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Tracing Marijuana Origins: Indoor vs. Outdoor Growth Insights

They're also working on a way to determine whether it was grown indoors or out.A few more years and enough samples and they hope to have something even more…

Earth Sciences

Warm Rock Technology: A Solution for Coastal Flooding

Of coastal cities, New York City would sit 1,427 feet (435 meters) under the Atlantic, New Orleans would be 2,416 feet (736 meters) underwater and Los Angeles…

Life & Chemistry

Advancements in Drug Screening with Cell-Transistor Biosensors

Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried/Munich have shown that such bioelectronic hybrid systems are no longer just a…

Environmental Conservation

New Robotic Vehicles Explore Arctic Seafloor for Life

Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have just completed a successful test of new robotic vehicles designed for use…

Environmental Conservation

Antarctic Icebergs: Unexpected Oases for Ocean Life

Icebergs have long gripped the popular imagination, whether as relatively run-of-the-mill floating hazards that cause “unsinkable' ships to founder or, more…

Environmental Conservation

Northern Forests’ Impact on Global Warming: A Surprising Find

Forests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously…

Life & Chemistry

Mathematical Insights Into Tumor Growth and Genetic Patterns

Using mathematical theory, UC Irvine scientists have shed light on one of cancer’s most troubling puzzles – how cancer cells can alter their own genetic makeup…

Health & Medicine

New Risk Marker Identified for Overweight Children

The children displayed high levels of apoB48 even as their LDL cholesterol levels, which are typically high in overweight adults, remained in the normal range.

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovery Enhances Understanding of Charcot-Marie-Tooth

Scientists have identified the gene responsible for one type of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, a common inherited neurological disease, thanks to the chance…

Health & Medicine

Stem Cells Used to Repair Heart Muscle After Major Heart Attack

In the first trial of its kind in the world, 60 patients who have recently suffered a major heart attack will be injected with selected stem cells from their…

Earth Sciences

Antarctic icebergs — Hotspots of ocean life

Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free-drifting icebergs in the nearby Weddell Sea….

Life & Chemistry

Paving the way toward a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease

“Antibodies are probably the most promising experimental approach to fight Alzheimer’s disease at this time,” Gouras says. “The discoveries made using…

Studies and Analyses

Scientists Discover Key Carbon Sink Insights for Climate Solutions

The Science article, “Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2,” was written by an international team of…

Studies and Analyses

Gene therapy study shows safety and statistically significant improvement in Parkinson's disease

The open label Phase 1 study, conducted in 12 patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease demonstrated both a lack of adverse events related to the gene therapy…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Retrovirus Reveals Insights for Modern Pandemics

Human resistance to a retrovirus that infected chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates 4 million years ago ironically may be at least partially responsible for…

Earth Sciences

New picture of Earth's lower mantle emerges from laboratory studies

A team of scientists, led by Sébastien Merkel, of the University of California, Berkeley, made the first laboratory study of the deformation properties of a…

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