The study, which was conducted by Dr John Garry from Queen’s University, looked at young people’s attitudes to happiness in old age and how these attitudes…
But he warned that flowers bought for Valentine Day and Mother's Day could, quite literally, be costing the earth.Ecologist Dr David Harper said ten thousand…
The manifold biological importance of small RNA-fragments has only been recognized in the last years: they have important regulatory and catalytic functions…
Results from a study at the University of Leeds show that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction – and that the other 95…
Similar increases in heavy rainfall have now also become evident in spring and, to a lesser extent, autumn.A previously reported reduction in heavy summer…
Proteins are molecules which play a central role in biological processes, and form the basis of all living tissues. When a foreign material, such as a medical…
The cultivating of fish and shellfish in artificial ponds has increased dramatically in the last few decades, apace with the ever greater depletion of fish…
The scientists who conducted the study think that they have found one of the reasons why depression and chronic anxiety are more common in women than in men.Serotonin is a brain neurotransmitter that is critical to the development and treatment of depression and chronic anxiety, conditions that, for reasons still unknown, are much more common in women than in men. …
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University Zurich have identified the chromosomal location and exact molecular defect in the coding region of the gene…
Identification of the evolutionary differences between the system for the translation of the genetic code in humans and other organisms, such as bacteria in…
Researchers in Sweden sent a questionnaire to almost 1000 adults randomly selected from the general population, and more than 400 intensive care doctors and…
The findings, published in the online open access journal BMC Medicine, should help physicians identify which men would benefit from intensive screening.More…
With new research published today (15 February) in The Journal of Immunology, the team from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry has found an…
The team of researchers from the University of Münster, Germany, describes a model of brain function in which eye movement signals are used to boost the neural…
This marks the first discovery of another system of planets that has striking similarities with our Solar System. Moreover, it suggests that such giant planets…
Information in the brain travels along neuronal axons that form junctions, or ‘synapses’, with tree-like dendrites of other neurons. Normally, the myriad of…
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