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Studies and Analyses

Aerobic Exercise Proven Safe for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Researchers from the University of Grenoble Medical School in France determined that cardio-respiratory aerobic exercise is safe for patients with stable…

Health & Medicine

Statins May Lower Cancer Recurrence After Prostatectomy

The findings are published in the journal CANCER. “The findings add another layer of evidence suggesting that statins may have an important role in slowing the…

Materials Sciences

Simulation-Based Matchmaking Enhances Shape Memory Alloys

A new shape memory alloy with up to now unprecedented functional stability was developed by researchers from the Institute for Materials at the…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring the Bridge to Quantum Innovations in Physics

Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that can twist your mind into knots when you try to…

Life & Chemistry

New Clue to Cellular Aging: Insights from Biologists

The underlying theory is that if the healthy portion of an individual’s life span can be extended, it may delay the onset of certain age-related diseases. In…

Studies and Analyses

Extremely obese children have 40 percent higher risk of reflux disease of esophagus

Extremely obese children have a 40 percent higher risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and children who are moderately obese have a 30 percent higher…

Corporate News

Enhancing Protein Production: Screening High Secretion Yeast

Industrial production of proteins using yeast is typically performed using fed-batch or continuous culture. The search for improved production strains is often…

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering Genomic Secrets: A Hunt for Rare Disorders

By inspecting the sequence of all 3 billion “letters” that make up the genome of a single person affected with a rare, inherited disorder, a Johns Hopkins and…

Physics & Astronomy

Video Game Processors Help Lower CT Scan Radiation

Cone beam CT plays an essential role in image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), a state-of-the-art cancer treatment. IGRT uses repeated scans during a course of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Increasing the Shelf-Life of Cassava

The research team, led by Hernán Ceballos at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, identified four different sources of tolerance to a phenomenon…

Life & Chemistry

Microbial world’s use of metals mostly unmapped

A new way of surveying microbes for the metals they contain reveals that biologists have been relying on the equivalent of a 15th century map of the world.It…

Life & Chemistry

iGEM Team Tackles Rogue Synthetic Biology Use

Synthetic biology offers huge potential for practical applications in medicine, energy production, agriculture, and other areas. For a few thousand dollars, it…

Life & Chemistry

Using Mother Nature to provide an environmentally friendly method for reducing mosquitoes

A scientific breakthrough might assist in the fight against mosquitoes. New research carried out at the University of Haifa in collaboration with researchers…

Physics & Astronomy

Astrophysicists Discover Quasar Acting as Cosmic Lens

A quasar acting as a gravitational lens has now been observed for the first time. This discovery, made by the EPFL’s Laboratory of Astrophysics in cooperation…

Environmental Conservation

Nature to Provide Eco-friendly Method for Reducing Mosquitoes

Introducing these natural chemicals into mosquito breeding sites will cause the mosquitoes to sense risk of predation to their progeny and avoid laying their…

Life & Chemistry

Weizmann Institute’s Sniffing Device Helps Disabled Communicate

A unique device based on sniffing – inhaling and exhaling through the nose – might enable numerous disabled people to navigate wheelchairs or communicate with…

Physics & Astronomy

Large Hadron Collider Achieves New Milestones in Physics

A group of University of Toronto high-energy physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS colleagues, announced they have broken world records in the search for…

Information Technology

Data Sorting Record Broken: 1TB Sorted in 60 Seconds

During this 2010 “Sort Benchmark” competition – the “World Cup of data sorting” – the computer scientists from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering…

Life & Chemistry

Aging and longevity tied to specific brain region in mice

“This result surprised us,” says the study’s senior author Shin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD, an expert in aging research at Washington University School of Medicine…

Information Technology

Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier in 2010 Challenge

During this 2010 “Sort Benchmark” competition – the “World Cup of data sorting” – the computer scientists from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering…

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