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Health & Medicine

Japanese Encephalitis Virus causes 'Double Trouble' to Brain

Besides resulting in thousand fatalities each year, JE virus (JEV) infection causes prominent neurological sequelae in approximately one-third of the…

Medical Engineering

Magnetic Computation: The Future of Chip Technology

In the 1960s, Henry Moore observed that it took around 18 months for silicon chip manufacturers to shrink their technology and fit twice as many transistors…

Environmental Conservation

New Governance Strategies Tackle Global Coral Crisis

In a study published July 7 in the prestigious Proceedings of the US National Academy of Science, Per Olsson and Carl Folke of the Stockholm Resilience Centre…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Enhancing Plastic Solar Cells for Efficient Energy Solutions

A new way to help technologists develop efficient and inexpensive plastic electronic devices, such as plastic solar cells and a new type of transistor was…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Barley Gains Salinity Tolerance From Rising CO2 Levels

Barley is one of the most important crops in the world. In fact 56 million hectares are under barley crops, making it the fourth most grown cereal worldwide….

Awards Funding

European Initiative Boosts Grid Computing and Biomedical Research

The objective of the project is to exchange research results and foster collaborations in these three areas between Latin America, the Western Balkans, North…

Information Technology

When a suitcase says where it’s flying to: digital networking of everyday objects

An EU project led by the University of Bonn wants to drive this key technology forward even further. Among its partners from all over Europe there are also…

Health & Medicine

Paternal Age and Fertility: New Insights from Dr. Belloc

Dr. Stéphanie Belloc, of the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction, Paris, France, will say that this is the first time that such a strong paternal effect on…

Health & Medicine

Parents of Twins Face More Mental Health Challenges Post-Delivery

Mothers and fathers of twins conceived either spontaneously or with assisted reproductive technology (ART) suffer more mental health symptoms after delivery…

Health & Medicine

New Ovarian Stimulation Technique Boosts Fertility Options

The finding offers the chance for more women who have been diagnosed with cancer to restore their fertility following chemotherapy or radiotherapy – cancer…

Health & Medicine

6 of every 100 patients die in hospital due to adverse drug reaction

Those are the conclusions of a research carried out at the Department of Medicine of the University of Granada, in collaboration with the Clinical Hospital San…

Information Technology

Preparing for IPv6: Re-Engineering Global Internet Applications

Internet applications across the globe are currently being re-engineered in anticipation of the transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) from version 4…

Life & Chemistry

Breast Cancer Cells: Breaking Free to Form Metastases

At the Institut Curie, CNRS Director of Research Philippe Chavrier and his group have just discovered how breast cancer cells break the bonds that tether them…

Life & Chemistry

European League Tables Show Antibiotic Resistance Trends

The results, published today in BioMed Central’s open-access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, show that major differences were apparent in the occurrence…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA'S Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample

Results from testing this sample will be compared in coming days to the results from the first Martian soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory two weeks…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Researchers Uncover Key Function of Glucose Transport Molecule

Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters (SGLTs),…

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