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A Cup of Joe May Help Some Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms

“Studies have shown that people who use caffeine are less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, but this is one of the first studies in humans to show that…

Earth Sciences

Tropical climate in the Antarctic: Palm trees thrived on today’s icy coasts 52 million years ago

Knowledge of past episodes of global warmth can be used to better understand the relationship between climate change, variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide…

Earth Sciences

Urban Air Pollution Surges Amid Summer Heat Waves

Hot summer days cause in large cities very seldom great happiness among inhabitants. On those days the air is highly polluted with automobile and industrial…

Earth Sciences

Cut Emissions Now to Avoid Future Air Pollution Risks

In this ‘business-as-usual’ scenario, the average world citizen 40 years from now will experience similar air pollution to that of today’s average East Asian…

Technology Offerings

TRPC6 Channel Blocker: A New Hope for Pulmonary and Renal Health

The invention comprises diterpene derivatives for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension in conjunction with respiratory disorders, especially asthma and…

Materials Sciences

Protein Coating Enhances Brain-Computer Interface Rehab

Brain-computer interfaces are at the cutting edge for treatment of neurological and psychological disorder, including Parkinson's, epilepsy, and depression….

Physics & Astronomy

Innovative Carbon Capture: Exploring Calcium Oxide Efficiency

Scientists from the University of Leeds are using the UK’s national synchrotron to investigate the efficiency of calcium oxide (CaO) based materials as carbon…

Materials Sciences

Engineered Tissue: New Machine Advances Medical Grafts

Imagine a machine that makes layered, substantial patches of engineered tissue—tissue that could be used as grafts for burn victims or vascular patches. Sounds…

Life & Chemistry

Zebra Fish Mouth Study Offers Insights on Fraser Syndrome

Reporting in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Development, they identify a potential developmental pathway worthy of more scrutiny in future research into…

Health & Medicine

Early HIV Treatment Boosts Earning Potential, Study Finds

The finding, led by Harsha Thirumurthy, Ph.D., a health economist at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, not only could mean greater earning…

Health & Medicine

Two Drugs Show Promise Against Kidney, Breast Cancer

In the online issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, they report that two drugs, romidepsin and decitabine, work cooperatively to activate a potent tumor…

Studies and Analyses

Managing Multiple Chronic Conditions: Key Study Insights

The study of close to 29,000 individuals enrolled at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Denver Health found that only 30.3 percent at Kaiser Permanente and 16.2…

Environmental Conservation

'Superbird' stuns researchers

A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National Research Council of Argentina recently fitted a South American sea bird…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Link to Dwarfism and Brain Size Revealed by CSHL

Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Research published Aug. 1 by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) links gene mutations found in some patients with…

Life & Chemistry

Wayne State Research Team Unveils MS Progression Clue

B cells, said Robert Lisak, M.D., professor of neurology at Wayne State and lead author of the study, are a subset of lymphocytes (a type of circulating white…

Health & Medicine

New Therapeutic Target Identified for Aggressive Breast Cancer

The study led by Lynne-Marie Postovit of Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry looked at a protein called Nodal that is primarily found in…

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