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Health & Medicine

Emerging Threat: Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Rise

The report details a study by a team of investigators from the United States and South Africa, who found that highly resistant strains of TB were more common…

Information Technology

Web-Based System Enhances Data Accuracy and Timeliness

A new paper* on the Web-enabled ThermoML thermodynamics global data exchange standard notes that the data-entry process catches and corrects data errors in…

Physics & Astronomy

New Hybrid Microscope Probes Nano-Electronics Breakthrough

Scanning photoionization microscopy (SPIM), described in a new paper,* combines the high spatial resolution of optical microscopy with the high sensitivity to…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Biomaterial Blends for Better Patient Outcomes

How will a biomaterial on the lab bench actually work inside the human body? Will a patient accept the new material or suffer an inflammatory response? And can…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists' cell discovery unearths evolutionary clues

Researchers, headed by evolutionary biologist Professor Sandie Baldauf, of the University of York, and biochemist Professor Pauline Schaap, of the University…

Studies and Analyses

For crying out loud – pick up your baby

A joint study with QUT and the Riverton Early Parenting Centre has found many parents of infants up to 12 weeks, were uncertain about how best to settle their…

Studies and Analyses

Hypertension Experts Challenge TROPHY Study Findings

The recent TROPHY study seems to lead to that conclusion. However, two editorials published in the November issue of the American Journal of Hypertension…

Business and Finance

Credit cards' insidious effects may pose product liability issue

When issuing loans for cars, home mortgages and other forms of debt, banks conduct a thorough credit screening of applicants. But when the same banks issue…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Unravel Stellar Evolution with 3D Modeling

Using 3D models run on some of the fastest computers in the world, Laboratory physicists have created a mathematical code that cracks a mystery surrounding…

Life & Chemistry

Key Gene Six3 Discovered for Eye Lens Development

Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered in mouse models that a gene called Six3 is one of the earliest critical regulators…

Earth Sciences

New Findings: Dinosaurs Died From More Than Just Chicxulub

Growing evidence shows that the dinosaurs and their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact alone, according to a paleontologist…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Dissertation study found new spread route – Sheep came to northern Europe via Russia as well

In his thesis from the field of population genetics Miika Tapio used molecular markers to study the gene pools of sheep in the Nordic countries, Russia and the…

Life & Chemistry

New molecular method reveals ‘conversations’ between proteins in cells

Proteins build up the body’s cells and tissues, and knowledge of the human genome has entailed that scientists today know all the proteins our bodies can…

Physics & Astronomy

Big Bang Theory Confirmed by Monash Professor’s Findings

Professor John Lattanzio from Monash's School of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics said the confusion…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA satellite finds the world's most intense thunderstorms

By using data from the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, researchers identified the regions on Earth that experience the most intense…

Life & Chemistry

HFI-1 Gene Links Oxygen Sensing and Heat Shock Response

University of Oregon researchers have found an unexpected regulatory link between cellular responses to hypoxia and heat shock. Central to the discovery is a…

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