Their study found that: (1) Older people dominate the abuse landscape. Those at greatest risk of abuse are older women, those living in a care home and those…
With a body less than 1.5 m long, the vaquita is the smallest living cetacean (the order Cetacea consists of whales, dolphins and porpoises). It also has one…
African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness affects many tens of thousands of people each year in sub-Saharan Africa and is a serious disease for which there…
With the project due to end in January 2007, TEL-ME-MOR is well on the way to achieving its objectives. Content from eight out of the ten newly included…
“Zeolites” might be an unknown word to many non-scientists, but its meaning is everywhere around us: when we wash our clothes, drive a car or walk in the…
As it stands, the Environmental Liability Directive will exclude 375 of the UK’s priority species including scarce farmland birds, red squirrels and water…
Runway debris, known in the airport industry as Foreign Object Debris or FOD, as small and seemingly innocuous as a broken wheel from a suitcase, a bolt or a…
Tasked with exploring the molecular basis of drug-side effects, InnoMed PredTox is an ambitious project involving leading European pharmaceutical companies,…
Up to now, computer education has focused on teaching children and young adults the basics of how to use personal computers. Typically, pupils learned how to…
Driven by climate change, and by planting of exotic garden plants that flower through the winter, one species of bumblebee seems to have given up hibernating…
Salmonella food poisoning costs the UK economy around £1 billion every year and severe cases can become life threatening for the young and the elderly. The…
The team, led by Dr Mark Whittingham of Newcastle University's School of Biology and partners*, suggest that current UK agri-environment schemes have worked…
HFSPO President, Professor Masao Ito comments “We are delighted that India is now a member of HFSPO. Indian scientists have already participated successfully…
A large study of Australian women, published today in the open access journal International Breastfeeding Journal (www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com),…
How does an organism know when it must produce a protein and in what amount? Clever control mechanisms are responsible for the regulation of protein…
EMBO Installation Grants are financed entirely by the EMBC Member States hosting the grantees. Each scientist will receive 50,000 euro annually for three to…
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