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Life & Chemistry

New Discovery May Block Fetal Brain Damage from Oxygen Loss

This observation made in mice suggests that LPA may also be linked to the damage caused by oxygen deprivation in human fetuses. If that proves to be the case,…

Life & Chemistry

Starving Immune Cells May Reduce Multiple Sclerosis Damage

MS is an autoimmune disease resulting from damage to the myelin sheath, a protective layer surrounding nerve cells. When the sheath is damaged, nerve impulses…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

California Study Traces Tree-Killing Pathogen to Source

In a study published today (Thursday, Sept. 1) in the peer-reviewed journal Phytopathology, California emerged as the top suspect for the pathogen, Seiridium…

Health & Medicine

Gut Reactions: McMaster Study on Arthritis Drug Effects

Patients often take drugs to lower stomach acid and reduce the chances they will develop ulcers from taking their anti-inflammatory drugs for conditions such…

Life & Chemistry

Morphogen Wars: Advancements in Nervous System Development

If you think today's political rhetoric is overheated, imagine what goes on inside a vertebrate embryo. There, two armies whose agendas are poles apart, engage…

Environmental Conservation

Managing Water Resources to Save Salmon Runs Amid Warming Streams

There are options for managing water resources to protect the salmon runs, although they would impact hydroelectric power generation, said Lisa Thompson,…

Communications Media

Fraunhofer’s HearingSupport Enhances Phone Conversations

They developed “HearingSupport4Telecommunication”, a new technology improving not only the speech quality for people without or with little hearing impairment….

Physics & Astronomy

UCSB Physicists Showcase Quantum Von Neumann Architecture

UCSB physicists have demonstrated a quantum integrated circuit that implements the quantum von Neumann architecture. In this architecture, a long-lived quantum…

Health & Medicine

Walnuts Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk, Study Finds

The study, led by Elaine Hardman, Ph.D., of Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, compared the effects of a typical diet and a diet containing walnuts…

Physics & Astronomy

Cryogenic Catering Truck Comes to the ALMA Observatory

Until now, servicing the state-of-the-art superconducting receivers inside an ALMA telescope has required hauling the entire 115-ton telescope from its…

Health & Medicine

Promising Half-Match Bone Marrow Transplant Procedure for Cancer

Half-matched bone marrow or stem cell transplants for blood cancer patients have typically been associated with disappointing clinical outcomes. However, a…

Earth Sciences

NASA Tracks Katia’s Formation as Second Atlantic Hurricane

NASA's TRMM satellite noticed towering thunderstorms within Katia yesterday which clued forecasters that she would become a hurricane today. NASA's Aqua…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Depression 8E's remnants still hug Mexican coastline

Tropical Depression 08E (TD8E) has weakened to a remnant low pressure system over Mexico. TD 8E's remnants were raining on Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta at 10…

Awards Funding

Konrad Beyreuther Wins Inaugural Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize

The award honors Beyreuther for the discovery of the nature of the amyloid protein, the key component of plaques found in brains of individuals suffering from…

Environmental Conservation

Chile Reels in Salmon Farms

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) commended local Chilean officials for keeping salmon farms from the fragile coastal waters of Tierra del Fuego Province…

Materials Sciences

Adding Hydrogen Triples Transistor Performance in Graphene

In a paper published in the August 1, 2011, online edition of Nano Letters, the researchers demonstrated a 3x improvement in electron mobility of epitaxial…

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