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Electronic Prescription Service Launches Across the UK

The electronic transfer of repeat prescriptions between general practices and pharmacies is currently being rolled out across the UK, in a bid to streamline…

Studies and Analyses

Future Sea-Level Rises May Exceed Previous Predictions

The study by a consortium of scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and research centres in Tübingen (Germany), Cambridge and New York,…

Studies and Analyses

Celebrity Role Models Prove To Be ‘Influential Teachers’

The research in the University of Leicester Department of Media and Communication examines interest in celebrities and gossip about them. It was carried out by…

Information Technology

Color Sudoku Puzzle: A Fresh Take on Computing Innovation

The colour Sudoku adds another dimension to solving the puzzle by assigning a colour to each digit. Squares containing a digit are coloured according to the…

Studies and Analyses

Ant Invaders Disrupt Ecosystems and Shift Food Chains

The findings, from researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of California at San Diego, appear this week in the Proceedings of the National…

Life & Chemistry

Meet the Ambulance Man: A Solution for Muscle Damage

It does not take much to injure a muscle. Sometimes one sudden, inconsiderate movement does the job. Unfortunately, damaged muscles are not as efficient at…

Life & Chemistry

MIT’s Breakthrough in Engineered Blood Vessels Explained

MIT scientists have found a way to induce cells to form parallel tube-like structures that could one day serve as tiny engineered blood vessels.The researchers…

Life & Chemistry

Future Diagnostics Powered by Biological Physics Research

Professor Höök, who for the past three years has been Professor of Nanoscience for Biophysics at Lund University, is just one in a series of recruitments which…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Europa: New Insights from Recent Research

“We’ve learned a lot about Europa in the past few years,” says William McKinnon, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St….

Life & Chemistry

Protein Interactions in MAP Kinase Signaling Explored

The paper, “Mapping Dynamic Protein Interactions in the MAP Kinase Signaling Using Live-Cell Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy and Imaging,” was posted to…

Life & Chemistry

Biocapture Surfaces Enhance Brain Chemistry Research

By varying the identity and spacing of the tethered molecules, researchers can make the technique applicable to a wide range of bait molecules including drugs,…

Life & Chemistry

Penn Researchers Illuminate Herpes Virus Cell Invasion Mechanism

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide a better understanding of the mechanism that viruses use to conquer…

Health & Medicine

Early Treatment Halts Epilepsy Progression in Rats

According to the study published this month in Epilepsia, early treatment of epilepsy-prone rats with the anti-convulsant medication ethosuximide before the…

Life & Chemistry

Wild Chimpanzees’ Menopause Patterns Challenged by New Study

A pioneering study of wild chimpanzees has found that these close human relatives do not routinely experience menopause, rebutting previous studies of captive…

Information Technology

Air Quality Forecasts: Space Tech’s Role in Pollution Prediction

Some scientists predict that an operational system of routine, global forecasts of air pollution near the ground, where it affects human health, is only a few…

Earth Sciences

Dust from Asian Deserts Found in Western U.S. Air Quality

Now a UW researcher is finding that dust from the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts in China and Mongolia is routinely present in the air over the western United…

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