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Diabetes can cause a sugar coating that smothers body's immune defences

In diabetes, patients suffer a higher risk of chronic bacterial and fungal infections but until now little has been known about the mechanisms involved. Now…

Architecture & Construction

Protecting Historic Buildings From Climate Change Effects

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have devised a method of forecasting damage caused by the weather to stone buildings – including statues, monuments…

Life & Chemistry

APC Protein Linked to Autism and Intellectual Disabilities

According to neuroscientists at Tufts University School of Medicine, with students from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts, a protein…

Corporate News

New line of products: Siemens launches FracTreat Mobile Treatment Solutions for Oil & Gas Production Market

The FracTreat line of products includes mobile continuous precipitation, mobile flotation and a mobile combination pilot unit – all of which help improve…

Life & Chemistry

New Body Clock Drugs May Alleviate Jet Lag and Mental Health Issues

This work is led by Professor Andrew Loudon from the University of Manchester and Dr Mick Hastings of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Atom-Scale Products Harness Piezoelectric Effect

The generation of an electric field by the compression and expansion of solid materials is known as the piezoelectric effect, and it has a wide range of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Wheat Streak Resistance Gene Discovered in Colorado Variety

A microscopic look into the genes of a Colorado wheat variety has allowed Texas AgriLife Research scientists to identify a wheat streak mosaic virus-resistance…

Physics & Astronomy

Fermi Detects Gamma-Rays from Nova Explosion

A nova is a sudden, rapid increase in the brightness of a star. The explosion occurs when a white dwarf ignites in an enormous thermonuclear explosion. The…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Balancing Costs: Trading Off Invasive Species Control

How should a country respond to a biological invader that reaches its shores via cargo shipped as international trade?Pesky invaders like Zebra mussels, Asian…

Studies and Analyses

'Media Detective' Tool Empowers Children to Skirt Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing Messages

A study published in the current journal Pediatrics shows that teaching children as early as third grade to be more skeptical of media messages can help…

Medical Engineering

3-D Imaging Software Enhances Angiography Workflow for Heart Valves

The software selects anatomical landmarks as the coronary ostia, for instance, and overlays the 3D image with two-dimensional images acquired during live…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Sensor Enhances Understanding of Root and Seedling Growth

Marshall Porterfield, an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering and biomedical engineering, created a new sensor to detect the movement…

Life & Chemistry

Bioengineering Breakthrough Simplifies Health Diagnoses

Arizona State University researchers have demonstrated a way to dramatically simplify testing patients for infectious diseases and unhealthy protein levels.New…

Life & Chemistry

A promising target for developing treatments against Parkinson's disease

The newly discovered drugs block a protein that, when altered in people, leads to Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease causes deterioration of the nervous…

Life & Chemistry

Munich Researchers Uncover Rocking Motion in Hsp90 Protein

The protein Hsp90 plays a significant role in the survival of cells that are exposed to stress. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM)…

Environmental Conservation

Smithsonian Scientists Help Create First Frozen Repository for Hawaiian Coral

Mary Hagedorn, an adjunct faculty member at HIMB and a research scientist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, leads the laboratory at the HIMB…

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