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Health & Medicine

Genetic Link Found Between Periodontitis and Heart Attack

Now, for the first time, scientists have discovered a genetic relationship between the two conditions, a researcher told the annual conference of the European…

Life & Chemistry

Australian team reveals world-first discovery in a 'floppy baby' syndrome

The research, published online today in the Journal of Cell Biology, reveals how a team at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) has…

Life & Chemistry

Heart Muscle Protein Boosts Myopathy Recovery in Mice

A heart muscle protein can replace its missing skeletal muscle counterpart to give mice with myopathy a long and active life, show Nowak et al. The findings…

Studies and Analyses

Head Movement: Key to Nonverbal Communication Beyond Gender

When women and men converse together, the men use a little more head motion and the women use a little less. But the men and women might be adapting because of…

Life & Chemistry

Alzheimer's discovery could bring early diagnosis, treatment closer

A discovery made by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Research Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General…

Seminars Workshops

Coping With Lymphedema: Empowering Self-Management Strategies

Living well with Lymphedema: Focus on Self-Management is an important public education event organized by the LAQ, in collaboration with the McGill Lymphedema…

Event News

Urban Forestry Conference 2009: Insights for Sustainable Cities

Experiences, lessons learnt and sound urban development programmes should be shared among countries. The conference will provide opportunities for…

Awards Funding

Novel Injectable Bone Replacement Wins Best Invention Award

Research by three Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) students which has the potential of becoming an alternative product to be used in the field of orthopaedics…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Fossil Offers Insights Into Primate Evolution

Tab Rasmussen, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, studies primate evolution by drawing on two major lines of evidence: the fossil record and…

Physics & Astronomy

New Technique Detects Water on Earth-like Exoplanets

Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Virginia Tech Students Create Biodiesel from Waste Oil

A group of Virginia Tech students have produced more than 200 gallons of biodiesel as part of a senior design project for the department of mechanical…

Physics & Astronomy

LIDAR Innovations: Precision Impacting Remote Measurements

The novel LIDAR (“light detection and ranging”) system could have applications from precision manufacturing lines on Earth to maintaining networks of…

Corporate News

Siemens Energy Builds Eco-Friendly Gas-Fired Power Plant in NL

Siemens Energy has secured an order for turnkey construction of a combined cycle power project in the Rotterdam harbor in the Netherlands. Purchaser is…

Technology Offerings

Magneto-Hydrodynamic Plasma Valve Enhances Gas Flow Control

The new magneto-hydrodynamic plasma valve has been developed for flow regulation and disconnection of gases with different pressures. The system has no…

Technology Offerings

New System Accurately Measures Nanoparticle Size and Distribution

The novel measuring system and method uses a sophisticated scattered light measurement to enable the determination of size, distribution and / or quantity of…

Technology Offerings

Low Frequency Plasma Generator: 29 kHz Innovation by Frankfurt Scientists

Frankfurt scientists have designed an inductively coupled plasma generator with an operating frequency of only 29 kHz. The emitted light spectra had a high…

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