News tagged with mild conditions

Ruthenium in a Clinch

Oct 13, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (21) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amines are needed for the production of pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, agrochemicals, plastics, dyes, pigments, and additives. Most important are compounds with a terminal amino group (–NH2), known as primary ...

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NASA awards CU-Boulder $3.3 million for concept study for mission to Venus

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

17 hours ago | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $3.3 million for a detailed, one-year concept study for a lander mission to Venus to study the history of its surface, climate and atmosphere and to predict ...

Ginkgo biloba does not appear to slow rate of cognitive decline

Medicine & Health / Diseases

19 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

Older adults who used the herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba for several years did not have a slower rate of cognitive decline compared to adults who received placebo, according to a study in the December 23/30 issue of JAMA.

New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

20 hours ago | 3.3 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and that's what the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors ...

Tarantula venom-based MD therapy to be advanced by UB scientists' biotech company

Biology / Biotechnology

23 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

University at Buffalo biophysicists have found a protein in tarantula venom that shows promise as a potential therapy for muscular dystrophy (MD). They have formed a start-up biotech company in Buffalo -- Rose Pharmaceuticals ...

Pharmacists improve care of diabetics while cutting costs, research shows

Medicine & Health / Diseases

23 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

The role of pharmacists hasn't received much attention in the debate on the cost of health care. But national and regional studies show that when pharmacists directly participate in patient care, they significantly reduce ...

Arctic could face warmer and ice-free conditions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

23 hours ago | 3.1 / 5 (16) | 11

There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future.

COMPASS points to weight loss

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are recruiting families with overweight children for a study to help those kids, and their parents, lose weight. The two-year study, ...

Newly Discovered Gene Mutation Linked to Nerve Diseases

Medicine & Health / Genetics

Dec 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified mutations in the gene for TRPV4 that cause two related degenerative motor nerve disorders, scapuloperoneal spinal muscular ...

New Method Tests Severity of Key Citrus Virus

Biology / Other

Dec 28, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new rapid way to test severity of the devastating citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in citrus trees has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Parlier, Calif. The ...