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Space Research Offers Hope for Osteoporosis Patients

Results of a space experiment published online in The FASEB Journal have yielded a giant leap for science that could translate into an important step for…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Discovery Boosts Plant Growth for Climate Action

Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford have made a discovery about plant growth which could potentially have an enormous impact on crop…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Challenges Accuracy of Natural Selection Research

“Our finding means that hundreds of published studies on natural selection may have drawn incorrect conclusions,” said Masatoshi Nei, Penn State Evan Pugh…

Health & Medicine

New Targeted Therapy Detects and Eliminates Breast Cancer in Mice

Combining a compound known as a gallium corrole with a protein carrier results in a targeted cancer therapy that is able to detect and eliminate tumors in mice…

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ACHEMA 2023: Explore e-Learning with Real Equipment Insights

Visitors to the event can familiarize themselves with the latest research knowledge on real equipment for chemical process and biosystems technology in…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Marine Microbes: Carbon and Nitrogen Fixation

Trichodesmium is unusual among marine microbes because it both “breathes” carbon dioxide like plants, while also taking nitrogen gas from the air and “fixing”…

Health & Medicine

Allergic Reactions to Plavix: New Treatment Insights

A clinical study of cardiac patients who suffered an allergic reaction to the widely-prescribed drug clopidogrel, also known by the pharmaceutical name Plavix,…

Studies and Analyses

Tanzania Study Revives Focus on Targeting Mosquito Larvae for Malaria Control

Malaria is one of the world's deadliest diseases, killing over one million people each year, mainly young children in Africa. It is caused by the malaria…

Health & Medicine

Angiogenesis Inhibitor Boosts Survival in Glioblastoma Patients

The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of…

Life & Chemistry

Light-Activated Coating Fights Hospital Infections Effectively

Miss Zoie Aiken and her colleagues presented the work at the Society for General Microbiology meeting in Harrogate today (Tuesday 31 March). The veneer-like…

Health & Medicine

New Strategy Enhances Melanoma Diagnosis Accuracy

Standard microscopic examinations of biopsied tissue can be ambiguous and somewhat subjective, the researchers say, and supplementing standard practice with…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Switch Links Infectious Disease and Depression

Their study, just published in the journal of Immunology, is the first to identify IDO (indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase) as a molecular switch that induces…

Environmental Conservation

Sugar as biofuel in the Philippines may not be as “sweet” as promised

In an article published in the Philippine Agricultural Scientist, UPLB economist Prof. U-Primo E. Rodriguez and Dr. Liborio Cabanilla, dean of the College of…

Life & Chemistry

Hebrew University Scientists Unveil New Tool for Brain Analysis

Although much progress has been made in understanding the brain in recent decades, scientists still know relatively little about how these processes function….

Awards Funding

Canadian Radio Team Wins 2009 AGU Science Journalism Award

The Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism-Features honors outstanding reporting on the Earth or space sciences under a deadline of more…

Studies and Analyses

Multiple Sclerosis Linked to Lower Cancer Risk, Study Finds

Researchers looked at the medical records of 20,000 people with multiple sclerosis and 204,000 people without the diagnosis. After 35 years, they found that…

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