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Crying baby draws blunted response in depressed mom's brain

Mothers who are depressed respond differently to their crying babies than do non-depressed moms. In fact, their reaction, according to brain scans at the…

Event News

World Conference on Regenerative Medicine in Leipzig

Regenerative medicine has been gaining ground. Numerous technological applications have emerged in recent years for different indications. About 1,000…

Corporate News

Siemens Provides MRI Scanner for Brains Unlimited Research

The MRI scanners are to be dedicated to the renowned research project Brains Unlimited conducted by Maastricht University.How human brains work can become even…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Designs Stable Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts

But previous attempts to design these nanoparticles by changing their shape have failed because the structures are unstable and will revert back to their…

Life & Chemistry

Nano-Membranes: A New Filter Solution for Global Water Issues

To the naked eye, both water molecules and germs are invisible — objects so tiny they are measured by the nanometer, a unit of length about 100,000 times…

Studies and Analyses

Gender Doesn’t Impact Heart Attack Death Risk, Study Finds

A study led by the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center shows being a woman may not increase your risk of dying from treatment for a severe heart…

Studies and Analyses

Are We More – or Less – Moral Than We Think?

A study by Rimma Teper, Michael Inzlicht, and Elizabeth Page-Gould of the University of Toronto Scarborough tested the difference between moral forecasting and…

Trade Fair News

French Logistics Expertise Shines at Multimodal 2011

The French Pavilion will offer a unique environment for visitors to discover new products and services, and to find potential business partners. The…

Health & Medicine

Nanoparticles Boost Survival Rates After Severe Blood Loss

“The new nanomedicine was developed to address the need for better field treatments for massive human blood loss, which can cause cardiovascular collapse, also…

Materials Sciences

Nano-Sized Vaccines: A New Approach to HIV and Malaria

MIT engineers have designed a new type of nanoparticle that could safely and effectively deliver vaccines for diseases such as HIV and malaria. The new…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Study Reveals How Crowds Enhance Individual Uniqueness

It may seem paradoxical, but being part of a crowd is what makes you unique, according to UCLA life scientists.Biologists Kimberly Pollard and Daniel Blumstein…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Mid Sweden University Secures SEK 36M for Energy Research

This will be done in collaboration with the companies SCA, Stora Enso, Holmen, Metso, and Andritz. Mid Sweden University will receive SEK 36 million from the…

Environmental Conservation

Clams Studied as Way to Help Clean Oil-filled Waters

Caitlyn Guice, a junior chemistry major from Prairieville, has received a $2,300 Louisiana Sea Grant Undergraduate Research Opportunities Grant to study the…

Environmental Conservation

Shellshock: New Report Lists 25 Most Endangered Turtle Species

Decimated by illegal hunting for both food and the pet trade along with habitat loss, many turtle species will go extinct in the next decade unless drastic…

Information Technology

Toward Computers That Fit on a Pen Tip: New Technologies Usher in the Millimeter-scale Computing Era

And a compact radio that needs no tuning to find the right frequency could be a key enabler to organizing millimeter-scale systems into wireless sensor…

Materials Sciences

New Method for Protein Production May Advance Nanomedicine

Led by Jianjun Cheng, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, the research team will publish its findings in the Jan….

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