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Studies and Analyses

Pregnancy Risks for Egg Donors: Over 50 vs. Younger Women

This is contrary to epidemiological data suggesting that these women are at greater risk of certain complications of pregnancy, including hypertension,…

Health & Medicine

Study Shows Masks and Hand Washing Reduce Flu Spread by 75%

A new report shows the second-year results (2007-2008) of the ground-breaking U-M M-Flu study found up to a 75 percent reduction in flu-like illness over the…

Business and Finance

KfW Bank Sees Strong Financing Demand Amid Modernization Efforts

In the year 2011, overall promotional business volume of KfW Bankengruppe reached EUR 70.4 billion, more than the originally expected EUR 66 billion.After EUR…

Environmental Conservation

A Landscape-Scale Experiment in Restoring Ozark Glades

The experiment, led by Tiffany Knight, PhD, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, will test three different variables in 32 glades with the goal…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Running Robots

According to University of Delaware assistant professor Ioannis Poulakakis, a large fraction of the Earth’s surface remains inaccessible to conventional…

Health & Medicine

Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents Improves Obesity-Related Diseases Within First Two Years

Doctors at Nationwide Children’s Hospital who perform weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery) on adolescents took a look at their patient population in a…

Life & Chemistry

Evolutionary Geneticist Helps Find Butterfly Gene, Clue to Age-Old Question

The more-than-century-long challenge has involved a secret of the Heliconius butterfly, the orange, black, yellow, and red insect that hasn't easily…

Life & Chemistry

Singapore Scientists Lead in 3D Mapping of Human Genome to Help Understand Human Diseases

The discovery was published in Cell, on 19 January 2012. The GIS is a research institute under the umbrella of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research…

Studies and Analyses

Arctic Sea Ice Impact on Central Europe’s Winter Weather

Scientists of the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association have decrypted a mechanism…

Health & Medicine

Diabetes Competencies from MV Boost Healthcare in Emirates

Germany's northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern expands its international contacts in the healthcare sector. For this purpose the life sciences…

Environmental Conservation

Long-Term Response Plan for Cuban Oil Spill

The proximity of intended Cuban oil drilling and production puts the U.S. coastal zone at risk from Florida to the Carolinas and northward. Oil from a spill…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientist Recounts Superconductivity Discovery

Ashburn's path also included a love of science, especially mathematics.All of those factors were in play 25 years ago when Ashburn, then a first year physics…

Life & Chemistry

Capsules That Clean: New-Look Laundry Detergents Head for Supermarket Shelves

Laundry capsules that contain single doses of detergent and take up less space than conventional detergents are set to make a comeback. That’s the topic of an…

Life & Chemistry

Making Memories Last

The finding supports a surprising new theory about memory, and may have a profound impact on explaining other oligomer-linked functions and diseases in the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Grafted Watermelon Plants Take in More Pesticides

Although only low amounts of pesticides appeared in the fruit in the study, the scientists advise that commercial farmers use gcautionh when grafting…

Trade Fair News

How Distributed Sensors Enhance Smart Gardening Innovations

If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor…

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