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Health & Medicine

Understanding Oral Lesions Linked to Disease in Children

Additionally, approximately 500,000 children in that same age group died from disease-related cases in that year alone. In the United States, 90 percent of…

Studies and Analyses

Emotionally Ambivalent Workers Drive Creativity and Innovation

That's because people who feel mixed emotions interpret the experience as a signal that they are in an unusual environment and thus respond to it by drawing…

Studies and Analyses

Moffitt Research Finds Breakthrough in Myelodysplastic Syndromes

The data published found that more than 75 percent of patients reduced their need for transfusions and two-thirds were completely freed from the need for…

Environmental Conservation

New Bird Species Found on Unexplored Colombian Mountain

A new bird to science was recently discovered on an unexplored mountain range in northern Colombia by a team supported by the BP Conservation Programme. It was…

Life & Chemistry

Telomere Maintenance Insights for Bone Marrow Failure

DC is a rare, progressive bone marrow failure syndrome that is fatal early on in life. Working with cells derived from DC patients, Drs. Wong and Collins…

Life & Chemistry

MicroRNA Mir-9a: Key to Sensory Organ Development

Using loss-of-function analysis, Dr. Gao and colleagues demonstrate that mir-9a is required for the precise production of sensory organ precursor cells in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Vega upper composite passes tests at ESTEC

Vega, which is being built by European industry under the leadership of ELV SpA (Italy), is a small launch vehicle designed to carry payloads in the range 300…

Health & Medicine

Secondhand Smoke in Cars: Risks for Children’s Health

Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) can have harmful effects on children. Some of the adverse health outcomes include a greater likelihood of ear infections, lower…

Health & Medicine

Human Brain Region Mimics Digital Computer Functions

The finding could help researchers better understand the functioning of human intelligence. In a review of biological computer models of the brain appearing in…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Reduces Postpartum Hemorrhage in Low-Resource Areas

Postpartum hemorrhage is excessive bleeding experienced by the mother after giving birth. The condition can result from failure of the uterus to contract after…

Life & Chemistry

Key Regulator Discovered for Skin Stem Cell Manipulation

As researchers seek ways to manipulate stem cells, which have the ability to differentiate into multiple types of tissues, one challenge they face is…

Life & Chemistry

Hopkins Researchers Identify Key Protein in Cell Communication

Johns Hopkins researchers have teased out the function of a protein implicated in Williams-Beuren syndrome, a rare cognitive disorder associated with overly…

Studies and Analyses

Scientists find 'chemo brain' no figment of the imagination

Cancer survivors, take note. The mental fog and forgetfulness of “chemo brain” are no figment of your imagination.A new UCLA study shows that chemotherapy…

Life & Chemistry

New Pathway Regulates Brain Cell Development Timing

Brain formation involves the carefully timed production of different types of nerve cells by neural stem cells: neurons are produced first, then astrocytes….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Olive Compound Enhances Trout Growth: A Scientific Breakthrough

Using such knowledge and maslinic acid isolation from olive remains by scientists of the Department of Organic Chemistry of the UGR [http://www.ugr.es], they…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists of the UGR develop a new method to purify water based on the simultaneous use of ozone and activated coal

It is a system based on the simultaneous use of ozone and activated coal, highly effective and specialized on the treatment of water for human consumption and,…

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