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Fertility Advice Varies for Men and Women Post-Cancer Diagnosis

Infertility can be a side-effect of cancer treatment and there are increasing numbers of people of reproductive age undergoing such treatment. This study – led…

Health & Medicine

Genetic Mutation Linked to Sodium Retention and Blood Pressure

The study of 47 human, benign adrenal gland tumors also showed a mutation of the gene KCNJ5 is twice as likely to occur in women – 71 versus 29 percent – as it…

Health & Medicine

New Method Uses Sound to Treat Visual Field Defects

Patients who are blind in one side of their visual field benefit from presentation of sounds on the affected side. After passively hearing sounds for an hour,…

Technology Offerings

New Density Sensor Using Left-Handed Resonators for Accurate Flow

The new material density sensor enables contactless and highly sensitive mass flow measurements of dielectric materials transported in pipe lines or with…

Technology Offerings

FoBt Sensor – Faseroptischer Betauungssensor erkennt feuchte Oberflächen

Anhaltende und nicht erkannte Feuchtigkeit führt zu

erheblichen Qualitätsverlusten von Produkten. Um die
…

Corporate News

Explore Spring 2012: New Innovations in Complex Systems

The second focus describes how new technologies will make it possible to master increasingly complex systems. The challenges involved range from ways to…

Earth Sciences

Climate Change and the Fall of the Ancient Indus Civilization

Once extending more than 1 million square kilometers across the plains of the Indus River from the Arabian Sea to the Ganges, over what is now Pakistan,…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights Into Heart Muscle Fiber Structure Unveiled

A study led by researchers from McGill University provides new insights into the structure of muscle tissue in the heart – a finding that promises to…

Studies and Analyses

Groundwater Depletion Threatens US Food Security in Texas, California

The study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, paints the highest resolution picture yet of how groundwater depletion…

Health & Medicine

Less Couch Time Means Healthier Snacking Choices

Simply ejecting your rear from the couch means your hand will spend less time digging into a bag of chocolate chip cookies. That is the simple but profound…

Materials Sciences

From Lemons to Lemonade: Reaction Uses Carbon Dioxide to Make Carbon-Based Semiconductor

Making carbon-based products from CO2 is nothing new, but carbon dioxide molecules are so stable that those reactions usually take up a lot of energy. If that…

Environmental Conservation

VIMS Reports Record Number of Young Scallops in Mid-Atlantic

That’s good news for the continued success of the Atlantic sea scallop fishery, a model of effective collaboration among scientists, resource managers, and…

Earth Sciences

Research Vessel METEOR Explores Baltic Sea for New Insights

The two-month crossing of the Baltic Sea will include three calls at the Hanseatic city of Rostock. The study carried out by the IOW's scientists will focus on…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Handy Corrosion Sensors Safeguard Cultural Heritage Objects

Paris – Japan, a historical tapestry on its journey from the Louvre to an exhibition in Osaka: the AirCorr corrosion logger monitors the air quality…

Physics & Astronomy

NYU Physicists Devise Method for Building Artificial Tissue

This system, created in the laboratory of Jasna Brujiæ, an assistant professor in NYU’s Department of Physics and part of its Center for Soft Matter Research,…

Health & Medicine

Discovery Expected to Shift Research Direction in Lupus and Asthma

The results advance the current understanding of the way the body’s initial, vague reaction to any invading organism expands into a precise and massive…

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