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Health & Medicine

Buffering Substances Cut Cavity Risk in Aging Adults

Caries, or tooth decay, both in connection with fillings in adult individuals and in the form of new cavities among the aging population of Sweden, is a…

Physics & Astronomy

Giant 42-Metre Telescope to Explore the Universe’s Mysteries

This three year study, with a budget of 57 million euro, will prepare the way for construction of the world’s largest optical/infrared telescope that will…

Life & Chemistry

Progesterone’s Role in Breast Cancer: New Insights Unveiled

But now, in work about to be published in the “Journal of Cellular Biochemistry”, a team of Portuguese scientists shows that progesterone seems to sustain the…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Postnatal Incontinence: Insights from Research

In her thesis, Women’s health after childbirth, postgraduate student and midwife Erica Schytt takes an all-inclusive approach to the question of how childbirth…

Social Sciences

Men’s Psychological Gender: A 40-Year Research Review

These authors systematically surveyed forty years of gender difference research in four journals published by the American Psychological Association. Where…

Life & Chemistry

Technological Platforms Enhance European Cardiovascular Research

Advanced technology is crucial to today’s biomedical research. But it is expensive and it requires specific expertise, which is expensive too. Then sharing…

Physics & Astronomy

University of Surrey’s NanoGrowth Machine Boosts Innovation

IP Group has financed the joint venture company in which ATI scientists are developing a ‘NanoGrowthTM’ Machine in conjunction with specialists from CEVP Ltd….

Health & Medicine

New Diagnostic Chip for Multiple STIs Unveiled by OGT & Partners

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), St George’s University of London and St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust are pleased to announce the signing of a collaboration…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Activity Changes Linked to Atherosclerosis Progression

Now a group from the Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, found that specific changes in gene activity contribute to the process. One of these…

Environmental Conservation

Overexploitation of Frankincense Trees Threatens Christmas Scent

Writing in the December issue of Journal of Applied Ecology, ecologists from the Netherlands and Eritrea say that over tapping the trees results in them…

Health & Medicine

Cystic Fibrosis Insights From Physiological Society Experts

What does Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Mean For People?Cystic Fibrosis is the UK’s most common life-threatening inherited disease. It is caused by a defective gene…

Environmental Conservation

Improving Striped Hyaena Conservation in Lebanon’s Conflict Areas

Until Mounir began his research at Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), striped hyaenas living in the human-dominated landscapes of…

Environmental Conservation

New Hertfordshire Sustainable Energy Technologies Centre launches to build “greener” cars

The final touches are being put on the building at the University’s College Lane campus, which will house the Sustainable Energy Technologies Centre (SETCE),…

Health & Medicine

HIV Burden in India: New Insights Challenge Official Estimates

Lalit Dandona and colleagues from the Administrative Staff College of India collaborated with colleagues from the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in…

Health & Medicine

Leicester Breakthrough Offers Hope for Nystagmus Treatment

Nystagmus causes the eyes to move in an uncontrollable manner, so that people with the condition cannot keep their eyes still. Nystagmus can be congenital…

Health & Medicine

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you: why the brain just can't help itself

Researchers at UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London have shown that positive sounds such as laughter or a triumphant “woo hoo!” trigger…

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