PTSD is associated with several abnormalities in brain structure and function. However, as researcher Roger Pitman explains, “Although it is tempting to…
Child health researchers from the University of Nottingham, UK, carried out a detailed analysis of 739 international drug trials published between 1996 and…
The project – the European Drug Initiative for Channels and Transporters (EDICT) – will target about 80 proteins, which play an important role in human…
The study, published March 14th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, suggests that these subgroups could represent distinct prion strains in what is the…
In a major advance patients and their families across Europe can now check out on-line the credentials of laboratories offering genetic tests. Over the last…
Earth’s land cover has been charted from space before, but this map, which will be made available to the public upon its completion in July, has a resolution…
Using DEISA research infrastructure the researchers have developed a new method for simulating combustion processes that will have a real and practical impact…
In the study being undertaken by Dr Liz Twigg at the University of Portsmouth and Professor John Mohan at the University of Southampton, people have been…
Extending designated pick-up and delivery times and improving coordination of the regulations imposed by the various cities would reduce harmful emissions and…
In her dissertation, Principal Research Scientist Sirpa Thessler from MTT (Agrifood Research Finland) combined field observations made in the lowland…
Now, research into the benefits of going on holiday and ‘getting away from it all’ has been carried out for by academics at The University of Nottingham. Dr…
The £290,000 award will support Professor Jian Zhang and his colleagues in the BU-based National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) over the next three years…
The findings, led by Durham Business School, Durham University, showed that home workers worried about missing-out on “water-cooler networking” – where…
The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) and the Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today that the INCF will contribute…
Measurements of the blood oxygen level therefore present a similar picture to patients suffering from an inherited cardiac defect. After examining two…
One particular important class of white blood cells are the so-called T lymphocytes. These cells originate in the bone marrow and mature in the thymus, hence…