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Environmental Conservation

Bigger Gorillas: Attracting Mates and Raising Young Efficiently

Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin D Levels: Key to Reducing Medical Risks in Seniors

In testing older patients' blood vitamin D levels, there's uncertainty about where the dividing line falls between enough and not enough. The threshold amount…

Health & Medicine

Dopamine Differences: Why Some Work Harder Than Others

Whether someone is a “go-getter” or a “slacker” may depend on individual differences in the brain chemical dopamine, according to new research in the May 2…

Health & Medicine

Hepatitis C Drug Linked to Depression: Key Insights for Care

In a review article, researchers tackle the complexities of diagnosing and managing depression before and after initiating treatment with interferon.Dr. Murali…

Power and Electrical Engineering

America's clean energy policies need a reality check, say Stanford researchers

The debate over how to fundamentally change the world's massive energy system comes amid taxpayers' $500 million tab for the bankruptcy of Fremont, Calif.,…

Studies and Analyses

Implementing Eco4Life: Advancing Environmental Protection in Lithuania

The University of Klaipeda together with its project partners (BioCon Valley Germany and Pomeranian Medical University Poland) is implementing the „Eco4Life -…

Awards Funding

Mario Monti Honored with ESMT Responsible Leadership Award

ESMT European School of Management and Technology has announced that the 2012 ESMT Responsible Leadership Award will be conferred upon Mario Monti, Prime…

Health & Medicine

Blood Pressure Drugs May Ease PTSD Symptoms

The finding suggests that ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors or ARBs (angiotensin receptor blockers) could be valuable tools for treating or…

Earth Sciences

Jurassic pain: Giant 'flea-like' insects plagued dinosaurs 165 million years ago

And a few actually lived through the experience, based on the discovery by Chinese scientists of remarkable fossils of these creatures, just announced in…

Health & Medicine

Nanotechnology Enhances Medication Delivery and MRI Performance

In an article published May 1, 2012 online in PLoS ONE, Gordana Vitaliano, MD, director of the Brain Imaging NaNoTechnology Group at the McLean Hospital…

Health & Medicine

Moffitt Cancer Center Uncovers Key Drivers of Sarcoma Growth

To better understand the signaling pathways active in sarcomas, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center used state-of-the-art mass spectrometry-based proteomics…

Health & Medicine

Anti-HIV Drug Use During Pregnancy Safe for Infant Size and Weight

Infants born to women who used the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as part of an anti-HIV drug regimen during pregnancy do not weigh less at birth and are not of…

Health & Medicine

Researchers gain better understanding of mechanism behind tau spreading in the brain

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have gained insight into the mechanism by which a pathological brain protein called tau contributes to the…

Medical Engineering

Low-Dose Whole-Body CT Uncovers Myeloma-Related Disease

The study, conducted at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, included 51 patients who had both a radiographic skeletal survey as well as a low dose whole…

Medical Engineering

Cone Beam CT: Safer Imaging for Hearing Loss Causes

The study, conducted in Bruges, Belgium, included 21 patients who had both a cone beam CT and a multidetector CT examination of their right and left temporal…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Mutation Impacts Touch and Hearing Senses in Usher Syndrome

They showed that both senses have a common genetic basis. In patients with Usher syndrome, a hereditary form of deafness accompanied by impaired vision, they…

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