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…
“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…
A tumor paint developed by researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will help surgeons see…
Dr Aladdin Ariyaeeinia at the University’s School of Electronic Communication & Electrical Engineering and his team have been conducting research into voice…
Entitled “Chemical Genomics by Activity Monitoring of Proteases” (CAMP), the project was designed with the final objective of developing drugs to control…
The Agaricus mushroom family are highly efficient ‘secondary decomposers’ of plant material such as leaves and litter –breaking down the material that is too…
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…
The protection recommended by the World Health Organization for people at risk from this devastating disease is the use of mosquito nets impregnated with…
“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,…
This project, an initiative of the Nereus consortium of academic libraries, will create a networked service providing open access to economics information,…
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…
This finding from a current project by the Austrian Science Fund FWF was presented at the 5th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures…
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…
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…
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…
Die enzymatisch aktiven Polymerfasern vereinen die vorteilhaften Eigenschaften elektro-gesponnener Fasern hinsichtlich geringer Faserdurchmesser, hoher…