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New Formula Accurately Calculates Peak Heart Rate for Women

Women who measure their peak heart rates for exercise will need to do some new math as will physicians giving stress tests to patients.A new formula based on a…

Health & Medicine

Lower Back Pain Surgery: Insights from Recent Literature Review

A literature review, led by Dr. Joseph Lee, published in the June 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS) suggests…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute Develop Technology to Produce Sugar from Photosynthetic Bacteria

This photosynthetic factory could also reduce the carbon dioxide emissions associated with transporting sugar globally from producing countries; lead to…

Studies and Analyses

Rise of Imaging-Guided Biopsies: Less Invasive Solutions

Biopsy—the removal of cells or tissue for microscopic examination—has a long history in medicine. The first percutaneous needle biopsy of the liver was…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Code 2.0 – Novel Artificial Proteins for Industry and Science

Now, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, succeeded in making another important step in this…

Health & Medicine

Knee Surgery Fails to Reduce Osteoarthritis Risk, Study Finds

A decade after the initial injuries were diagnosed using MRI, localized knee osteoarthritis was evident in patients, regardless of whether or not the injuries…

Studies and Analyses

Public Transit: Boosting Health and Weight Loss Benefits

Increasing the availability of public transit systems is one among a number of modifications to the built environment that offers opportunities for increasing…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Causes of Sub-Fertility in Women

Dr Maria Lalioti told the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome today (Tuesday) that she and her colleagues…

Environmental Conservation

Irish Hares Threatened by Modern Farming Practices

The Stormont Assembly voted to ban hare coursing in Northern Ireland last Tuesday (22nd June), but a recent study, funded by the Northern Ireland Environment…

Life & Chemistry

New Treatment Insights for Painful Herniated Discs

The finding implicates the cytokine molecule interleukin-17, and supports the burgeoning theory that an immune response plays a significant role in disc…

Health & Medicine

Noninvasive Blood Test Could Transform Early Pregnancy Diagnostics

Dr Suzanna Frints, a clinical geneticist at Maastricht University Medical Centre (Maastricht, The Netherlands), will tell the 26th annual meeting of the…

Life & Chemistry

Alcohol During Pregnancy Affects Sons’ Semen Quality

Doctors in Denmark found that if mothers had drunk 4.5 or more drinks a week while pregnant, then the sperm concentration of their sons, measured about 20…

Corporate News

Siemens and Aramco Overseas Company, B.V. enter exclusive licensing agreement for …

Siemens Water Technologies Corp. and Aramco Overseas Company, B.V., a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, have signed an exclusive patent and technology license…

Corporate News

Siemens Launches MBR Testing Facility in Singapore

Siemens Water Technologies in Singapore and the PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, are collaborating on a membrane bioreactor (MBR) testing facility at…

Earth Sciences

Mercury’s Ocean Danger: Insights from Duke University Researchers

The answer, according to Duke University researchers, is in the seawater itself.The potentially harmful version of mercury – known as methylmercury — latches…

Earth Sciences

Carbon Sequestration: Exploring Its Benefits and Challenges

For example, the European Union plans to invest billions of Euros within the next ten years to develop carbon capture and storage whereby CO2 will be extracted…

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