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Life & Chemistry

New Abbott Technology Offers Rapid Alternative to Culture for Microbial Detection

In a poster presented at the AMP meeting, Donna Wolk, Ph.D., division chief, microbiology, University of Arizona, compared the performance of Abbott's Ibis…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Begin to Decipher Metabolism of Sexual Assault Drug

Now, a team of Ohio and Michigan scientists have determined new routes by which 4-HB is metabolized by the body. “This is new and important information,” said…

Technology Offerings

Antiviral Therapy Advances for Acute Myocarditis Treatment

The inflammation of the heart muscle is usually induced by cardiotropic viruses. The invention is based on the findings, that statins can reduce the expression…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Uncover Evolution of Toxic Box Jellyfish Species

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long…

Business and Finance

Examining Illegal Corporate Behavior Under Pressure

MSU’s Yuri Mishina and colleagues argue that unrealistically high pressure on thriving companies increases the likelihood of illegal behavior, as the firms are…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

UCR plant scientist's research spawns new discoveries showing how crops survive drought

Breakthrough research done earlier this year by a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside has greatly accelerated scientists' knowledge…

Life & Chemistry

Texas A&M Researchers Examine How Viruses Destroy Bacteria

The Texas A&M researchers' work is published in the renowned journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.The attackers are called phages, or bacteriophages,…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Trigger Discovered to Combat Aging and Disease

An answer lies in a two-part study led by Charles Mobbs, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai School of…

Materials Sciences

Developing 'green' tires that boost mileage and cut carbon dioxide emissions

The new tires could help add an extra mile or two per gallon to a car's fuel economy. That's the topic of the cover story of the current issue of Chemical &…

Environmental Conservation

Elevated Pollution Levels Near Regional Airports Uncovered

Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems. The study, one of only a handful to examine airborne…

Event News

Multidisciplinary Meeting Enhances Urological Cancer Care

Collaboration of experts from various fields is, therefore, necessary to take cancer-related research and medical practice to the next level. The 2nd European…

Life & Chemistry

New on-off 'switch' triggers and reverses paralysis in animals with a beam of light

When exposed to ordinary light, the animals become unparalyzed and wake up. Their study appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). It…

Business and Finance

Future of Internet Retail: Competing with Niche Products

Management Insights, a regular feature of the journal, is a digest of important research in business, management, operations research, and management science….

Earth Sciences

NASA's QuikScat and Aqua providing important data on Tropical Storm Anja

NASA's QuikScat satellite uses microwave technology to peer through a tropical cyclone's clouds, and actually read the speed of the rotating surface winds. In…

Physics & Astronomy

Harnessing Waste Heat: A New Approach to Energy Efficiency

More than half of the energy consumed worldwide is wasted, most of it in the form of excess heat. This new technology would allow conversion of waste heat into…

Health & Medicine

Immune System Activation in Schizophrenia: New Insights

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have now been able to analyse inflammatory substances in the spinal fluid of patients with schizophrenia, instead of, as in…

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