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Life & Chemistry

Genetic Mutations Improve Myelodysplastic Syndromes Diagnosis

For patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), choosing the appropriate treatment depends heavily on the prognosis. Those patients at the highest risk of…

Studies and Analyses

BMC conducts high rates of thyroid testing in pregnant women, study finds

The retrospective study, which is currently published online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, showed that if BMC had not done routine…

Machine Engineering

EU Project CLAiM: Advancing Lightweight Steel in Transport

There is a clear trend in both the transport and the automobile industries towards light-weight construction using high-strength sheets made of stainless steel…

Physics & Astronomy

Glimpse of Adolescent Universe with New Instrument-On-A-Chip

Thanks to technological advances, however, scientists hope to complete the photo album and provide a picture of how the cosmos developed into the kind of place…

Earth Sciences

Sunrise View of Tycho Crater's Peak

Many rock fragments (“clasts”) ranging in size from some 33 feet (10 m) to hundreds of yards are exposed in the central peak slopes. Were these distinctive…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Arlene: Satellite View of Its Inland Journey

Tropical Storm Arlene never made to hurricane strength, but did become a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. To be classified…

Physics & Astronomy

New Tungsten-Silicon Alloy Enhances Ultrafast Photon Detectors

The new tungsten-silicon alloy could make the ultrafast detectors more practical for use in quantum communications and computing systems, experiments testing…

Health & Medicine

Women Excel in Gastrointestinal Surgery: Study Findings Revealed

Results, now published online in the Journal of Surgical Research in a paper titled “The Battle of the Sexes: Women Win Out in Gastrointestinal Surgery,” shed…

Environmental Conservation

Assessing Agroforestry's Advantages

Agroforestry, the deliberate placement of trees into crop and livestock operations, can help capture substantial amounts of carbon on agricultural lands while…

Health & Medicine

Foot Positioning: Key to Reducing Ankle Sprains in Sports

The results of the study, which appear in the June online edition of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, found that people who have a history of…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Small Molecules Bypass Stop Signals in Usher Syndrome

Usher syndrome is the most common form of combined congenital deaf-blindness in humans and affects 1 in 6,000 of the population. It is a recessive inherited…

Health & Medicine

Preventing diabetes damage: Zinc's effects on a kinky, two-faced cohort

Recent research at the University of Michigan offers new details about how zinc performs this “security guard” function. The findings appear in the July 8…

Studies and Analyses

Snooze you win? It's true for achieving hoop dreams, says Stanford study

In a study appearing in the July issue of SLEEP, Cheri Mah, a researcher in the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Laboratory, has shown that…

Environmental Conservation

Researcher Invents Software to Predict Lionfish Invasion

Matthew Johnston, M.S., a researcher at Nova’s Oceanographic Center and its National Coral Reef Institute, is the creator of InvasionSoft, a computer program…

Physics & Astronomy

Tug-of-War Between Electrons Can Lead to Magnetism

The three physicists have proposed that it would be possible to create a quantum dot — a kind of nanoparticle — that is magnetic under surprising…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Image Electron Clouds on Graphene Surface

The research, which appeared June 28 in Nature Communications, was conducted by UB, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Molecular…

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