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Factors That Help Lift People Out of Poverty in Developing Countries

What factors contribute to poor people in developing countries lifting themselves out of poverty?A paper by economists Anan Pawasutipaisit of Thammasat…

Health & Medicine

Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Boosts Motor Function in Stroke Patients

Described in today's Online Issue of the journal Neurology, the findings showed that stroke patients who received bihemispheric transcranial direct current…

Health & Medicine

Next Steps for Artificial Pancreas Testing Recommended by JDRF

Diabetes experts at a meeting convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) took the next step in…

Physics & Astronomy

Flexible Nanogenerators Power Permanent Heart Micro Robots

Can a heart implanted micro robot operate permanently? Can cell phones and tiny robots implanted in the heart operate permanently without having their…

Technology Offerings

VisuVivo – A proliferation marker to visualise cell cycle progression in vitro and in vivo with high spatial resolution

The invention provides a nucleic acid expression construct

encoding a fusion protein comprising a fluorescence reporter
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Trade Fair News

French Pavilion Showcases Biotech Innovations at Genesis 2010

The Genesis Conference, which is organised by the ONE NUCLEUS cluster (London and Cambridge), and, this year, celebrates its tenth anniversary, is a key event…

Health & Medicine

Chocolate’s Heart Health Benefits: New Research Insights

The findings, now being published in Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, were revealed by a group of drug researchers headed by Ingrid Persson. “We have…

Studies and Analyses

Thesis Confirms Pyrolysis: A Sustainable Way to Recycle Tires

The manufacture of pneumatic tyres requires a large cost in energy and raw materials.Moreover, it is a great environmental problem once their life cycle is…

Environmental Conservation

Tigers in Crisis: Over 1,000 Skins Seized in Decade

Reduced to Skin and Bones shows that from January 2000 to April 2010, parts of between 1,069 and 1,220 tigers were seized in 11 of the 13 tiger range…

Health & Medicine

New Tool Enhances Lupus Assessment in Children Globally

“Lupus is a significant disease with a major impact on QoL of children around the world. This is a chronic, unremitting disease that we need to get under…

Health & Medicine

Maternal Smoking Linked to Higher SIDS Risk in Infants

SIDS is the leading cause of death during the first year of an infant's life. The link between maternal smoking and SIDS is clear. Prenatal exposure to…

Studies and Analyses

Cystic Fibrosis Growth Defects May Begin Before Birth

The study, led by University of Iowa researchers and published online the week of Nov. 8 in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Studies and Analyses

High Blood Pressure in Kids Linked to Learning Disabilities

“This study also found that children with hypertension are more likely to have ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder),” said Heather R. Adams, Ph.D.,…

Studies and Analyses

Study Links Finger Length to Risk-Taking Behavior in Males

Potential investors might wish to examine the fingers of their financial advisor prior to signing over any savings. A new study from Concordia University has…

Health & Medicine

U.S.-Ethiopian Effort Will Monitor Malaria Risk

Associate professor Michael Wimberly of South Dakota State University’s Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence said the work builds on SDSU’s…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanogenerators Power Conventional Electronic Devices

In this case, the mechanical energy comes from compressing a nanogenerator between two fingers, but it could also come from a heartbeat, the pounding of a…

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