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Vitamin D Boosts Breathing in Tuberculosis Patients

Maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D can help people breathe better and may even protect against tuberculosis (TB), according to a recent study accepted…

Life & Chemistry

Two New Mouse Lemur Species Discovered, Boosting Diversity

The new study brings the number of recognized mouse lemur species to 20, making them the most diverse group of lemurs known. But because these shy, nocturnal…

Studies and Analyses

Cedars-Sinai Study Links Gut Microorganisms to Obesity

How much a person eats may be only one of many factors that determines weight gain. A recent Cedars-Sinai study suggests that a breath test profile of…

Life & Chemistry

Moffitt Researchers Create Molecule to Target Cancer Protein

The study appeared in the Jan. 15 online issue of Cancer Research, a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research.”STAT3 has been associated…

Health & Medicine

Fumaric Acid Esters: A New Approach to Managing MS

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease for which no cure has yet been found. Its progression may be delayed thanks to new drugs, but the active ingredients in…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Protein Stability: Insights from Dr. Henchman

Since January 2013, Dr. Richard Henchman (University of Manchester) has been working at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) as a visiting…

Statistics

Engineering Enrollment Drops 9%: Insights from Destatis Report

The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports on the basis of provisional results that the number of male students enrolling for engineering sciences…

Life & Chemistry

German Scientists Identify Two New Primate Species in Madagascar

The new species have been named “Microcebus tanosi“ and “Microcebus marohita“. Like all lemur species, they live exclusively on Madagascar. This raises the…

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring Antimatter Magnetism: A Harvard Breakthrough

In a breakthrough that could one day yield important clues about the nature of matter itself, a team of Harvard scientists have succeeding in measuring the…

Earth Sciences

Surprises in the South polar vortex in Venus’ atmosphere

In the atmosphere there are two main cloud layers separated by a distance of 20km. The UPV/EHU astronomers have been closely monitoring the movement of the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Maximizing Wind Power Efficiency for Sustainable Energy Solutions

Coupled with customers' varying power demand, many wind-farm managers end up wasting power-generation capacity and limiting the service life of turbines…

Earth Sciences

Volcanic Eruptions Linked to End-Triassic Extinction Event

More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species, marking the end of the Triassic period and the…

Environmental Conservation

Acoustic Monitoring Reveals Atlantic Cod Spawning Insights

Acoustic behavior in cod has been of interest for several decades, but few studies have observed their use of sound as part of reproductive behavior. Although…

Life & Chemistry

Gladstone Scientists Uncover DNA Damage In Normal Brain Activity

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered that a certain type of DNA damage long thought to be particularly detrimental to brain cells can…

Life & Chemistry

Sanford-Burnham Reveals Molecular Insights Into Down Syndrome

What is it about the extra chromosome inherited in Down syndrome—chromosome 21—that alters brain and body development? Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical…

Life & Chemistry

Peach Genome Insights for Biofuel Crop Breeding Strategies

Domesticating these as crops requires a deep understanding of the physiology and genetics of trees, and scientists are turning to long-domesticated fruit trees…

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