Although numerous antipsychotic treatments are available, they can cause significant side effects and many patients experience only a partial relief of their…
The AIDS disease effects over 40 million people worldwide. Certain drugs have the ability to reduce patient viral loads and improve patient health by binding…
Membrane proteins are also necessary for cells to recognize each other in the body and for a nervous system, for example, to be formed. Researchers at…
The provisional global figure for 2007 using data from January to November, currently places the year as the seventh warmest on records dating back to 1850. The announcement comes as the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Michel Jarraud, speaks at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Bali. …
The moss Physcomitrella patens is a primitive plant, similar to the first plants which began to grow on land around 450 million years ago. Just one cell thick,…
The research finds that while British employers have maintained long-term career relationships with employees in spite of competitive market pressures, they…
Far from being simply media creations, it seems that the caricatures of ‘silver surfers’ and ‘Saga-louts’ have some basis in truth as the lives of older people…
Most patients who have titanium implants in their mouth have to wait between four and seven months before the implant is considered stable enough for crowns or…
The European telecoms sector is suffering from a lack of investment as a result of European regulation to enable market entry, finds new economic research…
Being able to sequence a human genome for $1,000 or less (which is the price most insurance companies are willing to pay) could open a new era in personal…
In an attempt to shed light on this process, Dr. Maya Saleh, researcher at the critical care division and the centre for the study of host resistance of the…
Membrane proteins are also necessary for cells to recognize each other in the body and for a nervous system, for example, to be formed. Researchers at…
In Sweden some 100 children contract these infections each year. Now medical researchers at Lund University are on the track of a possible future vaccine. The…
The EuroBioForum conference in Lisbon, Portugal on 6 and 7 December, organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Commission (EC), with…
”Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater…
Findings from a new observational survey show that around one in five patients with troublesome symptoms related to Parkinson's disease may benefit from…