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Health & Medicine

High Blindness Rates in Southern Sudan After Civil War

Sudan is the largest country in Africa and one of the poorest in the world. The southern region of the country is very remote and was devastated by a civil war…

Physics & Astronomy

Europe Awaits COROT Launch: A New Era in Space Exploration

COROT is a French national space agency (CNES)-led mission to which the European Space Agency and European partners are adding a particularly strong…

Studies and Analyses

New GeneSearch Assay Enhances Breast Cancer Metastasis Detection

Results from a prospective clinical study show that the GeneSearch™ Breast Lymph Node (BLN) Assay, a gene-based diagnostic test has greater sensitivity than…

Health & Medicine

One in Five Breast Cancer Patients Skip Hormonal Therapy

“These data are very concerning because hormonal therapy for breast cancer is one of the most effective treatments in all of oncology,” said Ann Partridge, MD,…

Physics & Astronomy

Weak Sun Triggers Record Solar Outburst, NJIT Physicist Reports

Gary, who confirmed the news today, is a professor and chair of the department of physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). “Reports of significant…

Life & Chemistry

New Biomarkers Identified to Predict Breast Cancer Spread

In the December 15 issue of Cancer Research, the researchers say over-expression of one unidentified protein and under-expression of another is 88 percent…

Earth Sciences

Overconfidence Bias in Climate Change Scenario Estimations

“Climate researchers often use a scenario approach,” says Dr. Klaus Keller, assistant professor of geosciences, Penn State. “Nevertheless, scenarios are…

Health & Medicine

Common Cold Virus Threatens Lung Transplant Patients’ Lives

The two were part of a group of 11 transplant patients who suffered clinically significant respiratory infection from HRV in both the upper and lower airways,…

Health & Medicine

Fluid Displacement and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Connection

The results appear in the second issue for December 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic…

Physics & Astronomy

Stardust Particles Reveal Solar System’s Birth Story

The thousands of samples of dust, gathered from the Stardust mission, tell a story of a comet that formed in the Kuiper Belt, outside the orbit of Neptune, and…

Physics & Astronomy

Liquid Crystal Breakthrough: New Insights on Colloids

In a recently published article in the scholarly journal Physical Review Letters, the scientists illustrate that when the concentration and size of the…

Physics & Astronomy

Techniques to Extract Comet Dust from Stardust Collectors

The gatekeeper to the dust is University of California, Berkeley, physicist Andrew Westphal, who developed the techniques that he and NASA now use to extract…

Materials Sciences

Enhancing Nano-Geometry Production With New Imprinting Stepper

VTT and SUSS MicroTec S.A.S. have developed the most versatile nano imprinting stepper on the market. The stepper and new methods form enabling technology for…

Life & Chemistry

Embryonic Sex Selection Reduces Risk of Blindness

Retinosis Pigmentaria is a hereditary illness of the eyes of a degenerative nature. It causes a serious reduction in visual capacity and, in many cases, leads…

Information Technology

Artemis Achieves Milestone With Laser Link to Aircraft

The relay was set up through six two-way optical links between a Mystère 20 equipped with the airborne laser optical link LOLA (Liaison Optique Laser…

Life & Chemistry

EuroBioFund’s Inaugural Forum: Linking Research to Funders in Helsinki

Professor Bertil Andersson, Chief Executive of the ESF, called the two-day event that took place on 14-15 December in the capital city of Finland “an…

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