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Medical Engineering

New Imaging Technique Tracks Cancer Cells Over Time

Now, for the first time, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a way to obtain repeated “snapshots” of the location and…

Life & Chemistry

Kangaroo Genome Mapped: A Milestone in Australian Research

Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics (KanGO), including University of Melbourne, ANU, WEHI, University of Sydney, University of…

Communications Media

Business leaders receive low grades in this year's Trust Barometer

In this year's Trust Barometer Swedish leadership is called into question. The exception is Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt – who is considerably more popular…

Studies and Analyses

Illicit Alcohol Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe’s Hidden Challenge

While illegal alcohol consumption in western Europe (WE) is relatively low, the report finds the level of noncommercial alcohol in CEE is so high that it…

Health & Medicine

Garlic Chemical Tablet Shows Promise for Diabetes Treatment

When Hiromu Sakurai and colleagues from the Suzuka University of Medical Science, Japan, gave the drug orally to type I diabetic mice, they found it reduced…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Diabetes Genes from IRB Barcelona Researchers

Insulin resistance is characterized by the lack of tissue response to insulin and is counteracted by a greater production of insulin by the pancreas. When the…

Awards Funding

Danish-Swedish Researcher Wins International Dairy Award

The award was presented during the IDF Open Forum on Present and Future Work, at the International Dairy Federation (IDF) World Dairy Summit in Mexico.Professor Ylva Ardö has developed a new technique to preserve milk samples using bronopol, which is not detrimental to health, for analysis of milk for payment and breeding. The technique is useful for spectroscopic as well as laboratory reference methods analyzing e.g. fat, protein, lactose and cell content and is today used by most routine analysis laboratories for milk samples in Europe, North America and Australia….

Information Technology

Harmonic and Fraunhofer FOKUS Unveil Individualized IPTV Solutions

Harmonic, a leading provider of professional video processing and delivery technologies for cable, satellite, broadcast, IPTV and internet TV service…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists and Fishermen Collaborate to Track Celtic Sea Cod

Funded with monies administered under the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM – the Irish Sea Fisheries Board) National Development Plan over the last two years, 4,063…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover Binary Star Explosion in Nebula

The study, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, predicts that the combined mass of the two stars in the system may be high enough for the stars to…

Health & Medicine

Health Disparities Among European Countries: Insights Revealed

Jean-Marie Robine, Inserm research director, conducted research within the scope of the European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit to answer this question. The…

Information Technology

Computers Optimize Sea Search Stops for Rescue Missions

The Search and Rescue Survival Model is being developed by the University of Portsmouth’s Sports Science and Mathematics departments and the US Coast Guard.It…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Suicide Risk: Impact of Psychiatric Disorders

One in ten suicide attempters actually commit suicide later on in life. However, knowledge of the factors affecting the risk of suicide is limited, which makes…

Life & Chemistry

Systems Biology Accelerates Drug Development Progress

One reason is that medical research is conducted in highly fragmented groups focusing on specific pathways or components leading to drugs that turn out not to…

Studies and Analyses

Money Motivates Doctors to Bridge Heart Disease Care Gaps

Financial incentives for doctors can improve the management of coronary heart disease (CHD) and reduce ethnic differences in quality of and access to care,…

Life & Chemistry

Light inside sponges – Sponges invented (and employed) the first fibre-optics

Already more than ten years ago, the finding of photosynthetically actice organisms inside sponges raised the question, how they could survive there in an…

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