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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Wheat Curl Mite: Exploring Non-Chemical Control Methods

Three AgriLife Research scientists, working under Dr. Charlie Rush in plant pathology and Dr. Jerry Michels in entomology, are taking a close look at the…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial Remnants and Genetics Linked to Arthritis Risk

Here's another reason to hate leftovers. A research study appearing in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology sheds light on one cause of…

Life & Chemistry

Star-Shaped Brain Cells’ Role in West Nile Virus Infection

A new study published as the cover article for the April 2009 issue of The FASEB Journal promises to give physicians new ways to reduce deadly responses to…

Machine Engineering

Efficient Maintenance Planning with Simatic Maintenance Station

Simatic Maintenance Station now offers functions for the efficient planning and monitoring of maintenance operations and jobs. It also allows devices in the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer IESE Unveils Intelligent Energy Management Concept

Over the next few years, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE will establish a future-oriented energy management concept with…

Environmental Conservation

Unlocking Biogas Potential from Food Industry Waste

This new plant exploits the enormous potential of obtaining biogas from the organic matter contained in agricultural food waste, and will help the food…

Physics & Astronomy

New X-Ray Spectroscopic Tool Reveals Interstellar Secrets

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first clear detection of signatures long sought in the spectra of X-ray astronomical sources, the so-called EXAFS…

Life & Chemistry

Antarctic Marine Biodiversity Data Now Available Online

The International Polar Year (IPY) concluded in March 2009 with a tangible legacy in the form of a network of databases on marine biodiversity that will serve…

Studies and Analyses

CT Scans: Balancing Benefits and Cancer Risks

“We found that while most patients accrue small cumulative cancer risks, 7 percent of the patients in our study had enough recurrent CT imaging to raise their…

Life & Chemistry

To swim or to crawl: For the worm it's a no brainer

The findings have important implications for biologists and geneticists using C. elegans for their research. Until recently scientists have largely limited…

Life & Chemistry

Rapidly Mutating Yeast: Rising Infections and Health Risks

A yeast named Candida glabrata commonly occurs in humans, usually on our skin. It does little harm there. But if it enters the blood system, it can be directly…

Life & Chemistry

New Approach Lowers Triglycerides by 60% in Lab Animals

In the lab animals, supplements of lipoic acid lowered triglyceride levels up to 60 percent. If the effect were the same in humans – which is not yet clear –…

Earth Sciences

Technique measures heat transport in the Earth's crust

Putting a new spin on an old technique, Anne M. Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington…

Life & Chemistry

Bionic Nose Innovates Detection of Cancer and Explosives

Both cancer cells and the chemicals used to make bombs can foil detection because they appear in trace amounts too small for conventional detection techniques….

Health & Medicine

New Discovery: Lung Epithelial Cells Sensing Airborne Allergens

Many foreign substances, called antigens, are inhaled daily, but the lungs have mechanisms that usually prevent people from making unwanted immune responses to…

Environmental Conservation

Microbes Convert Electricity to Methane: A New Discovery

“We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we kept getting all this methane,” said Bruce E. Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental…

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