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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Targeting Hidden E. Coli Types for Enhanced Food Safety

That's according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) microbiologist and research leader Pina M. Fratamico. Researchers such as Fratamico, along with food…

Life & Chemistry

Circadian rhythms spark plants’ ability to survive freezing weather

All living things – humans, animals, plants, microbes – are influenced by circadian rhythms, which are physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a…

Health & Medicine

Improving Breast Cancer Care: Radiation at Lumpectomy

Northwestern Medicine physicians are currently utilizing a new treatment option for breast cancer that allows women to receive a full dose of radiation therapy…

Life & Chemistry

Research Identifies Gene Necessary for Successful Repair of Muscle Damage

Scientists at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are a step closer to treating, and perhaps preventing, muscle damage caused by neurodegenerative…

Health & Medicine

Compounds Show Promise in Blocking STAT3 Signaling As Treatment for Osteosarcoma

Osteosarcoma is aggressive and its treatment outlook has not changed significantly over the last 20 years. Treatment consists of a combination of toxic…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Invasive, Non-Native Wild Hogs Gaining a Foothold in New York

These invasive, non-native hogs can cause tremendous damage to crops and native plant communities.There is also a risk of spreading diseases, such as…

Studies and Analyses

Methane Leaks Can Make Fracking Gas ‘Dirtier’ than Coal Or Oil

While natural gas has been touted as a clean-burning fuel that produces less carbon dioxide than coal, ecologist Robert Howarth warns that we should be more…

Studies and Analyses

Research Digs Deep into the Fracking Controversy

Deborah Kittner, a University of Cincinnati doctoral student in geography, presents, “What’s the Fracking Problem? Extraction Industry’s Neglect of the Locals…

Life & Chemistry

Social Wasps Show How Bigger Brains Provide Complex Cognition

New findings by neurobiologists at the University of Washington suggest that both patterns are important. The researchers found that bigger-bodied social wasps…

Studies and Analyses

Expert Insights: How Pressure Leads to Product Misjudgments

Sauder marketing researcher JoAndrea Hoegg discovered that experts with specific product knowledge can make mistakes when relying on their memories to compare…

Life & Chemistry

Hunting Deadly Bacteria: New Methods for Detection

You can't see them, or smell them or taste them. They can be in our water and in our food, multiplying so rapidly that conventional testing methods for…

Life & Chemistry

Loss of Cell Adhesion Protein Linked to Esophageal Cancers

Squamous cell cancers of the oral cavity and esophagus are common throughout the world, with over 650,000 cases of oral cancer each year and esophageal cancer…

Health & Medicine

Feinstein Scientists Uncover Disease Pathway in Dystonia

Now, a team of scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have figured out why and the finding could lead to ways to test novel treatments….

Power and Electrical Engineering

Buffalo Engineer Aims to Slow Light Waves Further After Breakthrough

An electrical engineer at the University at Buffalo, who previously demonstrated experimentally the “rainbow trapping effect” — a phenomenon that could boost…

Studies and Analyses

Weight Loss Boosts Memory, New Study Reveals

The findings will be published in an upcoming issue of Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, the Official Journal of the American Society for Metabolic and…

Studies and Analyses

UGA Study Uncovers Trends in Firefighter Fatalities

While the number of fires is on the decline, firefighter deaths are not —and a new University of Georgia study helps explain why.Researchers in the UGA College…

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