All News

Health & Medicine

Breathing Lifeline Innovations: Balancing Benefits and Risks

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…

Health & Medicine

New Rings Offer Relief for Arthritis Patients, Study Finds

The research, which was carried out by academics from the University’s School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Electronics &…

Seminars Workshops

What Big Bang and Ink Jets Reveal About Everyday Events

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…

Studies and Analyses

Behavior Conditioning and Allergic Rhinitis: New Insights

Allergic symptoms can be induced by behavioral conditioning. However, the conditionability of antiallergic effects has not yet been studied. Thus, in this…

Studies and Analyses

Probiotic Drink May Alleviate Hayfever Symptoms, Study Finds

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…

Social Sciences

Exploring Consumer Interaction: The Art of Shopping Today

“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…

Health & Medicine

Preventing Malaria Parasite Maturity: New Research Insights

Researchers have demonstrated the possibility of preventing the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for more than a million…

Technology Offerings

CocoaHeal: Innovative Cocoa Compound Boosts Wound Healing

Invention

Scientists at the University of Münster, Germany, have isolated and characterized a novel substance class from Cocoa. CocoaHeal is capable of…

Technology Offerings

AptaC – Aptamers and fusion aptamers binding haemostatic molecules for diagnostic and therapeutic use

Activated protein C (APC) plays a key role in vascular and inflammatory diseases. As endogenous inhibitor APC inactivates blood clotting factors Va and VIIIa…

Science Education

DFG Launches Eight New Collaborative Research Centres

The themes of the newly approved Collaborative Research Centres include the development of innovative spaceship drive systems, overcoming treatment resistance…

Power and Electrical Engineering

IMEC and AIXTRON Advance Low-Cost GaN Power Devices

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…

Information Technology

GRIA Middleware Empowers Engineers with Desktop Grid Access

The successful integration of IT Innovation’s GRIA middleware into commercial off the shelf problem solving environments (PSEs) is part of the SIMDAT project,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative OLED Backlights Enhance 3D Display Technology

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…

Health & Medicine

Shared Decision-Making: Empowering Doctors and Patients

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…

Health & Medicine

Panic Disorder: Understanding Emotion Expression Challenges

In patients with panic disorder (PD), the difficulty to identify and manage emotional experience might contribute to the enduring vulnerability to panic…

Science Education

BBSRC Showcases Bioscientists Boosting UK Economy

The groups and individual researchers represent a cross-section of bioscientists, from universities and institutes across the UK and from all parts of the…

Feedback