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Vaccinating Chickens to Combat Food-Borne Illness in the UK

Food-borne illness costs the UK an estimated £2 billion each year. Campylobacter is the leading cause of food-borne illness and is responsible for about 30% of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Quantum Movie Captures Single Molecules in Action

An international team of scientists now succeeded in shooting a movie which shows the build-up of a matter-wave interference pattern from single dye molecules…

Life & Chemistry

Gut Bacteria: New Insights in Allergy Control

Now, David Artis, PhD, associate professor of Microbiology, along with postdoctoral fellow David Hill, PhD, from the Perelman School of Medicine at the…

Health & Medicine

Diabetes Linked to Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Men

The study is being presented at the American College of Cardiology 2012 Annual Scientific Session, March 24 to 26 in Chicago. Using data from the global REACH…

Studies and Analyses

'Coaching Boys into Men' an effective tool for stopping teen dating violence

A new study conducted in Sacramento, Calif., led by UC Davis researchers has found that a structured program delivered by coaches, called “Coaching Boys into…

Life & Chemistry

S100PBP Protein Regulates Spread of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

The protein, known as S100PBP, does this by suppressing a second protein called cathepsin Z. The research team has shown that cathepsin Z makes pancreatic…

Machine Engineering

Siemens Advances LD Converters With New Sublance Innovation

The system consists of a vertically mobile sublance, including a lance car and a special probe magazine. It combines a compact, inherently operationally safe…

Health & Medicine

New Non-Invasive Test Could Halt Gout Attacks

Agonizing and debilitating attacks of gout, an inflammatory disease affecting the joints, could soon be consigned to history, thanks to a non-invasive test…

Life & Chemistry

Mismatch repair protein meets its match

When the cell’s DNA proofreading system encounters a mismatch in the genome, a number of repair proteins are thrown into action, ripping up the mistake and…

Life & Chemistry

Immune Cells Enhance Anti-Tumor Drug’s Effectiveness

The dendritic cells adopt an ingenious approach here – they not only produce special substances with a cell-damaging effect, they also manage to fight the…

Life & Chemistry

The brain’s involvement in language processing depends on language characteristics and graphic symbols

Readers whose mother tongue is Arabic have more challenges reading in Arabic than native Hebrew or English speakers have reading their native languages,…

Life & Chemistry

Stay Calm with Domino: Innovations in Anxiety Treatments

Drugs such as sedatives, hypnotics, and anticonvulsants often contain a benzodiazepine moiety. They are useful in the treatment of, for example, anxiety,…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Reveals Low-Side-Effect Drugs for IBS Treatment

The findings, based on an analysis of more than two dozen large-scale clinical trials, are contained in a peer-reviewed study published online by The American…

Studies and Analyses

Metformin’s Heart Benefits: New Study Unveils Key Findings

The widely used diabetes medicine metformin can have protective effects on the heart, reveals a new study conducted at the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the…

Studies and Analyses

Young People Embrace Traditional Media Amid Digital Shift

Yet, this does not mean that they have ceased using traditional media, says Professor Olle Findahl, who has conducted a study on young people’s media habits on…

Health & Medicine

New Massage Method Boosts Tooth Decay Protection by 400%

“Rubbing toothpaste onto your teeth increases the fluoride protection by 400%,” says Anna Nordström, dentist, PhD and researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy at…

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