Revising the standards for statistical testing procedures
A study suggests that the high rate of non-reproducibility of scientific studies might be partly due to the routine use of statistical tests with significance thresholds that are not stringent enough....
View ArticleTestosterone can both motivate and enhance canaries' songs
Aspects of a male canary's behavior are influenced by testosterone's action on a specific brain region, a study finds. Hormones such as testosterone can act on several brain regions to produce a...
View ArticleCopper modulates tumor growth in mice
Chronic exposure to elevated levels of copper in drinking water accelerates tumor growth in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer, a study reports. Copper is an essential micronutrient; however, copper...
View ArticleUnderstanding what makes a thin film solar cell efficient
For many years scientists and engineers have been trying to provide low-cost solar energy by developing a cheap solar cell that is both highly efficient and at the same time simple to build, enabling...
View ArticleStudy on simultaneous determination of PCDD/Fs , PBDD/Fs , PCBs and PBDEs in...
A method for simultaneous determination of PCDD/Fs, PBDD/Fs, PCBs and PBDEs was established by using elution curve and fraction cut technology to eliminate the PCB and PBDE blank of interference and...
View ArticleHow to efficiently provide the large-scale distributed Internet of Things...
IoT seamlessly integrates user requirement, cyberspace and physical space, which enables the dynamic coordination of “human-machine-thing”. A recent study analyzes these new characteristics of IoT and...
View ArticleChinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry selected excellent papers from 2010...
Five papers are selected as this year Outstanding Papers of Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry(ISSN: 0253-3820), and the authors of them are going to be awarded medals and certificates. This...
View ArticleSUMO-1 gene rescues hearts with broken plumbing
Gene therapy delivered directly into the heart may reverse heart failure, reports a new study in pigs. Heart failure occurs when a person’s heart is too weak to properly pump and circulate blood, and...
View ArticleGeranylgeraniol suppresses the viability of human prostate cancer cells and...
A diterpene geranylgeraniol suppressed the viability of human DU145 prostate carcinoma cells by arresting cell cycle at the G1 phase and initiating apoptosis. This tumor-suppressive activity of...
View ArticleDogs went to finishing school -- in Europe
Man's best friend learned to sit, fetch and roll over in Europe, a new study reports. In pinning doggy domestication to the European continent, this research sheds light on a longstanding question...
View ArticleThe fit keep getting fitter
Is there a limit to how much evolutionary fitness -- i.e., the relative number of offspring that an individual leaves behind -- can increase in a population? The answer, coming from a unique 20 year...
View ArticleAn old drug to halt an untreatable disease
The fatal effects of a rare neurodegenerative disease affecting infants and toddlers may be delayed with the help of an existing drug, reports a new study. Leigh syndrome results from a mutation that...
View ArticleGlobal map of 21st century forest changes
With the first high-resolution global map of 21st century changes in forest cover, Matthew Hansen and colleagues have provided a detailed view of which areas of the world are losing and gaining these...
View ArticleGreater density of coronary artery calcium associated with lower risk of...
Chicago – Michael H. Criqui, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues determined the independent associations of coronary artery calcium (CAC) volume and CAC density...
View ArticleTherapy using stem cells, bone marrow cells, appears safe for patients with...
Chicago – Alan W. Heldman, M.D., of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and colleagues conducted a study to examine the safety of transendocardial stem cell injection (TESI) with...
View ArticleType of cell therapy does not improve walking ability for patients with...
Chicago – Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied whether therapy with granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), an agent...
View ArticleSpanish scientists are designing a robot for inspecting tunnels
Scientists from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) are participating in ROBINSPECT, a European research project that is developing an intelligent robotic system for the automated inspection of...
View ArticleAncient Egyptians prepared meat mummies using organic balms
A study suggests that some ancient Egyptian meat mummies were prepared using organic embalming treatments in a manner similar to human and animal mummies. Meat mummies-portions of animals that were...
View ArticleHousing temperature might influence tumor growth in lab mice
The temperature at which laboratory mice are housed in most animal research facilities might skew the results of cancer immunotherapy studies, according to a study. Mice naturally seek warm nesting...
View ArticleHuman susceptibility to false memories
Even people with extraordinary memories are vulnerable to the memory distortions found in research on false memories, a study finds. To better understand superior memory and memory distortions,...
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