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Scripps Researchers Identify Cause of Stress-Related DNA Damage

Working closely with a team of researchers from Duke University, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have helped identify a…

Health & Medicine

UH Researchers Develop New Treatments for Breast, Colon Cancer

University of Houston (UH) researchers have their sights set on developing possible treatments for breast and colon cancer. In two separate, yet related,…

Studies and Analyses

How Job Loss Changes Men’s Domestic Roles in Recession

But how do unemployed men cope with their shifting domestic roles, especially when they become financially dependent on a wife or female partner? One…

Life & Chemistry

"Open Wide" for New Stem Cell Potential

While highly potent embryonic stem cells are often the subject of ethical and safety controversy, adult-derived stem cells have other problems. As we age, our…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: a Twisted Tale

Asymmetric skulls are a well-known characteristic of the modern whale group known as odontocetes (toothed whales). These whales also have highly modified nasal…

Studies and Analyses

Poverty and National Parks: Decade-Long Study Finds Surprising Relationship

Yes, according to the conventional wisdom, but no, according to a 10-year study of people living around Kibale National Park in Uganda that was published this…

Life & Chemistry

New Building Blocks Simplify Complex Molecule Synthesis

Led by chemistry professor Martin Burke, the team published its research on the cover of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie.Burke’s group is known for…

Corporate News

Siemens Launches Biograph mMR in Private Radiology Practice

This represents the first use of the system by a private practice for the routine examination of patients. Biograph mMR is the world's first fully integrated…

Materials Sciences

“Nature Materials”: Controlling magnetism with electric fields

An international team of researchers from France and Germany has developed a new material which is the first to react magnetically to electrical fields at room…

Life & Chemistry

Sweet insight: Discovery could speed drug development

In a similar manner, sugars attached to drugs can enhance, change or neutralize their effects, says Jon Thorson, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the…

Health & Medicine

Noninvasive Imaging Probe Detects Heart-Valve Infections

A novel imaging probe developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators may make it possible to diagnose accurately a dangerous infection of the…

Health & Medicine

Newly discovered cell mechanism uses amplified nitric oxide to fight C. diff

Groundbreaking research encompassing Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, has uncovered a natural…

Studies and Analyses

Job Trends Reignite Gender Inequality in the Workplace

A study by sociologists from Indiana University and Cornell University finds that the growing trend of overworking — working 50 hours a week or more — is…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Millipede Puberty: Legs to Gonopods Unveiled

Millipede puberty is a radical affair. The change in function from leg to gonopod can occur within a couple of moults, during which the millipede typically…

Life & Chemistry

Significant ALS Breakthrough: Insights Into Neurodegeneration

The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims,…

Earth Sciences

North Icelandic Jet: Key Discovery for Atlantic Climate Change

The current, called the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ), contributes to a key component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as the…

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