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Heart Damage After Chemo: Stress Impacts Cardiac Cells

Previous research has suggested that up to a quarter of patients who receive the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin are at risk of developing heart failure…

Environmental Conservation

Mercury Levels in Dolphins: Captive vs. Wild Comparison

The study found lower levels of mercury in the captive animals, particularly compared to wild dolphins tested off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida, a…

Life & Chemistry

WHOI Scientists Measure Carbon Levels in Arctic Ocean

The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provides data that will help researchers better understand the Arctic Ocean’s carbon cycle—the…

Life & Chemistry

G Protein-Coupled Receptor: How Castor Oil Works

Castor oil is known primarily as an effective laxative; however, it was also used in ancient times with pregnant women to induce labour. Only now have…

Health & Medicine

New Insights Into Severe Malaria Unveiled by Researchers

Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), the University of Copenhagen and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered new…

Health & Medicine

Aortic Graft Technique Enhances Laryngeal Reconstruction Surgery

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) surgeons have developed a new technique for reconstructing the larynx after surgery for advanced cancer. In the May Annals…

Business and Finance

Contrary to popular belief, investment banks do add value to M&As, new study shows

However, despite certain biases, investment banks do add value to mergers and acquisitions and, in fact, produce important information for the M&A advisory…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Purdue’s Transgenic Tomato Reduces Blossom End Rot Issues

In the early 1990s, horticulture professor Avtar Handa developed a transgenic tomato with a thicker juice that yields 10 percent more tomato paste than…

Health & Medicine

Heart Disease Risk Tools Miss Threat for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Inflammation plays a key role in putting those with rheumatoid arthritis in greater jeopardy for heart disease, yet many cardiovascular disease risk assessment…

Life & Chemistry

Strategy Discovered to Activate Genes that Suppress Tumors and Inhibit Cancer

The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the development of an innovative anti-cancer drug that effectively targets unhealthy, cancerous tissue…

Materials Sciences

Process Could Transform Manufacture of Complex Parts

Suman Das, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has developed an all-digital approach that allows a part to be made directly…

Environmental Conservation

Marine Science Majors Conduct Field Research with Horseshoe Crab Census

“Where else can you go on a Saturday night to count horseshoe crabs?” freshman Will Goldman said.After receiving training in April through the Delaware Bay…

Information Technology

Discover Ancient Sounds: Domenico Vicinanza’s Musical Innovation

The video takes us to Cambridge, where Domenico Vicinanza, a product manager at DANTE who is also a professional music composer, describes how he used a…

Life & Chemistry

Planned Coincidence: Boosting Discovery Through Intentionality

Many discoveries are made by chance, but it is also possible to help it along: The chance of finding something interesting increases when the number of…

Automotive Engineering

Johnson Controls introduces innovative production process for lightweight door panels made of natural fibers

Johnson Controls, a global leader in automotive seating, interiors and electronics, is providing a series of innovative door panels, seat structures and…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Researchers Strengthen Proteins Using Innovative Polymers

Proteins are widely used as drugs — insulin for diabetics is the best known example — and as reagents in research laboratories, but they react poorly to…

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