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Health & Medicine

Bacterial Drug Resistance: New Pump Structure Uncovered

The discoveries are published in the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Nature.The paper describes the co-crystal structure of two parts of the three-part efflux…

Studies and Analyses

How Negative Stereotypes Impact Consumer Purchases

The perception of negative stereotyping, particularly in the areas of financial services and automobile sales and service, can cause consumers to fear being…

Health & Medicine

New Study: Whole Blood May Have Longer Shelf Life for Transfusions

In a finding that may potentially improve survival from war injuries and disasters, laboratory researchers report that refrigerated whole blood may have a…

Machine Engineering

Siemens Unveils New Ethernet-Enabled Logic Modules

The two new basic devices Logo!12/24 RCE and Logo!230 RCE with communication and network capabilities enhance the Siemens portfolio with logic modules geared…

Machine Engineering

High-Performance Industrial PC for Demanding Applications

The rack PC is available with the 64-bit operating system Windows 7, up to 32 GB DDR3 work memory and Intel HD onboard graphics with dynamic frequency. With…

Machine Engineering

Safe Motor Shutdown Solutions for Process Automation

The modules DM-F Profisafe and DM-F Local fulfill the requirements of the IEC 61508/62061 and ISO 13849-1 standards for functional safety up to SIL 3/PL e….

Earth Sciences

WHOI Helps Form International Consortium on Iron and the Oceans

The origin of the group stems from a July 2010 workshop sponsored by WHOI, where Buesseler and Co-Chair Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Centre in…

Earth Sciences

New Zealand Earthquake Reveals Vulnerability of Many U.S. Urban Centers

“The earthquake was actually an aftershock associated with the 7.1 magnitude Darfield earthquake that occurred about 15 km west of Christchurch on Sept. 4,…

Health & Medicine

Algae-Derived Anesthetic: A Breakthrough for Surgical Pain Relief

A U.S.-Chile collaboration is bringing surgical patients closer to having a long-acting local anesthetic. In a randomized, double-blind trial, patients given…

Studies and Analyses

Body Weight Linked To Death Risk In Asian Populations

The study, led by Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Ingram Professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tenn., Paolo Boffetta,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Bacteria living on old-growth trees 
may help forests grow

A new study by Dr. Zoë Lindo, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at McGill University, and Jonathan Whiteley, a doctoral student in the same…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Mutation Discovery Sparks Schizophrenia Drug Targets

In a major advance for schizophrenia research, an international team of scientists led by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and…

Physics & Astronomy

'Weird science' uncovered inside neutron star

“If you could put some of this superfluid in a jar it would flow up the walls of the container and over the edge,” said Heinke. Heinke says the core of the…

Earth Sciences

Careful Sleuthing Reveals a Key Source of Sedimentation

Instead, the scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have confirmed that stream bank collapse and failure can be chief contributors to high…

Materials Sciences

Bioimaging: Core targets

Nuclei are complex, well-defined organelles carrying genetic information that is critical to the cell. Visualizing these organelles through fluorescence…

Physics & Astronomy

Photonics: Better optical fiber networks

The household demand for increased internet bandwidth has grown tremendously because of the popularity of data-intensive internet activities such as movie…

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