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Siemens Secures $135M Contract with Major U.S. Health System

The University of Pennsylvania Health System, one of the largest health systems in the United States, has awarded a $135 million contract for Integrated…

Power and Electrical Engineering

"Green" OLED-Displays – High Image Quality at Low Energy

They are regarded as displays of the future – organic light emitting diode-displays – called OLED-displays in short. This technology is already applied in…

Health & Medicine

Premium car research & cow dung point to new high tech disease diagnosis

The results could lead to a new high tech medical tool that could provide a fast diagnosis for some of the most difficult gastrointestinal illnesses and…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Epilepsy Drug’s Mechanism and Therapy Potential

The finding may also point to new therapies for brain injury and neuropathic pain.The role of neurons in the brain and nervous system is well known, but…

Automotive Engineering

Improved Redox Flow Batteries: Easy Refill for Electric Cars

If the rechargeable batteries are low, the discharged electrolyte fluid can simply be exchanged at the gas station for recharged fluid – as easy as refilling…

Physics & Astronomy

Innovative Growth of Geodesic Carbon Nanodomes Unveiled

Researchers analyzing the assembly of graphene (sheets of carbon only one atom thick) on a surface of iridium have found that the sheets grow by first forming…

Studies and Analyses

Breast Tenderness and Cancer Risk in Hormone Therapy Users

Women who developed new-onset breast tenderness after starting estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement therapy were at significantly higher risk for…

Life & Chemistry

T Cells Target Myelin Sheaths in Multiple Sclerosis Study

This is what regularly happens in the targeted immunological attack on the myelin sheaths of the nerve cells, as shown experimentally for the first time by…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Mingling Linked to Higher Sudden Death Risk

The investigators – from the United States, Italy and South Africa – report in the journal Circulation that variations in the gene NOS1AP increase the risk of…

Health & Medicine

Study supports possible role of urate in slowing Parkinson's disease progression

By examining data from a 20-year-old clinical trial, a research team based at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (MGH-MIND) and Harvard…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Discovering Titanoboa: Origins in Neotropical Rainforests

“Modern neotropical rainforests, with their palms and spectacular flowering-plant diversity, seem to have come into existence in the Paleocene epoch, shortly…

Studies and Analyses

Children’s Imagination Eases Abdominal Pain, Study Shows

And those benefits were maintained six months after treatment ended, a new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University Medical…

Life & Chemistry

New Bacterial RNA Repair System Revealed by Researchers

The novelty of the newly discovered bacterial RNA repair system is that, before the damaged RNA is sealed, a methyl group is added to the two-prime hydroxyl…

Studies and Analyses

Suppressing a gene in mice prevents heart from aging, preserves its function

Scientists prevented age-related changes in the hearts of mice and preserved heart function by suppressing a form of the PI3K gene, in a study reported in…

Materials Sciences

New Nanotech Sensor Boosts Sensitivity for Medical and Chemistry Use

The new device is at least 10 times more sensitive than existing technology, researchers say, can be tuned to sense different types of materials and is easy to…

Life & Chemistry

Sniffing Out Chemical, Biological Threats

The research effort, led by Dr. Hai Xiao of Missouri University of Science and Technology, involves the development of tiny sensors – each about the size of a…

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