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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Study Reveals Blood Transfusion Risk for Mad Cow Disease Variant

Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain diseases are transmitted in an effort to reduce this risk during…

Life & Chemistry

Explosives go “green”

LLNL researchers added unique green solvents (ionic liquids) to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene) and improved the crystal…

Information Technology

Smarter Hurricane Evacuations: Saving Lives and Resources

Hundreds of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars could potentially be saved if emergency managers could make better and more timely critical decisions…

Materials Sciences

New Ceramic Material Enhances Microwave Heating Efficiency

“Currently, food heated in a microwave loses heat to the cold dish because the dishes are transparent to microwaves,” says Sridhar Komarneni, distinguished…

Health & Medicine

HIV-Infected Patients Face Higher Fracture Risk, Study Reveals

As antiviral treatment for HIV infection allows patients to live longer, many will be confronted with additional health challenges. A new study shows for the…

Social Sciences

Glocal Strategy Insights from 30 Households Across Three Countries

Sofia Ulver-Sneistrup visited over 30 households in the US, Sweden, and Turkey, belonging to members of the urban middle class. She interviewed individuals in…

Life & Chemistry

Single Crystals: New Porous Solids for Chemical Reactions

Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo have made a complex that crystallizes as a porous solid. Common reagents, even bulky ones, can easily diffuse…

Health & Medicine

Mass Screening Reveals Undiagnosed Heart Risks in the UK

The shortfall in identifying people at high risk is greatest when it comes to middle-aged men, says the study of more than 71,000 men and women, which was…

Studies and Analyses

Add-On Therapy Boosts Mood in Bipolar Disorder Patients

Because individuals with both depression and bipolar disorder experience a glutathione deficiency, an antioxidant that protects cells from toxins, researchers…

Health & Medicine

Sleep Loss Boosts Inflammation: Insights from UCLA Research

A new article in the September 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry, by the UCLA Cousins Center research team, reports that losing sleep for even part of one…

Medical Engineering

Tiny 3-D Ultrasound Probe Enhances Catheter Procedures

Duke University biomedical engineers designed and fabricated the novel ultrasound probe which is powerful enough to provide detailed, 3-D images. The new…

Health & Medicine

Older Fathers Linked to Higher Bipolar Disorder Risk in Children

Bipolar disorder is a common, severe mood disorder involving episodes of mania and depression. Other than a family history of psychotic disorders, few risk…

Health & Medicine

Blood Vessel Cells Form Tubes With New Instructor Molecule

“There are of course many reasons why a person might have relationship problems, but this is the first time that a specific gene, variant has been associated…

Event News

Scientific Breakthroughs at 3rd Fraunhofer Life Science Symposium

Only few weeks until the start of the 3rd Fraunhofer Life Science Symposium in Leipzig. On October 24 and 25, 2008 researchers and industrial partners will…

Life & Chemistry

How Friendly Bacteria Evade Immune Attacks in the Gut

But an article now published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe1 is starting to open the door to this mystery by revealing how a recently discovered gene -…

Environmental Conservation

Unveiling Future Climate Tipping Points: What You Need to Know

About 34 million years ago the Earth’s long lasting tropical state in which most recent life forms evolved, shifted abruptly and irreversibly to a cooler state…

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