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Life & Chemistry

Previously unknown immune cell may help those with Crohn's and colitis

Their report will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Nature and is currently available through advanced online publication.”These cells have an…

Environmental Conservation

Loggerhead Release: Key Insights for Marine Conservation

Thursday, November 6, 2008, Dr. Kirt Rusenko, Marine Conservationist, and staff from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton will release two juvenile…

Studies and Analyses

Genetic Mutation May Explain Seasonal Affective Disorder

About 6 percent of the U.S. population suffers from seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a sometimes-debilitating depression that begins in the fall and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Solar Power Game-Changer: “Near Perfect” Absorption of Sunlight, From All Angles

By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar…

Life & Chemistry

Fuels of the future may come from 'ice that burns,' water and sunshine

Those fuels include “green gasoline,” “designer hydrocarbons,” “the ice that burns,” and other sources that can help power an energy-hungry world into the…

Studies and Analyses

Sibling Study Offers Insights for Inherited Colon Cancer Treatments

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) believe they may be one step closer to understanding how certain forms of colon cancer develop.In a study using…

Environmental Conservation

Green Innovations: New Uses for Scrap Iron You Need to Know

Take a close look at that cheap piece of scrap iron before you toss it in the trash.Wei-xian Zhang has a good use for it. Someday soon, much of the world might…

Health & Medicine

MRI Reduces Unnecessary Surgeries in Children’s Infections

A study was performed on 130 children with suspected musculoskeletal infections; 34 patients in the study group had an MRI after diagnostic or therapeutic…

Studies and Analyses

Anti-VEGF Drugs for Retinal Diseases: Important Safety Concerns

This finding, published in the November 3, 2008 PLoS ONE, holds implications for the chronic use of promising new anti-VEGF drugs such as Lucentis, which…

Studies and Analyses

New Model Estimates Radiation Skin Doses in CT Procedures

“It is clear that skin doses in CT guided interventional procedures can become very high. Even for skin doses around 1 Gy, the prospect of repeating a…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Neuronal Stem Cell Fate with Jumonjd3 Protein

A protein named Jumonjd3 has been identified by a team of scientists at the IFOM-IEO Campus in Milan, as the molecular key required for starting up the…

Awards Funding

John Thompson Recognized for Groundbreaking Ecology Contributions

The award was established by the journal Oikos in honour of the Swedish ecologist Per Brinck, who played an instrumental role in the development and…

Health & Medicine

European Consumers Share Insights on Food Labels

A pan-European study by the European Food Information Council (EUFIC) that will be announced at the First European Food Congress in Slovenia on 8 November,…

Business and Finance

Business Parks: Minimal Impact on Pharma Innovation

However, this certainly does not apply to the pharmaceutical industry, as Sandra Phlippen discovered. Physical proximity between organisations plays a much…

Science Education

Big Lottery Funds Innovative Research on Enzyme Disorders

Patients being treated for the disorder do not have enough of the enzyme, homogentisic acid oxidase, which causes acid to build up in the body. Some of this…

Information Technology

Protecting Your Data: The Risks of Second-Hand Devices

These devices are often disposed of or sold into the second-hand market by corporations, organizations, and individuals with the data intact. The report's…

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