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News A team of researchers from Russia and China in collaboration with an industrial partner managed to increase the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries by 15 percent. The efficiency was increased by adding a solid ...

News Osaka University researchers bond polymers to glass and metal by using surface chemistry rather than adhesives, opening doors to potential use in food production and medicine... Contributed Author: OSAKA UNIVERSITY ...

Article Not Impossible Labs' early prototypes of a full-body wearable to help the deaf experience music received rave reviews from deaf audiences and musicians alike, and even television news hosts. While they knew they ...

A NASA spacecraft is hurtling toward a historic New Year's Day flyby of the most distant planetary object ever studied... Contributed Author: Kerry Sheridan Topics: MIL/AERO

News A new report on the development of fusion as an energy source, written at the request of the U.S. Secretary of Energy, proposes adoption of a national fusion strategy that closely aligns with the course charted in.....

News That holiday trip over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house could turn into nice little gift for automakers... Contributed Author: Michael Liedtke Topics: Wireless Design and Development

News Children born prematurely often develop neuromotor and cognitive developmental disabilities. The best way to reduce the impacts of those disabilities is to catch them early through a series of... Contributed Author:...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) A team of doctors led by Karen L. Kotloff, M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), has performed a clin...

(Cell Press) Some of you may have made a New Year's resolution to hit the gym to tackle that annoying belly fat. But have you ever wondered how physical activity produces this desired effect? A signaling molecule called ...

(Bentham Science Publishers) In this paper, the recent advances and development in the computational perspective of LFQ in cancer proteomics were systematically reviewed and analyzed.

(American Society of Nephrology) In a study of African-American men and women with normal kidney function, a pattern of higher collective consumption of soda, sweetened fruit drinks, and water was associated with a highe...

(Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science) Long-term memory (LTM) is formed by repetitive training trials with rest intervals and LTM formation requires transcription factors, including CREB and c-Fos. Miyashita e...

(Children's Tumor Foundation ) Treatment for low-grade gliomas in patients living with neurofibromatosis type 1 are now one step closer thanks to recent research discoveries initiated and funded by the Children's Tumor F...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The research was conducted to assess the vitamin D intake in occupational asthma patients and the relation with body mass index, comorbidities related to vitamin D deficit, lung function and ...

(Cell Press) We know a good meal can stimulate the release of the feel-good hormone dopamine, and now a study in humans from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Germany suggests that dopamine release in t...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered that kidney disease risk variants of the gene APOL1, previously known to affect Afric...

(NIH/National Institute on Aging) Incorporating genetic diversity into a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease resulted in greater overlap with the genetic, molecular and clinical features of this pervasive human disease, a...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Consumption of processed foods high in sugar and fat increase levels of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). Medical University of South Carolina researchers report that AGE leve...

(Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) Robert Korneluk, C.M., has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada. He is one of the 103 new appointments to the Order of Canada made by Her Excellenc...

(PLOS) Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans from nonhuman primates. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have carried out...

(Bentham Science Publishers) This review will discuss the effects of advancing age on endothelial health and vascular regenerative capacity, as well as the influence of diet, exercise, and obesity on these cells, the mec...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Zinc is an essential component for all living organisms, representing the second most abundant trace element, after iron. This element is widely distributed in the tissues of a human body whe...