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…
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…
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…
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…
Some 40 years after the release of the classic science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, researchers in the NanoRobotics Laboratory of École Polytechnique de…
The importance of cutting emissions from these ‘anthropogenic’, or manmade, gases has been highlighted recently with European Union leaders endorsing binding…
These are diminutive antennas intended for running in complicated conditions of a human organism. Such antennas will be able to provide uninterrupted radio…
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…
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…
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…
Three activities are proposed: one focussing on the health workforce (scaling-up numbers, improving performance, increasing quality); a second on clinical…
This previously unknown globular cluster, detected with the aid of the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile, is about…
The purpose of the research, which involves teams from the universities of Kent and Warwick, Imperial College London and University College London, is to…
WHO?Janez POTOCNIK, European Commissioner for Science and Research, European CommissionMariann FISCHER BOEL, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural…
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…
The fungus Cryptococcus neoformans can infect the human brain leading to disease (cryptococcosis) that is usually fatal if untreated. It is ‘dressed to kill’…