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Health & Medicine

Post-Meal Sugar Peaks: New Risks for Diabetics Uncovered

Until recently, the main focus of therapy for people with diabetes has been on lowering blood sugar or glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, with a strong…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Unite for Red Sky at Night Discovery

A collaboration of over 50 astronomers, The IPHAS consortium, led from the UK, with partners in Europe, USA, Australia, has released today (10th December 2007)…

Health & Medicine

Lipids in the brain an important factor for Alzheimer's disease? Flemish scientists crack the code

Until now, the conditions under which this type of protofibril is formed and leads to the disease remained unknown. VIB researchers have now discovered that…

Health & Medicine

Developmental Factors in Depression Risk: Insights from Ian Colman

Ian Colman, Ph.D., the lead author, notes, ““Rarely have classification systems in psychiatry considered the nature of symptoms of depression and anxiety over…

Studies and Analyses

Youth Cigarette Access Declines in Minnesota Study Findings

These findings are specific to the Minnesota Adolescent Community Cohort study, a longitudinal telephone survey of youth less than 18 years old. The…

Awards Funding

International Team Awarded for Bladder Problems Research

Researchers from the UK and the Netherlands have teamed up to take the next steps in a collaborative project that was started in Newcastle upon Tyne and…

Business and Finance

Innovative Business Models Drive Research Commercialisation Success

Speaking at the World Universities Network (WUN) workshop in Leeds today [11 December], Ventures Director Sharpe says that in exploitation activities,…

Business and Finance

Empowering Students: The Case for Universal Enterprise Education

This is the view of US academic Dr Anthony Warren, Director of the Farrell Centre for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Smeal College of Business,…

Environmental Conservation

New Model Enhances Understanding of Carbon Dioxide Uptake

The new model takes into account the role of nitrogen dynamics in influencing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change and rising atmospheric…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: miRNA’s Role in Leukemia Uncovered

Furthermore, they discovered an entirely new function for these molecules. The researchers show that microRNAs can sometimes directly control a protein’s…

Studies and Analyses

First Accurate Genetic Model of Autism Created in Mice

By introducing a gene mutation in mice, investigators have created what they believe to be the first accurate model of autism not associated with a broader…

Life & Chemistry

Antibacterial Chemical Disrupts Hormone Function in Studies

The findings come as an increasing number of studies – of both lab animals and humans – are revealing that some synthetic chemicals in household products can…

Environmental Conservation

New research may lead to better climate models for global warming, El Niño

The program will study the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the marine area off South America's west coast — a region where the interplay among low clouds, strong…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Muscle Stem Cell Growth Regulation

A group of scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, CA, analyzed the mechanism by which certain cellular signaling cues cause…

Life & Chemistry

UAB Researchers Capture Cystic Fibrosis Protein Interactions

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) studied a CF-causing protein and another protein called epithelial sodium channel, or ENaC. Both…

Physics & Astronomy

James Webb Telescope Tests Infrared Light for Holiday Insights

Observing the universe in the infrared light portion of the spectrum is important because many objects scientists want to observe in space are far too cold to…

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