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Life & Chemistry

Cells as Robust Computational Systems: New Insights Unveiled

This finding by an international team led by Carnegie Mellon University computational biologist Ziv Bar-Joseph helps explain not only the robustness of cells,…

Environmental Conservation

Common fish species has 'human' ability to learn

A common species of fish which is found across Europe including the UK, called the nine-spined stickleback, could be the first animal shown to exhibit an…

Life & Chemistry

New Mechanism Behind Invasive Yeast Infections Uncovered

Candida albicans is a fungus, more specifically a yeast, which approximately 80 percent of people have in their gastrointestinal and genitourinary tract with…

Studies and Analyses

Individual Monkeys Show Unique Variations in Intelligence

Scientists at Harvard University have shown, for the first time, that intelligence varies among individual monkeys within a species – in this case, the…

Health & Medicine

Depression may increase Alzheimer's risk in people with memory problems

Researchers also found, however, that the popular Alzheimer's drug donepezil may help delay the progression to Alzheimer's in depressed individuals who suffer…

Studies and Analyses

Anti-Consumption Movement: Nationalism’s Impact on Brands

A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the connection between nationalism and the anti-consumption movement in India.Authors Rohit Varman…

Health & Medicine

Cerebrospinal fluid shows Alzheimer's disease deterioration much earlier

“The earlier we can catch Alzheimer's disease, the more we can do for the patient. The disease is one that progresses slowly, and the pharmaceuticals that are…

Health & Medicine

New Method Predicts Fatal Fungal Infections in Patients

In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified cells in…

Earth Sciences

Sediment Core Reveals 500,000-Year Climate History

The record, trapped within the top 20 meters (65.6 feet) of a 400-meter (1,312-foot) sediment core drilled in 2005 in the North Atlantic Ocean by the…

Life & Chemistry

Insects' sex scents can save lives

Under the supervision of Associate Professor Rikard Unelius, Björn Bohman, a chemist, has collaborated with biologists to find the compounds secreted by three…

Physics & Astronomy

Meteorite grains divulge Earth's cosmic roots

Heck and his colleagues examined 22 interstellar grains from the Murchison meteorite for their analysis. Dying sun-like stars flung the Murchison grains into…

Studies and Analyses

The freebie dilemma: Consumers are skeptical about 'free' products

Authors Michael A. Kamins (Stony Brook University-SUNY), Valerie S. Folkes (University of Southern California), and Alexander Fedorikhin (Indiana University)…

Physics & Astronomy

Caltech scientists use high-pressure 'alchemy' to create nonexpanding metals

The discovery, described in a paper in Physical Review Letters (PRL), offers insight into the exotic behavior of materials existing at high pressures—which…

Earth Sciences

New study closes in on geologic history of Earth's deep interior

By using a super-computer to virtually squeeze and heat iron-bearing minerals under conditions that would have existed when the Earth crystallized from an…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method Separates Cancer Cells From Normal Cells

These metastatic cells tend to move more than their non-metastatic variants but this movement is poorly understood. Scientists are studying cancer cells…

Awards Funding

Safer anti-epileptic drug compounds win innovation award for Hebrew University pharmacy graduate student

For her discovery, Neta Pessah received one of the prestigious Kaye Innovation Awards presented on June 9 during the Hebrew University Board of Governors…

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