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Life & Chemistry

BBSRC Scheme Boosts Funding for New Researchers

Without a track record it can be difficult for new researchers to get research funding. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) New…

Social Sciences

Interpreters’ Crucial Roles in Trials: New Insights Revealed

Researcher Juan Miguel Ortega Herraez from the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada…

Health & Medicine

How Stress Impacts Burn Healing: Key Insights for Care

Even though few people suffer burns in Sweden, about 16 per 10,000 inhabitants, burn treatment occupies a unique position in health care. First, a major burn…

Health & Medicine

New Insights: JAM-1 Protein’s Role in High Blood Pressure

Dr. Hidefumi Waki, working in a research group led by Professor Julian Paton, has found a novel role for the protein, JAM-1 (junctional adhesion molecule-1),…

Health & Medicine

Targeted Therapy Progress for Specific Leukemia Type

The scientists have discovered that patients in this group have a duplication of the MYB gene, which increases MYB concentrations. Further research has…

Information Technology

HOMEWORK: Interactive Learning System Connects Kids and Parents

The research, based at the University of Sussex and the London Knowledge Lab, developed the ‘HOMEWORK’ interactive learning system which enables children…

Technology Offerings

New Class of Ecto-NTPDase Inhibitors for Human Therapy

Inhibitors for use in human therapy Invention

The invention provides a new class of nucleosides

Studies and Analyses

Eye Contact’s Role in Police Handling Hysterical Situations

The study by Mardi Kidwell, assistant professor of communication, “’Calm Down!’: the role of gaze in the interactional management of hysteria by the police,”…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovered in Toxic Mold: Implications for Health

The fungus, which is found in the soil, on plant debris and indoor air, is easily managed by the healthy immune system. But as medical advances contribute to a…

Life & Chemistry

Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil Reveals Original Soft Tissue Protein

A North Carolina State University researcher and her colleagues at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found out when they…

Earth Sciences

New Insights on Tonga Mantle Wedge Shape Volcanic Arc Evolution

The volcanoes are fed by molten rock rising within a wedge of the Earth's mantle above the subducting plate. Although geologists have a pretty good picture of…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers develop virus-size 'nanolamps' that could aid use of flexible electronic devices as sensors

In a collaboration of experts in organic materials and nanofabrication, researchers have created one of the smallest organic light-emitting devices to date,…

Environmental Conservation

Coral Crisis: Major Death Toll Linked to Aceh Earthquake

Scientists have reported what is thought to be one of the world’s greatest mass death of corals ever recorded as a result of the earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Proteins GPR3, GPR6, and GPR12 Aid Nerve Repair

The research examined three related receptor proteins, called GPR3, GPR6 and GPR12, on nerve cells in the brains of rats. When researchers increased the amount…

Environmental Conservation

Coastal Disasters: Surprising Findings on Hurricanes and Tsunamis

One of the research team's surprising conclusions: when it comes to the damage they wreak, hurricanes and tsunamis can bring surprisingly similar forces to…

Studies and Analyses

How Sound Influences Visual Perception: New Brain Insights

Their findings, which provide new insight into neural mechanisms by which visual perception can be altered by concurrent auditory events, will be published…

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