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New Treatment Offers Hope for Schizophrenia Relief

Although numerous antipsychotic treatments are available, they can cause significant side effects and many patients experience only a partial relief of their…

Information Technology

Europe's DEISA and GridAustralia demonstrating interoperation with distributed supercomputing for HIV drug simulations

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…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular code broken for drug industry's pet proteins

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…

Environmental Conservation

Bali Conference Highlights 2007 as Seventh Warmest Year

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. …

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Moss: A Natural Solution for Sustainable Food Production

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,…

Business and Finance

Balancing Workplace Opportunities and Stresses in 2023

The research finds that while British employers have maintained long-term career relationships with employees in spite of competitive market pressures, they…

Social Sciences

Retirees Embrace Spending: Exploring the ‘Silver Surfer’ Trend

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…

Health & Medicine

Directly Loaded Implants: A Breakthrough in Dental Stability

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…

Business and Finance

European Telecoms Investment Hampered by Access Regulation

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…

Physics & Astronomy

New Technique Cuts DNA Sequencing Costs to $1,000

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…

Studies and Analyses

Caspase-1 Protein: Key Role in Inflammatory Response Explained

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…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular code broken for drug industry's pet proteins

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…

Health & Medicine

New Vaccine Development Principle Discovered at Lund University

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…

Science Education

EuroBioForum Sparks Future Life Sciences Initiatives in Europe

The EuroBioForum conference in Lisbon, Portugal on 6 and 7 December, organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Commission (EC), with…

Environmental Conservation

Working for a Better Environment: Pathway to Peace?

”Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater…

Health & Medicine

Survey Shows One In Five Patients With Parkinson’s Disease And Troublesome Symptoms Should Be …

Findings from a new observational survey show that around one in five patients with troublesome symptoms related to Parkinson's disease may benefit from…

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