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Determining what triggers the death of retinal cells, called photoreceptors, could hold the key to stopping blinding disorders caused by a wide range of eye diseases, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the November journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.
Several blinding disorders are known to cause the breakdown of photoreceptors. Caroline Zeiss, associate professor [...]
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By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modelling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward.
Software tools are being developed that can search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe to find children with closely matched conditions. The doctors can then study how the matched patients at other hospitals were [...]
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When paramedics rush to the scene of a multi-car pileup or a terror attack, their first task is to assess who needs immediate care. But blood hemorrhaging can obscure damage, and the gruesome mess means paramedics can`t always determine who should be treated first.
Tel Aviv University`s new LifeFlow device, currently in development, could become the [...]
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Including carbon emissions from tropical deforestation in a future international climate regime will not suffice to protect the world`s remaining tropical forests from expanding palm oil plantations. This is the main finding in a new study from Chalmers University of Technology.
Representatives from 190 countries are currently gathered in Poznan, Poland, for the UN-led negotiations on [...]
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A "revolution" in the way we illuminate our world is imminent, according to a paper published this week by two professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Innovations in photonics and solid state lighting will lead to trillions of dollars in cost savings, along with a massive reduction in the amount of energy required to light homes and [...]
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The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech won the grand prize at the 2008 International Capstone Design Fair with a trio of pole-climbing serpentine robots designed to take the place of construction workers tasked with dangerous jobs such as inspecting high-rises or underwater bridge piers.*
The autonomous robots are [...]
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A small wind screen has been erected on a glacier to test the concept of collecting cool air and reducing melting caused by global warming. By constructing a wind screen on the Rhône glacier in Switzerland, cold downwinds, which normally pass unhindered into the valley, can be intercepted and collected, thus creating a cold air [...]
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Current research suggests that melatonin therapy may help treat uveitis, a common inflammatory eye disease.
People with uveitis develop sudden redness and pain in their eyes, and their vision rapidly deteriorates. Untreated, uveitis can lead to permanent vision loss, accounting for an estimated 10-15% of cases of blindness in the US. Uveitis has a [...]
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Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body`s main protections against damage from low levels of radiation. Writing in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Hayes explains that calcitriol, the active form of [...]
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