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New Cell Death Pathway Key to Sperm Development Uncovered

New research from scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University has now uncovered a new pathway that regulates these killer…

Health & Medicine

New way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease promises earlier treatment

Published in Lancet Neurology, the development of new guidelines was co-led by Dr. Howard Feldman, head of the Div. of Neurology in the University of British…

Information Technology

GPS Technology Optimizes Player Injury Response Methods

And those challenges have been the focus over the past eight years for Glenn Rechtine, M.D., professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Rochester Medical…

Life & Chemistry

If you think cancer genes are simple, you don't know JAK

A team from the University of Rochester Medical Center made the finding, published in the Sept. 7 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Genetics, through…

Studies and Analyses

Limiting Work Hours Boosts Surgical Residents’ Training Quality

Contrary to concerns that restricting work hours for surgical residents negatively affects the quality of patient care or the residents’ education, a study in…

Life & Chemistry

Growth Hormone: Ineffective Doping Agent for Athletes

Doping in sport using growth hormone has become more frequent since the middle of the 1980s. The substance does not cause the same aggressive behaviour as…

Health & Medicine

Aromatherapy Massages and Music Cut Emergency Nurse Stress

Two 12-week alternative therapy sessions were provided over the course of a year. 86 nurses participated in the study, with 39 taking part in both the summer…

Life & Chemistry

New VEGF Variant Linked to Diabetic Retinopathy Insights

A variant form of a common growth factor, called VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) was identified that is responsible for the inflammation and altered…

Life & Chemistry

RNA Pseudoknot Prediction Through Heuristic Modeling Techniques

The method finds the minimum free energy in the context of the biological folding direction (5’ to 3’) of RNA sequences. It also identifies information about…

Life & Chemistry

Selective Attention Enhances Human Auditory Cortex Function

The ability to select task-relevant sounds for awareness, whilst ignoring irrelevant ones, constitutes one of the most fundamental of human faculties, but the…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Metagenomics in the Deep Mediterranean Ocean

The ocean is an ideal subject of this approach because of its enormous microbiota, whose biomass equals that of all other living organisms on earth is mostly…

Life & Chemistry

Bats Contribute Insights on FOXP2 and Language Evolution

Discoveries that mutations in this gene lead to speech defects and that the gene underwent changes around the time language evolved both implicate FOXP2 in the…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists in first global study of ‘poison’ gas in the atmosphere

Phosgene was still stockpiled in military arsenals well after the Second World War, but its continued presence in the atmosphere today is due to man-made…

Health & Medicine

Three Steps Toward Atherosclerosis Vaccine Breakthrough

The Fourth Annual Meeting of the European Vascular Genomics Network (EVGN, www.evgn.org), Network of excellence on cardiovascular disease, opened yesterday,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Detecting Pesticides and Antibiotics in Water and Food

A doctoral thesis carried out by Jorge Juan Soto Chinchilla, from the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada),…

Life & Chemistry

Cell Growth Technology Boosts Drug Development Success

The technology, developed and patented by scientists at Durham University and its spin-out company ReInnervate Limited, is a plastic scaffold which allows…

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