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Business and Finance

It’s a Double-Witching Hour for Homebuyers

If you missed the deadline, don’t panic – relief is on the way, according to Richard Marmon, an associate professor of accounting in the Rohrer College of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Texas Tech Center for Pulsed Power Aiding in Fight against IEDs

Considered the nation’s university leader in pulsed power research, the center has directed two five-year university research initiatives supported by the…

Life & Chemistry

Rowan University Tackles Challenges of Reducing Carbon Footprint of Drug Manufacturing

This year, the Rowan team has worked with scientists and engineers from Peapack, N.J., and the Kalamazoo, Mich., plant where drugs such as the widely…

Life & Chemistry

X Conference: All About the Chromosomes

Leading physicians and researchers from across the country congregated in Washington to share new findings and groundbreaking studies in sex-differences…

Health & Medicine

Food Science and Technology: The Key to Meeting New USDA Food Guidelines for a Growing Population

The new dietary guidelines, to be released later this year, “challenge” the nation’s food industry to provide more nutritious food products and choices, said…

Life & Chemistry

Fluorescent Dye Hydrogen Swap Improves Detection, Shelf Life

“By replacing a hydrogen atom with a deuterium atom during the synthesis of several fluorescent probes, we increased the stability and shelf life of the dyes,…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover Missing Link in Cell Mitosis: The Role of Protein in Controlling Cell Division is Unveiled

The discovery, reported in the article “Arpc 1b, a centrosomal protein, is both an activator and substrate of Aurora A,” furthers the science world’s…

Health & Medicine

Cutting Fat and Calories Can Lower Cancer Risk in Dogs and People

Demian Dressler, DVM, known as the “dog cancer vet” because of his work in the study of canine cancer, recommends severely limiting snack foods for humans and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Better Control of Reproduction in Trout and Salmon May be in Aquaculture's Future

The method allows researchers to more efficiently and reliably produce fish that have three sets of chromosomes, instead of the usual two sets. Fish with the…

Environmental Conservation

Nature to Provide Eco-friendly Method for Reducing Mosquitoes

Introducing these natural chemicals into mosquito breeding sites will cause the mosquitoes to sense risk of predation to their progeny and avoid laying their…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Isolate First Stage of Tissue Production From Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Researchers hope that these cells could one day be used for clinical treatments of a wide range of medical conditions as the discovery may help scientists…

Machine Engineering

Waterjet Technology Aids BP in Gulf Oil Leak Containment

Water jet technology companies Jet Edge, Inc. and Chukar Waterjet, Inc. recently played a key role in helping BP stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The…

Earth Sciences

Extreme Archaeology: Divers Plumb Mysteries of Mayan Pools

This project, led by University of Illinois anthropology professor Lisa Lucero and funded by the National Geographic Society and an Arnold O. Beckman Award,…

Health & Medicine

New Study Reveals Ways to Avoid ACL Reconstructions

The research group’s study is known as the KANON study and started in 2001. This week the group is publishing its results in the respected New England Journal…

Physics & Astronomy

Astrophysicists Discover Quasar Acting as Cosmic Lens

A quasar acting as a gravitational lens has now been observed for the first time. This discovery, made by the EPFL's Laboratory of Astrophysics in cooperation…

Studies and Analyses

BUSPH Researchers Link Widely Used Chemicals to ADHD in Children

Published online, ahead of print, in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers found “increased odds of ADHD in children with higher serum…

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