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Life & Chemistry

Biocenter Finland Boosts Life-Science Innovation and Research

The founding partners of Biocenter Finland are the A.I. Virtanen Institute of Molecular Sciences (University of Kuopio), Biocenter Oulu (University of Oulu),…

Health & Medicine

Cochrane Library Launches New Health Resource Across India

The internationally renowned Cochrane Library is a collection of regularly updated evidence based healthcare databases, including gold-standard Cochrane…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Patenting Era Ends: New Guidelines and Legal Shifts

In fact in recent years new guidelines at patent offices, legal developments, commercial sentiment and the growing volume of genetic information in the public…

Life & Chemistry

24-Hour Salmonella Detection Innovation at UPV/EHU

The Salmonella bacterium is undoubtedly one of the best known of these. At the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) they are developing a new,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Genetic Modification Boosts Health Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables

This has been shown in research by Elio Schijlen at Plant Research Internationa, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands. Schijlen…

Health & Medicine

Abertay’s Smart Exoskeleton Aims to Reduce Physio Wait Times

Researchers in Abertay’s School of Computing and Creative Technologies have developed an intelligent exoskeleton that can be programmed to remember and repeat…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetic Explosions: Unveiling Cosmic Mysteries of GRBs

Observations accumulated over the last decade have led to a consensus that at least some GRBs mark the death throes of a giant star as its core collapses to…

Health & Medicine

African American Mothers Face Higher Preterm Birth Risks

African American mothers were also more than 5 times more likely to have repeating premature births than Caucasian mothers. Although all mothers who had…

Life & Chemistry

Genedata Expands Partnership with HepatoSys for Innovation

On February 9th, 2007, Swiss-based computational biology provider Genedata AG announced a three-year expansion of their collaboration with the HepatoSys…

Life & Chemistry

Female Antarctic Seals Prefer Mates, Challenging Local Norms

These findings, published in this week's Nature, suggest that female choice may be more widespread in nature than previously believed and that such strategies…

Studies and Analyses

North America’s Biggest Climate Change in 65 Million Years

The overwhelming majority of previous climate-change studies on the 400,000-year transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs, about 33.5 million years…

Life & Chemistry

New Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease Using Marijuana-Like Chemicals

“This study points to a potentially new kind of therapy for Parkinson's disease,” said senior author Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, the Nancy Friend Pritzker…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Revive Light Pulse in Supercooled Clouds

Physicists have for the first time stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space and then revived it in a completely separate location. They…

Earth Sciences

Update Building Codes for Seismic Safety in Peninsular India

Scientists provide a new hazard assessment for Peninsular India to highlight the urgent need to update design standards there in order to construct adequate…

Studies and Analyses

How Parental Reactions to Hardship Shape Kids’ Outcomes

A major new study sheds light on how family income affects children, finding that it is how parents experience material hardship—not income alone–that affects…

Life & Chemistry

Man-Made Proteins: A New Frontier in Biotechnology

The researchers, led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) professor Alanna Schepartz, report their findings in the February 14, 2007, issue of the Journal…

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