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Life & Chemistry

Lemurs’ fur colour may not define species

Kellie Heckman, from Yale University collaborated with colleagues from other institutions in the USA to sequence a mitochondrial gene called cytochrome b, in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

MIT Math Model Enhances Natural Gas Production Efficiency

The researchers are now collaborating with experts at Shell to apply the model to a natural gas production system in Malaysia. Natural gas consumption is…

Studies and Analyses

Reimbursing Living Organ Donors: A Study on Financial Support

Last year nearly 7,000 people donated a kidney, segment of the liver or lobe of a lung to help someone in need of a transplant. In fact at some major…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Memory Storage Challenge Established Theories

Daily events are minted into memories in the hippocampus, one of the oldest parts of the brain. For long-term storage, scientists believe that memories move to…

Environmental Conservation

First Far Eastern Leopard Captured in Southeast Russia

Just three days after catching a Siberian tiger in the Russian Far East, an international team led by biologists from the Wildlife Conservation Society…

Studies and Analyses

Enhancing Airport Screening for All Travelers to Boost Security

The findings are included in a new paper, “How Effective is Security Screening of Airline Passengers?” by Professors Susan E. Martonosi, Department of…

Life & Chemistry

Lab-on-a-Chip: Boosting Treatment for Drug-Resistant Pneumonia

At this week's AVS 53rd International Symposium & Exhibition in San Francisco, Michael Lochhead, a bioengineer at the Denver biotechnology company Accelr8,…

Studies and Analyses

Drug treats 'water intoxication' faster, more effectively

“These studies proved for the first time that hyponatremia, which is associated with poor outcomes, can be treated effectively with an oral drug that has no…

Environmental Conservation

Global Warming Accelerates Species Extinctions Worldwide

Dr. Camille Parmesan's synthesis also shows that species are not evolving fast enough to prevent extinction.”This is absolutely the most comprehensive…

Life & Chemistry

Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting

A variety of DNA microarray technology, one of the two new chips, called the TIP-chip (transposable element insertion point) can locate in the genome where…

Health & Medicine

Colon Cancer Survival: Impact of BMI on Stage II and III Patients

For patients with stage II or stage III colon cancer, the difference in long-term survival for leaner patients compared to those with a body mass index (BMI)…

Life & Chemistry

Blood Vessel-Building Protein Blocks Cancer Growth

Cell biologists at Jefferson Medical College and the Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have found that the protein fragment…

Earth Sciences

Global strategy for investigating Earth's geodynamics emerges from international collaboration

The group's emerging plan is discussed in an article in the Nov. 14 edition of Eos, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. The authors are Millard…

Life & Chemistry

New Model Enhances Pancreatic Cancer Research Insights

Results from the genetically-engineered mice, published online Nov. 14 in the journal Genes and Development, suggest that the mice could provide new…

Health & Medicine

New Model Predicts Glaucoma Risk in Patients with High Eye Pressure

Investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a model to identify patients at high risk of developing glaucoma. Their…

Health & Medicine

Angioplasty After Heart Attack: No Benefit for Mild Symptoms

In the days following a heart attack, patients who have no or mild symptoms and undergo a procedure called angioplasty to mechanically open their totally…

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