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Environmental Conservation

Beavers: Nature’s Solution to Alleviate Drought Challenges

“Removal of beaver should be considered an environmental disturbance on par with in-filling, peat mining and industrial water extraction,” said researcher…

Health & Medicine

AMD Breakthrough: New Hope for Vision Loss Treatment

Scientists have won a major battle in the fight against age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, a blinding eye disease that affects millions of people. An…

Automotive Engineering

Greener Car Power: Innovations in Thermoelectric Generation

Professor Mike Rowe’s long term research interest at the Cardiff School of Engineering has been in thermoelectric generation – employing thermocouples to…

Health & Medicine

Emerging infectious diseases on the rise: Next target 'hotspot' predicted

The team – including University of Georgia professor John Gittleman and scientists from the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, the Institute of Zoology…

Studies and Analyses

Cognitive Decline Decreases in Older Americans, Study Reveals

Although it’s too soon to sound the death knell for the “senior moment,” it appears that memory loss and thinking problems are becoming less common among older…

Earth Sciences

New Insights: Martian Fan Formations Show Water Activity

Mars has many basins that contain formations that look like fans. A few of these fans, only about 10, have steps down into the basin. Since scientists first…

Life & Chemistry

Key Genetic Pathway Linked to Disease and Aging Discovered

Now, writing in the current edition (Feb. 21, 2008) of the journal Nature, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists reports the discovery of a gene…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Blood Test for Acute Cerebral Ischemia Diagnosis

Method Diagnosis of Acute Cerebral Ischemia, based on blood/plasma samples. Further Information: PDF MBM ScienceBridge GmbHPhone: (0551) 30724-151ContactDr….

Studies and Analyses

Cardiac Surgery Drug Aprotinin Linked to Higher Death Rates

Aprotinin, a drug used to limit bleeding, was temporarily suspended from marketing in the U.S. in November 2007 after a small Canadian study was stopped…

Health & Medicine

Reducing kids' salt intake may lower soft drink consumption

Previous studies have shown that dietary salt intake increases fluid consumption in adults. But researchers at St. George’s University of London, England, are…

Health & Medicine

Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer: Spread to Other Organs

Virtually all prostate cancers are androgen dependent at first, but they progress and become resistant over time. These hormone refractory or castration…

Life & Chemistry

Measuring Copper Levels in Zinc Oxide Nanowires

Although zinc oxide is best known as a strong sunblock, cold remedy, itch reliever and paint pigment, nanotech engineers like it for its photoluminescence (the…

Environmental Conservation

Turtle Research Uncovers Health Risks from Environmental Contaminants

Jennifer Keller, a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., reported on Feb. 16…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Directed Self-Ordering of Organic Molecules for Electronics

In a paper posted this week,* the team describes how a chemical pretreatment of electrical contacts can induce self-assembly of molecular crystals to both…

Earth Sciences

New Seismic Model Reveals Insights Into Mount St. Helens

Research led by Gregory P. Waite, an assistant professor of geophysics at Michigan Technological University, has produced a new seismic model for figuring out…

Health & Medicine

NIST and Partners Develop New HER2 Breast Cancer Detection Method

HER2 is one of a family of genes that help regulate the growth and proliferation of human cells. Normal cells have two copies of HER2, but about 20 to 25…

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