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Life & Chemistry

How Immune System Guides Stem Cells in CNS Repair

By discovering how adult neural stem cells navigate to injury sites in the central nervous system, UC Irvine researchers have helped solve a puzzle in the…

Business and Finance

Ernst & Young: Germany Ranked a Top Global Investment Location

This year's Ernst & Young study surveyed 814 international decision-makers on the attractiveness of the European economic area. An additional 205 foreign…

Environmental Conservation

Innovative Solutions for Southern Asia’s Poisonous Water Crisis

The World Health Organization (WHO) has referred to the situation in Bangladesh, where an estimated 60 million people are affected, as “the largest mass…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Uncovering Major Threats to Wheat: Insights from ARS Experts

ARS plant pathologist Yue Jin and his colleagues Les Szabo and Marty Carson at the agency's Cereal Disease Laboratory at St. Paul, Minn., have shown for the…

Environmental Conservation

Seal Bulls: Nature’s Unlikely Helpers in Scientific Research

“Gustavo” is an imposing bull always in search of the best feeding grounds. The elephant seal weighing 3 tons and measuring 4 metres in length belongs to a…

Information Technology

New automated tool 'debugs' nuclear weapon simulations

The program, called AutomaDeD (pronounced like automated), finds errors in computer code for complex “parallel” programs.”The simulations take several weeks to…

Health & Medicine

Calcium Supplements: Risks of Overconsumption Explored

Negative health effects linked to taking too much supplemental calcium are on the rise, according to a commentary appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal…

Studies and Analyses

Cognition Over Age: Key to Understanding Risky Decisions

“It's not age, it's cognition that makes the difference in decision-making,” said Scott Huettel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of psychology and neuroscience and…

Studies and Analyses

A third of young girls get HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer

The findings are published in the May issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.The HPV vaccine prevents four strains of the sexually transmitted…

Life & Chemistry

Jumping genes provide extensive 'raw material' for evolution

The investigators determined that any two peoples' genomes differ at roughly 285 sites out of the 1139 sites studied. These results were found by scanning the…

Life & Chemistry

New technique transforms iPS cells into natural tumor killers

A technique for producing natural killer T (NKT) cells, known for their role in suppressing tumor growth, has been successfully demonstrated for the first time…

Trade Fair News

French Healthcare Equipment Event: Connect in London This July

The French participants are looking to develop partnerships in the UK and will be available for one-to-one business meetings during the afternoon of the French…

Life & Chemistry

Discover Tiny Catalysts for Fast, High-Contrast Innovations

Tiny catalyst materials may take part in a rich variety of very fast physical and chemical processes which can now be revealed more precisely thanks to a new…

Studies and Analyses

Poker Players Turn to Drugs for Performance Boosts

Poker players are using drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, Valium, and other prescription medications, as well as substances including caffeine,…

Environmental Conservation

Lasers help researchers predict birds' preferred habitat

Ecologists studying biodiversity and conservationists preserving habitats have asked these questions for more than 50 years, but with limited and imprecise…

Life & Chemistry

New Assay Detects Enzyme Linked to Cancer and Atherosclerosis

“This assay is important because researchers and pharmaceutical companies need a dependable method for sensitively detecting a small amount of cathepsin K and…

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