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New Compound FQI1 Shows Promise Against Liver Cancer

The compound, Factor Qunolinone Inhibitor 1 (FQI1), works by inhibiting an oncogene originally discovered by a team of researchers led by Devanand Sarkar,…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring the Feeding Habits of Teenage Galaxies

Over the lifetime of the cosmos galaxies have put on a great deal of weight but their food, and eating habits, are still mysterious. A new survey of carefully…

Health & Medicine

Storage Time for Cartilage Transplant Tissue Doubled by MU Researchers

For years, doctors have been able to treat defects in joint cartilage by grafting cartilage donated from cadavers into patients’ bad joints. Using current…

Studies and Analyses

Warmer Weather’s Impact on Cognitive Performance Revealed

Results have implications for patients and researchersKessler Foundation scientists have shown for the first time that outdoor temperature significantly…

Health & Medicine

Disordered Brain Networks Linked to Schizophrenia Risk in Kids

The study, led by Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the Division of Brain Research and…

Health & Medicine

Weight Loss Study: Belly Fat Loss Boosts Blood Vessel Health

In the six-month weight-loss study, Hopkins researchers found that the more belly fat the participants lost, the better their arteries were able to expand when…

Earth Sciences

NASA Tracks Twin Tropical Cyclones in Northern Australia

One of them has strengthened enough to be named Tropical Cyclone Lua, while the other is still getting organized and is a tropical low pressure area. The…

Life & Chemistry

Biologists Find Potential Drug That Speeds Cellular Recycling

The finding suggests a new way to treat rare inherited metabolic disorders such as Niemann-Pick disease and mucolipidosis Type IV, as well as more common…

Automotive Engineering

Johnson Controls Partners with Fraunhofer for Polymeric Innovation

Johnson Controls, a global leader in automotive seating, overhead systems, door and instrument panels, and interior electronics, today announced a long-term…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Technique Enhances Trophy Buck Age Determination

UVALDE – Researchers at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde have developed a more accurate technique than traditional methods for…

Physics & Astronomy

Cassini Captures Jupiter’s Jet Stream in Stunning Detail

The movies, made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft when it flew by Jupiter in 2000, are part of an in-depth study conducted by a team of…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough in Cancer Epigenetics: Identifying Target Genes

“The science of genomics – the study of all of the genes in a person and how these genes interact with each other and the environment – has revealed many…

Studies and Analyses

Combat Stress Impairs Memory: New Insights for Police and Witnesses

Police officers, witnesses and victims of crime suffer loss of memory, recognition and awareness of their environment if they have had to use bursts of…

Event News

EGU 2012: Explore 700+ Sessions and 14,000+ Abstracts Online

*Meeting programme online*All sessions (over 700) and abstracts (over 14,000) are now available from the EGU 2012 website and fully searchable. You can access…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Research Tackles Antibiotic Resistance and Bee Decline

A collaboration between researchers at three universities in Sweden – Lund University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Karolinska…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Mutation Linked to Age-Related Neuroblastoma Risk

Researchers have identified the first gene mutation associated with a chronic and often fatal form of neuroblastoma that typically strikes adolescents and…

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