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Oxygen: is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as well as with other compounds.
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DEC 10, 2015
Cardiology
Using non-invasive Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) scientists have found a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 10, 2015
Cardiology
The left internal thoracic artery is “associated with improved survival, graft patency, and freedom from cardiac e
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 06, 2015
Videos
A space suit is an astronaut's last line of defense in space. When something goes wrong, and seals don't work on the Int
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 03, 2015
Cardiology
A large amount of energy is required for cardiomyocytes, muscle cells of the heart, to perform all of the vital function
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 03, 2015
Cardiology
Blood clots that form in the arteries, called arterial thrombosis, are the main cause of heart attacks and strokes. In o
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 28, 2015
Health & Medicine
A sedentary lifestyle can lead to health conditions like type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. In serious cases,
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 28, 2015
Cardiology
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy is a common condition that follows cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding). In these cases the hear
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 28, 2015
Cardiology
There are 530,000 cardiac arrests in America every year, putting patients at risk for permanent brain damage and death.
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 24, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a time when precision medicine and genetic testing are booming, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a ste
...
NOV 22, 2015
Microbiology
Researchers at the University of Waterloo think cyanobacteria contributed to the “Great Oxidation Event” (GO
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
NOV 21, 2015
Videos
Typically, space equipment goes through a lot of vigorous testing before it's allowed to go up into space for official u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 19, 2015
Health & Medicine
Obese women have a higher risk of complications during pregnancy, such as preeclampsia, hypertension, and postpartum wei
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
NOV 17, 2015
Cardiology
HAX-1 is an anti-cell death protein that could protect cardiac cells during traumatic cardiovascular events like heart a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 17, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
In addition to ward off scurvy, is vitamin C also able to kill off cancer cells? That’s the latest claim from the
...
NOV 17, 2015
Microbiology
Tuberculosis has been infecting humans for several millennia, making it one of the most horribly successful diseases in
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
NOV 17, 2015
Neuroscience
While it’s well known that exercise has many health benefits for the cardiovascular system, muscles and bone stren
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 11, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
There are three types of muscle tissue in the human body including cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and skeletal muscle. S
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 06, 2015
Space & Astronomy
A little over one year ago, on October 28th 2014, NASA tried to launch the Antares rocket by Orbital Sciences (now known
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2015
Plants & Animals
Come Fall each year, the leaves on the trees turn a beautiful orange/brown/yellow color that makes the world look like s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2015
Technology
It’s not too far from the truth that batteries make today’s world go ‘round. We’re far from the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 29, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been orbiting comet 67P with the Rosetta spacecraft since 2014 in an attempt to lear
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 24, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
The mechanism by which the plant immune system operates is through the detection of conserved microbial components such
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
OCT 23, 2015
Microbiology
This installment of “Better Know a Microbe” is all about “magnetotactic” bacteria! Bacter
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan fo
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop