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EU Project Boosts Workforce Participation for Older Professionals

The University of Gothenburg is involved in a new EU project that sets out to explore how businesses and organisations can best utilise the competence of older…

Studies and Analyses

Innovative Changes in Swedish Mental Health Care Systems

Over the years, media has had many reasons to address the issue of care and support to people with mental illnesses. The Swedish mental hospitals have been…

Technology Offerings

Scaffold-Stabilized L2 Peptides: A New Approach to HPV Vaccines

The thioredoxin-L2 vaccines consist of thioredoxin as a “scaffold” protein and one of several L2 peptide concatemers. The most effective peptides have been…

Technology Offerings

Novel Antitumoral Cyclodepsipeptides from Marine Fungus

This invention concerns two novel cyclodepsipeptides, scopularides A and B, from the fungus Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, which was isolated from the marine…

Technology Offerings

Ifapsoriasin Fragments: New Antimicrobial Peptide Insights

The presence of ifapsoriasin (IFPS, fillagrin-2), a novel skin- and mucosaspecific S100 fusion type protein, at the surface of skin and mucosa, particularly…

Technology Offerings

New Chimeric Peptides Enhance Antimicrobial Properties of HBDs

This invention exploits the remarkable differences in the antimicrobial properties shown by human beta-defensins 2 and 3 (HBD2 and HBD3) against Gram-positive…

Health & Medicine

Slowing down immune system's 'brakes' may improve HIV vaccines

Their study, the first to look at the role of regulatory T cells in therapeutic HIV vaccines, may help researchers improve the efficacy of such vaccines by…

Earth Sciences

11 Key Questions Shaping Geographical Sciences for the Next Decade

Reflecting a time when populations are moving and natural resources are being depleted, the questions aim to provide a more complete understanding of where and…

Life & Chemistry

New understanding of protein's role in brain

How do we process thoughts and store memories? A team of researchers headed by Dr. Nahum Sonenberg of McGill's Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer…

Information Technology

New World Record in Energy-Efficient Data Processing

Scientists from Frankfurt´s Goethe University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) developed a system that substantially reduces the energy…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Tomato Quality: Temperature Trumps Light, Study Finds

A team from the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker-Tecnalia) has questioned the generally held belief that the quality of…

Earth Sciences

Imani reaches cyclone status 'by the tail'

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Cyclone Imani on March 25 at 0747 UTC (3:47 a.m. EDT) and it…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Omais Weakens Despite Doubling in Size

Late, March 24, Omais strengthened to (63 mph) 55 knots and now that it has run into an environment with stronger wind shear, it has already weakened. The wind…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Healing: How Fat Can Aid Medical Innovations

It frequently happens in science that what you throw away turns out to be most valuable. It happened to Deepak Nagrath, but not for long.The Rice assistant…

Life & Chemistry

New period of brain “plasticity” created with transplanted embryonic cells

The strategy – which involved transplanting a specific type of immature neuron from embryonic mice into the visual cortex of young mice – could be used to…

Life & Chemistry

How does a heart know when it's big enough?

The protein, named Kibra, is linked to a relay of chemical signals responsible for shaping and sizing tissue growth by coordinating control of cell…

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