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Life & Chemistry

Mixing Genes to Maintain Healthy Nerve Cells: Insights from Baylor

Keeping this involved process on the straight and narrow requires a clever balance of promotion and inhibition, said researchers from Baylor College of…

Life & Chemistry

Boosting Cross-Border Innovation in Northern Europe

The strategy intends to strengthen the development of cross-border Innovation in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland, Northern Germany and North Western…

Life & Chemistry

Duke Study Reveals How Iron Deficiency Triggers Glucose Metabolism

“If we can understand what metabolic changes happen along a gradient of iron deficiency, then we might be able to identify signatures of a modest iron…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring the Surprising Benefits of Graphene Innovation

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon: a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons, like a sheet of chicken wire with an atom at…

Health & Medicine

UCLA Develops New PET Probe to Monitor Immune System

Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have modified a common chemotherapy drug to create a new probe for Positron Emission Tomography…

Health & Medicine

Having heart surgery? Watch your blood sugar, especially if you're overweight or older

Nearly half of all heart surgery patients may experience blood sugar levels high enough to require temporary insulin treatment after their operation, even…

Life & Chemistry

USC Researchers Discover Gene Linked to Glucose Regulation

“We tested for an association between genetic variants across the human genome and fasting glucose and insulin,” says Richard M. Watanabe, Ph.D., associate…

Life & Chemistry

How Serotonin Influences Our Perception of Fairness

Serotonin has long been associated with social behavior, and low levels of serotonin are associated with depression and anxiety, but its precise involvement in…

Medical Engineering

New Technology Enhances and Expands “Homing”and Therapeutic Potential of Cord Blood Stem Cells in Bone Marrow Transplants

A CD26 Inhibitor increases the efficiency and responsiveness of umbilical cord blood for bone marrow transplants and may improve care for blood cancer patients…

Medical Engineering

MRI’s Role in Surgical Planning for Rectal Cancer

“Recently, MRI has been increasingly accepted by radiologists, surgeons and patients to image the rectum because of its superior soft tissue contrast and…

Life & Chemistry

Adult stem cell findings offer new hope for Parkinson's cure

The Griffith University study published today (Thursday 9am US East Coast) in the journal Stem Cells found that adult stem cells harvested from the noses of…

Event News

Engaging with Cosmology Leaders: Insights into Space Science

Cosmology – the scientific study of outer space – is a relatively young branch of physics that began to boom after World War II, when rockets and measuring…

Business and Finance

Boosting Knowledge: The Power of Informal Workplace Relationships

Organisations are concerned with knowledge. They would like to stand out as knowledge companies and knowledge intensive organisations, where employees have,…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Knock-Out Blocks Malaria Transmission in Animal Tests

By genetically altering the malaria parasite through gene knock-out technology, a research team consisting of scientists at the University of Copenhagen and…

Environmental Conservation

Ocean Bacteria Harness Sunlight to Absorb Carbon Dioxide

This can be compared to a simple form of photosynthesis, where marine bacteria use energy from sunlight to absorb carbon dioxide. It was previously known that…

Studies and Analyses

Ecotourism’s Impact on Rural and Cultural Heritage in Thailand

Results of the research, which has been conducted through case studies in Thailand by using interviews, focus groups and questionnaires, will be presented to…

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