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Landmark Study Aims to Enhance Global Osteoporosis Care

Nearly 60,000 women aged 55 years and older have enrolled in a landmark, multi-national study that will focus on the management of osteoporosis across the…

Environmental Conservation

Biodiversity vs. Bio-Energy: Balancing Nature and Resources

On the other hand, policies are being developed to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010 and beyond. Protecting biological and landscape diversity has resulted…

Health & Medicine

UK Food Agency Cites Southampton Study on Food Additives

These six colours – sunset yellow (E110), quinoline yellow (E104), carmoisine (E122), allura red (E129), tartrazine (E102) and ponceau 4R (E124) – had been…

Trade Fair News

Innovative Noise Reduction Solutions Showcased at Darmstadtium

For the first time, the research results were presented, which can be achieved using “intelligent” materials systems for noise and vibration reduction of…

Information Technology

New Tool Simplifies Meeting Scheduling for Knowledge Workers

An international EU-funded initiative aims to deliver new systems that can support a new generation of 'knowledge workers'.The aim is to combine all the…

Information Technology

Unraveling Gene Regulation: Insights from Computation and Experiment

Epigenetics studies features of the DNA and chromatin that are stably inherited through cell division but that are beyond the DNA sequence itself. It has been…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Labour Pain: Insights from Recent Research

In her thesis, obstetrician Berith Karlsson Tingåker has examined the source of pain during childbirth and how uterine sensitivity to pain changes during…

Information Technology

Emotional Machines: Transforming Human-Machine Communication

Nearly everybody has to communicate with machines at some level, be it mobile phones, personal computers or annoying, automated customer support ‘solutions’….

Health & Medicine

Micro-Scaffolding: A New Approach for Stroke Recovery

With funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) neurobiologists from the Institute of Psychiatry and tissue engineers from…

Studies and Analyses

Farm-Based Mental Health Initiatives at Norwegian Universities

Bente Berget and Bjarne Braastad of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås, working with Øivind Ekeberg of the University of Oslo, Norway, note that…

Life & Chemistry

Elastic Stresses Shape Leaf Vein Patterns in New Study

The researchers have developed a model that reproduces statistical properties of venation patterns, based on the assumption that cells can suffer abrupt…

Machine Engineering

New IM151-8 PN/DP Module: CPU Power for Profinet Systems

With the new IM151-8 PN/DP CPU module that has the performance power of a Simatic S7-300 CPU 314, users can implement distributed structures on Profinet. The…

Technology Offerings

Adenosine A2A Prodrugs – Phosphorylated A2A receptor agonist prodrugs as anti-inflammatory agents with improved tolerance

A2A agonists are well known for their anti-inflammatory

action. A new class of compounds is presented that allows
…

Health & Medicine

Wine’s Potential to Protect Against Dementia: New Findings

The findings are based on 1,458 women who were included in the so-called Population Study of Women from 1968. When they were examined by physicians they were…

Earth Sciences

Listening for Hurricanes: MIT’s Innovative Early Warning System

Knowing how powerful a hurricane is, before it hits land, can help to save lives or to avoid the enormous costs of an unnecessary evacuation. Some MIT…

Health & Medicine

Endoscopic Tumor Removal: A Breakthrough in Oesophageal Care

The technique, carried out at the University Hospital of Navarra for the last three years, was presented at the VI International Course on Therapeutic…

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