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Health & Medicine

Exploring How Stress Affects Brain Health and Function

PTSD is associated with several abnormalities in brain structure and function. However, as researcher Roger Pitman explains, “Although it is tempting to…

Studies and Analyses

Child Drug Trials Lack Key Safety Checks, Study Finds

Child health researchers from the University of Nottingham, UK, carried out a detailed analysis of 739 international drug trials published between 1996 and…

Health & Medicine

European Drug Initiative Targets Proteins for New Treatments

The project – the European Drug Initiative for Channels and Transporters (EDICT) – will target about 80 proteins, which play an important role in human…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Agent Diversity

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…

Life & Chemistry

EU patients taking genetic tests can now check out testing laboratory's credentials on-line

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…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New High-Resolution Map Reveals Earth’s Land Cover Insights

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…

Information Technology

New Method for Simulating Combustion Processes Developed

Using DEISA research infrastructure the researchers have developed a new method for simulating combustion processes that will have a real and practical impact…

Social Sciences

Exploring Segregation and Social Mix in Innovative Research

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…

Transportation and Logistics

Cleaner, Cheaper Urban Freight Transport Innovations

Extending designated pick-up and delivery times and improving coordination of the regulations imposed by the various cities would reduce harmful emissions and…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Images Uncover Amazonas Floristic Variation

In her dissertation, Principal Research Scientist Sirpa Thessler from MTT (Agrifood Research Finland) combined field observations made in the lowland…

Social Sciences

Holidays — a right or a privilege?

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…

Information Technology

Animation Aids Psychology in 'Second Life' Experiment

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…

Business and Finance

Home workers fear being “out of sight, out of mind”

The findings, led by Durham Business School, Durham University, showed that home workers worried about missing-out on “water-cooler networking” – where…

Health & Medicine

INCF and Allen Institute Enhance Brain Atlas Service in Europe

The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) and the Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today that the INCF will contribute…

Life & Chemistry

Bonn Scientists Uncover New Type of Haemoglobin

Measurements of the blood oxygen level therefore present a similar picture to patients suffering from an inherited cardiac defect. After examining two…

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering T Lymphocytes: New Insights into Immune Survival

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…

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