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Individualized Dementia Caregivers: Bridging Racial Barriers

Importantly, the researchers found that, overall, the intervention was effective across racial and ethnic groups, with the most significant improvements among…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Insights: How “Fruitless” Shapes Fighting Behavior in Flies

The results confirm that a gene known as “fruitless” is a key factor underlying sexual differences in behavior. The findings mark a milestone in an unlikely…

Medical Engineering

Optical technique provides improved 'virtual biopsies' of internal surfaces

A new optical imaging technique, developed at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), can provide three-dimensional…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA chemist provides insights into science icon: Chemistry's periodic table

“The moment I discovered there was this elegant, orderly chart that encompassed chemistry, I fell in love with the periodic table,” said Eric Scerri, a UCLA…

Life & Chemistry

Wnt Reactivates Dormant Limb Regeneration in Vertebrates

Their study, published in the advance online edition of Genes and Development on Nov. 17, demonstrates that vertebrate regeneration is under the control of the…

Health & Medicine

Yeast model shows promise as Alzheimer's test

A new research tool developed by Susan Liebman, distinguished university professor of biological sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, may…

Environmental Conservation

Carnegie Mellon's Granger Morgan pens op-ed

Carnegie Mellon University international engineering and environmental policy expert M. Granger Morgan is challenging U.S. federal and state officials to take…

Earth Sciences

New Insights into Peptide Formation on Primitive Beaches

The origin of life lies in unique ocean reefs, and scientists from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science have developed…

Environmental Conservation

Scrap Tires: A New Method for Effective Wastewater Filtration

Dr. Yuefeng Xie, associate professor of environmental engineering at Penn State Harrisburg, has developed a method that uses crumb rubber to filter wastewater,…

Health & Medicine

FDA Approves New Breast Cancer Drug by UK HealthCare Expert

Dr. Edward Romond, a cancer specialist and researcher at UK HealthCare's Markey Cancer Center, was instrumental in researching and analyzing the results of two…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Drug Discovery for SARS Treatment

Researchers from Brookhaven’s biology department and the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) characterized a component of the virus that will be the…

Life & Chemistry

Natural Selection’s Role in Cancer Evolution Explained

The dynamics of evolution are fully in play within the environment of a tumor, just as they are in forests and meadows, oceans and streams. This is the view of…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Expression Profiling’s Role in Lung Cancer Prognosis

The interest in and the knowledge of gene expression profiling in medical science has exploded since the completion of the human genome project in 2003….

Medical Engineering

New Tech Provides Alternatives to Open Heart Surgery

A study published in Journal of Interventional Cardiology found that a variety of advances have allowed for the potential treatment of MR through various…

Health & Medicine

Tooth Whiteners: Safe for Your Smile, Not Cancer Risks

This exhaustive review of the literature, including numerous unpublished clinical studies involving over 4,000 human subjects, appeared in an article by Dr….

Business and Finance

Northumbria University Joins Forces for Northern Innovation

Northumbria University has joined forces with Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Salford, and the University of Central Lancashire in a…

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