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Most of the rural areas in transition countries are characterised by an inadequate infrastructure and service provision, weak employment and income growth, a…
Object-oriented programming languages with garbage collection such as Java considerably increase programmer productivity and software quality. A novel…
In 2011 and 2012, research from China’s Nanjing University made international headlines with reports that after mice ate, bits of genetic material from the…
As Chien (pronounced Chen) explains, to carry out fundamental life processes such as growing and dividing, cells must orchestrate, in time and location, the…
A new study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), found that garlic oil reduced the decrease of white blood…
Hydrogen fuel cells are already powering mobile lighting systems, forklifts, emergency backup systems and light-duty trucks, among other applications. Now,…
Higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood may reduce the risk for hip fractures in postmenopausal women, recent research suggests.Scientists analyzed…
A new report by an independent task force commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), has found that people absorb less…
Finding extrasolar planets has become so commonplace that it seems astronomers merely have to look up and another world is discovered. However, results from…
Recurrence of melanoma skin cancer 10 or more years after initial treatment is more common than previously thought, occurring in more than one in 20 patients….
“Cancer cells may maintain short telomeres to maintain their undifferentiated state,” says Hiroyuki Seimiya, a researcher on the study. Telomeres are…
After several years of knowledge exchange and a first successful joint development in the field of carbon nanotubes actuators, which resulted in demonstration…
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