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Forced Exercise May Shield Against Anxiety, CU-Boulder Study

Past studies have shown that people who exercise are more protected against stress-related disorders. And scientists know that the perception of control can…

Health & Medicine

New UK Study Uncovers Cancer Detection Breakthrough

The study, published in Cell, discovers that an abnormal histone protein modification impairs a DNA repair machinery that controls cancer development, yielding…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s EVEX Mission: Exploring Disruptions in Radio Waves

The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch two rockets for a twelve-minute journey through the equatorial ionosphere above the…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Discovers RNAs Linked to Long-Term Memory

Now, working together, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Columbia University and the University of Florida,…

Studies and Analyses

Stanford Study Reveals Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Trauma Transport

The researchers found that if an additional 1.6 percent of seriously injured patients survive after being transported by helicopter from the scene of injury to…

Life & Chemistry

Roundworm Insights: Tackling Obesity and Metabolic Disorders

Gastrointestinal nematodes infect approximately 2 billion people worldwide, and some researchers believe up until the 20th century almost everyone had worms….

Information Technology

Smartphone Gunfire Tracking: Vanderbilt’s Innovative Tech Solution

A team of computer engineers from Vanderbilt University’s Institute of Software Integrated Systems has made such a scenario possible by developing an…

Life & Chemistry

C4BP: Spider-Shaped Protein as a Drug Transporter

The immune protein C4BP is potentially suitable as a transporter for drugs.The protein C4BP is similar to a spider in its spatial form with eight “arms”. The…

Health & Medicine

New Screening Tests Enhance Early Detection of Liver Cancer

HCC is common throughout the world and most often develops as a late complication of chronic viral hepatitis or cirrhosis of any cause. The overall survival…

Studies and Analyses

Health Insurance Survey Reveals 84 Million Uninsured in 2012

Eighty-four million people¯nearly half of all working-age U.S. adults¯went without health insurance for a time last year or had out-of-pocket costs that were…

Life & Chemistry

Bird Navigation – Great Balls of Iron

Their work, published in Current Biology, reports the discovery of iron balls in sensory neurons. These cells, called hair cells, are found in the ear and are…

Physics & Astronomy

Most Massive Neutron Star Discovered: Twice the Sun’s Weight

Weighing twice as much as the Sun, it is the most massive neutron star measured to date. Together with a short orbital period of only 2.5 hours, the system…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Speeding Up Innovation in Methane Capture Solutions

As the main component of natural gas, methane when burned as a fuel produces less carbon dioxide than the burning of oil or coal, which makes it a plus for…

Health & Medicine

Air Pollution’s Impact on Arterial Health: Key Findings

Sara Adar, the John Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health, and Joel Kaufman, professor of environmental and…

Studies and Analyses

Gut Bacteria Byproduct May Predict Heart Attack and Stroke

A microbial byproduct of intestinal bacteria contributes to heart disease and serves as an accurate screening tool for predicting future risks of heart attack,…

Life & Chemistry

Medium Chain Triglycerides: A Defense Against NAFLD

NAFLD occurs in patients with obesity and type II diabetes and is being seen at younger ages in association with the obesity epidemic. NAFLD is characterized…

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