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Life & Chemistry

Inhibiting MicroRNAs: A New Approach to Infarction Management

What is a fruitful way to contain damages caused during an infarction? The answer is: trying to prevent/limit the action of damaging agents and promote the…

Social Sciences

Hope for Peace: Institute for Missing Persons in the Balkans

The wars in the Balkans in the 1990s resulted in about 40 000 people going missing, of those, as many as 30 000 in Bosnia-Herzegovina alone. As early as 1992,…

Awards Funding

Urine Source Separation Wins Award for Engagement Excellence

The award is made under the aegis of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences “td-net for Transdisciplinary Research”, in recognition of the project managers’…

Studies and Analyses

Organochlorate Pollutants and Lead: Impact on Animal Bones

This work has studied the effects of lead toxicity in the long term in wild birds populations, determining how this heavy metal causes bone weakening and…

Physics & Astronomy

CEA-LETI Achieves Ultra-Low Variability in 22nm FDSOI Devices

The threshold voltage variation (?Vt) of less than 40mV across wafer is also reported for 25nm gate length Fully Depleted SOI (FDSOI) devices using undoped…

Physics & Astronomy

CEA-LETI Advances Transistor Scaling with 3D Nanowire FET

This achievement open the way to adopting different device structures in the same chip to optimise performance, density and power consumption. The devices were…

Studies and Analyses

Who Benefits? Insights from ISER’s Latest Research Findings

Researchers at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex used data from the British Household Panel Survey, which has…

Life & Chemistry

New Model Unveils Insights Into Protein Misfolding Diseases

Other neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and Parkinson’s disease are also associated with protein misfolding and…

Health & Medicine

New HIV Vaccine Trial Combines Two Promising Candidates

“Prevention is crucial in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and a vaccine is one of the most powerful prevention tools we know to combat infectious diseases,”…

Health & Medicine

Tamiflu’s Environmental Impact: What You Need to Know

Tamiflu is being stockpiled all over the world for use in fighting the next influenza pandemic. However, there are growing signs that influenza viruses may…

Event News

Dublin to host Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science conference in 2012

Held every two years, ESOF, organised by Euroscience, is a unique opportunity for leading scientists, researchers, industry, policy makers, science and…

Event News

Discover Insights at ECREA Barcelona 2008 Conference

From 25 to 28 November Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona will be hosting the European Communication Conference (ECREA Barcelona 2008) entitled Communication…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Solar Energy: A Path to Sustainable European Economic Growth

Scientists from leading European research institutions in the field of solar-to-fuel energy conversion call for unified action and substantial support for…

Business and Finance

Banks Not to Blame for Financial Crisis: Voter Insights Revealed

The results show that 45% of voters believe the Prime Minister has done a good job in handling the crisis, with just 23% holding him personally responsible for…

Life & Chemistry

Nitric Oxide’s Impact on Brain Function Revealed in New Study

The research is led by Professor Ian Forsythe and is reported in the journal Neuron on 26th November.Professor Forsythe, of the MRC Toxicology Unit, explains:…

Physics & Astronomy

Invisibility Techniques Boost Visibility in Optical Research

A research paper published in a New Journal of Physics’ focus issue ‘Cloaking and Transformation Optics’ called ‘The Transmutation of Singularities in Optical…

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