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Health & Medicine

Antigen Sparing Strategy Enhances Bird Flu Vaccine Production

Professor Geert Leroux-Roels, Centre for Vaccinology, Ghent University and Hospital, Belgium and colleagues report on an “antigen sparing adjuvant strategy”,…

Health & Medicine

Can Arm Blood Flow Restriction Safeguard Your Heart?

Professor Derek Yellon, The Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, University College London, UK and colleagues studied 57 patients undergoing elective coronary…

Life & Chemistry

BubR1 Gene Links to Down Syndrome: New Research Insights

The research about to be published in the journal Current Biology shows that BubR1- a gene recently shown to affect cell division – maintains the cohesion of…

Life & Chemistry

AIDS Disrupts Brain Stem Cells, Impacting Cognitive Function

A prominent problem in AIDS is a form of dementia that robs one’s ability to concentrate and perform normal movements. Scientists at the Burnham Institute for…

Health & Medicine

'Western' diet linked to increased risk of colon cancer recurrence

The study, published in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, involved 1,009 patients with stage III colon cancer that has been…

Studies and Analyses

Clones at Work: Advancing Science for the Greater Good

In this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Michigan State University zoologist joins others in reporting how the greater good of a…

Health & Medicine

CRDF Offers $135K for HIV/AIDS Research Fellowships

The HIV/AIDS Research Travel Fellowship program will support travel to U.S.-based research training opportunities that complement ongoing efforts to enhance…

Technology Offerings

New Method Improves Dental Bridge Dimensioning Accuracy

A method has been developed that facilitates the individual prediction of forces affecting the dental bridges for each patient. In order to do so, the forces…

Technology Offerings

New Insights on POL-Effect from Bremen’s Microbiology Team

Scientists of the laboratory of General Microbiology, University of Bremen, have evaluated the effect of the position of the fluorescent label (POL) relative…

Technology Offerings

Troc Hold: New Self-Retentive Holder for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Neurosurgeons at the University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen have developed a new holder for trocars which are used within microsurgical procedures of the…

Environmental Conservation

Freshwater Supply Crisis in Central Pacific: Urgent Insights

An international team from The Australian National University, Ecowise Environmental, the Government of the Republic of Kiribati, the French agency CIRAD and…

Environmental Conservation

Empowering Communities to Combat Wildlife Threats

Working out ways to give local communities as well as conservation managers the power to do this is the work of Professor Bob Pressey of the ARC Centre of…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals How Rearing Environment Alters Navigation

This surprising reliance on geometry has led researchers to suggest the existence of a geometric module in the brain. However, since both humans and laboratory…

Physics & Astronomy

Enceladus: New Insights Into Potential Life on Saturn’s Moon

Orbiting Saturn since June 30, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft has revealed a south polar region of Enceladus with an elaborate arrangement of fractures and…

Business and Finance

U of M researchers find that the words of a CEO can foretell a company's future innovation

“The answer lies in the words of the CEO,” said Rajesh Chandy, professor of marketing at the university’s Carlson School of Management. “By simply counting the…

Physics & Astronomy

FSU’s New Facility Simulates Supernova Conditions

For the past few months, members of the department of physics at Florida State University have begun using a groundbreaking new research facility to conduct…

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