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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Invasive Snail and Slug Species Assessment in the US

A collaborative team led by a University of Hawai'i at Manoa researcher has published the first-ever assessment of snail and slug species that are of potential…

Health & Medicine

7-Foot Sanitizer Prototype Automates Hospital Disinfection

Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a…

Environmental Conservation

New Hope for Fisheries: Insights from Groundbreaking Study

Scientists have joined forces in a groundbreaking assessment on the status of marine fisheries and ecosystems. The two-year study, led by Boris Worm of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Restoring Natural Root Signals to Combat Major Corn Pest

A longstanding and fruitful collaboration between researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland,…

Technology Offerings

Protein Aggregation Inhibitors: New Hope for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and prion diseases share molecular mechanisms including protein aggregation and…

Technology Offerings

Silicon Carbide Innovation from Renewable Materials

The present invention permits to produce silicon carbide from renewable raw materials. It is particularly suitable for the synthesis of high-purity crystalline…

Technology Offerings

Simplifying Carbohydrate Mimics Synthesis for Innovative Uses

The invention permits to synthesize easily carbohydrate-C-N and glycosamine mimics from natural carbohydrate and glycol. The synthesized molecules can be used…

Studies and Analyses

Macaques Show Resilience Against Chronic Wasting Disease

The results to date show that 14 cynomolgus macaques exposed orally or intracerebrally to CWD remain healthy and symptom free after more than six years of…

Life & Chemistry

New Zinc Research Identifies Promising Therapeutic Targets

Everyone knows that vitamins “from A to zinc” are important for good health. Now, a new research study in the August 2009 print issue of the Journal of…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria Unravel Their Own Demise: VIB Research Breakthrough

After years of work, VIB researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) were able to determine the structure and operating mechanism of the proteins…

Life & Chemistry

New Test Enhances Safety in Biomedical Research Results

But do researchers always know what is really living in their culture dishes? Under the microscope, different cell lines are almost impossible to distinguish…

Environmental Conservation

New Model Maps Mediterranean Landscape Evolution Post-Fires

“We have developed a model that shows on maps how various types of plants develop in a Mediterranean landscape, with the role of fire included as an integral…

Life & Chemistry

Drug-Proof Zebrafish: Unlocking Secrets of Addiction Research

Katharine Webb, from the German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, worked with an international team of researchers to carry…

Life & Chemistry

New RNA Regulation Discovery Could Impact Cancer Research

That's because University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered that the RNA degradation, which, when improperly regulated can lead to cancer and…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Caution on Restoration Markets for Ecosystem Health

While policymakers across of the globe are relying on environmental restoration projects to fuel emerging market-based environmental programs, an article in…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Monocyte Reservoir Found in the Spleen

It takes a spleen to mend a broken heart – that's the conclusion of a surprising new report from researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center…

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