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Studies and Analyses

Caregivers’ Impact on Brain Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life

Despite grim prognoses and aggressive treatments, cancer patients suffering from malignant gliomas — primary brain tumors — often rate their quality of life…

Life & Chemistry

Healthier Vegetable Oil: DNA Tech Enhances Euonymus Seeds

New low-cost DNA sequencing technology applied to seeds of the species Euonymus alatus – a common ornamental planting – was crucial to identifying the gene…

Science Education

Books in home as important as parents' education in determining children's education level

Whether rich or poor, residents of the United States or China, illiterate or college graduates, parents who have books in the home increase the level of…

Physics & Astronomy

Mainz Physicists Create Quantum Interface to Connect Light and Atoms

Physicists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed a quantum interface which connects light particles and atoms. The interface is based on an…

Technology Offerings

Biosynthese-Gene für die Herstellung von Etnangien

Etnangien is an antibiotic compound, which inhibits the activity of RNA-polymerases in bacteria.

In view of the fermentation process for etnangien using a…

Technology Offerings

Onco-Targets – Making loss of SFRP tumour suppressor function druggable

The invention discloses molecules, which are activated,

when function of Secreted Fizzled Related Protein 1

(SFRP1) is lost. SFRP1 is known to have…

Environmental Conservation

Small Patches of Urban Woods Valuable for Migrating Birds

The results are important because, with the expansion of cities worldwide, migrating landbirds increasingly must pass through vast urban areas which offer very…

Earth Sciences

Global Temperature Report – April 2010

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeApril temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: +0.50 C (about 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit)…

Trade Fair News

French Paper Sector Showcases Innovations at PULPAPER 2010

PULPAPER, which is the leading European trade show for the paper industry, takes place every other year, alternating with SPCI, the Swedish trade show for the…

Studies and Analyses

Seniors at Risk: How Irregular Medication Use Leads to Falls

“Falls can now be added to the growing list of poor health outcomes associated with non-adherence to medication,” said lead author Sarah D. Berry, MD, MPH, a…

Health & Medicine

Parallel brainstem circuit discovery suggests new path in Parkinson's research

The finding is reported in Nature Neuroscience, online May 16, and highlighted in the magazine's “news and views” section.Simon Alford, University of Illinois…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Atrazine Herbicide Impacts Fish Reproduction in Streams

“Concentrations of atrazine commonly found in agricultural streams and rivers caused reduced reproduction and spawning, as well as tissue abnormalities in…

Process Engineering

New Biodegradable Implants: Tailored Solutions for Bone Repair

The regenerative ability of bones is limited. If they are too badly damaged, e.g. by a tumor or an accident, they have to be replaced by implants. At present…

Medical Engineering

New Algorithm Significantly Enhances Atrial Fibrillation Detection

An algorithm developed by Ki H. Chon, PhD, head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in partnership with…

Health & Medicine

Daily Ginger Consumption Eases Muscle Pain, UGA Study Finds

While ginger had been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects in rodents, its effect on experimentally-induced human muscle pain was largely unexplored, said…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Forensic Science: Age Estimation Through Teeth

Livermore researcher Bruce Buchholz and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute are looking at victim’s teeth to determine how old they are at the time of…

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