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Life & Chemistry

Common RNA Pathway Links ALS and Dementia: New Insights

The discovery reveals a small set of target genes that could be used to measure the health of motor neurons, and provides a useful tool for development of new…

Life & Chemistry

Seawater’s Chemical Memory: Insights from Prof. Boris Koch

Water does not forget, says Prof. Boris Koch, a chemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

“Semi-Dwarf” Trees May Enable a Green Revolution for Some Forest Crops

Researchers at Oregon State University recently outlined the latest findings on reduced height growth in trees through genetic modification, and concluded that…

Life & Chemistry

Fall Calls Bats to Hibernate, Scientists to Study Them

Bats are the only mammals that can fly. There are more than 1,000 species. In fact, 1 in 5 mammals is a bat. And in the fall, bats often migrate hundreds of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New method monitors semiconductor etching as it happens ' with light

“You can use light to image the topography and you can use light to sculpture the topography,” said electrical and computer engineering professor Gabriel…

Life & Chemistry

Catalysis: Optimizing water splitting

Partnerships can pay off when it comes to converting solar into chemical energy. By modeling a cadmium sulfide (CdS)–zinc sulfide (ZnS) alloy with special…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Insights Into White Finger Disease Uncovered

New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Clinical Epigenetics finds that people with a genetic polymorphism (A2191G) in sirtuin1 (SIRT1),…

Health & Medicine

New Breakthrough Drugs Target Cancer at ESMO 2023

Several new first-in-man studies for drugs targeted against a range of cancers were released at the ESMO 2012 Congress of the European Society for Medical…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Epigenetic Code Connections Revealed

As researchers have uncovered more and more of these “epigenetic” tags, they have begun to wonder how they are all connected. Now, research from the University…

Studies and Analyses

Blocking key protein could halt age-related decline in immune system, Stanford study finds

Now Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have found that blocking the action of a single protein whose levels in our immune cells creep steadily…

Life & Chemistry

Noninvasive IFP Measurement: A New Tumor Aggressiveness Biomarker

Many malignant solid tumors generally develop a higher interstitial fluid pressure (IFP) than normal tissue. High IFP in tumors may cause a reduced uptake of…

Health & Medicine

New Guidelines for Managing Low Back Pain in Patients

“The approach to the workup and management of low back pain by physicians and other practitioners is inconstant. In fact, there is significant variability in…

Studies and Analyses

Exercise Boosts Memory and Thinking Skills After Stroke

Toronto researchers found that the proportion of stroke patients with at least mild cognitive impairment dropped from 66 per cent to 37 per cent during a…

Studies and Analyses

Rehabilitation Robots Enhance Stroke Care and Detection

Rehabilitation robots improve detection of post-stroke impairments and can enhance the type and intensity of therapy required for recovery, according to a…

Health & Medicine

Large-Scale Trial of Whole-Genome Cancer Testing Unveiled

For the first time, researchers have conducted a large trial in which they tested the entire genome of individual breast cancers to help personalize treatment….

Studies and Analyses

Optimal Trastuzumab Therapy Duration for HER2+ Breast Cancer

“These long awaited results constitute a further milestone in the treatment of patients with early breast cancer over-expressing HER2/neu, corresponding to a…

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