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How Baby Boomers Are Challenging Age Bias in the Workplace

Research leader, Dr Diane Grant, explains: “Many baby boomers approaching late middle age are now considered too old by some employers to be worth considering…

Information Technology

Building Trust in Virtual Organizations with TrustCoM

TrustCoM, an IST-funded project, is tackling the very real problem of establishing trust between organisations online, and ensuring the security of digital…

Science Education

Improving urban environments: why children’s voices should be heard

These findings emerge from an innovative research project, led by Professor William Scott of the University of Bath. Professor Scott and his team worked with a…

Social Sciences

Migrant workers – welcome up to a point

Migrants now make up over 12 per cent of the work force in high-income countries, and are employed across a range of occupations, from medicine and IT to…

Health & Medicine

Minimally Invasive Procedure Boosts Kidney Blood Flow

“Three to six weeks after the minimally invasive procedure, kidney function was roughly equal to what is typically achieved with major surgery,” said Matthew…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Potato Blight: Genome Plasticity Revealed

A team of researchers from Wageningen University report in this month's issue of Genome Research that they have identified a unique genetic fingerprint in the…

Life & Chemistry

New Diagnostic Method for Recessive Genetic Disorders

Scientists Vivian Cheung and Warren Ewens from the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new approach for the diagnosis of medical disorders that are…

Health & Medicine

Minimally Invasive Procedure Boosts Kidney Blood Flow

“These findings on glucosamine may impact the way dermatologists treat UV-related skin damage in the future. Right now we have prescription and surgical…

Health & Medicine

Gabapentin Matches Estrogen in Reducing Hot Flashes

University of Rochester researchers, who have been investigating new therapies for hot flashes for several years, report in the July Obstetrics and Gynecology…

Health & Medicine

Pomegranate Juice Reduces PSA Acceleration After Prostate Cancer

Researchers at the Jonsson Cancer Center at UCLA reported that patients with recurrent prostate cancer who drank pomegranate after surgery or radiation…

Studies and Analyses

Aspirin and NSAIDs: Colorectal Cancer Risk in Long-Term Smokers

In a large, population-based study comparing risk factors in people with and without colorectal cancer, the researchers found the highest risk of colon cancer…

Life & Chemistry

Conservation Planning Loopholes Endanger Imperiled Species

Widely used multispecies habitat conservation plans that permit the incidental “take” of threatened or endangered species often include species that are not…

Health & Medicine

Chromosomal Testing Enhances Brain Tumor Treatment Outcomes

Reporting last week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Dr. Curran and a team of American and Canadian researchers, in conjunction with the Philadelphia-based…

Life & Chemistry

USC Researchers Uncover Protein That Shields Tumors

The study, published in the July 1 issue of the American Journal of Pathology, is the first to identify how EphB4 – a protein that sits on the surface of cells…

Materials Sciences

New Chromophores: A Breakthrough in Nanoscale Semiconductors

In chemistry, a chromophore is any molecule or part of a molecule responsible for its color. Light hitting a chromophore excites an electron, which then emits…

Information Technology

World’s Fastest Computer Cluster Architecture Unveiled in Dresden

Cluster computers are built modularly out of ordinary PC components and fast networks. They are suitable for a wide range of simulation problems and currently…

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