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Deterministic entanglement swapping: First successful implementation of a technique for quantum computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists led by Rainer Blatt, Markus Hennrich and Mark Riebe of the Institute for Experimental Physics at Innsbruck University recently succeeded for the first time in realizing a deterministic ...

Physics / General Physics

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Purple tomatoes: The richness of antioxidants against tumors

Researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Great Britain, in collaboration with other European centres participating to the FLORA project, have obtained genetically modified tomatoes rich in anthocyanins, ...

Biology /

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MicroRNAs make for safer cancer treatments

Viruses -- long regarded solely as disease agents -- now are being used in therapies for cancer. Concerns over the safety of these so-called oncolytic viruses stem from their potential to damage healthy tissues. Now Mayo ...

Medicine & Health / Research

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Study may explain exercise-induced fatigue in muscular dystrophies

A University of Iowa study suggests that the prolonged fatigue after mild exercise that occurs in people with many forms of muscular dystrophy is distinct from the inherent muscle weakness caused by the disease.

Medicine & Health / Research

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First international guidelines for treatment of psoriatic arthritis

Rheumatologists, dermatologists, and patient advocates have come together to publish the first-ever international guidelines for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis, a disease that mainly affects people who have psoriasis ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Rheumatoid arthritis rising among women

After four decades on the decline, rheumatoid arthritis is on the upswing among women in the United States. That's the finding presented by Mayo Clinic investigators at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology/Association ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Vaccinating family members offers important flu protection to newborns

Vaccinating new mothers and other family members against influenza before their newborns leave the hospital creates a "cocooning effect" that may shelter unprotected children from the flu, a virus that can be life-threatening ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

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A reversal of thinking: How women with lupus can increase chance for healthy pregnancies

In the not so distant past, women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease, were advised not to have children, and if they became pregnant, to have therapeutic abortions to prevent severe flares of their ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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