As high-tide flooding worsened in Norfolk, Virginia in recent years, Margaret Mulholland, a biological oceanographer at Old Dominion University, started to think about the debris she saw in the waters that flowed back into Chesapeake Bay.
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Drug Could Alleviate Side Effects of Chemo for Breast Cancer Patients
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have demonstrated a method of forecasting which breast cancer patients will suffer heart problems from a commonly used chemotherapy drug.
Green Tea Cuts Obesity, Health Risks in Mice
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Buying and Selling Cattle Can Link Individual Farms to Thousands of Other Farms with Each Purchase
Understanding the complex networks of “contact chains” between British farms, could help identify potential routes for spread of infections and improve disease control strategies for the cattle industry.