Who knew that co-workers who are neither friends nor enemies – especially those who float unpredictably between being both – can affect us more on the job than other colleagues?
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2017
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Many factors go into evaluating the prognosis of a critically ill animal, usually involving a combination of objective metrics, such as blood pressure or blood oxygenation, and more subjective clinical signs, such as alertness ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2017
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A decade ago, an Editorial in The Lancet, 'Hypertension: uncontrolled and conquering the world', presented some alarming facts: the risk of becoming hypertensive during a lifetime exceeds 90% for people in developed countries, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2017
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What if there were a wearable fitness device that could monitor your blood pressure continuously, 24 hours a day?
Engineering
Jan 30, 2017
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Researchers at Oregon State University have made a fundamental advance in understanding xanthohumol – a compound found in hops that's of significant interest to prevent or treat the lipid and metabolic disorders that are ...
Biochemistry
Oct 11, 2016
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Unlike drugs, active implants such as electroceuticals act locally, have fewer side effects and function directly through electrical signals, much like the body itself. At the Medica 2016 trade fair in Düsseldorf, Fraunhofer ...
Engineering
Oct 4, 2016
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In a study published today in Nature Biotechnology, scientists from The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Karolinska Institutet discovered that T-cells capable of producing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine can ...
Biotechnology
Sep 12, 2016
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Contrary to popular belief, older adults enjoy emailing, instant messaging, Facebook and other forms of social technology. Not only that, but such online networking appears to reduce seniors' loneliness and even improve their ...
Internet
Aug 25, 2016
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Imagine you could stop being human-sized for a while and shrink down to the size of a bacterium, roughly one-millionth of your current stature. At this scale, you would stop being bound by gravity and instead discover that ...
Nanophysics
Aug 16, 2016
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It's now 20 years since the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned. This groundbreaking scientific achievement was accompanied by warnings that Dolly might age prematurely because she had been cloned from ...
Biotechnology
Jul 27, 2016
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