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Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Evidence Confirms Coyote Migration Route to Virginia and Hybridization with Wolves

In a new study, published Oct. 17 in the Journal of Mammalogy, researchers from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Conservation and…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Offers Hope for Atrial Fibrillation Treatment

AF is the most common type of heart arrhythmia and puts those affected at a three to five times greater risk for stroke. Now, there is a new drug poised to…

Studies and Analyses

Strong Teacher Bonds Shield First Graders from Aggression

The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Quebec at Montreal, Laval University, the University of Alabama, the University of Montreal, and…

Studies and Analyses

Study uncovers clues to young children's aggressive behavior

The study was done by researchers at the University of Minnesota and appears in the journal Child Development.The researchers looked at more than 260 mothers…

Studies and Analyses

Friendship’s Role in Stress Regulation: New Study Insights

The study, conducted by researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, appears in the journal Child Development.Cortisol, a human stress…

Studies and Analyses

Study shows why underrepresented men should be included in binge eating research

Binge eating is a disorder which affects both men and women, yet men remain underrepresented in research. A new study published in the International Journal of…

Science Education

Preschoolers' language skills improve more when they're placed with more-skilled peers

Researchers found that children with relatively poor language skills either didn't improve over the course of one academic year, or actually lost ground in…

Life & Chemistry

Architects of the Brain: Unlocking Dendrite Communication

Individual receptor variants lead to especially long and branched processes called dendrites, which the cells communicate with. The researchers also showed…

Medical Engineering

New Instrument Unveils Disease Development in Fine Detail

After several years of work, researchers in Lund have managed to construct an instrument that ‘hyperpolarises’ the molecules and thus makes it possible to…

Life & Chemistry

WSU researchers demonstrate rare animal model for studying depression

“We might now have a model that allows us to actually know where to look in the brain for changes relevant to depression, and we can monitor how activity in…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Combo Therapy Targeting Pancreatic and Colon Cancer

The current invention is based on combination therapies of nucleoside analogs with inhibitors of either the Nodal/Activin pathway or the mTOR / hedgehog…

Technology Offerings

Novel Stroke Therapy Combines Glucocorticoids and Proteasome Inhibitors

ManyThe novel combination therapy, developed at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, is based on a combined treatment strategy using glucocorticoids

combined with inhibitors of the proteasome . The new therapy effectively and significantly reduced edema formation and moreover significantly ameliorated neurological performance in mouse models of stroke and

brain trauma….

Awards Funding

Siemens Seeks Student Ideas for Future Healthcare Innovation

The contest focuses on the question of how technological progress and changes in society will affect today’s global healthcare systems. Students are being…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Inequality’s Impact on Food Production in Zimbabwe

Karin Steen has studied the relationship between men, women, land and labour from a gender perspective. Women do not really have a right to land, but through…

Earth Sciences

Climate Research: Northern and Southern Hemispheres Diverge

However, Svante Björck, a climate researcher at Lund University in Sweden, has now shown that global warming, i.e. simultaneous warming events in the northern…

Science Education

Closing the gap – New data on the social dimension of higher education in Europe

According to the Education and Training Strategy of the European Union, it should be four in ten by 2020. Getting this additional person into and through…

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