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New Method Identifies PTSD Through Brain Biomarkers

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Medical Center have identified a biological marker in the brains of those exhibiting…

Studies and Analyses

Urban 'green' spaces may contribute to global warming

Turfgrass lawns remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and store it as organic carbon in soil, making them important “carbon sinks.”…

Life & Chemistry

Membrane-Coat Proteins Found in PVC Bacteria

Although they are present almost everywhere, on land and sea, a group of related bacteria in the superphylum Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae, or PVC,…

Information Technology

Stealth Data: Elevating PC Data Protection on Windows

Data can now be protected better than ever before with the Windows operating system, without leaving the slightest trace or giving away the tiniest hint of its…

Life & Chemistry

New Photocatalyst Kills Bacteria After Light Is Off

Based upon a new catalyst, the disinfection process can be used to purify drinking water, sanitize surgical instruments and remove unwanted fingerprints from…

Studies and Analyses

Fun Tasks Boost Performance for Less Motivated Students

The study appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The findings suggest that two students may respond quite differently to a teacher’s…

Information Technology

Newest Mobile Radar Will Help Study Rain, Snow Storms

The “X-band” radar looks straight up to probe the structures and dynamics of storms as they pass over the university's severe weather research team, according…

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Siemens Unveils Energy Solutions at World Future Summit 2010

Siemens, being aware of the challenges arising from the demand for a global reduction of carbon emissions, will present its proven, highest-efficiency…

Life & Chemistry

Unveiling Virus Attack Energy: Insights from Lund and Lyon

A group of chemistry researchers from Lund University in Sweden and from the University of Lyon in France lie behind the study.On the borderline between…

Technology Offerings

Targeted Retrieval of Recombinase Activity via Trans-Splicing

The Cre/lox system constitutes a method for the site-directed recombination of nucleic acids, in which the enzyme Cre-recombinase achieves recombination of DNA…

Technology Offerings

Single-Chamber Electrophoresis: A New Approach to Analysis

The new Electrophoresis System allows the analytic separation of proteins and nucleic acids and the following production of purified molecule groups without…

Earth Sciences

How Infrared Sensors Measure Ocean Carbon Dioxide Levels

Infrared gas sensors measure carbon dioxide based on its characteristic absorption spectra and are used to evaluate the air-sea flux of the gas. So-called…

Information Technology

New Research Uses Electric Fields to Transform Data Properties

Researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the French research facility CNRS, south of Paris, are using electric fields to manipulate the property of…

Life & Chemistry

Study suggests theory for insect colonies as 'superorganisms'

For more than a century, biologists have marveled at the highly cooperative nature of ants, bees and other social insects that work together to determine the…

Life & Chemistry

GFI1 Gene Variant Linked to Blood Cancer Subtype Discovery

A large international research group led by Dr. Tarik Möröy, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), has discovered that a…

Health & Medicine

Postoperative Delirium in Elderly Patients: New Study Insights

“These data show that, for every 3.5 to 4.7 patients treated in this manner, one incident of delirium will be prevented,” says Frederick Sieber, M.D., primary…

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