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CARS Explorer: New European Research Project in Health Innovation

CARS Explorer is a collaborative research project funded by the European Commission under the Health priority of the 7th Framework Programme. This highly…

Life & Chemistry

“Lost” Viruses May Contribute to AIDS

It’s widely known that only about one in every 100 HIV viruses can effectively complete the process of integrating its DNA with the DNA of the human cell — a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Biofuels and biodiversity don't mix, ecologists warn

A new study of the potential ecological impact of various management strategies published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology found…

Health & Medicine

Additional Cycle Needed After Assisted Reproduction Failure

Mr Simon Hong told the 24th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona today (Tuesday): “The purpose of this…

Health & Medicine

Embryo Biopsy: No Impact on Early Growth or Malformations

The lead researcher, Professor Maryse Bonduelle, told the 24th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona today…

Health & Medicine

Normal-Looking Sperm May Hide DNA Damage, Warn Scientists

Although the sperm chosen for the procedure may appear quite normal, researchers in the US have found that many of them in fact have DNA damage, which can…

Health & Medicine

IVF And Child Development: Key Insights from Recent Study

Dr. Karin Middelburg, from the University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, said that the study, which looked at the quality of general…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Human Transcriptome from Deep Sequencing Study

In a collaborative project scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin (MPI MolGen), Germany and Genomatix with a business in…

Environmental Conservation

NOAA report states half of US coral reefs in 'poor' or 'fair' condition

The report issued today, The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008, says that the nation's coral reef…

Environmental Conservation

New Insights on Methanogens and Greenhouse Gas Production

The findings relate to organisms called methanogens and are explained in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The…

Life & Chemistry

Why Yellow Fever Mosquitoes Choose Specific Egg-Laying Sites

North Carolina State University scientists have figured out one reason why pregnant yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti), one of the most important disease…

Machine Engineering

Whale-Inspired Wind Turbines: Nature’s Design Innovation

Biologists and engineers from across the US have been doing just that. By studying the flippers, fins and tails of whales and dolphins, these scientists have…

Life & Chemistry

Stanford Researchers Discover Molecule That Targets Kidney Cancer

But that could change, thanks to a new molecule found by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers that kills kidney cancer cells. Ideally, the…

Life & Chemistry

'Smart bomb' nanoparticle strategy impacts metastasis

By designing a “nanoparticle” drug delivery system, the UC San Diego team, led by Moores UCSD Cancer Center Director of Translational Research David Cheresh,…

Materials Sciences

New Insights on Demineralization Using Amorphous Silica

From toothpaste to technology, noncrystalline or amorphous silica is an active ingredient in a myriad of products that we use in our daily lives. As a minor,…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Links Resveratrol to Cancer Prevention Benefits

“Resveratrol has the ability to prevent the first step that occurs when estrogen starts the process that leads to cancer by blocking the formation of the…

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