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Improved Lung Disease Treatment from New Study Insights

One-fifth of all patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension suffer with the fatal disease for more than two years before being correctly diagnosed and…

Life & Chemistry

New Energy Sources from University of Kentucky Research

Tom Niehaus, completing his doctorate in the Chappell laboratory; Shigeru Okada, a sabbatical professor from the aquatic biosciences department at the…

Health & Medicine

Malaria Parasites Camouflage to Evade Pregnant Women’s Immunity

Staff member at CMP. Photo: Lars Hviid”We have found one likely explanation for the length of time it takes for the expectant mother's immune defences to…

Life & Chemistry

Multiple 'siblings' from every gene: Alternate gene reading leads to alternate gene products

A genome-wide survey by researchers at The Wistar Institute shows how our cells create alternate versions of mRNA transcripts by altering how they “read” DNA….

Life & Chemistry

Key Role of MicroRNAs in Melanoma Metastasis Uncovered

Researchers at the NYU Cancer Institute, an NCI-designated cancer center at NYU Langone Medical Center, identified for the first time the key role specific…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Forest Trees Show Memory of Their Roots: New Research Insights

Recent studies showed that even genetically identical human twins can have a different chance of getting a disease. This is because each twin has distinct…

Studies and Analyses

Babies Learn About the World Through Sound, Study Reveals

Do the same principles apply for young infants, and not just to things, but also to abstractions? A new study by Marcela Peña, Jacques Mehler, and Marina…

Physics & Astronomy

UC Riverside Physicists Unveil New Method for Creating Positronium

Physicists at the University of California, Riverside report that they have discovered a new way to create positronium, an exotic and short-lived atom that…

Health & Medicine

Metabolic Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs: New Insights Ahead

Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all…

Life & Chemistry

Exercise’s Impact on Gut Hormones: SSIB Annual Meeting Insights

Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all…

Materials Sciences

Rapid Color-Changing Lenses: A Breakthrough in Display Tech

A University of Connecticut scientist has perfected a method for creating quick-changing, variable colors in films and displays, such as sunglasses, that could…

Health & Medicine

How Too Much Sitting Impacts Your Health

Lack of physical exercise is often implicated in many disease processes. However, sedentary behavior, or too much sitting, as distinct from too little…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover How Best to Excite Brain Cells

How on earth are busy nerve cells supposed to pick out and respond to relevant signals amidst all that information overload?Somehow neurons do manage to…

Transportation and Logistics

PolyU’s Optical Sensor Technology put to good use in High-Speed Rail

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is collaborating with Southwest Jiaotong University and Dalian Jiaotung University to study the use of its…

Environmental Conservation

Collaboration in the Himalayas: Advancing Migration Research

The Department of Migration and Immuno-Ecology, headed by Martin Wikelski at the Department in Radolfzell is intensifying the exchange between the scientists…

Medical Engineering

New Imaging Tech Reveals Cellular Details in Coronary Arteries

Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a one-micrometer-resolution version of the…

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