However, the use of these machines can come at a price — every year thousands of patients are left with debilitating lung injuries, a small number of which are…
The research, which was carried out by academics from the University’s School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Electronics &…
It often turns out there is more to commonplace everyday events than meets the eye. The folding of paper, or fall of water droplets from a tap, are two such…
Allergic symptoms can be induced by behavioral conditioning. However, the conditionability of antiallergic effects has not yet been studied. Thus, in this…
In the first human study of its kind, scientists at the Institute of Food Research found that probiotic bacteria in a daily drink can modify the immune…
“Being a consumer sometimes means fantasising and dreaming about objects, and this is boosted when we come face to face with things that arouse various…
Researchers have demonstrated the possibility of preventing the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for more than a million…
Invention
Scientists at the University of Münster, Germany, have isolated and characterized a novel substance class from Cocoa. CocoaHeal is capable of…
Activated protein C (APC) plays a key role in vascular and inflammatory diseases. As endogenous inhibitor APC inactivates blood clotting factors Va and VIIIa…
The themes of the newly approved Collaborative Research Centres include the development of innovative spaceship drive systems, overcoming treatment resistance…
IMEC and AIXTRON deposited, for the first time ever, crack-free AlGaN/GaN structures onto 200mm Si(111) wafers. The layers show good crystalline quality as…
The successful integration of IT Innovation’s GRIA middleware into commercial off the shelf problem solving environments (PSEs) is part of the SIMDAT project,…
For the first time a 3.5″ 3D QVGA display will be presented, that is based on a highly-efficient, patterned and controllable OLED backlight. The technology…
In the last decade, the clinician-patient relationship has become more of a partnership. There is growing interest in shared decision-making (SDM) in which the…
In patients with panic disorder (PD), the difficulty to identify and manage emotional experience might contribute to the enduring vulnerability to panic…
The groups and individual researchers represent a cross-section of bioscientists, from universities and institutes across the UK and from all parts of the…