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Life & Chemistry

MDC Researchers Discover Key Mechanism in Osteoporosis Pathogenesis

Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have now elucidated a molecular mechanism which regulates the…

Technology Offerings

Nano Microphone – Extremely Small Scale Pressure Transducer

Microphones and related devices are nowadays used in a

wide variety of industrial applications. They look back on a
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Technology Offerings

DyeXtension – Extension of the Service Life of Laser Dyes

Dye lasers can be tuned over a large spectral range. As a

result, they have a clear advantage over lasers with only

one or a couple of fixed…

Health & Medicine

Cereal and Milk: The Surprising New Sports Supplement

Kammer and her team studied 12 trained cyclists, 8 male and 4 female. In contrast to many sports nutrition studies, however, the exercise protocol was designed…

Studies and Analyses

Unveiling Zero-Temperature Jamming Transition in Traffic and Sand

The study presents the first experimental evidence of a vestige of the zero temperature jamming transition — the density at which large, loose objects such as…

Environmental Conservation

Global Water Crisis: Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Supplies

Melting glaciers, weakening monsoon rains, less mountain snowpack and other effects of a warmer climate will lead to significant disruptions in the supply of…

Environmental Conservation

Strange Birds Lay Unique Eggs on Private Sulawesi Beach

Located on the Binerean Cape in northern Sulawesi, the 14-hectare (approximately 36 acres) beach is now owned by PALS (Pelestari Alam Liar dan Satwa, or…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Grasslands: Paving the Way for Sustainable Agriculture

Grassland: Quietness and Strength for a New American Agriculture was written to increase our awareness of the vital role grass and grassland plants have in…

Life & Chemistry

How Genome Sequencing Can Help Lower Your Carbon Footprint

With the costs of genome sequencing rapidly decreasing, and with the infrastructure now developed for almost anyone with access to a computer to cheaply store,…

Health & Medicine

Advanced Mechanical Horse for Therapy: A New Innovation

But now, Baylor University researchers have built a custom mechanical horse to help those with physical and mental impairments get the same benefit from…

Business and Finance

Investors scramble for KfW's new three-year bond

The new Euro Benchmark III/2009 matures on 21 May 2012 and pays a coupon of 2.25% p.a. The re-offer price was set at 99.991%, yielding 2.253% and equating to a…

Health & Medicine

New Tool Can Help Predict Risk of Alzheimer’s in Elderly

“This new risk index could be very important both for research and for people at risk of developing dementia and their families,” said study author Deborah E….

Life & Chemistry

Advances in HIV research – mice formed antibodies against HIV protein

Through gene modification the plants have acquired the capacity to produce a protein that is part of the virus, and the project has taken a giant step forward…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Dresden’s OLED Innovation Outshines Fluorescent Tubes

White organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are a promising new technology to become the next generation light source. They have the potential of much higher…

Life & Chemistry

Adhesive Seals: New Breakthroughs in Blood Vessel Repair

Inside, blood vessels are lined with a single layer of cells. On their surface, these cells bear specific adhesive proteins by means of which they stick close…

Health & Medicine

Achilles Tendon Rupture: New Insights on Surgery Alternatives

However, Katarina Nilsson Helander, MD, PhD at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, now suggests that surgery may be unnecessary….

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