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Medical Engineering

Innovative Solutions for Hybrid Operating Rooms in Cardiac Surgery

Siemens and Medtronic introduce a joint range of products at the EACTS During the Annual Meeting of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery…

Life & Chemistry

Nano Test Tube Experiment Reveals Melting Material Reactions

The nano-scale test tube is so small that a high-power electron microscope was required to see the experiment.Made from a thin shell of carbon, the test tube…

Life & Chemistry

New Enzyme Structure Could Lead to Safer Anti-HIV Drugs

Their work was published this week in Cell. “Many anti-HIV drugs are designed to stop the process of DNA replication,” says Dr. Whitney Yin, assistant…

Life & Chemistry

ID3 Protein Shapes Career Paths of Blood Progenitors

Like an unusually forceful career counselor, the Id3 protein decides the fate of a given white blood cell precursor, according to researchers at Fox Chase…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Now Traps 25 Percent of World’s Carbon — But That Could Change

In their review paper, David McGuire of the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and his colleagues show that the Arctic has been a…

Life & Chemistry

Absent Pheromones Transform Flies Into Irresistible Casanovas

In fact, they produced bugs so irresistible that normal male fruit flies attempted to mate with pheromone-free males and even females from a different…

Studies and Analyses

Flu Virus Insights: How Past Strains Boost H1N1 Immunity

More than a dozen structural sites, or epitopes, in the virus may explain why many people over the age of 60, who were likely exposed to similar viruses…

Environmental Conservation

Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink

In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net…

Studies and Analyses

Some color shades offer better protection against sun’s ultraviolet rays

Scientists in Spain are reporting that the same cotton fabric dyed deep blue or red provide greater UV protection than shades of yellow. Their study, which…

Information Technology

Carnegie Mellon’s Low-Power Processors Boost Query Efficiency

An experimental computing cluster based on this so-called Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN) architecture was able to handle 10 to 100 times as many queries for…

Environmental Conservation

Improving China's acid rain control strategy

The study, which suggests that government officials adapt a more comprehensive pollution control strategy that includes a new emphasis on cutting nitrogen…

Life & Chemistry

Fabled 'vegetable lamb' plant contains potential treatment for osteoporosis

Young Ho Kim and colleagues point out that osteoporosis is a global health problem, affecting up to 6 million women and 2 million men in the United States…

Life & Chemistry

Extreme Genetic Variability Found in Malaria Parasite Research

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) have charted the extreme genetic differences that occur over…

Studies and Analyses

Hospital Pharmacy Data: Study Highlights Re-Identification Risks

Information on drug prescriptions are a highly sought after commodity. Pharmaceutical companies like to access this data to fine tune their marketing and sales…

Earth Sciences

RV Polarstern Begins 26th Antarctic Expedition from Bremerhaven

Research vessel Polarstern will start its journey October 16th from Bremerhaven to its 26th expedition into Antarctica. The expedition consists of four legs…

Medical Engineering

H1N1 Patients at Risk for Acute Pulmonary Emboli

A pulmonary embolism occurs when one or more arteries in the lungs become blocked. The condition can be life-threatening. However, if treated aggressively,…

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