Gut bacteria in premature infants don't come from their mothers, but from microbes in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU), a new study finds. Babies typically get their gut bacteria from their mothers during childbirth. Premature ...
Tags: Gut bacteria, isolated, prevent infections
As the Northeast and mid-Atlantic joined the Midwest in dealing with yet another deep freeze on Tuesday, doctors are offering advice on dealing with frigid temperatures. "It's best to limit your outdoor activity as much as possible, since ...
Tags: frigid temperatures, affect the brain, physician treat
Comparisons between modern humans and Neanderthals are usually meant as either an insult or a joke. But a new study suggests that many people today still harbor bits of Neanderthal DNA that affect their health. These remnants of ...
A 3-D model of the brain of a man who lived for 55 years with almost total amnesia is revealing new clues about what caused his memory loss, and could lead to a better understanding of memory, researchers report. Henry Molaison (often ...
A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from Europe and East Asia shows that more than 20 percent of the ...
Tags: DNA, Max Planck Institute, Vernot, Human Genome
In 2013, CAMC achieves a doubled sales volume in Tianjin market, selling 383 units from 175 units in 2012 in addition to Xingma special vehicle equipped with CAMC chassis. According the Jia Chaoqun, regional sales manager of Tianjin area, ...
Tags: improvement of market environment, expand customer base
The outlook's flipped, and now one forecaster's calling for a drier Brazil and wetter Argentina moving forward moving through the remainder of South America's safrinha growing season. In a seasonal outlook released this week, Commodity ...
Experimentalists searching for strong structural materials have established that nanocrystalline metals, which have average grain sizes smaller than 100 nanometers, are stronger, harder and more resistant to fatigue than coarser-grained ...
Tags: A*STAR, atomic scale, low strains, molecular dynamics simulations
The early calls for the commodities on Tuesday, January 28, 2014, are predominantly weaker. Corn is seen opening 1-2 cents lower, soybeans 2-4 cents lower, and wheat 4-6 cents higher. In overnight trading, the March corn futures contract ...
Tags: futures contract traded, grain trade, overnight markets
Researchers at New York University have developed a method for creating and directing fast moving waves in magnetic fields that have the potential to enhance communication and information processing in computer chips and other consumer ...
Tags: spin wave, NYU, STNO, Nanotechnology
Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the third quarter of 2013 construction activity in the EU declined by 1.1 percent year on year, following the sharp decline which was recorded in the first ...
Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced Tuesday fourth quarter net income of $55 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.9 billion. By comparison, prior year fourth quarter net income was $61 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, on ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November last year Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 368,628 mt, up by 15.83 percent year on year and up 67.22 percent on month-on-month basis. Meanwhile, the ...
Tags: Coking Coal, the value ofimports
Exposure to conflicting news about the health benefits of certain foods, vitamins and supplements often results in confusion and backlash against nutrition recommendations, finds a recent study in the Journal of Health Communication: ...
Tags: health communication, Mass Communication, health Benefit
AK Steel reported Tuesday net income of $35.2 million, or $0.26 per diluted share of common stock, for the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to a net loss of $230.4 million, or $1.89 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of ...
Tags: shipments, Steel, carbon spot market