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Life & Chemistry

New DNA Chips Uncover Genes Linked to Diabetic Risk

New genes conferring a predisposition to DT2 have been identified. They include the zinc transporter of pancreatic insulin-secreting cells (ZnT8), which is a…

Life & Chemistry

Flu Shot May Provide Cross Protection Against H5N1

The yearly influenza vaccine that health officials urge people to get each fall might also offer certain individuals some cross protection against the H5N1…

Earth Sciences

NASA Study Links Warmer Future to Increased Drought Risks

The researchers compared historical records of the climate impact of changes in the sun's output with model projections of how a warmer climate driven by…

Life & Chemistry

University Collaboration Enhances Human Vision Research

Motion-defined transparency is a common occurrence in the natural environment where multiple directions of motion occur in the same spatial region, for example…

Environmental Conservation

£2.5million in EPSRC grants enables Queen’s University Belfast to help reduce plastics waste problem

Tiny molecules strung in long repeating chains, polymers in the natural world have been around since the beginning of time and today industrial polymers have a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Dutch Government Must Boost Sustainable Energy Initiatives

The Dutch government's energy policy is characterised by capriciousness, lack of a constant vision with respect to the direction of search and little…

Health & Medicine

Newborn Screening Breakthrough for Metabolic Disease Detection

With the help of a new screening method, all newborns can now be screened. Young children can develop complications due to MCAD deficiency if this is not…

Transportation and Logistics

Pay-As-You-Drive: Shifting Shopping Habits and Commutes

Then people will choose to travel to work at a different time or to use public transport. The biggest change is in the non-daily shopping trips to another…

Physics & Astronomy

New Microscopy Method Enhances Molecular Research Insights

Dutch researcher Rajesh S. Pillai investigated a new way of illuminating preparations under the microscope. For example, he could investigate the…

Business and Finance

European Policy Impacts Dairy Farms: A Growing Concern

However, although direct deficiency payments do not directly affect production, the changed policy will lead to a strong decrease in the number of dairy farms…

Environmental Conservation

Networking with Southeast Europe – SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call

The main theme of the call is networking of scientists, who can only jointly apply for multilateral research projects, network projects or summer schools….

Earth Sciences

Scientists Uncover Oil Secrets in Ocean Margins

Scientists funded through the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Ocean Margins LINK programme are helping to plug the gap in knowledge about these…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Mummy’s amazing American maize

The University of Manchester researchers working with colleagues in Buenos Aires compared the DNA of ancient maize found in the funerary offerings of the mummy…

Environmental Conservation

Elephants’ Love for Marula Fruit: An Evolutionary Insight

Recent research in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa puts this predilection into an evolutionary perspective. “Many fleshy fruits that we…

Environmental Conservation

Institute of Physics Launches New Environmental Science Hub

The Institute of Physics recognises this and is launching a new website, http://environmentalresearchweb.org, a central source of information on these issues…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Trials Could Reduce TB Treatment Times by One-Third

Trials of a new drug combination to treat tuberculosis could cut the length of time patients have to take their medicine by a third.Researchers at St George’s,…

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