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Maslinic Acid from Olive Pomace: A Natural Defense Against Colon Cancer

It may provide a useful new therapeutic strategy for the treatment of colon carcinoma.Low concentrations of maslinic acid are to be found in plants with…

Studies and Analyses

Custom Toy Seats: Enhancing Accessibility for Disabled Children

This study has shown that only 69% of commercial toys are accessible for children with a hearing discapacity, 27% with a visual discapacity and 18% for motor…

Social Sciences

Humanities Research Shaping Europe’s Future Policy Directions

The fourth annual HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) conference brought over 150 humanities scholars and policy makers together to discuss the…

Health & Medicine

Evaluating Heart Disease Risk in Severe Psoriasis Patients

Psoriasis is a common skin disease affecting two to three percent of the world population, including 7.5 million Americans. The most common type of psoriasis…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Speedy Pesticide Adaptation: New Evidence from Worm Species

These findings, published last month in the journal PLoS ONE open the way for future research into improved use of pesticides and antibiotics in pest and…

Health & Medicine

New Study Links Oesophageal Cancer Risks to Hotel and Restaurant Jobs

Jesús Vioque, a researcher at the Miguel Hernández University in Alicante, is leading a cases and controls study looking into the relationship between…

Studies and Analyses

Reconstructing 500 Years of Spanish Droughts Through History

Short-term meteorological data and tree growth rings have also been used to supplement the records of ceremonies.Historical documents such as the records of…

Physics & Astronomy

Spanish Scientists Advance Model for Moon Movements

Their work is part of an international study, which has come up with an improved theoretical model about the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Earth and…

Studies and Analyses

Urbanisation: New World Bank and European Commission map shows that 95% of the world's population lives on 10% of the land

In the absence of agreement on the meaning of “urbanisation”, the European Commission and the World Bank are proposing a new definition based on a unique…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

National Network Boosts Potato Innovation in Spain

The general aim of the Red Patata (Potato Network) is to organise and make operational a Spanish network for the enhancement and technological transference of…

Communications Media

European operators recall the 50th anniversary of satellite communications …

When the first communications satellite was being launched on December 18th 1958, it was very hard to imagine how significant that new technical invention…

Studies and Analyses

Juvenile Alcohol Scenes: Understanding Youth Drinking Trends

On the one hand the discussion starts with the assumption that the drinking habits of young people have become more excessive and on the other hand the changed…

Physics & Astronomy

Moon’s polar craters could be the place to find lunar ice

Astrophysicists, led by an expert at Durham University, say if frozen water exists then it is most likely to be found near to the moon’s poles in craters that…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Answers to huge wind-farm problems are blowin' in the wind

Solutions to this, and other problems presented by wind farms – containing huge wind turbines, each standing taller than a 60-story building and having blades…

Life & Chemistry

Unraveling MLL-AF4: Key Insights Into Mixed-Lineage Leukemia

When the MLL gene is fused to the AF4 gene, a potent cancer-causing oncogene is created. Although researchers have known that the MLL-AF4 protein produced by…

Life & Chemistry

Single Virus Transforms Adult Cells Into Stem Cell-Like Cells

The earliest reprogramming efforts relied on four separate viruses to transfer genes into the cells' DNA–one virus for each reprogramming gene (Oct4, Sox2,…

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