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Sunday, September 9, 2012

ScienceDaily: Most Popular News

ScienceDaily: Most Popular News


Skin and immune system influence salt storage and regulate blood pressure

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:16 AM PDT

High blood pressure is responsible for many cardiovascular diseases. High salt intake has long been considered a risk factor, but not every type of high blood pressure is associated with high salt intake. New findings now show that the skin and the immune system play an important role in the regulation of the sodium balance and hypertension, as he reported at a symposium in Berlin.

Treatment with fungi makes a modern violin sound like a Stradivarius

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:16 AM PDT

A good violin depends on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of th Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology has succeeded in modifying the wood for a violin through treatment with special fungi, making it sound indistinguishably similar to a Stradivarius.

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