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Under pressure: Understanding how portal hypertension occurs following liver injury
Investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have identified a critical regulatory mechanism for the production of nitric...
Is the blog to blame for Vladimir Putin’s 2011-12 elections defeat?
Credit: Florida Atlantic University In the 2011-12 elections, government leaders in Russia underestimated the power of the internet and it...
X-ray microscope optics resolve 50-nm features while eliminating chromatic aberrations
Credit: Osaka University X-ray microscopes are commonly used in combination with full-field imaging techniques in spectromicroscopy applications, where they allow...
Researchers develop recycling for carbon fiber composites
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - A WSU research team for the first time has developed a promising way...
LSUHealthNO awarded $2.5 million grant to develop better dental filling materials
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry New Orleans, LA - The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research...
Photoluminescent display absorbs, converts light into energy
Credit: Shunsuke Itaya, Masamichi Ohta, Yuuki Hirai, and Takamasa Kohmoto BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA , and CARDIFF, UK -- By replacing...
Research shows no link between formaldehyde and leukemia
Credit: The American Chemistry Council (ACC) WASHINGTON (May 2, 2017) - Some scientific reports have a profound impact on government...
New study challenges formaldehyde cancer findings
Credit: The American Chemistry Council (ACC) WASHINGTON (May 2, 2017) - A newly published reanalysis of raw data from a...
For a green alga, spotted salamanders are stressful hosts
Loading video... Credit: © Roger Hangarter New research shows how two drastically different organisms--a green alga and the spotted salamander--get...
Bioinspired agent kills drug-resistant bacteria
Credit: Image provided by Lilit Tonoyan, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Researchers in Ireland have developed a bioinspired antimicrobial...
Earliest relative of Brachiosaurus dinosaur found in France
Credit: Imperial College London/ Chase Stone Scientists have re-examined an overlooked museum fossil and discovered that it is the earliest...
Scientists develop efficient multifunctional catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation to gasoline
Credit: Image by WEI Jian Converting CO2 from a detrimental greenhouse gas into value-added liquid fuels not only contributes to...
Better quality relationships associated with reduced dementia risk
Positive social support from adult children is associated with reduced risk of developing dementia, according to a new research published...
New coating surface for superior rust resistance with ‘colorless’ color
Credit: NITECH Polymer chemists at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan invented a novel and simple coating process to color...
Men need more frequent lung cancer screening than women
Geneva, Switzerland, 02 May 2017 - Men need more frequent lung cancer screening than women, according to research presented at...
International Communication Association to hold annual conference in San Diego, Calif.
Washington, DC (May 1, 2017) The International Communication Association will hold its annual conference May 25-29 in San Diego, CA...
Scientists find a likely genetic driver of smoking-related heart disease
PHILADELPHIA -- Cigarette smoking accounts for about one fifth of cases of coronary heart disease (CHD), one of the leading...
Women should continue cervical cancer screening as they approach age 65
Ann Arbor, MI, May 1, 2017 - Cervical cancer is often thought of as a disease that primarily affects young...
Combination therapy could provide new treatment option for ovarian cancer
Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center Researchers have been trying to understand why up to 85 percent of women...
Tea tree genome contains clues about how one leaf produces so many flavors
Credit: LiZhi Gao Lab The most popular varieties of tea -- including black tea, green tea, Oolong tea, white tea,...
