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Create Healthy Winter Traditions to Boost Your Mood

Instead of resolving to make drastic new year changes, establish healthy traditions for the winter months, MU nutrition and exercise physiology experts…

Life & Chemistry

Unfolding pathogenesis in Parkinson’s – Breakthrough suggests damaged proteins travel between cells

The discovery could potentially lead to new therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases aimed at blocking the spread of protein misfolding throughout…

Event News

Thailand Food Conference 2023: Innovations in Food Science

Thailand Food Conference, ASEAN’s Advanced International Food Conference is an important regional forum for food scientists, food technologists, marketing…

Life & Chemistry

New twist on ex ovo culture in bird

Birds, such as the chicken, provide an excellent model for the study of many developmental processes, and remain one of the most commonly studied species in…

Life & Chemistry

The dendritic branch is the preferred integrative unit for protein synthesis-dependent LTP

Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked…

Event News

The American Academy of Neurology’s 63rd Annual Meeting in Hawaii

When: April 9 – April 16, 2011Where: Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HawaiiWho: More than 10,000 neurologists and neuroscientists from around the world are…

Life & Chemistry

Highway to Hydrogen: Simple, Eco-Friendly Fuel Innovation

To obtain hydrogen as an energy-rich and environmentally “clean” fuel by an inexpensive, simple method without using expensive metal catalysts preoccupies…

Health & Medicine

New Home Test Offers Earlier, Accurate Glaucoma Detection

Cumbersome glaucoma tests that require a visit to the ophthalmologist could soon be history thanks to a home test developed by a University of Arizona engineer.

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Growing Sweet Corn with Less Atrazine: New Herbicide Insights

Several other herbicides are used in corn production, and a host of non-chemical tactics are sometimes used, too. If the use of atrazine is restricted or…

Earth Sciences

Shrinking Snow and Ice Cover Accelerates Global Warming Insights

To conduct this study, Mark Flanner, assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, analyzed satellite data showing snow and…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Presenilin’s Role in Building Neural Circuits

In their latest study, researchers at the Salk Institute uncovered presenilin's productive side: It helps embryonic motor neurons navigate the maze of chemical…

Studies and Analyses

New Treatment Explored for Severe 2009 H1N1 Infection

However, the efficacy of this treatment in patients with severe 2009 H1N1 influenza is unknown. A study published in the February 15 issue of Clinical…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists Document Workings of Key Staph Enzyme — and How to Block it

Chemists at the University of Illinois and collaborators in Taiwan studied a type of enzyme found in humans, plants, fungi, parasites, and many bacteria that…

Life & Chemistry

Australian Birds Attract Mates with "Scary Movie Effect"

Male splendid fairy-wrens, a sexually promiscuous small bird native to Australia, are known to sing a special song each time they hear the call of one of their…

Earth Sciences

2010 – Statistical Tie for Warmest Year

2010 finishes in a statistical tie as the warmest year in the past 32Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeDecember temperatures…

Studies and Analyses

Sharks’ Color Blindness: New Insights From Recent Research

Sharks are unable to distinguish colors, even though their close relatives rays and chimaeras have some color vision, according to new research by Dr. Nathan…

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