HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD), Ocean Park Corporation and Lingnan University jointly opened the first International Conference on Integrated Conservation of Asian Turtles, bringing together more than 100 experts…
The MOMENTUM study found 27 percent of patients with resistant hypertension have hypercortisolism. More than one in four patients with resistant hypertension have elevated cortisol levels, according to new findings from the MOMENTUM study presented…
Fluorescent polymer points the finger at traces of explosive devices. [caption id="attachment_13248" align="alignright" width="300"] The polymer-coated polymer readily could detect fingerprints contaminated with traces of four common high explosives, including TNT Reprinted from Ref. 1…
An investigational treatment that mimics a key clotting enzyme is effective, safe, and may one day eliminate the need for blood products for people with the rare, life-threatening blood disease hereditary thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP),…
[caption id="attachment_13241" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Caltech; acknowledgement: R. Hurt (JPL-Caltech), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO[/caption] This delicate image showing the intricacies of interstellar bubbles and wisps reveals great turmoil in the W3/W4/W5 complex of molecular clouds…
[caption id="attachment_13237" align="alignnone" width="643"] UW–Madison Arboretum ecologist Brad Herrick displays several jumping worms that surfaced to escape irritating mustard poured on the soil. PHOTO: ERIC HAMILTON[/caption] From Fitchburg to Governor’s Island and Monona to Middleton,…