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(Institut Pasteur) Researchers have demonstrated that an imbalance in the gut microbiota, also known as 'dysbiosis', promotes the onset of colorectal cancer. The teams demonstrated that transplanting fecal flora from pat...

(Credit: Tomsickova Tatyana/Shutterstock) A new study takes a look at the rates of extramarital childbirth in Europe over the past 500 years. This includes children born as the result of adultery -- and, spoiler, it's mu...

(JAMA Network) Whether natural premature menopause and premature menopause that results from surgery to remove a woman's ovaries before age 40 are associated with increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases was ...

The best commercial lithium-ion batteries today deliver energy densities of around 250 Wh/kg. But battery chemistry oriented around lithium-sulfur could deliver double that figure. This potential improvement has brought ...

PRO DESIGN announced the launch of its innovative high-capacity proFPGA quad Stratix 10 GX 10M system. It is the next generation of its successful, modular, scalable and most compact high-performance FPGA Prototyping sol...

Heilind Electronics is now stocking the manufacturer's VarioBoot RJ45 overmolded cable assemblies. The patch cords introduce the flexibility of controlling the angle and orientation of the RJ45 connectors, creating an id...

With typical temperature-reading accuracy of 0.25°C and low operating and standby current, the STMicroelectronics STTS22H enhances temperature and heat-flow monitoring in asset trackers, shipping-container loggers, HVAC...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is en route to mainstream for applications like photovoltaic and uninterruptable power supplies. Infineon Technologies now targets the next group of applications for this wide bandgap technology: Th...

We live in a world of solid-state active devices that have made most vacuum tubes obsolete, but a few types remain as they are still indispensable. Part 1 of this article explained the basics of the photomultiplier tube....

(Dickinson College) New research published this month in the Southern Economic Journal reveals job losses during the Great Recession (2007-2009) may be partly responsible for the recent drop in U.S. birth rates.

(Ohio University) New research at Ohio University shows that a particular subclass of low-density lipoproteins (LDL) is a much better predictor of potential heart attacks than the mere presence of LDL.

(Michigan State University) For older adults, Fitbits and other activity trackers may be popular gifts, but they may not be used for very long. While counterintuitive, engaging in competition with family and friends decr...

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) 'In the future, people who suffer from nighttime AFib may benefit from medications developed to treat people who carry a mutation in this gene,' Prof. Katz says. ...

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science looks at the influence online platforms have on the rising illegal drug epidemic. This study shows dr...

(University of Virginia Health System) An unexpected discovery about fertilization reveals new insights into how sperm and egg fuse and could have major implications for couples battling infertility -- and may lead to a ...

(Mayo Clinic) Twice-yearly injections of an experimental cholesterol-lowering drug, inclisiran, were effective at reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often called bad cholesterol, in patients already taki...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) The overall rate of new cancer cases is decreasing in men but increasing in women younger than 80 years, and obesity-related cancers are increasing in young people, according to a s...

(U.S. Army Research Laboratory) Synthetic biologists working on a U.S. Army project have developed a process that could lead to a new class of synthetic polymers that may create new high-performance materials and therape...

(ERA-EDTA) High protein intake is believed to be healthy, but it may pave the way to irreversible kidney failure. The risk of the kidneys being harmed by a diet rich in proteins is especially high in people with a pre-ex...

(National Institute for Health and Welfare) The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) is investigating the health and well-being of adults who were born preterm at very low birth weight in a series of studies th...

(CG Life) MyoKardia presented data at the American Heart Association's annual meeting that showed TARA's heart-on-a-chip system was able to measure in vivo cardiac performance of its Phase 2 cardiac drug candidate.

(JAMA Network) A 12-month randomized clinical trial used internet recruitment of men who have sex with men to evaluate the effects of providing self-tests for HIV to increase HIV testing and diagnosis among the men and p...