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Environmental Conservation

Enhancing Alternative Fuel Use in Public Vehicle Fleets

RIT’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies will work with the County Department of Environmental Services to analyze the environmental and economic…

Health & Medicine

Flavonoids in Orange Juice: A Healthy Choice Despite Sugar

The study appeared in the June 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.Flavonoids suppress destructive oxygen free radicals — also known as reactive oxygen species, or…

Studies and Analyses

Canadian Researchers Reveal Foxes’ Unique Breeding Behaviors

From polyandry to multiple paternity and plural breeding, Canadian researchers have gathered DNA evidence from adult foxes and their offspring that proves that…

Life & Chemistry

New Sequencing Method Offers Complete Chromosome Insights

University of Southern California biologists have developed a method for sequencing both chromosomes of an organism. Their study appears in a recent issue of…

Materials Sciences

Engineers discover natural 'workbench' for nanoscale construction

The findings appear in the August issue of Nature Materials. Alerted by an unusual diffraction effect of a common ceramic material, researchers used imaging to…

Studies and Analyses

Rapid-acting insulin analogues in diabetes mellitus type 1 — superiority not proven

There is currently no evidence available of a superiority of rapid-acting insulin analogues over human insulin in the treatment of adult patients with diabetes…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Impact of Tailored Health Messages

With messages relating to health, prior research has demonstrated that the message is more effective if matched to important characteristics of the recipient,…

Studies and Analyses

Hereditary Link Uncovered in Premenstrual Depression Study

Known medically as premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, this psychiatric condition affects roughly 8 percent of women in their childbearing years. It's…

Studies and Analyses

Monkeys don’t go for easy pickings

Animals’ natural foraging decisions give an insight into their cognitive abilities, and primates do not automatically choose the easy option. Instead, they…

Health & Medicine

Malaria — Effective insecticide-repellent synergy against mosquito vectors

The protection recommended by the World Health Organization for people at risk from this devastating disease is the use of mosquito nets impregnated with…

Health & Medicine

CRESIB Leads Global Consortium to Combat P. Vivax Malaria

The aim of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of malaria by P. vivax and to support and accelerate the development of new control tools,…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin C’s Limited Role in Cold Prevention: New Study Insights

Conducted over several decades and including more than 11,000 people who took daily doses of at least 200 milligrams, the review also shows that vitamin C…

Information Technology

SMS ECG Alerts: New Bluetooth Monitor Could Save Lives

A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, according to research published today in Inderscience's…

Health & Medicine

New Study: Veggie Intake Guidelines for Breast Cancer Survivors

The study is published in the July 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.The results are from the multi-center Women’s Healthy Eating and…

Studies and Analyses

Nerve Impulses Trigger Movement Unconsciously: New Insights

The afflicted person may sometimes reach for objects and manipulate them without wanting to do so, even to the point of having to use the healthy hand to…

Health & Medicine

Metabolic syndrome — don't blame the belly fat

But with the help of powerful new imaging technologies, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at Yale University School of Medicine has…

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