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Environmental Conservation

Alaska’s Unique Pleistocene Wolves: A Surprising Disappearance

“Our results are surprising as the unique attributes of Alaskan Pleistocene wolves had not been previously recognized and show that wolves suffered an…

Life & Chemistry

Global Call to Advance Research in Synthetic Biology

With research backgrounds ranging from materials engineering to molecular biophysics, seventeen leading scientists issued a statement today announcing that,…

Life & Chemistry

TU Delft Studies Topotecan’s Impact on Single DNA Molecules

The medicine investigated, topotecan, interacts with an important protein (TopoIB), causing a (cancer) cell to malfunction. The TopoIB protein is responsible…

Health & Medicine

New Lab Advances Alternatives to Animal Testing

A laboratory devoted to finding effective alternatives to animal testing has been expanded and completely remodelled in a £240,000 overhaul designed to hasten…

Health & Medicine

Effects of Ecstasy on Memory Function: New Research Insights

In a paper entitled Ecstasy (MDMA) and memory function: a meta-analytic update, which will be published in Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental…

Social Sciences

New Centre for Charitable Giving: Research Proposals Invited

Charitable giving and the distribution of such donations is an area that has previously lacked research. Much of the emphasis of previous research centres on…

Environmental Conservation

Billions Wasted: Outdated Policies Hinder Poverty and Environment Efforts

Out-of-date policies are undermining unprecedented opportunities for recent aid commitments to improve the environment and combat poverty, according to…

Studies and Analyses

English Market Towns Being ‘Gentrified’

Researcher Craig Wheway, of the Department of Geography, has been examining the ‘gentrification’ of market towns across England. He will present his findings…

Health & Medicine

Spuds that Like you… in your Summer Salad

Spanish researchers found that growing pigs fed large quantities of raw potato starch (RPS) had a healthier bowel. Not a surprise, but they also found that RPS…

Technology Offerings

Boost Data Efficiency with Multiuser Detection in CDMA Systems

The invention is a procedure to reduce the bit fault rate in UMTS networks and thus to allow to process more data simultaneously, to reduce the required…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Farmers Save Money and Cut Nitrogen Use with On-Farm Research

“With this program, we focus on determining under what situations extra nitrogen would be good to add and when a farmer can save money by reducing fertilizer…

Life & Chemistry

Using Computer Modeling to Enhance Toxic Waste Breakdown by Bacteria

Bacteria called Dehalococcoides ethenogenes, discovered in Ithaca sewage sludge in 1997 by James Gossett, Cornell professor of civil and environmental…

Earth Sciences

Geophysicists Discover Molten Rock Layer Beneath Southwest

But Arizona geophysicists Daniel Toffelmier and James Tyburczy detected the molten layer with a comparatively new and overlooked technique for exploring the…

Health & Medicine

First ERA-EDTA ‘CKD Anaemia Physician Bahaviours Survey' Reveals Complexities Of CKD Anaemia Management

The European Renal Association-European Dialysis Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) today announced results from the first ever Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)…

Life & Chemistry

New Compound Targets Tough Fungal Infections Effectively

A new mechanism to attack hard-to-treat fungal infections has been revealed by scientists from the biotech company Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc., California, and…

Life & Chemistry

New Capsules Could Transform Diabetes Management for Patients

If this becomes a medical reality, diabetes patients with transplanted insulin-producing donor cells in their abdominal cavity do not have to take…

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