For example, cells have developed complex systems for recycling, reusing and disposing of damaged, nonfunctional waste proteins. When such systems malfunction…
Researchers at Cornell University recently made a major breakthrough when they invented a method to test and demonstrate a long-held hypothesis that some very,…
Scott Irwin says agriculture’s fortunes are now tethered more to ethanol than food, making crop growers vulnerable to sharp price swings at filling stations…
This UPC center and the Public University of Navarre are the only 2 Spanish teams on the project, together with 13 other European scientific teams and 46…
The Cénit Intelimplant project (Development of Advanced Biomaterials for a New Generation of Implants), led by the Biotechnology Institute (BTI), was one of…
They turned out to be steelworkers, running their steel mill in the nanoworld – the chemists around Prof. Dr. Roland A. Fischer (faculty of chemistry of RUB)….
Due to the increasing demands of industrial, municipal and agricultural consumption on dwindling water supplies, botanists are increasingly engaged in efforts…
This research, in which other European partners are also participating within the EU VII Framework Programme, has been earmarked a budget of nearly four…
According to a paper published in the November issue of the Springer journal Osteoporosis International, Medicare reimbursement for dual-energy X-ray…
The study is being funded by a five-year grant of more than £788,000 from the Arthritis Research Campaign.Although osteoarthritis affects millions of older…
For that to happen, teachers, software developers, researchers, IT managers and citizens in general need to be educated about what free (also known as libre or…
For the last 14 years, the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo has been engaged in the development of sophisticated health information systems…
Professor Franco Cappuccio from Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick led the only UK team to participate in a European study examining…
Proteins play a decisive role in both the tolerability of contact lenses and the adherence of mussels to the hulls of ships. They develop a biofilm during…
The 500 million year-old fossils of the Burgess Shale in Canada, discovered over a century ago, still provide one of the most remarkable insights into the dawn…
This week researchers from Queen’s will travel to India to officially open the Eastern India Water Research Institute (EIWRI) in Kolkata. EIWRI will be located…