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Depression and Anxiety in Young Adults with Asperger Syndrome

Tove Lugnegård, researcher at the University of Gothenburg, has shown in her thesis that mood disorders and anxiety disorders are very common among young…

Health & Medicine

Teaching about hearing can save young people’s ears

Some of them may think that ‘the doctor said that my hearing is good, so I guess I can handle the loud volume’. A new doctoral thesis from the University of…

Health & Medicine

Web-Based Support Enhances Care for Women with Breast Cancer

Although there is a real need for support and information, many women struggle and get lost in the deluge of information. In a study of 227 women, researchers…

Studies and Analyses

How Music Listening Boosts Well-Being and Emotional Health

Everyday music listening is therefore a simple and effective way to enhance well-being and health, according to a new doctoral thesis in psychology from the…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells Successfully Cultivated on Human Corneas

Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have for the first time successfully cultivated stem cells on human corneas,…

Environmental Conservation

New Methods for Enhanced Wastewater Nitrogen Removal

Robert Almstrand at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has shown in his thesis that better removal of nitrogen from wastewater can be achieved by providing…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Protein Imaging Method Enhances Disease Research

Mapping the structure of proteins and the work they do in cells could be the key to cures for everything from cancer to malaria. Last year Richard Neutze,…

Environmental Conservation

Organic Strawberry Farms Show Higher Pollination Rates

In a study of strawberry plants in Skåne, the proportion of fully pollinated flowers was significantly higher on organic farms. This is shown in new research…

Business and Finance

African Auditors Push for Global Auditing Standards

’Researchers seem to have underestimated the power of professional norms as a tool to create change in developing countries,’ says the author of the thesis…

Information Technology

Internet Support Aids Young Relatives of Mentally Ill

Research at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has shown that internet-based support can be a great help – and the site created…

Corporate News

Pall Life Sciences Showcases Innovative Syringe Filter at Pittcon Conference

The Pittcon Conference will take place at the Orlando County Convention Center in Orlando from March 12-15, 2012. Designed specifically for LCMS, the Acrodisc…

Environmental Conservation

Study Reveals How Past Disturbances Affect Forest Warming

So reports a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, exploring nitrogen dynamics, found that untangling climate…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Quantum Entanglement: Two Crystals Linked by Physics

For almost fifteen years Professor Nicolas Gisin and his physicist collaborators have been entangling photons. If this exercise seems to them perhaps…

Life & Chemistry

'Premium Vectors' for the Life Sciences: Magnetic Nanoparticles

They show extremely high gene transfer efficiency and afterwards enable the quick and simple separation of the transfected cells from the transfection pool. A…

Environmental Conservation

Freshwater Ecosystems: New Crustacean Diversity Unveiled

Freshwater ecosystems in northern regions are home to significantly more species of water fleas than traditionally thought, adding to evidence that regions…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Technologies Shaping the Future of Plant Science

Plants serve as the conduit of energy into the biosphere, provide food and materials used by humans, and they shape our environment. According to Ehrhardt and…

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