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Health & Medicine

Iron in Coronary Plaque: Key Marker for Heart Attack Risk

Plaque in a heart artery looks threatening, but cardiologists know that many of these buildups will not erupt, dislodge and block a vessel, causing a heart…

Health & Medicine

Cutting Salt in Teen Diets: A Path to Better Health

The findings indicate that the food industry and those who regulate it could substantially improve the nation’s health through even small reductions in the…

Life & Chemistry

Erythropoietin May Undermine Herceptin in Breast Cancer Treatment

Red-blood-cell-boosting drugs used to treat anemia may undermine breast cancer treatment with Herceptin, a targeted therapy that blocks the cancer-promoting…

Physics & Astronomy

Shortest-Pulse X-Ray Beams Unveil Atomic Interactions

The researchers used the HERCULES high-intensity, table-top laser to create X-ray beams that rival those made in expensive and massive synchrotron particle…

Earth Sciences

Novel Ocean-Crust Mechanism Could Affect World’s Carbon Budget

Now, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have observed ocean crust forming in an entirely unexpected way—one that may influence those…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers 'grow Rett syndrome' in a Petri dish

The article, titled 'A Model for Neural Development and Treatment of Rett Syndrome Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells,' describes how the team used a…

Life & Chemistry

Temperature Shifts Reveal Plant Immunity’s Genetic Cross Talk

Like us, plants rely on an immune system to fight off disease. Proteins that scout out malicious bacterial invaders in the cell and communicate their presence…

Medical Engineering

Mammography Screening: Addressing Radiation Concerns for Women

“Recently, there have been reports in the press focusing on the potential radiation risk from mammography, particularly as used for periodic screening,” said…

Studies and Analyses

Nighttime sleep found beneficial to infants' skills

That's the finding of a new longitudinal study conducted by researchers at the University of Montreal and the University of Minnesota. The research appears in…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Time’s Illusion: New Advances in Transporter Tech

The laws of physics might make the creation of a transporter which can dematerialise objects and then rematerialise them elsewhere a little beyond us, but it…

Health & Medicine

Low-Cost Nasal Vaccine Method Shows Immune Response Promise

In a study published in the November issue of Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, a vaccine delivered as nasal drops effectively induced an immune response in…

Machine Engineering

Enhanced Simatic S7-1200 Controllers for Profinet & Profibus

New CPU firmware enables communication with Profinet IO devices. With two new communication modules, the Simatic S7-1200 can be operated as a Profibus master…

Health & Medicine

Hippocampus Size: Early Indicator of Mild Cognitive Impairment

Mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, is a condition where the cognitive functions are impaired – though not as severely as in dementia – and is a precursor to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Identifying Species: Looks Can Be Deceptive in Nature

“If you can’t recognise a species by looking at it, this can have serious consequences,” says Emma Vodoti from the Department of Zoology at the University of…

Earth Sciences

New Drumlin Field Sheds Light on Glaciation and Climate Change

Drumlins generally consist of an accumulation of glacial debris – till – and are found in areas that were covered by ice sheet. As the ice advanced, it moved…

Social Sciences

Exploring Modern Family Structures Beyond Nuclear Models

Many families today consist of networks of various people that include a whole host of constellations, without being a nuclear family.Family researchers are at…

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