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Improving Secondary Stroke Prevention: New Findings Revealed

For the study, scientists searched a state hospital discharge database and identified 10,399 people in South Carolina with an average age of 69 who had a…

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Trade & Investment Seminar: Advancements in Engineering & Life Sciences

The Hon. Minister of International Trade and Industry, Dato’ Sri Mustapa Mohamed will be leading a Trade & Investment Mission to Europe from 7-13 March 2010….

Life & Chemistry

Mapping a Grass’s Genome to Advance Biofuels Research

Hazen’s laboratory is one of 10 funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2008 to accelerate the development of cellulosic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Sensor Exploits Traditional Weakness of Nano Devices

Ultimately, researchers believe this new “sniffer” will achieve a detection level that approaches the theoretical limit, surpassing other state-of-the-art…

Life & Chemistry

Induced Neural Stem Cells: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

However, a new study published this week (Feb. 15) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences comparing the ability of induced cells and embryonic…

Life & Chemistry

Future Cameras: Heart Researchers Unveil Innovative Technique

By combining off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors they have successfully created a tool that will transform many…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Build With Photons Like Lego Bricks

While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles….

Life & Chemistry

Scent of a Spider: How Pheromones Guide Wasp Mating

Wasp spiders normally live alone. In their mating season, however, they look for a partner. To help them along, the females exude a chemical lure, a pheromone…

Information Technology

M2M Solution’s HomeBox drives your home into the 21st century

Olivier Courtade, CEO of M2M Solution, says, “We are proud to announce our new MyHome solution and our HomeBox. More than just a launch, this is a genuine…

Life & Chemistry

Cleveland Clinic Discovery Links Cancer Spread to Cell Switch

The process called epithelial-mesenchymal transdifferientiation (EMT) has been known to play a role in releasing cells (epithelial cells) on the surface of the…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria-Killing Proteins Target Blood Type Blind Spot

The results were published online Feb. 14 and are scheduled to appear in the journal Nature Medicine.Many immune cells have receptors that respond to molecules…

Life & Chemistry

Caltech Records First Brain Activity in Flying Fruit Flies

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have obtained the first recordings of brain-cell activity in an actively flying fruit fly. The…

Studies and Analyses

Sleepiness Doubles Accident Risk for Adolescent Drivers

Results indicate that adolescent drivers were twice as likely to have had a crash if they experienced sleepiness while driving (adjusted odds ratio = 2.1) or…

Studies and Analyses

New study possibly links cognitive and motor delays with 'flat head syndrome' in young babies

In a new study, infants averaging six months of age who exhibited positional plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome) had lower scores than typical infants in…

Studies and Analyses

Medicare Data Shows Varied Orthopedic Surgery Outcomes

Among more specialized hospitals, there were fewer serious post-surgical complications such as blood clots, infections and heart problems, as well as fewer…

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Tobacco Use Impacts HPV-Positive Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes

Patients with head and neck cancer linked to high risk human papillomavirus, or HPV, have worse outcomes if they are current or former tobacco users, according…

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