Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) promises to revolutionise retailing through advanced stock management, sophisticated promotions and supply chain…
But internet searches are often fruitless – even Google's eight billion indexed web pages and vast store of data and documents. Text-based searches do what…
Several industries, from pharmaceutical and chemical to food and others, require enantiomerically pure compounds for the development of their products….
The awards celebrate the best published research across medical and biological science within any of BioMed Central's open access journals.To demonstrate the…
Emerging evidence suggests that particular drugs may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others, because of differences in their genetic makeup….
Professor Marc Feldmann will tell scientists attending the 2008 Congress of European Pharmacological Societies (EPHAR) – hosted by the British Pharmacological…
This will be Fuglesang’s second flight after being a Mission Specialist on the 13-day STS-116 mission to the ISS in December 2006 in which he undertook three…
Computational linguistics draws primarily on linguistic theories to build language representation models for computational applications. The linguistic…
However, these “joints,” the boundaries between psychiatric disorders, such as that between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, are far from clear. Prior…
These two illnesses also share genetic variants that might be involved in the predisposition to both disorders. A new study scheduled for publication in the…
The first super-resolution images from this novel microscope will be published online July 18, 2008 in the journal Science. “Researchers have been working on…
Scientists from Australia, the United States and UK joined forces to outline a framework for deciding how and when people might intervene to move species to…
More than 600,000 people in Europe suffer cardiac arrest each year. Following successful CPR, patients are routinely admitted to intensive care units (ICUs)….
Strategically located in Asia, one of the world’s most dynamic growth regions, Singapore is a key node in global scientific research. Since the turn of the…
This is due to an increase in the number of icebergs scouring the seabed as a result of shrinking winter sea ice. The results are published this week in the…
The ambition in many quarters to scale up the production of human embryonic stem cells and move towards clinical trials requires that different laboratories…