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Life & Chemistry

Discovering Cattle Genetics: Insights from European Breeds

But a new study, just published in the journal “PNAS”, shows that cattle genetic composition in the continent, especially among the South European breeds,…

Information Technology

Simplicity Technology Customizes Digital Terminals For Users

There is no longer any need to waste time and effort learning how to use a terminal. Thus, the threshold for using increasingly popular self-service…

Physics & Astronomy

Aurora – UK Prepares for a Return to Mars

ExoMars will explore the Martian surface with a mobile rover and a stationary science module. ExoMars will: • search for traces of past and present life at,…

Studies and Analyses

Unveiling Sex Trafficking: A Journey from Home to Captivity

The postgraduate research project in the University's Department of Criminology aims to gather information from 'the world's most silent and abused women -…

Health & Medicine

Fluoxetine Prescriptions Linked to Decline in US Suicide Rates

Michael Milane and colleagues (University of California, Los Angeles) analyzed suicide rates in the US general population from 1960-2002. Suicide rates…

Health & Medicine

The “roulette wheel”: a new tool to help patients make difficult treatment decisions

The new tool, described in PLoS Medicine, presents the risks and benefits of these different options in the form of a roulette wheel. The patient spins the…

Health & Medicine

HIV/AIDS: National and Global Security Implications Explored

Harley Feldbaum and colleagues (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) say that the available evidence does indeed suggest that HIV/AIDS is creating…

Health & Medicine

Fake malaria drug implicated in Burmese man’s death

The patient went to a rural hospital in East Burma with a fever and was diagnosed as having a straightforward case of falciparum malaria. He was treated with…

Life & Chemistry

Gazelles Adapt by Shrinking Organs to Conserve Water in Drought

“We found that gazelles had the lowest total evaporative water loss ever measured in an arid zone ungulate [hoofed animal],” write Stéphane Otrowski (National…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover Why Space Is Dusty Near Supernova 2003gd

The scientific team trained their telescopes on Supernova 2003gd, which exploded in the NGC 628 spiral galaxy 30 million light-years from Earth. The light from…

Life & Chemistry

Gazelles Adapt: Shrinking Organs to Survive Drought

“The discovery of piRNAs reveals a new dimension of the small RNA world. The complexity of piRNAs and their correspondence to different types genomic sequences…

Health & Medicine

Mosquito Immune System: Battling Bacteria and Malaria

Mosquitoes employ the same immune factors to fight off bacterial pathogens as they do to kill malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites, according to a study by…

Life & Chemistry

Whole-Genome Scan Reveals Genetic Links to OCD

“OCD once was thought to be primarily psychological in origin,” says Yin Yao Shugart, Ph.D., statistical geneticist and associate professor of epidemiology at…

Health & Medicine

New Diabetes Treatment Approach Discovered by Hopkins Researchers

The discovery by researchers in Hopkins' Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences and McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine reveals that a protein…

Health & Medicine

New Safer Drug Shows Promise for Epilepsy Treatment

For their groundbreaking work, Professors Meir Bialer and Boris Yagen of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products at the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Hybrid Peppers from Hebrew University Gain Global Popularity

The robust pepper varieties were developed by a research tem headed by Dr. Yonatan Elkind of the Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in…

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