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Mind/Body Techniques Explore Celiac Disease Treatments

Celiac disease is a lifelong, digestive disease affecting children and adults. People who have celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten, a protein found in…

Life & Chemistry

Butterflies Face Climate and Development Challenges Ahead

The new analysis, scheduled to be published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, gives insights on how a major and…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Stem Cell Maintenance and Differentiation

Writing in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week (Jan. 11), scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Scientists Sequence Genome of the Woodland Strawberry, a Model System for Rosaceae Plants

The scientists announced the sequencing of the genome of woodland strawberry over the weekend at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, Ca. The…

Studies and Analyses

New Advances in Heartburn-Related Cancer Therapy

Cancer of the gullet, or oesophagus, is one of the ten most common cancers in the Western world, and there have been recent alarming increases in the number of cases each year in the US and UK. There is no good treatment, and sufferers frequently face a short, painful battle which ends all too quickly in death. Many of the cancers diagnosed are in people with a long history of heartburn. Chronic heartburn leads to the lower parts of the…

Life & Chemistry

Cricket Captured Pollinating Orchids in Groundbreaking Footage

An orchid researcher based on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean and collaborating with researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) has used…

Life & Chemistry

New Spider Species Found in Southern Arava Dunes

A new and previously unknown species of spider has been discovered in the dune of the Sands of Samar in the southern Arava region by a team of scientists from…

Health & Medicine

New research: Sticking to diets is about more than willpower — complexity matters

While this does matter, new research has found that a much more subtle aspect of the diets themselves can also have a big influence on the pounds shed –…

Studies and Analyses

'Weekend Effect' Makes People Happier Regardless of Their Job, Study Says

“Workers, even those with interesting, high status jobs, really are happier on the weekend,” says author Richard Ryan, a professor of psychology at the…

Studies and Analyses

Top Innovators Practice 5 Skills the Rest of Us Don't

These five practical steps surfaced during interviews with the likes of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, eBay’s Pierre Omidyar and Michael Dell and are reported in the…

Health & Medicine

Loss of Epigenetic Regulators Causes Mental Retardation

The improper functioning of one specific protein complex that normally suppresses gene activation is responsible for a mental retardation-like syndrome in…

Earth Sciences

December Was 7th Warmest of the Past 31 Years

December temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: +0.28 C (about 0.50 degrees Fahrenheit) above20-year average for December.Northern Hemisphere: +0.32…

CeBIT 2010

Success through International Cooperation – Partnering event Future Match at CeBIT 2010

From 2rd to 6th March 2010 Future Match again offers a platform for companies, academic organisations and research institutions from numerous countries to…

Corporate News

Octum Unveils CV 600: Advanced Surface Defect Inspection System

For complex machine vision applications Octum developed the modular inspection system CV 600 with the system software CV-Inspect. Task dependant CV 600…

Corporate News

Octum’s Decentralized Inspection Enhances Manufacturing Efficiency

Assembly lines in particular and manufacturing lines in general are more cost effective the earlier defective parts are sorted out in the manufacturing process…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Controlling Cellular Protein Production

Experimental analysis of genetically modified mice revealed that an evolutionary conserved regulatory mechanism of protein production plays an important role…

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