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Life & Chemistry

Inflammation Aids Wound Healing: New Insights from Research

A new research study published in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) may change how sports injuries involving muscle tissue are treated, as well as how…

Life & Chemistry

U of A Lab Uncovers Addiction Mechanism Linked to Obesity

When a hungry animal finds food in the wild, it is a rewarding stimulus for the animal and is recognized by the brain by the release of the chemical messenger…

Life & Chemistry

Cassava Innovations: Tackling Vitamin A Deficiency Globally

The roots of cassava (Manihot esculenta) serve as the primary source of carbohydrates in the diets of people in many arid regions of the world, including more…

Earth Sciences

Alarming Rise in Freshwater Flowing Into Oceans

Freshwater is flowing into Earth's oceans in greater amounts every year, a team of researchers has found, thanks to more frequent and extreme storms linked to…

Earth Sciences

Rare Life Discovered in Yellowstone Lake’s Inky Depths

A colony of moss, worms and various forms of shrimp flourishes in an area where the water is inky black, about 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and a cauldron of…

Information Technology

Explore New Software for Genome-Wide Expression Analysis

In particular, exons of many genes encode protein variants involved with important cellular processes. While the measured differences between the variants are…

Studies and Analyses

New Clues on Why Some People with Parkinson’s Die Sooner

The 12-year study included 230 people with Parkinson’s disease, of whom 211 died by the end of the research. “Remarkably, time to death for these people took…

Business and Finance

New Data Reveal University Startup Creation, Licensing Activity Strong Despite Economic Downturn

AUTM announces the release of highlights from the AUTM U.S. Licensing Activity Survey: FY2009, a report scheduled for release at the end of the year. The…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change Forces ‘Move It Or Lose It’ Conservation Approach?

Managed relocation (MR) is literally the physical relocation of endangered or threatened species of plants and animals, by humans, to new, and foreign…

Event News

Plutonium, Plasmonics, Nanomaterials, and Future Devices: Highlights of AVS 57th International Symposium & Exhibition

Reporters are invited to attend the conference free of charge. Press registration information can be found belowMEETING HIGHLIGHTS1) PLUTONIUM — “ARPES”…

Physics & Astronomy

Experiment to Challenge Sun’s Inferno

Unlike other instruments being built for NASA’s Solar Probe Plus, the Solar Wind Electrons, Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) experiment won’t sit comfortably behind…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Provides Link Between Calcium Signaling in Excitable and Non-Excitable Cells

The researchers published their findings, The Calcium Store Sensor, STIM1, Reciprocally Controls Orai and Cav1.2 Channels, in the Oct. 1 issue of Science…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Engineer Adult Stem Cells That Do Not Age, Overcoming a Major Barrier to Progress in Regenerative Medicine

UB scientists created the new cell lines – named “MSC Universal” – by genetically altering mesenchymal stem cells, which are found in bone marrow and can…

Studies and Analyses

Study Shows Extent of Land Degradation and Recovery on Western Rangelands

“American ranchers and farmers are at the front line of the effort to protect the health and productivity of our western rangelands,” said Agriculture…

Life & Chemistry

Bioenergy Choices Could Dramatically Change Midwest Bird Diversity

The study compared two approaches to bioenergy feedstocks: monocultures of annuals, such as corn, or perennial cultures of prairie plants and grasses.Because…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Miniature Power Supply Units Boost Efficiency and Functionality

The new Logo!Power stabilized power supply units are compatible with their predecessor models in terms of installation and connection, and are designed…

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