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Advancing Care: Collaborative Research for Premature Babies

Only if scientists of all disciplines work together and share information – databases, biological samples and new perspectives – will the research community be…

Studies and Analyses

Pandemic Plans in Ontario Hospitals: A Need for Testing

“It's not good enough just to have a plan, you have to test it. You have to know how well it will work in an emergency,” says Dick Zoutman, Queen's professor…

Health & Medicine

Silver Nanoparticles: A New Path for Heart Health Devices

The nanoparticles are part of a new family of materials being created in the laboratory of SUNY Distinguished Professor and Greatbatch Professor of Advanced…

Studies and Analyses

Study reveals a need to evaluate and regulate “electronic cigarettes”

Electronic cigarettes should be evaluated, regulated, labeled and packaged in a manner consistent with cartridge content and product effect – even if that…

Earth Sciences

'Fingerprinting' method reveals fate of mercury in Arctic snow

The work also provides a new approach to tracking mercury's movement through Arctic ecosystems.Mercury is a naturally occurring element, but some 2000 tons of…

Physics & Astronomy

Voluntary Swine Flu Vaccination System Proves Effective

New research published today, Thursday 11 February, in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society), shows that…

Technology Offerings

Fiber-Optic Sensors Enhance Biomedical Sample Detection

Modern bio-sensors for medical and environmental applications are required to be highly sensitive and selective as well as small and easy to deploy. The…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

How Acid Enriches Wine Through Plant Photosynthesis

During photosynthesis, plants tend to produce more nutrients than they actually need. They store the surplus in various places, including their vacuoles. These…

Science Education

New DAAD Website Offers Key Tips for International Students

International Students can get detailed information about study and research opportunities in Germany on a new website now: recently the DAAD expanded its…

Studies and Analyses

Unveiling Mirror Tech: The Future of Self-Reflection

You stop at a shop window and wonder why someone inside is blatantly staring at you — until you realize this person is you. Scenarios like this are impossible…

Studies and Analyses

End-of-Life Care: Aligning Treatment with Patient Values

Their position follows an eight-year study, which found that the use of feeding tubes varies widely. Among their major findings: At 25 percent of the nation's…

Studies and Analyses

High AF Prevalence Discovered in Cross-Country Skiers

The race has been run almost every year since 1932, and in 1976 almost 150 participants were invited to take part in a long-term study designed to discover the…

Studies and Analyses

Maternal Obesity Affects Offspring’s Lifelong Health Risks

As if there are not enough reasons for obese people to lose weight, a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, adds several more. In a study…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Reveals How to Halt Deadly Immune Response

Researchers have teased out the molecular process that can shut down a marauding, often deadly immune response that kills thousands each year who suffer…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Resistant Wheat Develops Gut Defense Against Hessian Flies

Hessian fly larvae midguts – similar to human intestines – were observed in three different feeding situations. Larvae on susceptible plants had normal midgut…

Awards Funding

Ingrid Grummt Honored with 2023 Women in Science Award

The FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award, now in its third year, recognizes and rewards the exceptional achievements of a female researcher in molecular biology…

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