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Health & Medicine

Strategy Developed to Improve Delivery of Medicines to the Brain

New research offers a possible strategy for treating central nervous system diseases, such as brain and spinal cord injury, brain cancer, epilepsy, and…

Life & Chemistry

Deep-Sea Crabs Seek Food Using Ultraviolet Vision

Tamara Frank, Ph.D., a marine biologist and associate professor at Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center, who is the principal investigator of…

Studies and Analyses

Can Dynamic Mapping Reveal Clues about Flu Seasonality?

In a paper titled “Deviations in Influenza Seasonality: Odd Coincidence or Obscure Consequence,” Elena Naumova, Ph.D., professor of civil and environmental…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Create Germ Cell-Supporting Embryonic Sertoli-Like Cells From Skin Cells

The main role of mature Sertoli cells is to provide support and nutrition to the developing sperm cells. Furthermore, Sertoli cells have been demonstrated to…

Trade Fair News

EMBALLAGE 2012: Your Complete Packaging Innovation Hub

Véronique Sestrières, Exhibition Director of EMBALLAGE, explains, “EMBALLAGE 2012 will be an amazing place, enhancing all types of intelligence prevalent in…

Environmental Conservation

Ongoing Management Essential for Threatened Species Recovery

The Endangered Species Act (ESA)—the key US law protecting species listed as threatened or endangered—focuses on boosting species' numbers until they reach…

Studies and Analyses

Marijuana use may increase risk of testicular cancer

Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings suggest that the potential cancer-causing effects of…

Health & Medicine

Overweight Kids Eat Fewer Calories Than Healthy Peers

A new study by University of North Carolina School of Medicine pediatrics researchers finds a surprising difference in the eating habits of overweight children…

Earth Sciences

Excavations Reveal Egyptian Settlement in Ancient Jaffa

The Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology division of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Insights into Preeclampsia: Unraveling Its Causes

The cause for this life-threatening disease has long remained elusive. Recently however, Dr. Ananth Karumanchi (Associate Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel…

Materials Sciences

Fungi Treatment Transforms Modern Violins Into Stradivarius Sound

Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) in St. Gallen, Switzerland has succeeded in…

Life & Chemistry

Allegedly Useless DNA Regulates Gene Activity, Study Finds

A surprisingly large part of allegedly useless DNA in the human genome turns out to be responsible for regulating gene activity. This is now shown in a study…

Life & Chemistry

US Researchers Uncover New Functions of Blood Pressure Enzyme

Recent studies by Professor Ken Bernstein (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA) have, however, significantly broadened the enzyme’s known task…

Technology Offerings

Broad-Range Disinfection: Efficient Solutions for All Pathogens

<strong>Background</strong><br>

An ideal disinfectant should have no protein fixating effects, a fast and highly efficient decontaminating/ inactivating…

Technology Offerings

Polygenic Mouse Models Advance Juvenile Obesity Research

<strong>Technology</strong><br>

We offer two well-characterized polygenic mouse models that allow the test of drugs for weight loss and the targeted search…

Physics & Astronomy

Mars&#039;s dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun

The ice caps on Mars's poles are kilometres thick and composed of ice and dust. There are layers in the ice caps, which can be seen in cliffs and valley slopes…

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