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Children’s brains are injured in bicycle accidents – But very rarely in Sweden

This finding is established in a study by the researchers Diana Stark Ekman, University West, and Robert Ekman, Karlstad University. “Brain injuries in kids…

Earth Sciences

More CO2 Means Fewer Clouds: New Research Insights

The warmer the air, the more water can evaporate: a simple relationship familiar to us from everyday life. Researchers from Germany and the Netherlands have…

Technology Offerings

Efficient Lithium Recovery Device Transforms Battery Tech

The invention is about a new proposed device, based on battery technology, that can efficiently recover lithium as LiCl from brines. Further Information: PDF rubitec – Gesellschaft für Innovation und Technologie der Ruhr-Universität Bochum mbH…

Technology Offerings

Efficient 2D X-Ray Waveguide for Advanced Holography

Inventors of the University of Göttingen provide a highly efficient 2D X-ray waveguide for X-ray holography, for which a confinement of hard X-rays (eg 15 keV)…

Life & Chemistry

Driving an Electron Spin Vortex “Skyrmion” with a Microcurrent – Innovations Report

“Among other things, this type of lithography can be used to manufacture chips for use in biological sensors that can identify target molecules, such as…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover GHK Compound to Reverse Emphysema Damage

When the compound Gly-His-Lys (GHK) was applied to lung cells from patients with emphysema, normal gene activity in altered cells was restored and damaged…

Medical Engineering

Stanford Engineers Unveil Mini Wireless Cardiac Device

A team of engineers at Stanford has demonstrated the feasibility of a super-small, implantable cardiac device that gets its power not from batteries, but from…

Materials Sciences

Waste Cooking Oil Lowers Bioplastic Production Costs

The Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) family of polyesters is synthesized by a wide variety of bacteria as an energy source when their carbon supply is plentiful….

Life & Chemistry

A new light shed on genetic regulation's role in the predisposition to common diseases

By gene regulation we mean the decision that the cell makes as to when, where and at what level to activate or suppress the expression of a gene. In theory,…

Health & Medicine

New Technique Measures Muscle Wasting in Critically Ill Patients

The results of the study will be presented today (2 September 2012) at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Vienna. Patients who are…

Studies and Analyses

Asthma and Bullying: New Study Sheds Light on Children’s Struggles

The study, presented today (2 September 2012) at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Vienna, highlights the need for doctors to talk to…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Diabetes Genes from Human Cell Research

The new research findings have been achieved as a result of access to human insulin-producing cells from deceased donors and by not only studying one gene…

Health & Medicine

E-Cigarettes and Lung Damage: New Study Insights Unveiled

A new study, presented today (Sunday 2 September 2012) at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Vienna, has added new evidence to the debate…

Life & Chemistry

How AKAPs Shape Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Release

A-kinase anchoring proteins or AKAPs are known to influence the spatial distribution of kinases within the cell, crucial enzymes that control important…

Life & Chemistry

Design help for drug cocktails

For years, doctors treating those with HIV have recognized a relationship between how faithfully patients take the drugs they prescribe, and how likely the…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Enzymes Unwind RNA Like Nanopistons: A Breakthrough

Molecular biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have solved one of the mysteries of how double-stranded RNA is remodeled inside cells in both their…

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