HealthCentral Acquires Wellsphere Creating the Largest Organically Driven Online Health and Wellness Communities

..., content and audience with Wellsphere's aggregation of over 1,500 health and wellness bloggers and unique Health Knowledge Engine(TM) technology that deciphers highly specific health information. HealthCentral also will leverage Wellsphere's health community enterprise technology which powers Stanford Univer...

Researchers sharpen search for new marine medicines with novel techniques

...ties, who really possesses the genes to make the critical compounds" One technique being used to decipher that question is mass spectrometry, which deciphers the size, structure and properties of molecules. Natural product MALDI-TOF imaging mass spectrometry (npMALDI-I), as described in the Molecular Biosys...

Italian Court Presides Over the Judgment of Incurably Ill Italian Man, Pleading Euthanasia

...se has stirred a hornet’s nest, where euthanasia is not permitted by the law. Welby is bedridden and is fed only by means of a tube. A computer deciphers his eye movement and relates his thoughts, as he is unable to speak. He has appealed to the courts to permit euthanasia, so that he may be allowed o d...

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Estradiol

...ales; it represents the major estrogen in humans. Estradiol has not only a critical impact on reproductive and sexual functioning, but also... deciphers the medication estradiol (Estrace, Climara, Estraderm), a drug prescribed for the treatment of symptoms associated with menopause, prevention ...

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US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome

An innovative North-South research collaboration has culminated in a study published in this week's Science that provides molecular clues to help develop new ways to treat or prevent East Coast fever. The disease, which kills a million cattle a year in East and Central Africa, has had a devastat...

Study links low-frequency hearing to shape of the cochlea

...ecifically, it is the shape of the cochlea the snail-shell-shaped organ in the inner ear that converts sound waves into nerve impulses that the brain deciphers which proves to be surprisingly important. A study published online last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences establishes a ...