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Health & Medicine

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Linked to Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

“OSA is known to be associated with inflammation and oxidative stress, so we hypothesized that it would be associated with peripheral neuropathy in patients…

Information Technology

European Tech Platform Boosts High Performance Computing Innovation

Major suppliers of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies including Allinea, ARM, Bull, Caps Entreprise, Eurotech, IBM, Intel, ParTec,…

Health & Medicine

Antioxidant Reduces Blindness Risk in Premature Babies

A study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) suggests that the antioxidant, rhSOD (recombinant human Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase), reduces the…

Studies and Analyses

Graphic warning labels improve smokers' recall of warning and health risks related to smoking

In past studies in Europe and Canada, graphic warning labels have proven to be effective in eliciting negative responses to smoking, increasing reported…

Studies and Analyses

How Fathers Teach Persistence to Adolescent Children

New research from Brigham Young University shows that dads are in a unique position to help their adolescent children develop persistence. BYU professors Laura…

Health & Medicine

BPA Exposure: Long-Lasting Effects on Generations Uncovered

Exposure to low doses of Bisphenol A (BPA) during gestation had immediate and long-lasting, trans-generational effects on the brain and social behaviors in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

GE’s New High-Speed CT System Boosts 3D Inspection Efficiency

By incorporating much of the technology which has been proven by GE in the healthcare sector over four decades, the new CT system is up to 200 times faster…

Health & Medicine

Consortium of scientists maps the human body's bacterial ecosystem

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes today are announcing their role in an unprecedented collaboration organized by the National Institutes of Health, which…

Life & Chemistry

New discovery closes in on genetic link between Alzheimer's and diabetes

In the report, scientists from City College of New York-City University of New York (CCNY-CUNY) show that a gene in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, which is…

Life & Chemistry

New drug-screening method yields long-sought anti-HIV compounds

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have used a powerful new chemical-screening method to find compounds that inhibit the activity of human…

Health & Medicine

Predicting PTSD: New Insights into Early Detection

Most people have intense emotional reactions to traumatizing events like road accidents or combat. But some suffer far longer, caught in the grip of long-term…

Medical Engineering

NIST’s Hyperspectral Imaging Boosts High-Tech Medical Scanners

The technique, called hyperspectral imaging (HSI), has frequently been used in satellites because of its superior ability to identify objects by color. While…

Life & Chemistry

'Magical state' of embryonic stem cells may help overcome hurdles to therapeutics

With their potential to treat a wide range of diseases and uncover fundamental processes that lead to those diseases, embryonic stem (ES) cells hold great…

Process Engineering

Infrared Heating Enhances Composite Manufacturing for Airbus 350

The system, which is used to provide interim processing of the laid-up composite rear spar assembly of the Airbus 350 XWB to prevent subsequent wrinkling, was…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Computers Could Help Search Engines Keep Up with the Internet’s Growth

Behind the scenes, a lot of math goes into figuring out exactly what qualifies as most relevant web page for your search. Google, for example, uses a page…

Physics & Astronomy

New Optical Displays Created Using Water and Air

Now an international team of researchers led by Aalto University have come up with an entirely new concept of writing and displaying information on surfaces…

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