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Boosting Health and Economy: The Rise of Bicycle Commuting

The biggest health benefit was due to replacing half of the short trips with bicycle trips during the warmest six months of the year, saving about $3.8 billion…

Studies and Analyses

Researchers reveal potential treatment for sickle cell disease

A University of Michigan Health System laboratory study reveals a key trigger for producing normal red blood cells that could lead to a new treatment for those…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: How H. Pylori Triggers Cell Death in Cancer

H. pylori are the only bacteria known to survive in the human stomach. Infection with the bacterium is associated with an increased risk of gastric cancer, the…

Studies and Analyses

Targeted Antibiotic Drug: Safest Option for Irritable Bowel Disease

The study, for presentation at the American College of Gastroenterology annual meeting in Washington, D.C., examined drug interventions for IBS deemed to be of…

Social Sciences

Senior Citizens Shape Urban Planning Research in Sweden

A newly launched research project at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is now enlisting the help of the senior citizens themselves to learn about the…

Studies and Analyses

Shorter Hospital Stays with Person-Centered Care Insights

A study carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that if there is an active partnership between the patient and…

Health & Medicine

Adiponectin’s Role in Osteoporosis Risk Among Seniors

Our skeleton is more than just bones, vertebrae and joints. In fact, it is an active organ that is constantly linked to our brain, our muscles and our fatty…

Interdisciplinary Research

Architecture and Design: Boosting Brain Recovery Insights

New research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, into how the space around us affects the brain reveals that well-planned architecture, design and…

Studies and Analyses

Boosting Elderly Well-Being Through Active Lifestyles

”We do not yet know for sure what the causal relationship between physical activity and depression is like. What is clear is that elderly people who are…

Life & Chemistry

“Junk DNA“ May Give Rise to Evolutionary Innovation

The vast majority of the human genome consists of DNA without any apparent function, so-called “junk DNA”. A study conducted by the scientists Dr. Laurence…

Health & Medicine

Broader Screening for Sudden Cardiac Death in Youth

The most common cause of sudden cardiac death in children and adolescents is the heart muscle disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The condition is hereditary,…

Business and Finance

Elderly Small Business Owners Face Retirement Challenges in Sweden

In Sweden, an already critical employment situation is exacerbated by the fact that 25% of managers of small and medium-sized businesses plan to retire in the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Experience Fraunhofer 3D Sound at Zeiss Planetarium Jena

It is the first fixed installation of this Fraunhofer 3D sound system. The combination with the newly installed full-dome projection system of Carl Zeiss AG…

Physics & Astronomy

Aluminum Alloy Advances Hydrogen Fuel Source Research

Now, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., has made the counterintuitive discovery…

Medical Engineering

Miniaturized Ultrasound Devices Transform Radiology Practices

A recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine by Moore and Copel indicated that miniaturization and a drop in costs have facilitated the growth of…

Physics & Astronomy

Dolphin Echolocation Performance May Degrade from Anthropogenic Noise Exposure

Since some of these marine species, such as dolphins, rely on sound to navigate, researchers from the U.S. Navy and the National Marine Mammal Foundation set…

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