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In 2014, the number of deaths from opioid overdoses in the U.S. jumped to its highest level on record. The...

Credit: S. Dorbolo/University of Liege WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2016 -- Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 7th December, 2016 - Pain relief and other forms of supportive care for cancer patients are insufficient, researchers report...

Credit: IASLC Vienna, Austria--December 7, 2016--Today's press briefing at the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) focused on...

Credit: Public Domain Polyalcohols are widely used in the food industry, especially in candy and gum because they bring the...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The quality of life of elderly myocardial infarction patients can...

Relaxing with a joint around children is not very wise. Not only do youngsters inhale harmful secondary smoke in the...

Credit: University of Huddersfield NO case of necrophilia has ever come before UK courts, although British awareness of the offence...

Through a process called phytoremediation, researchers are using plants to clean up land contaminated with TNT, a toxic environmental pollutant...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Seeing, smelling, tasting, regulation of blood pressure -- molecular switches are involved in all of these processes. The...

Credit: Springer Springer now offers its Springer Book Archives (SBA) in smaller year set packages. The new SBA packages are...

Credit: Kerstin Thonhauser/Vetmeduni Vienna The urine of house mice, unlike humans, contains large amounts of proteins, which are mainly major...

Researchers from a group led by ETH professor Martin Loessner discovered a few years ago that rod-shaped Listeria can become...

(Queen's University Belfast) A Queen's University Belfast expert is leading a €4m international initiative to investigate whether natural toxins and...

Scientists have discovered that a gene found in the common fruit fly can be successfully expressed in a plant and...

Blood poisoning is still fatal in more than 50% of cases, but can be cured if treated at an early...

New study urges people to be more body vigilant to improve early cancer diagnosis rates. Over a quarter of patients...

HOUSTON - (Dec. 6, 2016) - Misfolded proteins associated with Parkinson's disease were detected in cerebrospinal fluid by scientists at...

The research project to be carried out by Tobias Koch will be within the UC3M Signal Theory and Communications Department,...

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) congratulates Dresden-based construction engineer Professor Dr.-Ing. Manfred Curbach on winning the 2016 Deutscher...