The Serious Adverse Event Consortium (SAEC) is a non-profit global partnership between leading pharmaceutical companies, drug regulatory authorities and…
This programme, Community Interventions for Health, will determine what can be done in communities to prevent the further spread of obesity, tobacco use and…
Parents assess the risks and benefits of vaccines by focusing on ideas about their particular child’s immune system – discerned from issues as diverse as…
This prize of € 5000 is awarded to a young researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to scientific progress in fatigue and damage tolerance (*) as…
The unusual qualities of this special material (called CentrAl, an abbreviation of Central Reinforced Aluminium) can make a significant contribution to the…
The study, presented today (Wednesday) at the European Cancer Conference (ECCO 14) in Barcelona, showed that the experimental drug, axitinib, shrank tumours…
A cancer diagnosis is among those life experiences that can be so stressful that it is traumatic. While only a fraction of people who develop post-traumatic…
Professor Nick Jennings, ECS Professor of Computer Science, led a team which won the Trading-Agent Competition (TAC) – CAT Tournament…
Notable exceptions to this rule exist, the most famous one being the melting of ice. Recently, some experimentalists have discovered a number of other…
Majorite normally occurs only at a depth of several hundred kilometres – under very high pressures and temperatures. The Bonn researchers have now succeeded in…
However, for a long time scientists have suspected that genetic and developmental interactions may also influence species-specific properties. Now, researchers…
In snakes, venom composition varies both between species and within a particular species. Land snakes feed on a range of animals and birds, so scientists think…
Now a study in the online open access journal, BMC Microbiology demonstrates that with the addition of probiotic bacteria, preventative measures can…
Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have found a new marker which may aid in early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a…
The study, conducted at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, appears in the October issue of the journal Radiology.“All of the cancers…
An under-used colon cancer screening test now available in the U.S. effectively detects colorectal cancer and may help to improve colon cancer screening rates,…