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Life & Chemistry

Hummingbird Brain Secret Revealed: Key to Hovering Ability

University of Alberta researchers have pinpointed a section in the tiny hummingbird's brain that may be responsible for its unique ability to stay stationary…

Life & Chemistry

Identifying Genes Linked to Early Heart Attack Risk

“If we can identify people in their teens and early adult life who have a genetic predisposition to develop atherosclerosis, we can manage their risk factors…

Studies and Analyses

Drug labels are prescriptions for mistakes

A new study to assess understanding of five common prescription label instructions found that patients had difficulty comprehending how much and how often the…

Health & Medicine

Second opinion yields treatment changes for half of patients

More than half of breast cancer patients who sought a second opinion from a multidisciplinary tumor board received a change in their recommended treatment…

Information Technology

ESA and JAXA satellites ‘talk’ to each other

With more than 50 environmental satellites orbiting in space, interoperability and cross-support are important topics among space agencies because…

Health & Medicine

First Eurogentest open acrreditation workshop proves a success

To ensure patients maintain confidence in the service and results being provided, EuroGentest, an EU-funded Network of Excellence is promoting the increased…

Physics & Astronomy

ESA’s first Swedish astronaut to fly to the ISS

With his six crewmates, he will fly to the International Space Station on a mission to add a new section to its truss structure and to reroute electrical power…

Business and Finance

HP and JA-YE Launch 2007 Competition for Responsible Young Entrepreneurs

The initiative will encourage young entrepreneurs across EMEA to develop responsible business leadership skills and to engage in social and environmental…

Health & Medicine

Vietnam study probes the role of gut worms in allergies

Gut parasites, such as hookworm, have evolved together with their human hosts for millions of years. Over time, these parasites have developed ways of…

Life & Chemistry

Major Wellcome Trust award to take science from the bench to the bedside

The Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, where researchers look at the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms behind…

Life & Chemistry

Tumour "weather forecast" gives new insights in cancer

Dr Sandy Anderson, of the Division of Mathematics at Dundee, has developed a mathematical model – similar in concept to weather forecasting but considerably…

Health & Medicine

Evolution of Influenza A Virus

In a new study, published online in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, Dr. Eddie C. Holmes of the Department of Biology at Pennsylvania State University…

Health & Medicine

Tea helps treat damaged skin in cancer patients

Researchers show that this might partly be due to the anti-inflammatory properties of tea. In a study published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine,…

Physics & Astronomy

Asymmetric Ashes

Astronomers are reporting remarkable new findings that shed light on a decade-long debate about one kind of supernovae, the explosions that mark a star's final…

Social Sciences

The Road — ­A Meeting Place

In his dissertation in sociology at Göteborg University in Sweden Daniel, Normark has studied the social interactions that take place along our roads. He has…

Technology Offerings

New Perfusion Circulation Enhances Organ Regeneration

The invention relates to an arrangement for a perfusion circulation for the extracorporeal vital-state maintenance or regeneration of organs, limbs or tissue…

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