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Studies and Analyses

Bridging the Gender Gap in Colon Cancer Screening Innovations

A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has found that combining novel optical technologies with a common colon cancer screening test may…

Studies and Analyses

Foreign Accents Affect Perceived Truthfulness, Study Finds

Because an accent makes a person harder to understand, listeners are less likely to find what the person says as truthful, researchers found. The problem of…

Life & Chemistry

Frog Killer Caught: First Before-and-After Disease Images

A killer has been caught in the act: the first before-and-after view of an infectious disease that led to an amphibian die-off has been released by the…

Health & Medicine

Health Impacts of Deepwater Horizon: LSU Researchers’ Survey Insights

LSU Sociology Professors Matthew Lee and Troy Blanchard have conducted a survey to gain an understanding of the health impacts the ongoing Deepwater Horizon…

Trade Fair News

EMBALLAGE 2010: Exploring Intelligent Packaging Innovations

EMBALLAGE constitutes both a generalist and a multi-specialist trade show and, this year, it will feature three pavilions as well as dedicated areas for…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Identify Critical Genes for Down Syndrome

A team of scientists from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC), led by Zygmunt…

Medical Engineering

SoftView Tech Enhances Siemens Digital Radiography Systems

Riverain Medical’s SoftView Enhanced Chest Imaging technology automatically suppresses the ribs and clavicles to improve the visibility of soft tissue…

Health & Medicine

Analyzing Cerebral Bioelectricity to Detect Epilepsy

The research project is a joint effort among engineers and doctors from UC3M, the Clínica Universitaria de Navarra and Universidad Pública de Navarra. It began…

Environmental Conservation

Innovative Stormwater Model Guides Future Development Projects

The model could serve as a blueprint for similar efforts across the country.“The model is designed to evaluate the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus found in…

Health & Medicine

Cowshed Dust May Shield Farm Kids From Hay Fever Allergies

Researchers from Bochum have isolated the substance in cowshed dust that possibly protects farm children from developing allergies and allergic asthma, namely…

Health & Medicine

New findings on troubling side effects of Parkinson’s medication

The standard medication used to treat Parkinson’s is Levodopa, a drug that initially has major benefits but can later also produce serious side effects in the…

Life & Chemistry

Melting DNA Into Barcodes: A New Frontier in Healthcare

“The technique is quicker, easier and cheaper than existing methods. Therefore we hope that it can be used in hospitals in the future. Mapping a person’s…

Life & Chemistry

WSU Researchers Discover Method to Enhance Cancer Cell Mortality

“Hopefully, we can make cancer cells die like normal cells,” says Weihang Chai, an assistant professor in the WSU School of Molecular Biosciences and WWAMI…

Studies and Analyses

Vitamin Deficiency Post-Surgery Linked to Vision Loss in Newborns

Biliopancreatic diversion surgery for morbid obesity is known to cause multiple vitamin deficiencies that may worsen during pregnancy. In the June issue of the…

Life & Chemistry

New Discovery Offers Hope for Incurable Blood Cancer Treatment

Using large cohorts of myeloma patients the researchers have identified a profile of genes that are silenced by epigenetic mechanisms in the malignant plasma…

Life & Chemistry

Protective Brain Hypothesis: Larger Brains Linked to Longevity

The results, which are published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, reveal that “species which have developed large brains live for longer than those with…

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