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Test-Tube Babies: Profitable Insights from Lund University Study

This is shown by Anders Svensson, who studied this issue in a bachelor's thesis in economics at Lund University School of Economics and Management in Sweden….

Technology Offerings

Cell line from pregnant bovine uteri – in vitro assays for the detection of disorders of pregnancy-related processes

The present maternal caruncular epithelium cell line allows for novel and specific in vitro in-vestigations concerning the physiology and pathology of…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Reveals Fruit Fly Sleep Circuit Insights

In a novel study appearing this week in Neuron, Brandeis researchers identify for the first time a specific set of wake-promoting neurons in fruit flies that…

Earth Sciences

Plate Tectonics Began Over 4 Billion Years Ago, New Insights

A new picture of the early Earth is emerging, including the surprising finding that plate tectonics may have started more than 4 billion years ago — much…

Life & Chemistry

Molecule shuts down food intake and turns on 'siesta mode'

In studies with mice and rats, researchers have found that a chemical messenger called NAPE is made in the small intestine after the animals ate a greasy meal….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

UH Manoa researchers release results of statewide survey of snail, slug invasions in Hawai'i

It is the first documented baseline compilation of the distributions of all snail and slug species associated with the horticultural industry throughout the…

Studies and Analyses

Do you know you're having a stroke?

A Mayo Clinic study shows a majority of stroke patients don't think they're having a stroke — and as a result — delay seeking treatment until their condition…

Life & Chemistry

Synthetic Virus Findings Strengthen Bat Origin of SARS

SARS – severe acute respiratory syndrome – alarmed the world five years ago as the first global pandemic of the 21st century. The coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that…

Studies and Analyses

Enhancing Email Communication: Insights from Sociology Study

In a new article in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian (both of the University of Chicago) study how…

Life & Chemistry

Caltech scientists develop 'barcode chip' for cheap, fast blood tests

The device, known as the Integrated Blood-Barcode Chip, or IBBC, was developed by a group of Caltech researchers led by James R. Heath, the Elizabeth W….

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Alberta’s Fireball Meteorite Search

Investigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan on November 20 has determined that an asteroid fragment weighing approximately…

Life & Chemistry

UNC Scientists Enhance Enzyme for Diverse Synthetic Heparin

Jian Liu, Ph.D., and colleagues at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have learned to modify the enzyme heparan sulfate 2-O-sulfotransferase, which produces…

Machine Engineering

Compact 24V Power Supplies: High Performance in Limited Space

It is only 150 millimeters wide, which is 90 millimeters narrower than the previous unit. The 20 ampere power supply has also been renewed and is only 70…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Insights into Malaria Susceptibility in the Fulani People

The Fulani people in Africa are one example of this. In a dissertation at the Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Elisabeth Israelsson presents some…

Health & Medicine

How Do Individuals React to Metabolic Stress? – Genetic Variation in Metabolism Identified

The team of Professor Karsten Suhre of the Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Ludwig-Maximilians…

Health & Medicine

Fast food a potential risk factor for Alzheimer’s

The study results, published in a doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI), give some indications of how this difficult…

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