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Tiny baby leaves Los Angeles hospital amid fanfare

(AP) -- One of the world's smallest surviving babies was discharged Friday from the hospital where she spent nearly five months in an incubator - but not before getting the Hollywood treatment.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hotter homes produce smarter babies

(PhysOrg.com) -- A hotter home appears to produce babies with better cognitive abilities - but before you turn up the home heater to make your baby brainier, the research was conducted on the Australian lizard ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cold spots contaminated in high humidity incubators

Microbes in human incubators, like those found in neonatal intensive care units, grow most robustly on cold spots when the relative humidity is at least 60 percent, according to a paper in the December 2011 issue of the journal ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Palm-sized baby among the world's smallest

At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor's hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces - less than a soda can - she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays

Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several advantages over LCDs, including ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Petroleum-eating mushrooms

Take a Petri dish containing crude petroleum and it will release a strong odor distinctive of the toxins that make up the fossil fuel. Sprinkle mushroom spores over the Petri dish and let it sit for two weeks ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

New national business incubation study identifies best practices for success

(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy has released a new study, "Incubating Success: Incubation Best Practices that Lead to Successful New Ventures," funded ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To keep social drinkers safe, one tech company is bringing breathalyzers to the bar

(Medical Xpress) -- Buffalo Niagara and Canadian tech firm Ladybug Teknologies has launched a pilot program for the SipSmart Network, a breathalyzer kiosk that enables bar patrons to stay safe by checking ...

Technology / Other

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Caltech engineers build smart petri dish

The cameras in our cell phones have dramatically changed the way we share the special moments in our lives, making photographs instantly available to friends and family. Now, the imaging sensor chips that ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Heat-proof' eggs help turtles cope with hot beaches

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sea turtles face an uncertain future as a warming climate threatens to reduce their reproductive viability. However, new research led by the University of Exeter and published this week in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

CDC reports 4 dead in cantaloupe listeria outbreak

(AP) -- Four people have died in an outbreak of listeria traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

20 endangered Siamese crocodiles hatch in Laos

(AP) -- One of the world's rarest crocodile species has moved a little bit further from extinction with the hatching of 20 wild eggs plucked from a nest found in southern Laos.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First death by vampire bat in US

A teenager from Mexico became the first person in the United States to die after being bitten by a vampire bat and infected with rabies, US health authorities said on Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Deadly German E. coli outbreak is over: authorities

An E.coli outbreak in Germany that killed more than 50 people this year has ended, health authorities said Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

E. coli offers insight to evolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski occasionally thinks of his 12 original flasks of E. coli as the experiment that keeps on giving.

Biology / Evolution

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Incubation

The word incubation and similar (from the Latin incubare, "to lie upon") may refer to:

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