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Life & Chemistry

Gene Linked to Circadian Rhythms Affects Bipolar Disorder

In a study available online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from UT Southwestern show that the Clock gene, which controls…

Studies and Analyses

Recent Studies Reveal Americans’ Low Fruit and Vegetable Intake

However, two studies published in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine clearly show that Americans are not meeting the mark. This is…

Environmental Conservation

Nuthatches Use Chickadee Alarm Calls to Identify Predators

The University of Washington doctoral student has found the first example of an animal making sophisticated decisions about the danger posed by a predator from…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Reduces Hip Fractures in Parkinson’s Patients

The two-year study involved 242 elderly men with Parkinson disease in Tokyo, Japan. Half of the group received the drug risedronate and vitamin D2. The…

Physics & Astronomy

World’s First Medical Robotics Breakthrough at École Polytechnique

Some 40 years after the release of the classic science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, researchers in the NanoRobotics Laboratory of École Polytechnique de…

Earth Sciences

New Greenhouse Gas Animations from Envisat SCIAMACHY Data

The importance of cutting emissions from these ‘anthropogenic’, or manmade, gases has been highlighted recently with European Union leaders endorsing binding…

Medical Engineering

Innovative Antennas for Reliable Communication in Humans

These are diminutive antennas intended for running in complicated conditions of a human organism. Such antennas will be able to provide uninterrupted radio…

Interdisciplinary Research

Euroscience Open Forum 2008: Showcase World-Class Science

Presentations and debates on the leading scientific questions of the day, from research into stem cells to the challenge of climate change, are planned for the…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Explore Brain Cell Degeneration Breakthroughs

Courtney and his team, based at the A. I. Virtanen Institute of the University of Kuopio, joined forces with Docent Eleanor Coffey’s team at the Turku Centre…

Environmental Conservation

ESA’s Medspiration project branches out to support biodiversity

Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island have been integrated into Medspiration until 31 March in order to support the study of wildlife migration processes from the…

Information Technology

Telemedicine Initiative to Boost Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Three activities are proposed: one focussing on the health workforce (scaling-up numbers, improving performance, increasing quality); a second on clinical…

Physics & Astronomy

Kent Astronomer Discovers 100,000 New Stars in Cluster

This previously unknown globular cluster, detected with the aid of the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile, is about…

Physics & Astronomy

Funding Boost for Glass Research in Bone Regeneration

The purpose of the research, which involves teams from the universities of Kent and Warwick, Imperial College London and University College London, is to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

"Perspectives for FOOD 2030" (17-18 April 2007, Brussels, BE)

WHO?Janez POTOCNIK, European Commissioner for Science and Research, European CommissionMariann FISCHER BOEL, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural…

Life & Chemistry

Swell Gel Offers New Hope for Back Pain Relief

Dr Brian Saunders from The School of Materials and Professor Tony Freemont from The Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences have developed tiny gel particles…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Cryptococcus Neoformans: A Deadly Fungal Threat

The fungus Cryptococcus neoformans can infect the human brain leading to disease (cryptococcosis) that is usually fatal if untreated. It is ‘dressed to kill’…

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