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Life & Chemistry

LSUHSC Research Reveals New Insights on Common STIs

The research was published ahead of print online in Advance Access in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and was published online April 2, 2013 in Research…

Life & Chemistry

New Non-Biopsy Method for Embryonic DNA Sampling After IVF

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) technologies allow identification of genetic disorders in human preimplantation embryos after in vitro fertilization…

Life & Chemistry

Infidelity’s Evolutionary Effects on Monogamous Mating Systems

However, in the UV-range, visible to birds, the male is much more colourful. A look at the monogamous mating system again reveals that all is not what it…

Materials Sciences

Graphene’s Weak Spots: Uncovering Hidden Limitations

Graphene, the single-atom-thick form of carbon, has become famous for its extraordinary strength. But less-than-perfect sheets of the material show unexpected…

Life & Chemistry

New Vaccine-Design Approach Targets HIV and Fast-Mutating Viruses

The report, which appears March 28, 2013, in Science Express, the early online edition of the journal Science, offers a step toward solving what has been one…

Interdisciplinary Research

Researchers Unveil Large Robotic Jellyfish That One Day Could Patrol Oceans

The prototype robot, nicknamed Cyro, is a larger model of a robotic jellyfish the same team – headed by Shashank Priya of Blacksburg, Va., and professor of…

Materials Sciences

Materials: Magnetic mystery solved

Highly porous materials known as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are showing promise as catalysts and drug-delivery vehicles. Some scientific sleuthing by…

Machine Engineering

Siemens Launches Compact Siplus HCS3200 Heating Control System

Siemens Industry Automation Division expands its offer for heating control systems with the compact Siplus HCS3200 system. In its rugged, totally enclosed…

Earth Sciences

Congestion in the Earth’s Mantle

The Earth is dynamic. What we perceive as solid ground beneath our feet, is in reality constantly changing. In the space of a year Africa and America are…

Studies and Analyses

Swarming Robots: The Future of Service Innovation

Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly established by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, have been working to…

Environmental Conservation

Leopards Join Backyard Wildlife: New Study Reveals Surprising Density

The study found as many as five adult large carnivores, including leopards and striped hyenas, per 100 square kilometers (38 square miles), a density never…

Health & Medicine

Olivocochlear Efferent System: Key Role Unveiled in Hearing

New research from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology may have discovered…

Life & Chemistry

The first caffeine-'addicted' bacteria

Their report in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology describes bacteria being “addicted” to caffeine in a way that promises practical uses ranging from…

Environmental Conservation

Ultrafine Particles in Improved Cookstoves: A Growing Concern

Brian Just and colleagues point out that 3 billion people worldwide still cook meals on stoves or open fires that burn wood, animal dung or other biomass fuel….

Health & Medicine

Antihistamines Linked to Increased C. Diff Infection Risk

The researchers found no significant risk for people taking over-the-counter antihistamine drugs, however. The findings appear in the online journal PLOS ONE.Researchers reviewed 35 observations based on 33 separate studies involving C. diff and antihistamines used for stomach acid suppressive therapy. The researchers found a clear association between histamine 2 receptor antagonists use and C. diff infection. They say it was especially pronounced and caused the greatest risk for hospitalized patients receiving antibiotics. …

Health & Medicine

New Skin Sensitization Test Eliminates Animal Use

Bruno Miguel Neves and colleagues explain that concerns about the ethics and costs of animal-based tests for skin sensitizers, plus regulations in the European…

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