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Stents, Bypass Surgery Show No Benefit In Heart Disease Mortality Rates Among Stable Patients
Patients with severe but stable heart disease who are treated with medications and lifestyle advice alone are no more at risk of a heart attack … Read more
Mars Scientists Investigate Ancient Life In Australia
As any geologist worth his or her salt will tell you, there are rocks, and then there are rocks. Next July, NASA and the European … Read more
Many People Face Depression Over The Last Year Of Life
A Rutgers-led study finds that many terminally ill people – particularly women, young adults, minorities and low-income individuals – experience symptoms of depression in the … Read more
Weight-Loss Surgery May Release Toxic Compounds From Fat Into The Bloodstream
Toxic man-made chemicals that are absorbed into the body and stored in fat may be released into the bloodstream during the rapid fat loss that … Read more
Microbial Cooperation At The Micron Scale Impacts Biodegradation
The carbon cycle, in which CO2 is incorporated into living organisms and later released back into the atmosphere through respiration, relies on the ability of … Read more
Researchers Create Better Light-Trapping Devices
Anyone who’s ever played the drums, tuned a guitar, or even made a wine glass “sing” by circling a finger along its edge knows about … Read more
Bacteriophage Therapy May Ease Severity Of Alcoholic Hepatitis
NIH-funded study in mice merits further investigation as a potential treatment A specific strain of a common bacteria found in most people with alcoholic hepatitis … Read more
How Digital ‘Twins’ Are Guiding The Future Of Maintenance And Manufacturing
by Tom Cassauwers As our world becomes more digitalised and connected, we can actually make a virtual copy of it. And such replicas are now … Read more
Plastic Pearls
Synthetic fossils adjoin the coastline. Fallen into dirty piles they wait to be shucked clean of sand, and mud, and debris. Flowing like tallow beneath … Read more
Are Autonomous And/Or Electric Vehicles The Answer?
So, I spotted this Nov. 14, 2019 “StreetsBlog USA” headline “Prominent Democratic presidential candidates have all put forward plans for clean energy, limiting drilling and … Read more
Pulsed Yamanaka Factors Set Back Epigenic Age
(without going all the way back to the (or causing cancer) In a column last month, I posed the question whether the methylation clocks of … Read more