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Health & Medicine

Aortic Valve Implantation: One-Year Complications Study Insights

The aortic valve study was led by Sabine Bleiziffer, MD, consultant cardiac surgeon, German Heart Center Munich, Munich, Germany, and will be presented as a…

Architecture & Construction

How Sound Waves Enhance Road Design and Quality Control

Intensive efforts are underway all over the world to get 'more road for your money' by developing better methods for both design and quality control of…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Protein Communication via Caspase-3 Cleavage

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have identified novel cleavage sites for the enzyme caspase-3 (an enzyme that proteolytically…

Studies and Analyses

Short-Term Stress Boosts Anti-Tumor Activity in Mice

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that, at least in laboratory mice, bouts of relatively short-term stress can boost the…

Materials Sciences

Studying Crystal Growth in Low-Gravity Space Lab

A research project 10 years in the making is now orbiting the Earth, much to the delight of its creator Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at the U.S….

Power and Electrical Engineering

MIT’s New Method for Carbon Sequestration at Power Plants

Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions at coal-burning power plants.Their system,…

Earth Sciences

Ozone Layer Depletion Stabilizes: New Data Insights Revealed

Scientists merged monthly total ozone data derived from the vertically downward-looking measurements of the GOME instrument on ESA’s ERS-2 satellite, SCIAMACHY…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoresearchers challenge dogma in protein transportation in cells

We now begin to understand how signalling proteins recognize and transport to certain areas of the cell and get a more clear insight on the mechanism of major…

Life & Chemistry

Experimental Drug Promotes B Cell Survival, Targets Lymphoma

To function normally, the cells that make up bodily tissues must “decide” when to divide and multiply (proliferate) and when to die. Cell death restricts the…

Life & Chemistry

Echoes of Phlogiston: Insights into Stem Cell Biology

Phlogiston theory was a conceptual breakthrough that helped chemists conduct experiments and share ideas. Only when it came to pinning down the distinctive…

Studies and Analyses

Cetuximab Boosts Chemotherapy for Advanced Lung Cancer Survival

While a large study last year found that patients lived five weeks longer when the targeted drug cetuximab was added to a particular chemotherapy combination,…

Machine Engineering

Innovative User Interface for Machine Tools: Sinumerik Operate

Sinumerik Operate contains animated elements and allows intuitive operation and programming. New functions mean that even complex workpieces are easy to set up…

Environmental Conservation

Biologists to Determine if Rare Plant Deserves Protection

Also known as Virginia sneezeweed, the plant stands about a meter tall and has attractive yellow clusters of flowers.It's been a long journey for the plant…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Delaware "Paying" Electric Car Owners

V2G vehicles work like an electrical sponge, capable of absorbing excess energy when demand for power is low, and returning some back to the electric grid when…

Studies and Analyses

Perceptual Learning Relies on Local Motion Signals to Learn Global Motion

The brain first perceives changes in visual input (local motion) in the primary visual cortex. The local motion signals are then integrated in the later visual…

Studies and Analyses

Race Has Little Effect on People’s Ability to Spot Family Resemblances

In the study recently published in the Journal of Vision (“Cross-cultural perceptions of facial resemblance between kin”), French and Senegalese participants…

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