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Immune Molecule’s Role in Brain Connectivity Explained

Schizophrenia, autism and other disorders are associated with changes in connectivity in the brain, said Kimberley McAllister, associate professor in the…

Studies and Analyses

How Education Lowers Blood Pressure: New Insights Revealed

New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Public Health demonstrates that education is also correlated with lower blood pressure and a…

Life & Chemistry

Canadian Researchers Create Pluripotent Stem Cells from Horses

In a world first, pluripotent stem cells have been generated from horses by a team of researchers led by Dr. Andras Nagy at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research…

Health & Medicine

Researchers discover how ‘dangerous’ mercury enters into atmosphere and ultimately into fish we eat

The researchers, Prof. Menachem Luria from the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University and Dr. Daniel Obrist of the…

Life & Chemistry

Fighting Malaria, Lyme & Other Diseases with Transgenic Fungi

In a study published in the February 25 issue of the journal Science, the researchers also say that this general approach could be used for controlling other…

Health & Medicine

Newborn Heart Muscle Can Grow Back by Itself

Researchers, working with mice, found that a portion of the heart removed during the first week after birth grew back wholly and correctly – as if nothing had…

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Plasma Nanotechnology Advances at IC-PLANTS 2011 Conference

Plasma processing technologies are the state of the art technologies leading the way through ultra-high performance in Nano-materials, microelectronic devices,…

Materials Sciences

Flexible high-performance carbon nanotube integrated circuits

CNT thin-film transistors are expected to enable the fabrication of high-performance, flexible and transparent devices using relatively simple techniques….

Materials Sciences

Segregation Behaviors and Radial Distribution of Dopant Atoms in Silicon Nanowires

Understanding the dynamic behaviors of dopant atoms in Si NWs is the key to realize low-power and high-speed transistors using Si NWs. The segregation behavior…

Materials Sciences

Observation of Half-Quantum Magnetic Flux in Sr2RuO4

Professor Maeno of Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) and Assistant Professor Budakian of University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IllinoisCUSA) were the…

Materials Sciences

Entanglement in an Ensemble of Electron and Nuclear Spins in Silicon

One of the causes of the problem is short coherence time of a quantum bit in the host material. Researchers have engineered phosphorus-doped silicon to be…

Life & Chemistry

Secretions of the mind

A molecule called calcium-dependent activator protein for secretion 2 (CAPS2) promotes the secretion of a neurotrophic factor that is critical for the proper…

Materials Sciences

Vortices get organized

A crystal consisting not of atoms but exotic swirling magnetic entities, called skyrmions, has been identified at near room-temperature by Yoshinori Tokura of…

Life & Chemistry

Unearthing a pathway to brain damage

Neuroscientists have long suspected that abnormal calcium signaling and accumulation of misfolded proteins cause an intracellular membrane-bound organelle…

Studies and Analyses

Fish Oil May Combat Weight Loss From Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy can cause cancer patients to lose muscle mass and become malnourished, leading to fatigue, a decreased quality of life, an inability to receive…

Life & Chemistry

Gene-Fueled Transporter Triggers Self-Destruction in Breast Cancer Cells

Using a transport system called a Designer Biomimetic Vector (DBV), Dr Helen McCarthy, from Queen’s School of Pharmacy, funded by Breast Cancer Campaign,…

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