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New Antibiotic Prophylaxis Method Using Nutrition Catheter

The method, presented in the British Medical Journal, has been clinically tested on over 200 patients at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Stockholm…

Health & Medicine

Personalized Smoking Cessation: A 3-5 Year Outlook

“Within three to five years, it's conceivable we'll have a practical test that could take the guesswork out of choosing a smoking-cessation therapy,” says Jed…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Pear Pest's Chemical "Come Hither" Identified

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of California-Riverside (UCR) scientists have jointly identified a key component of the female psylla’s…

Studies and Analyses

Consulting 'Dr. Google'

The quality of online information about the most common sports medicine diagnoses varies widely, according to a study published in the July 2010 issue of the…

Life & Chemistry

The last checkpoint to T cell fate

While varying widely in function, all blood cells share a common origin in progenitors known as hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). In textbook theory, HSCs branch…

Studies and Analyses

Our brains are more like birds' than we thought

For more than a century, neuroscientists believed that the brains of humans and other mammals differed from the brains of other animals, such as birds (and so…

Earth Sciences

Alex's aftermath brings flash flood watches to Texas

The latest imagery from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-13, revealed Alex's remnants over Texas, and showed a lingering stationary…

Physics & Astronomy

UM Scientists Advance Quantum Computing & Energy Conversion Tech

Published in the July 1 issue of Nature, their research builds on work by the same Maryland research team published in March in the journal Science (3-26-10)….

Life & Chemistry

Wallabies and Bats: Uncovering Ancient Virus Genes

Modern marsupials may be popular animals at the zoo and in children's books, but new findings by University at Buffalo biologists reveal that they harbor a…

Studies and Analyses

Air Pollution Doesn't Increase Risk of Preeclampsia, Early Delivery, Study Finds

The research was conducted in the region around Seattle, Wash., using data from 3,675 women who were enrolled in the Omega Study, an investigation of the…

Studies and Analyses

High BMI Linked to Convenience Store Proximity: Study Insights

Researchers at the University at Buffalo conducting a neighborhood-scaled exploratory study that tested the association between the food environment, the built…

Life & Chemistry

Avoid Arm Wrestling Saber-Toothed Tigers: Here’s Why

Saber-toothed cats may be best known for their supersized canines, but they also had exceptionally strong forelimbs for pinning prey before delivering the…

Life & Chemistry

WSU Researchers Create Super Battery Using High Pressure Methods

The world's biggest Roman candle has got nothing on this. Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington…

Health & Medicine

Virtual Food Stress: Insights from Eating Disorder Research

Alessandra Gorini from the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, worked with an international team of researchers to compare the effects of the exposure…

Business and Finance

Capital Rising — How Capital Flows Are Changing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Cohan and Rangan extract best practices that will allow businesses to understand not only the impact of the global economy, but also give them the ability to…

Environmental Conservation

How Fast Can Microbes Break Down Oil Washed Onto Gulf Beaches?

What oceanography professors Markus Huettel and Joel E. Kostka learn will enable them to predict when most of the oil in the beaches will be gone. Their…

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