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Researchers looked at patient measurements typically used to assess heart disease risk: age, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, total cholesterol, diabetes status and any hypertension treatment. They found that they could substitute body mass index (or BMI, a ratio of height to weight), a noninvasive measure, for the lab-based blood test for cholesterol and still accurately predict patients' five-year cardiovascular disease risk...
...think in any case, it is good for museums to keep their own collection, because it means that things may be done with the objects that [they] might not be able to do with loans," Ebbinghaus says. "For instance, we have a conservation lab, and we can do technical research and give permission to do testing, which we would never get from a country that had an object on loan...
According to the retraction notice, Zhihua Zou, who worked as a postdoctoral fellow in her lab, provided all figures and data for the paper...
...light, Bent's BOGOs couldn't illuminate an entire room. This was an engineering challenge, but having already sunk $250,000 of his own money into SunNight, Bent didn't have much left over for research and development. "I could have hired 10 engineers and put them in a lab and had them figure it out," says Bent, an intense, silver-haired ex-Marine. "But that's too expensive...
...other aspect of vaccines be one of these factors? "It's always possible that there's a small subset of kids that have this vulnerability," says Dr. Isaac Pessah, director of the Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California, Davis. Pessah's lab is looking at dozens of possible environmental factors, including pesticides, plastics and flame-retardants. "This is a very emotional debate," he says, "and we need more research directed at these questions...