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Enhancing Life Quality for Cirrhosis Patients with MHE

A study on patients with cirrhosis who had minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE), a condition in which behavioral, psychological and neurological changes are…

Environmental Conservation

NASA Links Indonesian Wildfires to Recent El Niño Effects

El Nino is an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific, which often brings significant shifts in global weather patterns.As…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists expand microbe 'gene language'

The Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology (PAMGO) consortium and the GO consortium staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute approved and released more…

Earth Sciences

Unveiling Atlantic Mysteries: Missing Crust Discovery Explained

Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic where the Earth's crust appears to be missing….

Life & Chemistry

Waking Viruses in Tumors: New Method to Image and Treat Cancer

In the March 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a team of radiologists and oncologists from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions describe how they used two…

Health & Medicine

Green Tea and COX-2 Inhibitors Slow Prostate Cancer Growth

In the March 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrate that low doses of the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib,…

Life & Chemistry

Monochloramine Treatment’s Limited Impact on Drinking Water Quality

“We have found something that is not necessarily a surprise but has important implications. These are considerations that water quality professionals should…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Mutation Linked to Early Heart Disease Risks

“Unfortunately, most of the individuals in this family who carried the mutation died in their early fifties from coronary artery disease that resulted in heart…

Health & Medicine

New Insights from Schizophrenia Treatment Trial Findings

The new studies are published in the March 2007 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. CATIE, a $42.6 million, multi-site study, was funded by the…

Earth Sciences

Sediment Wedge: Essential for Glacial Stability Amid Sea Level Rise

“Sediment beneath ice shelves helps stabilize ice sheets against retreat in response to rise in relative sea level of at least several meters,” says Richard…

Physics & Astronomy

Rosetta and New Horizons Unite for Jupiter Observations

The co-ordinated observational campaign of Jupiter using Rosetta and New Horizons began this week. Jupiter remains a fascinating world of scientific mystery….

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Sphingolipids: New Insights for Therapeutic Uses

In the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), they are trying to understand how sphingolipids…

Information Technology

GIOVE-A Navigation Signal Now Accessible to Users

Following the launch of GIOVE-A on 28 December 2005 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the transmission of the first Galileo signals from medium Earth orbit on…

Health & Medicine

AZTI-Tecnalia have isolated a vegetable fibre from tomato which can be used in making functional meat and bakery foods

The incorporation of this ingredient from tomato has enabled the enhancing of the nutritional quality of products already used given that fibre is an…

Interdisciplinary Research

UAB Leads European Vaccine Research Project with New Approach

The project aims at implementing a novel multidisciplinary approach to investigate the requirements, at the molecular-structure level, for viable…

Life & Chemistry

Cells’ Resistance to Chemotherapy: New Insights on Mechanism

In his paper, published in The EMBO Jorunal, Dr Surrallés describes how proteins of the Fanconi/BRCA pathway recognise the presence of genetic mutations in…

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