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Early Deep Brain Therapy Boosts Dystonia Treatment Success

Patients suffering from dystonia, an uncommon yet potentially crippling movement disorder, get better results if they begin deep brain stimulation therapy…

Communications Media

Understanding Uncertain Climate Risks: Key Insights Explained

Despite much research that demonstrates potential dangers from climate change, public concern has not been increasing.One theory is that this is because the…

Life & Chemistry

New Enzyme Found Essential for Healthy Lung Development

Investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles have provided the first evidence that Eya1 protein phosphatase is a crucial…

Studies and Analyses

Bariatric Surgery: Cost-Effective Solution for Type 2 Diabetes

Bariatric surgery is an especially cost-effective therapy for managing Type 2 diabetes in moderately and severely obese patients. These findings and others…

Environmental Conservation

Deepwater Horizon: New Study Reveals Underestimated Marine Deaths

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 devastated the Gulf of Mexico ecologically and economically. However, a new study published in Conservation Letters…

Studies and Analyses

Emissions trading doesn't cause pollution 'hot spots'

A new study by Evan Ringquist, professor in the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, finds the problem hasn't materialized — that…

Environmental Conservation

Road traffic has more to contribute to climate protection

In the EU the transport sector is the only economic sector whose greenhouse gas emissions are constantly increasing, especially with respect to road…

Life & Chemistry

First video of ‘remasticating’ proboscis monkeys

For Marcus Clauss, co-author of this Japanese study, these observations were sensational. He has been researching herbivores with a foregut-fermenting…

Health & Medicine

Marijuana Use May Impact Intellectual Skills in MS Patients

Some clinical trials have reported a mild benefit of marijuana on pain, bladder dysfunction and spasticity in MS, an auto-immune disease that affects the brain…

Studies and Analyses

Study illuminates the 'pain' of social rejection

The study demonstrates that the same regions of the brain that become active in response to painful sensory experiences are activated during intense…

Life & Chemistry

New insight into how 'tidying up' enzymes work

When a tablet of medicine is taken, the active molecules get absorbed into the bloodstream through the gut and make their way around the body, including to the…

Earth Sciences

Canadian Rocks Reveal Unique Geological Differences From U.S.

Canadians have always seen themselves as separate and distinct from their American neighbours to the south, and now they have geological proof.New research…

Physics & Astronomy

Breakthrough Model Reveals How Nanowires Form Effectively

PhD student Peter Krogstrup from the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen is behind the sensational new theoretical model, which is developed in…

Materials Sciences

TU Delft identifies huge potential of nanocrystals in fuel cells

Electrolyte The researchers at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at TU Delft were concentrating their efforts on improving electrolyte materials. This is the…

Communications Media

New Memory Device Paves Way for Greener Technology

Researchers have created a tiny device that improves on existing forms of memory storage. Conventional methods use electronic devices to convert data into…

Health & Medicine

Early indications of Parkinson's disease revealed in dream sleep

Parkinson’s disease is a brain disease best known for the trembling it causes. It is an incurable, chronic disease and gradually affects the muscles and mental…

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