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Life & Chemistry

Overcoming Barriers in Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants

The major stumbling block, says Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin (US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) in a paper in PLoS Medicine, is that the immune system in…

Health & Medicine

Loperamide Therapy for Acute Diarrhea in Children: New Evidence

The wisdom of this approach is supported by new evidence published in PLoS Medicine. Researchers reviewed the evidence from 13 trials, involving over 900…

Health & Medicine

HIV-1 Control Program in Zimbabwe: Findings and Insights

The study, published in PLoS Medicine, by Simon Gregson and colleagues from Imperial College London, randomised different communities in eastern Zimbabwe over…

Life & Chemistry

4th Green Chemistry Symposium: Measuring Sustainable Practices

The Green Chemistry and the Consumer annual symposia bring together a diverse audience of representatives from consumer product supply chains, academics, NGOs,…

Materials Sciences

Next-Gen Shearography Equipment for Composite Inspection

Nowadays it is possible to detect, without any surface preparation, delaminations, disbonds, undulations, kissing bonds, crushed core and many other types of…

Studies and Analyses

Tai Chi Practice Enhances Immune Health in Older Adults

The 25-week study, which involved a group of 112 adults ranging in age from 59 to 86, showed that practicing tai chi chih alone boosted immunity to a level…

Life & Chemistry

Leukemic Cells’ Safe Haven in Bone Marrow: A Deep Dive

The cancer drug asparaginase fails to help cure some children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) because molecules released by certain cells in the bone…

Earth Sciences

Evidence of Early Plate Tectonics Found in Greenland Crust

Identification of the oldest preserved pieces of Earth's crust in southern Greenland has provided evidence of active plate tectonics as early as 3.8 billion…

Environmental Conservation

LSU Experts Collaborate on Delta Preservation Insights

Researchers at LSU, led by John Day, estuary expert and professor of oceanography at the university, have joined forces with more than 10 other world-renowned…

Materials Sciences

Natural Polyester Sutures: Stronger, Safer Healing Options

A biopolymer suture cleared last month by the FDA is made of materials that the human body produces naturally, so they can be safely absorbed once the wound is…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Method for Laying Microscale Tiles on Surfaces

Craftsmen tile walls or floors by hand; but how can you get an ordered monolayer onto a substrate when the “tiles” are microscopically small instead of big and…

Environmental Conservation

Migratory Birds and H5N1: Unraveling the Truth Behind Virus Spread

Ecologists of the Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat and of the GEMI-CNRS in the Camargue (France), Michel Gauthier-Clerc, Camille Lebarbenchon and…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Make Mouse Brains Transparent to Map Neuronal Networks

They have succeeded in making whole mouse brains transparent and then to reconstruct parts of their neuronal networks with a computer. During their…

Social Sciences

Exploring Erotic Literature in 1700s Society

And just as gaggles of modern day adolescents might pass round their copy of the latest lads’ mag, the reading of erotic literature was already a social…

Environmental Conservation

DNA Traces Source of Escaped Farmed Salmon in Norway

In September last year, IMR was asked to assist the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries in finding the source of an unusual amount of escaped salmon which were…

Life & Chemistry

Two Questions to Lower Chronic Pain Risk in Adults

“If we find the patients in time, their risk of developing chronic pain as adults declines,” says dentist Ing-Marie Nilsson, who recently defended her doctoral…

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