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Traffic Pollution Linked to Increased Heart Disease Risk

The association between road traffic and heart disease has been suggested in several studies. In 2012 a large prospective cohort study from Denmark showed that…

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Turning Algae into Clean Energy and Fish Food; Helping Africans to Irrigate Crops

Could algae that feast on wastewater produce clean bio-fuels and a healthful supply of fish food? Can impoverished African community gardeners learn to use and…

Life & Chemistry

Coelacanth Genome Informs Land Vertebrate Evolution

An historic fish, with an intriguing past, now has had its genome sequenced, providing a wealth of information on the genetic changes that accompanied the…

Health & Medicine

Ricebag Innovation: New Treatment for Soft Tissue Injuries

Researchers from the Faculty of Applied Sciences and the Faculty of Sport Sciences at University Teknology MARA collaborated in a study to invent supplementary…

Health & Medicine

Fascinating rhythm: The brain's 'slow waves'

New findings clarify where and how the brain's “slow waves” originate. These rhythmic signal pulses, which sweep through the brain during deep sleep at the…

Health & Medicine

Despite superbug crisis, progress in antibiotic development 'alarmingly elusive'

Despite the desperate need for new antibiotics to combat increasingly deadly resistant bacteria, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved only…

Health & Medicine

Promising Antiviral Combo Shows Potential Against Novel Coronavirus

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists studying an emerging coronavirus have found that a combination of two licensed antiviral drugs, ribavirin and…

Medical Engineering

Breast Ultrasound Detects Cancers Missed by Mammography

The study, conducted in conjunction with seven Connecticut radiology practices, included 19,745 women who had dense breasts and “normal” mammograms….

Interdisciplinary Research

New Adaptive Implant Aims to Mimic Natural Sphincter Function

Researchers at the University of Basel want to develop an adaptive implant that would be able to contract and relax like a natural muscle. The national…

Life & Chemistry

Fish to Land: Discovering Our Ancient Aquatic Ancestors

If scientists had to bet on which species of fish still alive today is the closest relative of the fish that first left the water and crawled onto land some…

Life & Chemistry

Nanosilver in Water: Study Reveals Minimal Consumer Impact

Nanosilver in wastewater can cause severe environmental damage if it occurs as a metal. A study conducted within the scope of the National Research Programme…

Technology Offerings

Boosting Antibody Therapy Efficacy with New Compound

Antibody-mediated therapies have evolved as a mainstay of targeted anti-cancer therapy but also of auto-immune and other diseases. Scientists at the University…

Technology Offerings

New Animal Model Advances Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Research

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is one of the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. GISTs occur in 10-20 per one million people….

Technology Offerings

New Bioparticle Analyzer Enhances Airborne Microorganism Detection

Airborne microorganisms like bacteria or spores are mostly clump together into large aggregates but today's particle counters fail to analyze these aggregates….

Technology Offerings

Agent for optimizing fertilization media – Fetuin-B as an essential agent for in vitro fertilization

Fetuin-B is necessary for fertilization. Scientists of the RWTH Aachen University discovered, that this liver-derived plasma protein sustains fertility by…

Technology Offerings

Automated Solutions for Livestock Behavior Management

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) has become more important in recent years with farms increasing in size and focus on animal welfare. Scientists at the…

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