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Health & Medicine

New Method for Classifying Personality Disorders Proposed by MSU Team

The study by Christopher Hopwood and colleagues calls for a more scientific and practical method of categorizing personality disorders – a proposal that…

Environmental Conservation

Sea Temperature Rise and Coral Bleaching in Western Caribbean

Although the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, issued an advisory in July announcing above-average sea surface temperatures in the…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Mutation Linked to Severe Epilepsy and Mental Retardation

A research team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel has detected a genetic mutation resulting in a…

Physics & Astronomy

First-Ever Observation of Electron Ejected from Krypton Atom

In the experiments, an electron in a krypton atom is removed by a laser pulse that lasts less than four femtoseconds (one femtosecond is one millionth of one…

Studies and Analyses

Brain Imaging Reveals Key Differences in Bipolar Disorder and ADHD

The study is published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.PBD and ADHD are very severe developmental…

Health & Medicine

Vegetable Consumption Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in Black Women

The study results, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, were based on data from the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS), a large follow-up study of…

Life & Chemistry

Unlike us, Honey bees can make ‘quick switch’ in their biological clocks without problems

With people, on the other hand, disturbances to their biological clocks by drastic changes in their daily schedules are known to cause problems — for example…

Business and Finance

Leveraging Past Insights for Future Business Innovation

Whether or not companies can capitalize on the momentum of this fragile financial revitalization is dependent on more than enhancing consumer confidence or…

Life & Chemistry

New CTC-Chip Design Boosts Circulating Tumor Cell Capture

A redesigned version of the CTC-Chip – a microchip-based device for capturing rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) – appears to be more effective and should be…

Life & Chemistry

Diabetes gene linked to degeneration of enzyme involved in Alzheimer's disease onset and progression

The research, led by Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD, The Saunder Family Professor in Neurology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Geriatrics and Adult…

Studies and Analyses

New Studies Examine Links Between XMRV and Human Disease

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus¨Crelated virus (XMRV) has been the subject of many studies since its discovery in 2006, but conflicting reports have created…

Life & Chemistry

Blocking Oncogene in Liver Cancer: New Therapy Insights

Without the interference of this gene’s function, certain liver cancer cells appear to be protected from the toxic effects of chemotherapy drugs.Blocking the…

Studies and Analyses

Pre-Pregnancy Metabolic Status and Gestational Diabetes Risk

Cardio-metabolic risk factors such as high blood sugar and insulin, and low high density lipoprotein cholesterol that are present before pregnancy, predict…

Studies and Analyses

Key Factors Influencing Hospital Readmissions Revealed

In two studies published today in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the risk factors for readmission to the hospital are examined based upon general medicine…

Earth Sciences

Polarstern Completes 25th Arctic Expedition Successfully

The research vessel Polarstern returned to Bremerhaven from a four-month expedition on Saturday, 9 October. On its 25th mission in the Arctic the ship covered…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Earthquake-Like Movements in Living Cells

Professor Owe Orwar and his team of scientists from Chalmers, and the Université Paris Diderot, France, show that adhering lipid bilayer membranes and cell…

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