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KfW IPEX-Bank Finances Ship Conversion at Blohm + Voss

KfW IPEX-Bank, acting as facility agent and collectively with BNP Paribas as mandated lead arranger, finances the conversion of a former RoRo ferry into a…

Studies and Analyses

Enhancing Creative Problem Solving Through REM Sleep Insights

The study by Sara Mednick, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego and the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and first author Denise Cai, graduate…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Ways to Maintain Cognitive Function in Old Age

The study followed 2,500 people age 70 to 79 for eight years, testing their cognitive skills several times over the years. Many of the participants showed…

Life & Chemistry

Muscle Atrophy: Insights on Thick vs. Thin Loss

During desperate times, such as fasting, or muscle wasting that afflicts cancer or AIDS patients, the body cannibalizes itself, atrophying and breaking down…

Health & Medicine

Lyme Disease Growth in Canada: The Role of Physicians

Lyme disease is transmitted by ticks which feed on animal or human hosts. It begins with a skin lesion that expands and if untreated, can result in facial…

Physics & Astronomy

Discover 3-D Structure of Key Nuclear Pore Component

The genome of complex organisms is stashed away inside each cell's nucleus, a little like a sovereign shielded from the threatening world outside. The genome…

Studies and Analyses

Drug Therapy vs. Surgery: Mortality Rates in Diabetes and Heart Disease

There is no difference in mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes and stable heart disease who received prompt bypass surgery or angioplasty compared to…

Health & Medicine

First Climate Model Predicts Dengue Fever Outbreaks

Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) are the most important vector-borne viral diseases in the World. Around 50-100 million cases appear each…

Life & Chemistry

'Smart' process may boost economics of biofuel production

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory believe they've identified a simpler way to generate biofuels – a one-step…

Health & Medicine

Fatty foods — not empty stomach — fire up hunger hormone

The findings, the study's author says, turn the current model about ghrelin on its head and point to a novel stomach enzyme (GOAT) responsible for the ghrelin…

Physics & Astronomy

Caltech’s Nanoscale Zipper Cavity Detects Single Photons

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a nanoscale device that can be used for force detection, optical communication,…

Business and Finance

KfW IPEX-Bank Finances 200 MW Power Project in Costa Rica

The signing took place in Frankfurt, Germany. FPTG will use the loan to finance a 200 MW diesel-engine peak-load electricity generation plant delivered by MAN…

Health & Medicine

Nanoparticle Targets Cardiovascular Plaque for New Therapies

The treatment is promising for the eventual development of therapies for cardiovascular disease, which is blamed for one third of the deaths in the United…

Studies and Analyses

Illegal Fishing Threatens New England Groundfish Future

Among their findings, environmental economists Dr. Dennis King of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Dr. Jon Sutinen of the…

Physics & Astronomy

Breakthrough in Industrial Production of Fluorescent Nanodiamonds

Fluorescence is a major tool in life and material sciences. In biology/medicine, the coupling of fluorescent dyes, to proteins or nucleic acids (RNA, DNA)…

Health & Medicine

Association Found Between Parkinson's Disease and Pesticide Exposure in French Farm Workers

Laboratory studies in rats have shown that injecting the insecticide rotenone leads to an animal model of PD and several epidemiological studies have shown an…

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