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Life & Chemistry

Genetics Unveils Key Factors in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Researchers have newly associated nine genetic regions with a rare autoimmune disease of the liver known as primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). This brings…

Health & Medicine

Exploring Molecular Insights: Desai and Campbell’s Latest Research

Ludwig researchers Arshad Desai and Christopher Campbell, a post-doctoral fellow in his laboratory, were conducting an experiment to parse the molecular…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Changes Linked to Prostate Cancer Development and Lethality

Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study provides valuable information on the genetics of prostate…

Health & Medicine

Asthma Care Declines After 18: Study Reveals Key Insights

In what may be the first study to measure health care utilization patterns among young adults with chronic health problems—in this case asthma—a team of…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Maps Ant Family Tree and Species Diversity

Anyone who has spent time in the tropics knows that the diversity of species found there is astounding and the abundance and diversity of ants, in particular,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Manufacturing Technique Makes Germanium Compatible

Researchers from ETH Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Politecnico di Milano have jointly developed a manufacturing technique to render the…

Health & Medicine

Using nitrous oxide for anesthesia doesn't increase — and may decrease — complications and death

Giving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for noncardiac surgery doesn't increase the rate of complications and death—and might even decrease the risk…

Life & Chemistry

RNA Targets Toxic Sugars to Enhance Biological Health

Sugar is vital to all organisms. Bacteria, plants, animals and humans use glucose and other sugars as an energy source and as building blocks for biosynthesis….

Technology Offerings

Beauveria Bassiana: New Fungal Solution for Crop Protection

Biological crop protection against herbivorous insects using new fungal isolate of Beauveria bassiana. Isolate growths endophytically in several crops and…

Technology Offerings

Acoustical Sensor Suction System Enhances Surgical Precision

This invention describes a special control system which works by a acoustical sensor in the hand-held unit of the suction device which records the sound of the…

Technology Offerings

Explore SAG: A Diverse Algae Culture Collection Since 1954

Founded in 1954, the SAG collection today comprises around 2400 strains (representing 538 genera and 1424 species) from almost all evolutionarylineages of…

Earth Sciences

Witnesses wanted….and found

Deposits in lakes and seas contain a wealth of information related to the environ-mental conditions prevalent during their genesis. Thus, they are an unfailing…

Health & Medicine

Unlocking Immune Power: New Findings from Bonn University

Scientists at the Bonn University Hospital have now deciphered how the molecule can actually stimulate the immune system to combat viruses. The results are now…

Studies and Analyses

Swedish Study Links Cardiovascular Health to Lower Dementia Risk

“We know that cardiovascular disease is an important risk factor for dementia. The suggested decrease in dementia risk coincides with the general reduction in…

Health & Medicine

Virus-Like Particles Offer Insights into Brain Tumors

“Current wisdom says that cells are closed entities that communicate through the secretion of soluble signalling molecules. Recent findings indicate that cells…

Health & Medicine

Cold Winters Impacting ER+ Breast Cancer Treatment Options

For women diagnosed with a form of breast cancer known as estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, tamoxifen is an essential drug used in the treatment…

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