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Dementia induced and blocked in Parkinson's fly model

Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have modeled Parkinson's-associated dementia for the first time. Scientists showed…

Studies and Analyses

Lung Cancer Patients Benefit from Erlotinib After Cetuximab

Both cetuximab (Erbitux) and erlotinib (Tarceva) inhibit the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the assumption has been that once a patient progresses…

Studies and Analyses

Link Between Sleep Quality and Life Quality Decline

Adjusted models show that an increase in difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep was significantly associated with a change in Mental Component Summary…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

AgriLife Research Unlocks Secrets of Roadrunner Speed

Wile E. Coyote might not have been able to catch up with the roadrunner on the Saturday morning cartoons, but one Texas AgriLife Research scientist has had no…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding H1N1 Genomic Sequences From Argentine Outbreak

Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health are working with Argentina's National…

Trade Fair News

Western China Trade Fair 2023: Innovations in Economy & Commerce

Western China International Economy and Trade Fair is co-sponsored by the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, and seven other…

Trade Fair News

The 13th China International Fair for Investment & Trade (CIFIT) 8th – 11th September 2009

To cope with the severe impact of the international financial crisis on the world economy, nations around the world are vigorously expanding investment and…

Life & Chemistry

‘Brain Exercises’ May Delay Memory Decline in Dementia

The study involved 488 people age 75 to 85 who did not have dementia at the start of the study. They were followed for an average of five years; during that…

Life & Chemistry

Evasive Plant Research: Insights from Student Innovations

The students – junior biology majors Courtney Soley of Buchanan, Mich., and Dustin Houghton of West Lafayette, and sophomore civil engineering major Kaylene…

Information Technology

Green500: Supercomputers’ Energy Efficiency Hits New High

“The average energy efficiency of the top supercomputers in the world increased by 10 percent,” said Wu Feng (http://people.cs.vt.edu/~feng), an associate…

Health & Medicine

Study Links Altered Microbiome to GERD in Esophagus

Now, researchers have discovered that GERD is associated with global alteration of the microbiome in the esophagus.The findings, reported in the August 1, 2009…

Life & Chemistry

How Transposons Drive Genetic Innovation in Organisms

Transposons are mobile genetic elements found in the hereditary material of humans and other organisms. They can replicate and the new copies can insert at…

Physics & Astronomy

New Metamaterial Device Guides Light Along Complex Pathways

Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide…

Earth Sciences

Iron Isotopes: Unlocking Secrets of Ocean Productivity

Large regions of the world's oceans have low primary production despite having plenty of macronutrients such as phosphate, nitrate and silicate. This is due a…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene to Graphane: Unlocking New Electronic Innovations

But graphene, which consists of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, has a major drawback when it comes to applications in electronics – it conducts…

Environmental Conservation

Global Efforts to Combat Overfishing Show Positive Results

Australian Beth Fulton, a fishery ecosystem scientist from the CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship, was among an international team of 19 co-authors of a report…

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