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Medical Engineering

Digital Mammography Outperforms Film in Key Cases

“We looked at a cross-section of characteristics,” said DMIST principal investigator, Etta D. Pisano, M.D., Kenan professor of radiology and biomedical…

Life & Chemistry

Cats' Family Tree Rooted in Fertile Crescent

Findings of the study, involving more than 11,000 cats, are reported in the cover article of the January issue of the journal Genomics.”This study confirms…

Earth Sciences

Coastal Fisheries Decline Linked to Rising Nitrogen Levels

A Canada-U.S. research team has found that commercial fisheries play an unexpected role in the decline of water quality in coastal waters. In the latest issue…

Medical Engineering

New Device Targets Small Breast Tumors with Precision

The results of initial testing of the PEM/PET system, designed and constructed by scientists at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National…

Life & Chemistry

Blue-Eyed Humans Share Common Ancestor, Study Reveals

What is the genetic mutation“Originally, we all had brown eyes”, said Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology. “But a genetic…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Biodiversity and Trade: Reality or Illusion in Equity?

The great upsurge in genetic engineering techniques at that time offered a glimpse of many possibilities for money-earning uses of natural substances by…

Social Sciences

Understanding Aging Through Fashion: A New Research Study

The study, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, will be based on interviews with older women (aged 55 and over) and aims to learn why,…

Studies and Analyses

Specialist Centres Boost Pituitary Surgery Success Rates

Taking pituitary surgery as an example, a large peer-reviewed study published in January’s Clinical Endocrinology indicates that the move in the late 1990s to…

Life & Chemistry

HTLV-1: The Link Between Tax Protein and Leukaemia Risk

HTLV-1 is a retrovirus that causes adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATLL). A single protein made by the virus, Tax, is thought to be enough to trigger cancer…

Health & Medicine

Cosmetic Products Linked to Infections in Critically Ill Patients

Five patients suffered from infection including bacteremia, lower respiratory tract infection and urinary tract infection associated with the bacterial…

Earth Sciences

Hurricane Activity Rises With Sea Surface Warming Impact

The study, conducted by Professor Mark Saunders and Dr Adam Lea of the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre and the UCL Tropical Storm Risk forecasting venture,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Dark Energy from Distant Galaxies

Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to measure the distribution and motions of thousands of galaxies in the distant Universe. This opens…

Life & Chemistry

Webworms Return After 100 Years to Devastate New Zealand Parsnips

Perhaps only the parsnip webworm gets less respect. An age-old enemy of the parsnip, the webworm is one of very few insects able to overcome the plant’s…

Physics & Astronomy

Innovative Process Creates Custom Nanofibers of Any Length

Based on the rapid evaporation of solvent from simple “inks,” the process has been used to fabricate freestanding nanofibers, stacked arrays of nanofibers and…

Science Education

UA-Led Research Team Awarded $50 Million to Solve Plant Biology's Grand Challenges

The project will unite plant scientists, computer scientists and information scientists from around the world for the first time ever to provide answers to…

Technology Offerings

New PLA-Inhibitors: Innovative NSAIDs for Pain Relief

Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) designates a large and diverse

group of enzymes that cleave phospholipids at the sn-2-
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