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Genetic Material’s Starry Origins: A Scientific Discovery

The finding suggests that parts of the raw materials to make the first molecules of DNA and RNA may have come from the stars. The scientists, from Europe and…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Incontinence in South Asian Women: New Insights

Dr Angie Doshani at the University of Leicester has carried out a study into urinary incontinence in South Asian women, which has not only highlighted the…

Life & Chemistry

Integrated Strategies for Malaria and Vector Disease Control

In order to combat the diseases that insects and ticks transmit, all possible strategies must be united. Only then can we successfully combat these stubborn…

Life & Chemistry

EuroDYNA Unveils Genome Insights: Understanding Gene Expression

The way this structure changes and responds to external signalling molecules within the cell determines how and when genes are expressed and also the…

Health & Medicine

Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease: How to Reduce the Risk?

This is consequently having a large impact on the health of the nation.Research at the University of Leicester reports the outcome of combining the results…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Medical Research at Antarctica’s Concordia Station

The Antarctic station Concordia is located in one of the most hostile environments on the Earth. Built on an ice plateau at 3 200 m altitude, exposed to…

Physics & Astronomy

Ulysses Solar Mission Ends: Legacy and Key Discoveries

Ulysses has forever changed the way scientists view the Sun and its effect on the surrounding space. The mission’s major results and the legacy it leaves…

Information Technology

Between Grid and Cloud Computing – Successful Grid Sessions for Business in Barcelona for BEinGRID

More than 500 participants attended this major Grid event, ranging from Grid experts to representatives from SMEs and large companies interested in learning…

Physics & Astronomy

Direct Observation of Disorder in Atoms and Electrons

Anderson's hypothesis had been proved indirectly, but the phenomenon had never been directly observed with particles such as atoms or electrons until recently,…

Awards Funding

Bond Wins $500K Gruber Cosmology Prize for Universe Insights

Bond will receive the Gruber Cosmology Prize in September, 2008, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., USA. The prize…

Information Technology

‘Chatter Box’ computer will unravel the science of language

Psychologists at The University of Manchester have teamed up with colleagues in the School of Computer Science to develop the speech and language model using a…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Humor: The Key to Our Success as a Species

Published today The Pattern Recognition Theory of Humour by Alastair Clarke answers the centuries old question of what is humour. Clarke explains how and why…

Health & Medicine

Biological Medicine Advances Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

This according to results of the Swefot national clinical study, which is to be presented at an international rheumatology congress in Paris by scientists from…

Life & Chemistry

Inflammatory Proteins: A New Approach to Cancer Protection

This is reported by Dr. Daniel Peeper and his colleagues from the Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL) in the June 13 issue…

Studies and Analyses

Affordable Toothpaste Innovations: Bridging the Price Gap

The team, which includes Ann Goldman of the School of Public Health and Health Services at the George Washington University in Washington D.C., Robert Yee and…

Life & Chemistry

Pomegranate’s Anti-Inflammatory Benefits: Rabbit Study Insights

The group from the Department of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, led by Tariq Haqqi, showed that blood samples collected from…

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