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Health & Medicine

Cost-Effective HIV Screening in the ED: Patient Satisfaction High

Fully 60% of the patients agreed to the testing, a high percentage that may have been influenced by an ongoing district-wide campaign encouraging HIV…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Linked to Chemo Resistance May Boost Cancer Survival

Those patients whose tumors had normal p53 displayed only a 30 percent survival rate. The findings raise the possibility of a new strategy for fighting cancer…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Flies Exhibit Free Will, Study Reveals New Insights

Free will and true spontaneity exist … in fruit flies. This is what scientists report in a groundbreaking study in the May 16, 2007 issue of the open-access…

Information Technology

EU-US Consortium Unveils Advanced Cluster Computer System

With this system, a new cost-efficient performance class is realized. A balanced combination of the hardware and software components optimizes the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Drought Sensitivity Influences Tropical Forest Species Distribution

A contingent of researchers from around the world, including Germany, Panama, USA and Canada, have uncovered that tropical plant species distribution patterns…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: How Tumors Use Strategies to Spread and Metastasize

Or, in a third scenario, they can sprout lymphatic vessels that facilitate their dissemination when they perceive the presence of two molecules called VEGF-C…

Physics & Astronomy

Cluster’s Spacecraft Observes Shock Reformation in Magnetosphere

On 24 January 2001, Cluster’s spacecraft observed shock reformation in the Earth’s magnetosphere, predicted only in theory, over 20 years ago. Cluster provided…

Studies and Analyses

Pesticides Found in Every Pregnant Woman’s Placenta

Every year, we “invent” more than 2,000 new substances, most of them contaminants, which are emitted into the environment and which are consequently present in…

Environmental Conservation

Asexual Worm Adapts Rapidly to Soil Contamination

Environmental pollution is an important cause of stress in natural populations. This not only has consequences for the size, dynamics and structure of the…

Health & Medicine

Needle Safety: Drug Users Show Increased Caution in 2023

Earlier research had shown that since the introduction of the effective HAART therapy, in 1996, homosexual men have more unsafe sex. Smit established that drug…

Health & Medicine

Individualized Approaches to Treat Lupus Nephritis

The severity of the kidney disease lupus nephritis varies and the side effects of the treatments differ as well. Therefore Grootscholten advises doctors to…

Environmental Conservation

A technology to safe fish in river from industrial acitvities

This impact has greatly contributed to the decline of fish migratory species, such the European eel or the Atlantic salmon, being both important in fisheries…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Exploring Tropical Food Chains: Insights for Farmers

They studied similar production chains in various tropical areas and recorded their findings in a book: ´Tropical food chains, Governance regimes for quality…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Thale Cress: How Jasmonic Acid Boosts Plant Defense

The plant hormone jasmonic acid plays a major role during the immune response against insects and pathogens. Dutch researcher Vivian van Oosten has…

Life & Chemistry

Polyphenol Intake Boosts Fatty Acid Catabolism, Study Finds

De Boer carried out his doctoral research at RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety in Wageningen. Much research into the health effects of polyphenols is carried…

Studies and Analyses

Childhood Environment Affects Reproductive Health in Women

Published today in PLoS Medicine, the study compares reproductive hormone levels of groups of Bangladeshi women who migrated at different periods of their…

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