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The Economic Cost of Advanced Liver Disease

Although infection with the hepatitis C virus increases health care costs overall, the specific impact of the disease’s progressive severity on health care…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: A Bright Future for Displays

The search for innovative, cost-effective and energy-efficient solutions for display and lighting applications are the focus of ongoing intense worldwide…

Studies and Analyses

Delaware Fire Service Insights Enhance National Fire Prevention

A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds fire and life safety programs in Delaware offer a strategic,…

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Exploring Memory Cells: Insights from Computer Simulations

As part of a transnational funding initiative entitled ‘German–US Collaboration in Computational Neuroscience’, Stefan Remy, a scientist at the German Centre…

Business and Finance

Credit Card Bill Notes May Lower Monthly Repayment Amounts

For many debt-laden consumers, including the minimum required payment information on their account statements can reduce the amount they pay each month by as…

Physics & Astronomy

Berkeley Lab Researchers Ink Nanostructures with Tiny ‘Soldering Iron’

One way of directly writing nanoscale structures onto a substrate is to use an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip as a pen to deposit ink molecules through…

Studies and Analyses

Paper uncovers power of Foldit gamers' strategies

Gamers made headlines in September for unraveling the structure of a protein central to research on AIDS. Today, in a paper published online at the Proceedings…

Health & Medicine

Einstein Study: Brain’s Role in Blood Sugar Regulation

“The brain is the body's only organ that needs a constant supply of glucose to survive, so it makes sense that it would have some say over how much glucose is…

Life & Chemistry

Building a full-scale model of a trapped oil reservoir in a laboratory

But now, University of Alberta researchers have developed a way to replicate oil-trapping rock layers in a laboratory and show energy producers the best way to…

Studies and Analyses

Climate Change Escape Routes for Wildlife: Study Insights

Results of a study published this week in the journal Science show how fast animal and plant populations would need to move to keep up with recent climate…

Health & Medicine

Experimental drug suppresses rebound of hepatitis C virus in liver transplant patients

A human monoclonal antibody developed by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) given to patients with chronic hepatitis C…

Life & Chemistry

Forest Service Joins Team to Sequence 1,000 Fungal Genomes

Dan Lindner, a research plant pathologist with the Northern Research Station's Center for Forest Mycology Research (CFMR), is one of 13 scientists…

Life & Chemistry

UMMS researchers identify epigenetic signatures of autism

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School are the first to map epigenetic changes in neurons from the brains of individuals with autism,…

Studies and Analyses

Specific Criteria Enhance Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis Accuracy

Charles L. Bowden, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry with UT Medicine San Antonio, was the sole North American author of the study described in Archives…

Life & Chemistry

UGA researchers develop first mouse model to study important aspect of Alzheimer’s

Now, in research at the University of Georgia, a cellular biologist and his colleagues have found that Hirano bodies may play a protective role in the…

Studies and Analyses

Suboxone: Key to Overcoming Painkiller Addiction Success

Individuals addicted to prescription painkillers are more likely to succeed in treatment with the aid of the medication buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone),…

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