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New study shows widespread and substantial declines in wildlife in Kenya's Masai Mara

Populations of major wild grazing animals that are the heart and soul of Kenya's cherished and heavily visited Masai Mara National Reserve—including giraffes,…

Health & Medicine

Walnuts Show Promise in Preventing Breast Cancer

Elaine Hardman, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at Marshall University School of Medicine, said that while her study was done with laboratory animals…

Health & Medicine

Dark hair? Don't burn? Your genes may still put you at risk for melanoma

“Traditionally, a clinician might look at a person with dark hair who did not sunburn easily and classify them as lower risk for melanoma, but that may not be…

Business and Finance

KfW IPEX-Bank finances world's second largest photovoltaic power plant in Brandenburg

In the former military training area of Lieberose north of Cottbus, the project developer juwi from Rheinland Palatinate and the solar module manufacturer…

Health & Medicine

Pain Relievers Ibuprofen and Naproxen May Delay—Not Prevent—Alzheimer’s Disease

The study suggests a need for re-interpretation of earlier findings that suggested NSAIDs can prevent the disease. The research is published in the April 22,…

Studies and Analyses

How to Store Jatropha Seeds for Optimal Germination Success

Farmers and businessmen in the Philippines have scrambled planting the Physica Nut (Jatropha curcas), a biofuel crop seen having big potential returns once the…

Environmental Conservation

Bacteria-Based System for Treating Deadly Wastewater in Bulacan

With the increased awareness on the need to clean-up its rivers, Bulacan’s local government units have tapped UP Los Baños-BIOTECH to help in setting up…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Uncover Causes of Bacterial Infections in Germany

Now, researchers of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch in Germany…

Technology Offerings

Continuous Dry Fermentation: Innovating Biomass Liquefaction

The invention consists in a process and a device for the continuous liquefaction of biomass. Solid materials are fed in at the base of the fermentor, and an…

Health & Medicine

Antioxidants in Berries Shield Skin from UV Damage

Ji-Young Bae, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Young-Hee Kang, presented results of the two-part study on Tuesday, April 21, at the Experimental…

Life & Chemistry

Autopilot Technology Directs Protein Behavior in the Brain

“There’s no little man sitting there, putting the protein in the right place,” said Don Arnold, a molecular and computational biologist at USC College.“Proteins have to have in them encoded information that tells them where to go in the cell.”…

Health & Medicine

Pesticide exposure found to increase risk of Parkinson's disease

The fertile soil of California's Central Valley has long made it famous as one of the nation's prime crop-growing regions. But it's not just the soil that…

Health & Medicine

New Method Groups Muscles for Easier Limb Control

But researchers at Northwestern University have shown that it could be possible to control a limb by stimulating groups of muscles rather than individual…

Studies and Analyses

How Marketers Shape Consumer Choices With Purchase Options

To illustrate the phenomenon they investigated, authors Young-Won Ha and Sehoon Park (both Sogang University, Korea), and Hee-Kyung Ahn (University of Toronto)…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Gene Therapy Offers Hope for Huntington Disease

Researchers from the University of Southern California have taken an important first step toward protecting against Huntington disease using gene therapy.Huntington Disease is an incurable neurological disorder characterized by uncontrolled movements, emotional instability and loss of intellectual faculties. It affects about 30,000 people in the United States, and children of parents with the disease have a 50 percent chance of inheriting it themselves….

Studies and Analyses

Chinese Consumers Shift: Loyalty Trends in Global Markets

Meanwhile, Chinese “patriots” are thought to reject Western brands as a symbolic gesture of loyalty to their country. A new study in the Journal of Consumer…

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