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NTU Singapore receives $16.4 million for its Wallenberg-NTU Fellowship to nurture young scientists
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the largest private financier of research in Sweden, is making a 50 million Swedish...
Study: Fungi and bacteria grow on body implants
A body implant provides a new habitat for bacteria and fungi, a new study conducted at the University of Copenhagen...
A perioral soft tissue evaluation after orthognathic surgery
Aesthetic surgeries are performed to correct the facial appearance, which can mean that these processes can sometimes create enormous changes...
Economic burden of fatty liver disease in US is $32 billion annually, new study finds
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, which affects roughly 100 million Americans, costs the United States...
Sub-fertility in men treated with ICSI associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer
Barcelona, 3 July 2018: Subfertile men who have received fertility treatment with the microinjection technique of ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection)...
New insight into the maturation of miRNAs
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) An international research team led by Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technical...
Highly refined mineral oils in cosmetics
According to the EU cosmetics regulation, mineral oils are only permitted in cosmetics if the full refining history is known...
A promising new tool to measure antibodies against malaria
Credit: Pau Fabregat Antibodies against multiple Plasmodium falciparum proteins (or antigens) can be measured using a simple, accurate and reproducible...
Drugs that block structural changes to collagen could prevent lung fibrosis
Credit: Mark G. Jones Scientists have found that it is the structure of collagen, rather than the amount, that leads...
Analyzing effects of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) & polyethylene glycol (PEG)
Nowadays, the maintenance of wellbore stability is a very important activity in the drilling industry. Wellbore stability can be improved...
Spearfishing makes fishes more timid
Credit: David Mandos Fisheries scientists from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and international colleagues have studied...
Don’t sweat it: Scientists identify key step in production of BO
If this surprisingly hot British summer has you fighting off unwelcome armpit aromas, you'll be pleased to learn that science...
TV coverage of cycling races can help document the effects of climate change
Analysing nearly four decades of archive footage from the Tour of Flanders, researchers from Ghent University have been able to...
Deadly amphibian fungus has its origins in East Asia
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), known as chytrid fungus, has long been known to cause the decline and extinction of numerous species...