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Elsevier’s Inteleos Poised to Launch Integrating Technology for Drug Tracking and Analysis

With the Inteleos UI, pharmaceutical and biotech professionals will be able to compare and contrast information from multiple data sources – both internal and…

Life & Chemistry

New Genes Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis Uncovered by Researchers

Professor Jane Worthington and her team at the University's arthritis research campaign (arc) Epidemiology Unit made their findings as part of the largest ever…

Studies and Analyses

Urgent Research Needed on Rising Antiepileptic Drug Prescriptions

When the UK team studied antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) given to nearly 8,000 children over a 13-year period, they discovered that overall prescribing had risen by…

Life & Chemistry

Female Deer Prefer Stags With Bold Vocalizations

The research was carried out by Ben Charlton (as part of his doctoral research), with Dr David Reby and Dr Karen McComb from the Centre for Mammal Vocal…

Health & Medicine

Coughing Up Sputum: Key to Diagnosing Tuberculosis in Women

Mishal Khan, Clinical Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK and colleagues did their study to find out why in…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants for Pediatric Leukemia

Dr John Wagner, Division of Pediatric Haematology/Oncology and the Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Programme, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, and…

Business and Finance

European Commission and EIB Unveil New Innovation Financing Tool

This new instrument will help to make more financing available for promoters of research & innovation projects, which often face more difficulties than…

Life & Chemistry

Malaria and Epstein-Barr Virus Tied to Pediatric Cancer in Africa

In a new study published online in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm explain how certain Plasmodium…

Health & Medicine

Metabolic Syndrome: Key Insights for Heart Health

Ana Azevedo and colleagues, from the University of Porto Medical School, Portugal, investigated the possibility of a graded association between the number of…

Business and Finance

How Annual Reports Miss the Value of Innovation

For the most innovative companies this may means that analysts do not have enough information to work out their true market value.Reforming this area should be…

Life & Chemistry

Research brightens prospects for using nature’s smallest candles in medical applications

These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human…

Life & Chemistry

New EU REACh Regulation: Streamlining Chemical Safety Compliance

The new EU REACh regulation (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) imposes the responsibility for safety in handling the processed…

Studies and Analyses

Health Insights: Single Parents Face Unique Challenges

Marcus Westin has studied health and the utilization of health care among single parents and their children to see if they differ from families with married or…

Life & Chemistry

Brainpower Shortage Challenges Baltic Sea Innovation Leaders

Today's knowledge society is increasingly demanding a highly skilled work force and a steady stream of talented young scientists. The Life Science and…

Health & Medicine

Proven Effectiveness of Meningitis Vaccines: A Closer Look

Two types of vaccine are currently on the market: the polysaccharide vaccine and the conjugated vaccine. The polysaccharide form, elaborated from a sugar…

Life & Chemistry

Insect Vectors: Tackling Malaria and Sleeping Sickness

Malaria, sleeping sickness and so on lead to the death of millions of people in the world. African countries are particularly strongly hit. The expansion of…

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