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Life & Chemistry

Factors Influencing Bird Flight Speed Revealed in New Study

In a paper published this week in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Thomas Alerstam, Mikael Rosen, and colleagues from the University of Lund in Sweden…

Studies and Analyses

COPD Patients on Inhaled Steroids Face Higher Pneumonia Risk

“In a large cohort of patients with COPD, we found that current inhaled corticosteroid use was associated with a significant 70 percent increase in the risk of…

Health & Medicine

Tumor Paint Enhances Surgeons’ Ability to Target Cancer

A tumor paint developed by researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will help surgeons see…

Communications Media

Breakthroughs in Voice Biometrics Research by Dr. Ariyaeeinia

Dr Aladdin Ariyaeeinia at the University’s School of Electronic Communication & Electrical Engineering and his team have been conducting research into voice…

Life & Chemistry

UAB Leads European Protease Research for Drug Development

Entitled “Chemical Genomics by Activity Monitoring of Proteases” (CAMP), the project was designed with the final objective of developing drugs to control…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Decoding mushroom’s secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels & safer soils

The Agaricus mushroom family are highly efficient ‘secondary decomposers’ of plant material such as leaves and litter –breaking down the material that is too…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Uncovers Brain’s Role in Declarative Memory

Declarative memory is described as a flexible, conscience and associative type of memory (i.e., it is based on relations between different stimuli). It differs…

Health & Medicine

Effective Insecticide-Repellent Synergy Against Malaria Mosquitoes

The protection recommended by the World Health Organization for people at risk from this devastating disease is the use of mosquito nets impregnated with…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Space Sensor Enhances Extreme Weather Monitoring for Floods

“Predicting when and where floods are likely to happen is becoming more and more important,” Geoff Pegram of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,…

Business and Finance

Europe’s top economic research on display

This project, an initiative of the Nereus consortium of academic libraries, will create a networked service providing open access to economics information,…

Life & Chemistry

Manchester Expert Aids Pharaoh DNA Analysis of Hatshepsut

Egyptologists in Cairo announced last month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the jaw socket and broken root of the…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Analysis & Biostatistics – 3 Is Better Than 2 But Not Than 4

This finding from a current project by the Austrian Science Fund FWF was presented at the 5th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures…

Life & Chemistry

New Crystal Structure Enhances Asthma Drug Development

Asthma attacks are caused by an acute inflammatory reaction in the airways, a reaction that is largely due to actions of LTC4 synthase. For this reason asthma…

Health & Medicine

New Wearable Tech: Heart Monitoring on Your Sleeve

Cardiovascular disease is kills almost 20 million people each year, with around 22 million people at risk of sudden heart failure at any one time around the…

Life & Chemistry

Insights Into HIV Evolution From African Green Monkeys

A new family tree for African green monkeys shows that an HIV-like virus, simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, first infected those monkeys after the lineage…

Technology Offerings

Enzymatisch aktive Polymerfasern

Die enzymatisch aktiven Polymerfasern vereinen die vorteilhaften Eigenschaften elektro-gesponnener Fasern hinsichtlich geringer Faserdurchmesser, hoher…

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