Publisher - Bioengineering

New research has found children born in the last three months of the year in Melbourne may have a greater risk of developing respiratory diseases such as asthma. Led by La Trobe University, a team ..
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Paris, France: People who suffer with persistent asthma from a young age are more likely to leave school at 16 years old and those who make it to university are more likely to drop out early, accordin..
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All systems are go for launch in November of NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission, which will use high-resolution laser ranging to study Earth's forests and topograp..
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Credit: Hèctor Guzmán, STRI A study in the journal Bulletin of Marine Science describes a new, blood-red species of octocoral found in Panama. The species in the genus Thesea was discovered in the th..
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Washington, DC - September 14, 2018 - Exposure to banned nerve agents remains a major public health concern globally, especially because of the recent air-release of these agents in Syria. One main pr..
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Credit: Dennis Stuehr, Cleveland Clinic Do you enjoy breathing air? You should spare a thought once in a while for heme, an iron-containing molecule essential to all organisms engaged in an air-bre..
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Credit: © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; The Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, N.Y. Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today annou..
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A white shark's acute sense of smell is legendary, allowing it to detect a potential meal several miles away -- and giving pause to those of us who work and play in the ocean. But now humans ca..
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Agriculture that appears to be more eco-friendly but uses more land may actually have greater environmental costs per unit of food than "high-yield" farming that uses less land, a new study has found...
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IIASA researchers have developed a general decision-making framework to support policy decisions on the management of water resources, which, for the first time, explicitly takes into account the asso..
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Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University PRINCETON, N.J.--Committed to addressing the country's severe air pollution, China is attempting a shift from coal to natural gas and is considering a..
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Credit: Photo by M. Sides, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has received a $1 million challenge grant from FedEx Corp. towards the establishmen..
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Credit: Wikimedia user Nephron Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease affects up to 40 percent of American adults. Though the condition produces no noticeable symptoms, one out of every five people with ..
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the National Institutes of Health, have announced that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Instit..
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