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Contact Lenses Linked to Pathogenic Acanthamoeba Risks

Acanthamoeba is one of the most common types of protozoa in soil and is often found in fresh water. Most species eat bacteria and some can cause infections in…

Life & Chemistry

Unraveling Disease Proteins: Insights Into Drug Interactions

New research into how proteins in human cells interact and 'talk' to each other is leading to a better understanding of how drug molecules work and should…

Health & Medicine

Cell Phones and Brain Cancer: What Recent Studies Reveal

Recent studies have raised concerns that long-term exposure to electromagnetic fields (ELF) from cell-phone handsets can increase the risk of brain cancers and…

Physics & Astronomy

Stunning Image of NGC 7331 Reveals Spiral Galaxy’s Beauty

This Calar Alto image offers one of the best snapshots ever obtained of this stellar system. It was produced with the camera LAICA attached to the 3.5 m…

Materials Sciences

Smart Fabrics: Monitor Health and Environment Effortlessly

Clothes that monitor your heart, measure the chemical composition of your body fluids or keep track of you and your local environment promise to revolutionise…

Science Education

European Cooperation on Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste

The Euratom Framework Programme has supported research in this field for many years and this is continuing in the current 7 th Framework Programme. Today over…

Life & Chemistry

Human Protein Atlas: Mapping Proteins to Identify Diseases

Researchers in Sweden are compiling a remarkable 'atlas' that pinpoints the location of thousands of individual proteins in the body's tissues and cells which…

Medical Engineering

Live Heart Rhythm Procedure by Dr. Andre Ng at Congress

The procedure to tackle heart rhythm disorder will be performed by Dr Andre Ng, Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at the University of Leicester and a Consultant…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Highlights Genetic Lineages on Cantabrian Coast

The study, carried out by Dr. Sergio Cardoso Martín, confirmed the importance of the proposed H1 and V lines as well as considering lines J1c, U5b and T2b as…

Communications Media

Emotion Clips Boost Educational Performance Effectively

In advertising and electoral campaigns, it is normal practice: get people in the right mood, either by stimulating their feeling of happiness or by making them…

Information Technology

Real pilots and ‘virtual flyers’ go head-to-head

Using technology developed, in part, by a University of Nottingham spin-out company, an air-race in the skies above Spain saw two stunt pilots battle it out…

Studies and Analyses

Europeans Balance Sedentary Lives With Mobile Commuting Strategies

But Europeans nonetheless do develop manifold strategies to meet mobility requirements: They commute daily or weekly over long distances, they maintain…

Life & Chemistry

Bird Flu Vaccine: Safeguarding People and Pets Effectively

The emergence of bird flu has posed a major challenge to scientists designing vaccines as it can infect a number of different animals, including birds, pets…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Mutation Offers New Insights on Obesity and Diabetes

The researchers were thus able to gain a deep insight into the function of the gene. Further clarification of its function would provide a basis for developing…

Life & Chemistry

Gut’s New Immune Mechanism Responds to Bacteria Changes

A previously unknown mechanism enables the immune system in the gut to respond rapidly to changes in bacteriaA RIKEN-led international research group has…

Environmental Conservation

34 Million-Year GHG Model Reveals Earth’s CO2 Sensitivity

Climatologist Robert DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues at four institutions are reporting in the Oct. 2 issue of the journal…

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