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Environmental Conservation

U-M, Other Universities Launch Great Lakes Protection Project

The Great Lakes Futures Project of the Transborder Research University Network will use a cross-disciplinary, cross-sector approach to outlining alternative…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Uncover Molecular Basis of Infection of Tick-Transmitted Disease

These findings may point researchers toward the development of a single vaccine that protects against members of an entire family of bacteria that cause…

Materials Sciences

Scientists Discover That Shape Matters in DNA Nanoparticle Therapy

This study, published in the Oct. 12 online edition of Advanced Materials, is also noteworthy because this gene therapy technique does not use a virus to carry…

Life & Chemistry

Evolving Microbes Help Iowa State Engineers Turn Bio-Oil Into Advanced Biofuels

But it’s not an easy job for E. coli and C. reinhardtii. The bacteria and microalgae, respectively, don’t like something in the bio-oil produced by fast…

Studies and Analyses

Study finds molecular link between insufficient sleep, insulin resistance

Lack of sleep can change the body’s fat tissue, causing it to behave more like the fat found in an obese or diabetic person, according to a study led by a…

Physics & Astronomy

Freezing Electrons in Flight

In 1878, a now iconic series of photographs instantly solved a long-standing mystery: Does a galloping horse touch the ground at all times? (It doesn’t.) The…

Health & Medicine

NANOMED2020: Advancing Nanomedicine for European Patients

This strong partnership of relevant stakeholders aims at identifying key areas for Nanomedicine research and at establishing novel concepts for translation of…

Health & Medicine

Creativity and Mental Illness: New Insights Unveiled

Last year, the team showed that artists and scientists were more common amongst families where bipolar disorder and schizophrenia is present, compared to the…

Health & Medicine

SEK 31 Million Boost for Innovative Childhood Obesity Solutions

The researchers will use a SEK 30.8 million grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to determine whether intestinal bacteria from non-obese…

Life & Chemistry

Green Leaf Volatiles Boost Plant Fitness for Sustainable Farming

To solve the acute, global problem of securing food resources for a continuously growing population, we must work constantly to increase the sustainability and…

Physics & Astronomy

The sound in Saturn’s rings: RUB-Physicists explain nonlinear dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas

Dusty plasmas can be found in many places both in space and in the laboratory. Due to their special properties, dust acoustic waves can propagate inside these…

Environmental Conservation

Climate negotiations relying on “dangerous” thresholds to avoid catastrophe will not succeed

New research from the University of Gothenburg and Columbia University shows that negotiations based on such a threshold fail because its value is determined…

Earth Sciences

Atlantic Ocean Heat Pump Findings Challenge Climate Change Assumptions

Heat transport in the Atlantic Ocean during the last Ice Age was not weaker, as long assumed, but in fact stronger than it is today. This discovery was made by…

Health & Medicine

New Treatment Method for Children With Brain Tumors

These adverse effects are due to the fact that the radiation often encounters healthy tissue. This reduces the formation of new cells, particularly in the…

Health & Medicine

DNA Method Boosts Childhood Cancer Treatment Effectiveness

A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has studied a DNA method which is now used for all cases of neuroblastoma in Sweden,…

Environmental Conservation

Antibiotic Contamination: Risks to Humans and Oceans

“We know very little about what happens to antibiotics that end up in the ocean, but several substances can accumulate in sediments where biodegradation occurs…

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