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Life & Chemistry

New Virus Discovery Linked to Deadly Skin Cancer

A new strategy to hunt for human viruses described in this week’s issue of the journal Science by the husband-and-wife team who found the cause of Kaposi’s…

Studies and Analyses

Disability Living Allowance Gaps for Ethnic Minorities Uncovered

A study carried out by researchers at the Peninsula Medical School and the Institute of Child Health (UCL) has revealed that families from an ethnic,…

Environmental Conservation

Balancing Environmental Protection and Development Efforts

However, ripping out a few mangroves and replacing them with shrimp farms, an important local industry, doesn’t necessarily have to reduce the plants’ power to…

Environmental Conservation

'Nonlinear' ecosystem response points to environmental solutions

There may be much better ways to provide the majority of environmental protection needed while still maintaining natural resource-based jobs and sustainable…

Life & Chemistry

New Role Discovered for Colon Cancer Gatekeeper Gene

Dartmouth Medical School geneticists have discovered a striking turnabout role for a gatekeeper known to put on the brakes for colon cancer. Flaws in a gene…

Studies and Analyses

Cancer Stem Cell Marker Boosts Transcription in Normal Cells

Initiation of transcription requires sophisticated coordination of many different regulatory factors. Coactivators are multi-subunit complexes that facilitate…

Earth Sciences

Microbes Team Up to Cut Methane Emissions Using Sulfur Pathway

“The dominant role anaerobic oxidation of methane plays in regulating marine methane makes it a significant component of the global methane and carbon cycles,”…

Health & Medicine

‘Nature’ – new findings in pain research published

Our bodies sense painful stimuli through certain receptors located in the skin, in joints and many internal organs. Specialized nerve fibers relay these…

Life & Chemistry

New Genes Linked to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Identified

SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus) is a so-called autoimmune disease, meaning that the immune defense system attacks the body. SLE primarily affects young…

Studies and Analyses

Non-Invasive Method Reveals Headbanging Benefits for Women

Jesse Ruan of the Ford Motor Company and colleagues at Tianjin University of Science and Technology have devised a non-invasive method for determining and…

Environmental Conservation

Charity Presents Dolphin Decline Insights to EU Commission

Marinelife believe that the invitation to discuss the situation in Biscay highlights how seriously the EU views the charity’s research and hopes this will…

Health & Medicine

New Genes Linked to Lupus Uncovered, Paving Way for Treatments

In an international genetic study of more than 3,000 women, researchers found evidence of an association between Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE)…

Health & Medicine

New Research Validates Choices Stamp for Easy Healthy Eating

Importantly, simple labels seem to work as well for the less health conscious and lower-educated, and across countries. Findings also show the importance of…

Information Technology

Copper’s not coping: new chips call on light speed

We have all experienced the effect of Moore's Law: almost from the second you unpack a newly purchased computer it is already outdated. The next model – with…

Information Technology

Mappy for RFID network development… turn right at the next supplier!

When a technology is developing as rapidly as radio frequency identification (RFID) with the active participation of a huge range of industry sectors worldwide…

Information Technology

Exploring User-Generated Networks in Web 3.0

The internet, Web 1.0, is so incredibly powerful that even now, almost 20 years later, we have only begun to explore its potential. Web 2.0, with its YouTube,…

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