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UK Schools Struggle to Support Dyslexic Students Effectively

A staggering 35% of US entrepreneurs suffer from dyslexia, compared to 20% in the UK, a ground-breaking study by Julie Logan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at…

Social Sciences

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Population Challenge: Key Insights Unveiled

The report of a demographic study, coordinated by the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), commissioned by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD),…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Variant Predicts Schizophrenia Drug Response by Ethnicity

Unfortunately, it is difficult to predict the effectiveness of a specific drug in any given individual with schizophrenia. John H. Krystal, M.D., Editor of…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Treatment Mechanisms for Schizophrenia Uncovered

The introduction of clozapine in the 1980’s suggested a potential that other brain targets might complement the blockade of dopamine D2 receptors to treat…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Muscle-Building Stem Cells for Better Health

These findings could lead to treatments for reversing or improving the muscle loss that occurs in diseases such as cancer and AIDS as well as in the normal…

Information Technology

Spanish Researchers Launch Journal Database Alternative to Thomson

The ranking, headed by the UGR, presents data for countries and journals and can be filtered according to large knowledge areas (27), thematic categories…

Life & Chemistry

BERT tells ERNI it’s time to grow a brain

The new research, published today in PLOS Biology, solves a part of the puzzle of how vertebrates prioritise the order in which they begin to develop different…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Gut Proteins That Regulate Iron Levels

Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have discovered that proteins that regulate the body’s iron household play a vital role in…

Life & Chemistry

Silver-Rich Clusters: Breakthrough Research from Karlsruhe Team

Nanoscopic “lumps” of atoms, known as clusters, are the specialty of a research team headed by Dieter Fenske from the University of Karlsruhe and the…

Studies and Analyses

Is 10,000 Steps Enough? Insights for Women and All Ages

“We have put together recommendations for different age groups, but the material is more robust when it comes to women,” says Anders Raustorp, University of…

Life & Chemistry

Hybridization Helps Cavefish Partially Regain Vision

“Evolution has many ways to accomplish the same end result, which in the case of cave fish is blindness,” said NYU Biology Professor Richard Borowsky, the…

Life & Chemistry

China's biotech industry: An Asian dragon is growing

Backed by a government intent on promoting innovation and fuelled by the “brain gain” of talented scientists and entrepreneurs returning from abroad, China’s…

Life & Chemistry

Key Trigger Found in Cancer-Fighting Marine Innovation

Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San DiegoAn unexpected discovery in marine biomedical laboratories at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San…

Studies and Analyses

TV Drug Ads Often Downplay Risk Information, Study Finds

A team led by Wendy Macias, associate professor in the UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, analyzed a week’s worth of direct-to-consumer…

Physics & Astronomy

U of M Physicist Analyzes Comet Dust for Solar System Insights

When the spacecraft Comet Wild-2 returned, comet dust was shipped to scientists all over the world, including University of Minnesota physics professor Bob…

Physics & Astronomy

Red Dust in Planet-Forming Disk May Hold Life’s Building Blocks

In a study published in the current Astrophysical Journal Letters, John Debes and Alycia Weinberger of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial…

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