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Infectious Prions May Arise Spontaneously in Healthy Brains

In a startling new study that involved research on both sides of the Atlantic, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute in Florida and the University…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Shade-Coffee Farms Boost Native Bees and Forest Diversity

The study suggests that by pollinating native trees on shade-coffee farms and adjacent patches of forest, the bees help preserve the genetic diversity of…

Studies and Analyses

Interactive Weight Management Boosts Long-Term Weight Loss

The more people used an interactive weight management website, the more weight loss they maintained, according to a Kaiser Permanente Center for Health…

Science Education

New HIPIMS Research Centre Unveils Lightning-Powered Innovation

A machine which pumps out power pulses with the same intensity as a lightning bolt has helped strike up another important relationship – the launch of an…

Life & Chemistry

Weizmann Institute’s Sniffing Device Helps Disabled Communicate

A unique device based on sniffing – inhaling and exhaling through the nose – might enable numerous disabled people to navigate wheelchairs or communicate with…

Earth Sciences

Methane in Coastal Sediments: Climate Risk or Stability?

An international group of marine chemists, microbiologists and geologists coordinated by the marine chemist Gregor Rehder from the Leibniz Institute of Baltic…

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MR Tracking Booster – Localisation of minimally invasive instruments via magnetic resonance tomography

Nowadays surgical procedures are being increasingly performed in a minimally invasive manner. Since the surgeon cannot look into the operating site directly in…

Studies and Analyses

Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Rate Declines, Experts Say

Still, more can be done to even further reduce the number of babies born with the disease, say pediatric HIV experts at the University of Florida who this week…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Cross-Breeding: Discover Unique Texas Plants

With a little cross-breeding and some determination, Dr. Dariusz Malinowski, Texas AgriLife Research plant physiologist and forage agronomist in Vernon, is…

Materials Sciences

Graphene organic photovoltaics, or, will joggers' t-shirts someday power their cell phones?

A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of…

Studies and Analyses

Key Gene Identified for Aggressive Breast Cancer Prognosis

Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers found that the GRB7 gene drives an aggressive form of breast cancer and acts…

Life & Chemistry

Irradiating Stem Cell Niche Boosts Brain Cancer Survival Rates

Patients who underwent high doses of radiation that hit the specific neural stem cell site, known as the stem cell niche, experienced 15 months of…

Life & Chemistry

RNA Technology: A Safe New Approach to Cell Reprogramming

In recent years, scientists have shown that they can reprogram human skin cells to an immature state that allows the cells to become any type of cell. This…

Earth Sciences

Key Biogeochemical Feedbacks Impacting Climate Change Research

It is important to take into account these biogeochemical feedbacks in research on climate change, according to an international research group led by…

Health & Medicine

Diagnostic 'guidelines' a barrier to prompt relief for some back pain

Arthritis is a common cause of back pain, though difficult to precisely diagnose, experts say, because of the poor correlation between a finding of arthritis…

Life & Chemistry

Hijacked Supplies: Innovation in Legionella Pneumophila Research

When it infects the lungs, the Legionnaire’s bacterium Legionella pneumophila causes acute pneumonia. The pathogen’s modus operandi is particularly ingenious:…

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