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Life & Chemistry

Immune Cells’ Defense Mechanism Against HIV Uncovered

A team of scientists led by virologists Prof. Oliver T. Fackler and Prof. Oliver T. Keppler from Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a mechanism used…

Social Sciences

Population Aging: Key Economic Implications and Policy Changes

The unprecedented demographic shift in which people over age 65 make up an increasingly large percentage of the population is not a temporary phenomenon…

Life & Chemistry

Treatment for 'untreatable' progeria has roots in untargeted basic cell research

The good news widely reported this morning of positive results from a clinical drug trial at Boston Children's Hospital for the previously “untreatable” rapid…

Health & Medicine

Water Monster Insights: Advancing Human Tissue Regeneration

Based on two new studies by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, regeneration of a new limb or organ in a human will be much more…

Health & Medicine

Chronic Kidney Disease: A Key Health Indicator Beyond Hypertension

Chronic kidney disease affects 10 to 16 percent of all adults in Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States. Kidney function is measured by estimating…

Awards Funding

Dr. Martin Rolfs Secures DFG Funding for Vision Research

Starting from October, he will be heading an Emmy-Noether-Group at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and will be an associate member of the Bernstein Center for…

Awards Funding

Young Scientist Prize Awarded to Dr. Bianca Lim in Photovoltaics

The 30-year-old physicist won over the jury with her work on boron-silicon compounds in silicon solar cells. The compounds are the main reason for the…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Hypertension: The Role of Blood Pressure Monitoring

A recently published editorial in the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension (JASH), “Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Should Be Included in the…

Environmental Conservation

UF Study Reveals Ongoing Impact of River Turtle Harvesting

Scientists used data collected by Florida Museum of Natural History herpetology curator Max Nickerson in 1969 and 1980 as a baseline, then surveyed the same…

Life & Chemistry

NYU Biologists Reveal Link Between Biological Clocks and Neurons

“The findings answer a significant question — how biological clocks drive the activity of clock neurons, which, in turn, regulate behavioral rhythms,”…

Life & Chemistry

Enhanced Cryopreservation in iPS Cells: New Breakthrough Revealed

The study is published in a recent special issue of Cell Medicine [3(1)], now freely available on-line at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/cm. “iPS…

Physics & Astronomy

Cutting-Edge Technology Makes NASA's Hurricane Mission a Reality

“Making these measurements possible is the platform on which the instruments are flying,” said Paul Newman, the deputy principal investigator of NASA's…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Persistent Tropical Storm Nadine

Nadine initially formed into a tropical depression from an African easterly wave that had propagated westward out into the central Atlantic from the coast of…

Life & Chemistry

Ants Sabotage Their Oppressors: Insights from Research

Ants that are held as slaves in nests of other ant species damage their oppressors through acts of sabotage. Ant researcher Professor Dr. Susanne Foitzik of…

Earth Sciences

NASA Infrared Data Compares Super Typhoon Jelawat and Ewiniar

A combined image created from infrared data obtained by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite provides a…

Life & Chemistry

Mouse pancreatic stem cells successfully differentiate into insulin producing cells

“Diabetes is one of the most serious and prevalent metabolic diseases,” said study co-author Dr. Hiroshi Yukawa, Department of Advanced Medicine in…

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