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Homeland Security Science and Technology University Network Summit

This year's agenda and theme, STRONG! Science & Technology for Intelligent Resilience, will allow scores of homeland security research initiatives to be…

Information Technology

Engineering Team Explores Power of the Mind; Testing How Mere Thoughts Can Operate Computers and More

On any given day, in the heart of a lab in the College of Engineering at Rowan University, LaRocco can be found in front of a computer, electrodes poking out…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

ARS Genetic Analysis Helps Spot Sugarcane Rusts

These diseases are a major concern for the sugarcane industry, so correctly diagnosing which rust is present is key, according to Lisa Castlebury, a mycologist…

Life & Chemistry

MicroRNA: a glimpse into the past

The last ancestor we shared with worms, which roamed the seas around 600 million years ago, may already have had a sophisticated brain that released hormones…

Physics & Astronomy

Short Light Pulses Boost Quantum Entanglement Research

Physicists of the group of Prof. Harald Weinfurter (at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching,…

Science Education

IT Implementation in Swedish Schools: Successes and Failures

The introduction of IT in Swedish schools in the 1990s yielded both success, though in a limited sense, and plain failures such as the Compis school computer…

Life & Chemistry

Cells Clean Up Before Division, Enhancing Age-Related Research

“This ensures that the daughter cell is born without age-related damage,” says professor Thomas Nyström from the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. Thomas Nyström is a professor of microbiology at the University of Gothenburg and one of Sweden's leading researchers in the field of cellular and molecular biology. His research group has published countless scientific discoveries about cell ageing which have provided a new understanding of aging and age-related diseases. Now he and his colleagues have identified a key piece in the ageing puzzle….

Studies and Analyses

Grandpa's broken hip may mean weaker bones for his grandsons

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, shows that hip fractures in grandfathers are linked to low bone density and reduced…

Corporate News

Pharmaceutical track & trace solutions from Octum – safety for patients, transparency for logistics!

The unique marking and doubtless identification of the marking on any product, individual packaging, bundle or delivery package up to the pallet, is key for a…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Decode Grey Mullet Transcriptome at Basque University

On more than one occasion we will have heard that the genome is the library where all the information of each organism is stored. This information is organised…

Studies and Analyses

Seasonal Changes Impact Multiple Sclerosis Risk in Europe

In many European populations, the HLA-DRB1*15 allele of this gene is associated with an increased risk of MS, and the large-scale study of MS patients from…

Studies and Analyses

Improving Milk Safety Standards in Restaurants: Key Findings

“Out of all the dairy products we analysed, 35% of the samples exceeded the maximum contamination levels established by EU law for enterobacteriaceae, and 31%…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Boosting Natural Gas Supplies with Methane Hydrate Innovation

Although a number of challenges require attention before commercial production can be realized, no technical challenges have been identified as insurmountable….

Health & Medicine

Preventing Schizophrenia: Insights Into Early Intervention

The onset of schizophrenia is not easy to predict. Although it is associated with as many as 14 genes in the human genome, the prior presence of schizophrenia…

Life & Chemistry

Neuronal Microchip Identifies Neurotoxins in Cell Networks

They grow neurons on a microchip and check for substances that inhibit the formation of a network between the cells.Scientists from the “Leibniz-Institut für…

Health & Medicine

How AA Meetings May Reduce Depression Symptoms Effectively

“Our study is one of the first to examine the mechanisms underlying behavioral change with AA and to find that AA attendance alleviates depression symptoms,”…

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