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(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai researchers have found that different mutations in a single gene can have myriad effects on a person's health, suggesting that gene therapies may ne...

At Sensors Expo 2019, Dennis Horwicz, Product Manager at Micronor explains how his company's fiber optic sensors for mechanical motion applications can be used in challenging applications that include electromagnetic int...

XMC, a core subsidiary of Unigroup, announced the mass production status of new SPI NOR Flash series – XM25QWxxC, with the industry’s advanced 50nm Floating Gate NOR Flash manufacturing process, which features wide v...

MultiDimension Technology Co., Ltd. has released five TMR omnipolar switch sensors TMR1302B/TMR1303B/TMR1341XD/TMR1366/TMR1383, adding new members to MDT’s ultra-low power TMR switch series. They are designed for a var...

Sierra Wireless has selected the compact antenna test range (CATR) based R&S ATS1800C for mmWave frequencies (FR2) testing. The transportable solution from Rohde & Schwarz features a state-of-the-art golden CATR reflecto...

Newark announced the availability of the RA Family of 32-bit Arm Cortex-M based MCUs from Renesas Electronics Corporation. This major product introduction will offer design engineers the flexibility to leverage Renesas' ...

Sager Electronics is now stocking TDK-Lambda's DRB Series 48V 480W DIN Rail Power Supply. TDK-Lambda DRB480-48-1 AC-DC DIN Rail mount power supply features a narrow 84mm width and long field life. With an efficiency of u...

The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) and the IEEE Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) are jointly sponsoring its third annual Capacitors in Power Electronics Workshop. This year's all-day workshop entitle...

(Indiana University) Indiana University researchers have discovered that a chemical compound found in essential oils improves the healing process in mice when it is topically applied to a skin wound.

(University of Cambridge) People who live in areas of higher than average deprivation are more likely to be admitted to hospital and to spend longer in hospital, according to new research from the University of Cambridge...

(Michigan State University) The majority of children living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa. While early antiretroviral therapy has ensured less deadly outcomes for children living with and exposed to HIV, the virus s...

(University of Tokyo) Can't remember something? Try waiting until later in the day. Many memory researchers study how new memories are made. The biology of forgetting is more complicated to study because of the difficult...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) In laboratory experiments, a metabolic inhibitor was able to kill a variety of human cancer cells of the skin, breast, lung, cervix and soft tissues through a non-apoptotic route -- ...

(University College London) People exposed to higher levels of air pollution are more likely to experience depression or die by suicide, finds a new analysis led by UCL, published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

(Cornell University) Researchers spent a year examining 15 cities in the global south, and found that 62% of sewage and fecal sludge is unsafely managed. Their findings are detailed in a report from the World Resources I...

(Karolinska Institutet) High blood levels of the lipid lipoprotein(a) in people with type 1 diabetes add to the already elevated risk of developing cardiovascular disease, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden...

(American Chemical Society) Amid concerns about gluten sensitivity, increasing numbers of people are avoiding wheat. Most have not been diagnosed with a wheat-related medical condition, yet they seem to feel better when ...

(The Gerontological Society of America) Human life expectancy worldwide rose dramatically over the past century, but people's health spans -- the period of life spent free from chronic, age-related disease or disability ...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Men and women generally agree on what constitutes sexual harassment.

(American Roentgen Ray Society) The use of imaging for the initial evaluation of patients with low back pain in the emergency department (ED) continues to occur at a high rate -- one in three new emergency visits for low...

(JAMA Network) Marijuana use in electronic cigarettes increased among US middle and high school students from 2017 to 2018. This observational study analyzed responses from 38,000 students in the sixth to 12th grades on ...

(Tulane University) A pioneering new study led by Dr. Lu Qi, director of the Tulane University Obesity Research Center, found that even if people had a high genetic risk of heart disease or stroke, healthy sleep patterns...