Abnormal brain images combined with examination of the composition of the fluid that surrounds the spine may offer the earliest signs identifying healthy older adults at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, well before cognitive problems emerge, a new study has found.
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Newly published research focuses on miniature energy harvesting technologies that could potentially power wireless electronics, portable devices, stretchable electronics, and implantable biosensors.
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A study of 690,000 children found extremely obese children have a 40 percent higher risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease and moderately obese children have a 30 percent higher risk of GERD compared to normal weight children. This large population-based study establishes an association between obesity and GERD in children, an association previously reported in adults. [...]
Ireland is to shed nearly 1000 Ph.D. and postdoctoral posts in 2010 and 2011…
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Britain’s new science minister, David Willetts of the Conservative Party, today made good a…
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BEIJING—At a conference here today, Chinese science leaders bemoaned critical gaps in knowledge about…
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