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Singing During Pregnancy May be Harder Due to Hormones

One of the most dramatic hormonal fluctuations occurs during pregnancy, and many professional singers have experienced difficulty singing while pregnant….

Health & Medicine

Consumer Electronics Can Help Improve Patient Health

The analysis of consumer health informatics, conducted by the Bloomberg School’s Evidence-based Practice Center for the Agency for Healthcare Research and…

Technology Offerings

Advancements in Antibody Technology for Medical Research

Antibodies are important tools for medical applications as well as for experimental research. The majority of antibodies are composed of two heavy chains and…

Environmental Conservation

Global Insights on Australia’s Ecological Risk Assessment in Fisheries

Aspects of the 'ecological risk assessment' (ERA) method have been adopted in the US, Canada, Ecuador, and the Western and Central Pacific, and by the…

Automotive Engineering

SP AusNet Tests PHEVs for Daily Commute and Leisure Use

Over the next three months, staff from Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet will use the PHEVs for their daily drive to work and for leisure as part of CSIRO…

Life & Chemistry

Ants Unleashed: Study Reveals Aggression Triggers in Argentine Ants

The new study, to be published Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the open-access journal BMC Biology, sheds light on the factors influencing the social behavior of the…

Studies and Analyses

Epilepsy drugs could treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

The study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, found that neurons in the brain were protected after treatment with…

Life & Chemistry

El Niño’s Impact on Endangered Primate Species Uncovered

This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post examined how El Niño warming affected the abundance of…

Studies and Analyses

Puberty a gateway to heart disease for Canada's teens

Edmonton – A seven-year ongoing study examining over 20,000 Canadian grade 9 students shows most already have at least one major risk factor for heart disease…

Studies and Analyses

One Cigarette Increases Arterial Stiffness in Young Adults

Her study found that smoking one cigarette increases the stiffness of the arteries in 18 to 30 year olds by a whopping 25 per cent. Arteries that are stiff or…

Health & Medicine

Does diabetes speed up memory loss in Alzheimer's disease?

New research published in the October 27, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggests that those with…

Life & Chemistry

New 'schizophrenia gene' prompts researchers to test potential drug target

The rescue, described as “surprisingly complete” by the researchers, was accomplished with rapamycin, a drug known to act on a protein called mTOR whose role…

Life & Chemistry

UC Davis Study Reveals Key Chemical Attracting Mosquitoes

The groundbreaking research, published this week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, explains why mosquitoes…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Material Boosts Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Density Tenfold

Its storage capacity is ten times higher than the graphite substrate which has been used up to now, and promises considerable improvements for users. The new…

Health & Medicine

Alcohol Linked to Tumor Cell Spread: Key Mechanisms Revealed

Alcohol consumption has long been linked to cancer and its spread, but the underlying mechanism has never been clear. Now, researchers at Rush University…

Health & Medicine

Drug Therapies Linked to Bladder Cancer Risk: Study Insights

In her most recent study of possible triggers of cancer among northern New England residents, Dartmouth epidemiologist Margaret R. Karagas, Ph.D., and her team…

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