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Life & Chemistry

London School of Hygiene Joins Global Adverse Drug Reactions Team

The Serious Adverse Event Consortium (SAEC) is a non-profit global partnership between leading pharmaceutical companies, drug regulatory authorities and…

Health & Medicine

Oxford Health Alliance launches world’s most comprehensive chronic disease prevention research programme

This programme, Community Interventions for Health, will determine what can be done in communities to prevent the further spread of obesity, tobacco use and…

Health & Medicine

Childhood vaccination: New research reveals that parents' decisions are based on knowledge, not bandwagon rumour

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…

Materials Sciences

New Aerospace Materials Prize: €5000 for Young Researchers

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…

Materials Sciences

New Delft Material Could Save Billions in Aircraft Wings

The unusual qualities of this special material (called CentrAl, an abbreviation of Central Reinforced Aluminium) can make a significant contribution to the…

Studies and Analyses

Experimental Drug Axitinib Shows Promise for Advanced Kidney Cancer

The study, presented today (Wednesday) at the European Cancer Conference (ECCO 14) in Barcelona, showed that the experimental drug, axitinib, shrank tumours…

Studies and Analyses

Post-Traumatic Stress in Teens of Cancer Patients: New Study

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…

Business and Finance

ECS Develops Automated Agents for Stock Market Trading

Professor Nick Jennings, ECS Professor of Computer Science, led a team which won the Trading-Agent Competition (TAC) – CAT Tournament…

Physics & Astronomy

A liquid metal that loses its lustre…

Notable exceptions to this rule exist, the most famous one being the melting of ice. Recently, some experimentalists have discovered a number of other…

Earth Sciences

Life-Giving Rocks: A Key to Earth’s Future Sustainability

Majorite normally occurs only at a depth of several hundred kilometres – under very high pressures and temperatures. The Bonn researchers have now succeeded in…

Life & Chemistry

Mice Teeth Illuminate Challenges of Human Wisdom Teeth

However, for a long time scientists have suspected that genetic and developmental interactions may also influence species-specific properties. Now, researchers…

Life & Chemistry

Victim Influence on Snake Venom Composition Explained

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…

Health & Medicine

Probiotics Enhance Infant Diarrhea Prevention: New Study Insights

Now a study in the online open access journal, BMC Microbiology demonstrates that with the addition of probiotic bacteria, preventative measures can…

Health & Medicine

Radiologists identify early brain marker of Alzheimer's disease

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…

Health & Medicine

MR Spectroscopy Detects Breast Cancer, Lowers Biopsy Rates

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…

Studies and Analyses

Effective Colon Cancer Screening Test Now Available in U.S.

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,…

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