shape Enhances Organic LED Efficiency

One problem in developing more efficient organic LED light bulbs and displays for TVs and phones is that much of the light is polarized in one direction and…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Discovery Advances Understanding of Prader-Willi Syndrome

The parents of this first patient sought genetic testing for Prader-Willi syndrome when he was only a year old, but the test, which was still in its infancy,…

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