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Molecular Censusing Doubles Giant Panda Population Estimate

The giant panda is one of the world's most charismatic endangered species and has an emblematic status for the conservation movement worldwide. Its attraction…

Life & Chemistry

Rare disease's gene may illuminate major disorders

Oregon Health & Science University researchers have identified the gene behind a group of rare, progressive childhood disorders caused by an abnormal buildup…

Health & Medicine

Vegetables May Help Prevent Artery Hardening, Animal Study Finds

“While everyone knows that eating more vegetables is supposed to be good for you, no one had shown before that it can actually inhibit the development of…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on E. Coli Gene Expression Regulation

This fundamental research about a key step in RNA synthesis has important implications for the study of gene expression in other organisms, and adds to the…

Environmental Conservation

Arctic Warming: Scientists Urge Action for Polar Bears’ Survival

A climate scientist at the University of Chicago and 30 of her colleagues from across North America and Europe are urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to…

Earth Sciences

Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Gulf Coast Rebuilding

Summary of Report The knowledge available among AGU members provides scientific expertise on nearly all of the physical environment of the dynamic Gulf Coast…

Life & Chemistry

Seminar on “IP Strategies in Bioscience” successfully completed

The first round of seminars on “Intellectual Property Strategies in Bioscience” within the EU project “ScanBalt Intellectual Property Knowledge Network” is…

Earth Sciences

Mapping Glacial Floods: Insights from Vatnajökull’s 1996 Eruption

These spectacular outburst floods happen as dams of ice and earth give way or, as from Vatnajokull in Iceland in 1996, when a volcano erupts beneath a glacier….

Life & Chemistry

New PGD Test Reduces Trauma for Couples Facing Cancer Risks

PGD was originally proposed for couples at risk of having a child affected by severe genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, which manifest themselves at…

Life & Chemistry

Egg Donation for Stem Cell Research: Weighing Risks and Benefits

Finding a way to balance the welfare of donors and the promise held out by embryonic stem cell research is vital, a bioethicist will tell the 22nd annual…

Health & Medicine

The solitary pulmonary nodule – malignant or benign?

The primary objective of this first large, open-label, multicentre study of 99mTc-depreotide in Europe was to assess its diagnostic performances and compare it…

Health & Medicine

Surveillance Cuts Bloodstream Infections in Hemodialysis Patients

The study, in the British Medical Journal, shows how the implementation of the surveillance scheme for patients undergoing haemodialysis significantly reduced…

Environmental Conservation

Global Bird Map Sheds Light on Future Extinctions

The study reveals a direct link, previously theorised but never proven on a global scale, between the size of the geographical range that a species inhabits…

Studies and Analyses

Labour Migrants Unbound? EU Expansion and Market Impacts

Situation 2004-2006Ten countries joined the European Union in 2004. At this moment 73 million new EU citizens acquired the right to settle in all other EU…

Information Technology

ICTs – the glue that binds future research

Plexousakis is scientific coordinator of Beyond-The-Horizon, a road-mapping initiative, led by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics…

Social Sciences

FWF Project Explores Football Migration in Austria

The history of immigration and football in Austria has been a little researched field until now, though it goes back a long way. Football migration was…

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