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Smokers May Face Higher Schizophrenia Risk, Study Reveals

Schizophrenia has long been known to be hereditary. However, as a melting pot of disorders with different genetic causes is concealed behind manifestations of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Optimizing Solar Energy: Innovative Cell Arrangements Explained

But very little attention has been paid to the best ways of arranging those cells, which are typically placed flat on a rooftop or other surface, or sometimes…

Studies and Analyses

CT Screening Study Reveals Lung Cancer Growth Rates

According to the latest report from the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) published online in the journal Radiology, lung cancers…

Life & Chemistry

The Black Queen Hypothesis: A new evolutionary theory

The authors of an opinion piece appearing in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, on March 27 explain their ideas…

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The Black Queen Hypothesis: A new evolutionary theory

The authors of an opinion piece appearing in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, on March 27 explain their ideas…

Life & Chemistry

First Full Image of Vitamin B12 in Action Revealed

You see it listed on the side of your cereal box and your multivitamin bottle. It's vitamin B12, part of a nutritious diet like all those other vitamins and…

Health & Medicine

IVIg’s Role in Treating Nerve and Muscle Disorders Explained

IVIg is a type of immunotherapy that fights the misdirected immune system. It is not well understood exactly how IVIg works, but it likely regulates an…

Business and Finance

Predicting Financial Markets with Twitter Data Insights

A University of California, Riverside professor and several other researchers have developed a model that uses data from Twitter to help predict the traded…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Genetics of Flu Susceptibility

A genetic finding could help explain why influenza becomes a life-threating disease to some people while it has only mild effects in others. New research led…

Life & Chemistry

Telomerase RNA and Protein Partner: A Double Ring Ceremony

One of those RNPs is telomerase, an enzyme that maintains chromosome integrity. In the March 25, 2012, advance online edition of Nature, researchers at the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Attraction in Quantum Plasmas Boosts Chip Innovation

Nowadays, ever smaller and more powerful computer chips are in demand. RUB physicists have discovered a new physical attraction that accelerates this progress….

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Siemens Supplies IPS Composting System to China’s Guodian Group

Guodian Northeast Environmental Protection Industry Group, Ltd. has selected Siemens Industry Automation Division to supply an IPS composting system using the…

Life & Chemistry

Fresh Produce Linked to Rising Salmonella Outbreaks

A wide range of fresh produce has been linked to outbreaks of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica including melons, jalapeño and serrano peppers, basil,…

Life & Chemistry

Fighting Superbugs: Bacteriophages to the Rescue

Bacteriophages are viruses that can infect bacteria and multiply within them, breaking down the cell and destroying the bacteria – amplifying themselves in the…

Health & Medicine

UCLA Discoveries: New Pathway Boosts T-Cell Activation in Leprosy

UCLA researchers pinpointed a new mechanism that potently activates T-cells, the group of white blood cells that play a major role in fighting infections.Published March 25 online in Nature Medicine, the team specifically studied how dendritic cells, immune cells located at the site of infection, become more specialized to fight the leprosy pathogen known as Mycobacterium leprae. Dendritic cells, like scouts in the field of a military operation, deliver key information about an invading pathogen that helps activate the T-cells in launching a more effective attack….

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering Gene Mutations: New Methods for Common Diseases

A new study by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) researchers has harnessed data and new analysis tools to address this question in four common diseases:…

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