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Study Reveals How Circulating Fats Harm Transplanted Pancreas Cells

Using animal models, the researchers discovered that pancreatic islet cells transplanted into the liver fail not only because of immune rejection, but also…

Medical Engineering

New MRI Insights Enhance Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis Accuracy

“Based on these findings, physicians may be able to diagnose multiple sclerosis more accurately and identify patients at risk for developing progressive…

Social Sciences

China's 1-child policy could backfire on its elderly

China’s efforts to control population growth in the present may cause problems for the county’s senior citizens in the future.This prediction comes from a…

Studies and Analyses

Fireproof Homes: Key to Reducing Forest Fire Spread

New research shows a major factor is whether homes are fireproofed — not just yours, but those of your neighbors as well.“There is actually more flammable…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Link Reveals Disease Protection and New Risks Explained

The finding, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help scientists better understand the pathways that genetic disease…

Studies and Analyses

Married Men Do Less Housework Than Live-In Boyfriends

The study of more than 17,000 people in 28 countries found that married men report doing less housework than men who are live-in boyfriends.This study was…

Life & Chemistry

New Molecule Insights into Circadian Clock Mechanisms

Molecular interactions that regulate the circadian clock happen within milliseconds, yet the body clock resets about every 24 hours. What, then, stretches the…

Information Technology

CoreGRID Symposium: Advancing European Grid Technology Research

Having been active for three years, CoreGRID is now committed to move further towards sustainable integration and to enhance the economic fall-outs of Grid…

Health & Medicine

Elsevier Partners With Tissue Viability Society for Journal Launch

Under the agreement, Elsevier will assume publication of Journal of Tissue Viability, official journal of the Tissue Viability Society (http://www.tvs.org.uk/)…

Communications Media

SciVee: New Video Platform for Scientists’ Research Papers

SciVee allows scientists to upload published papers, as well as a podcast presenting the paper. As the site is relatively new, content is still fairly sparse….

Life & Chemistry

Aluminium in Breast Tissue: A Potential Breast Cancer Factor

Scientists have found that the aluminium content of breast tissue and breast tissue fat was significantly higher in the outer regions of the breast, in close…

Health & Medicine

£447,000 Aid Boost for Hearing Research Innovation

Professor Ray Meddis of the Department of Psychology and his team of Wendy Lecluyse and Robert Ferry, have been awarded £447,000 by the Engineering and…

Physics & Astronomy

Now it’s not just Spiderman that can scale the Empire State Building

Recent research concluded that van der Waals forces – the weak attraction that molecules have for each other when they are brought very close together – are…

Physics & Astronomy

Turbulence Insights: Lessons for Safer Commercial Flights

Turbulence is an important process in our weather, and can be more than an inconvenience; causing hundreds of injuries on commercial flights. Working together,…

Life & Chemistry

The world’s oldest bacteria

All cells decompose with time. But some cells are better than others to postpone the decomposing and thus delay ageing and eventually death. And there are even…

Health & Medicine

Mothers’ baby cradling habits are indicator of stress, suggests new research

Although most mums feel stressed in the early stages of their baby’s life, the study by Durham University researchers suggests their baby cradling habits are a…

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