In 1965, Alaska, Rhode Island, Delaware and Pennsylvania had the highest mortality rates, but by 2004 the highest death rates moved south, researchers say. Andrew Fenelon of Brown University and the Population Council -- a group that ...
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SPIE Photonics West 2014—Attend the largest and most influential event for the laser and photonics community in North America: 20,000 attendees, two exhibitions, 1,300 exhibiting companies, a wide range of papers on ...
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Oryon Technologies, Inc. an innovator of next-generation flexible lighting technology marketed as ELastoLite, has entered into a multi-faceted strategic transaction with Netherlands-based EFL Tech that combines their worldwide EL business ...
Surgeons' best tools for locating tumors inside the body are often their hands. But during minimally invasive surgeries—which can reduce recovery time by days—the ability to examine tissue through touch, called palpation, is ...
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Liquid crystals are remarkable materials that combine the optical properties of crystalline solids with the flow properties of liquids, characteristics that come together to enable the displays found in most computer monitors, televisions ...
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The market growth is expected to be driven by increased demand for devices with exceptional speed, low power consumption, smaller chip size, and reduced response time. Information and communication technology (ICT) and consumer electronics ...
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LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), announced today the release of LifeMap Discovery? version 1.5 (discovery.lifemapsc.com). LifeMap Discovery? is a state-of-the-art roadmap of embryonic development and ...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth and its partner universities have received an $8 million grant to expand their research into arsenic toxicity in children and pregnant women. The ...
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A series of studies indicates that effectively cleaned carpets can trap allergens and other particles, resulting in fewer particles escaping into the air and thus contributing to the maintenance of indoor air quality. "These studies ...
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Scientists have developed an acoustic lens that produces pressure pulses that are so intense they're called "sound bullets." Although they are too high-pitched to be audible to the human ear, the sound bullets could have a variety of uses ...
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All but a few eukaryotes die without oxygen, and they respond dynamically to changes in the level of oxygen available to them. UCD scientists used genetic analysis to pinpoint an evolutionary switch in regulating response to low oxygen ...
The habit of Googling for an online diagnosis before visiting a GP can provide early warning of an infectious disease epidemic. In a new study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, internet-based surveillance has been found to detect ...
Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O), specialists in optical manufacturing, customised optical solutions and precision thin-film coatings, announced a line of precision optical thin-film coatings for industrial applications. The company, well ...
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Biomedical engineer Lihong Wang, PhD, and researchers in his lab work with lasers used in photoacoustic imaging for early-cancer detection and a close look at biological tissue. But sometimes there are limitations to what they can do, and ...
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