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Health & Medicine

Innovative Collaboration Advances Brain Injury Research at Goldsmiths

This funding enables Goldsmiths to develop a programme of clinical research at the Blackheath Centre and also enhances the innovative one-year MSc in Cognitive…

Automotive Engineering

Invention could solve “bottleneck” in developing pollution-free cars

Whilst hydrogen is thought to be an ideal fuel for vehicles, producing only water on combustion, its widespread use has been limited by the lack of a safe,…

Information Technology

Exploring Innovative Monitoring Devices for Security and Economy

The advent of new wireless and mobile technologies has produced a massive wave of innovative communication systems, but experts still say this is only the…

Life & Chemistry

New three-dimensional imaging method paves way for several research fields

Knowledge of the three-dimensional organization of tissues and organ is of key importance in most life sciences.Traditional biological imaging techniques are…

Health & Medicine

New Guidelines for Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism

In an article in the December issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers describe the diagnostic pathways that can be used to achieve an accurate…

Health & Medicine

EU Focuses on Allergic Diseases in Research Initiative

The European Parliament adopted the report of Prof. Jerzy Buzek that recognises “respiratory diseases including those induced by allergies” as health…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Assessing Antibiotic Risks in Liquid Manure Management

High amounts of antibiotics still are sad reality in large-scale livestock farming. According to the Bundesverband für Tiergesundheit e.V. (Federal Association…

Life & Chemistry

Mutation Causes Heart Muscle Disorder – Researchers in Berlin und Boston Detect Genetic Defect

The evidence has been provided by a team of researchers including Dr. Arnd Heuser of the Max Delbrück Center of Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Maslinic Acid: A Natural Compound Slowing HIV Spread by 80%

Their work shows that maslinic acid – a natural product extracted from dry olive-pomace oil in oil mills – inhibits serin-protease, an enzyme used by HIV to…

Environmental Conservation

Blair Supports Permanent Bird Trade Ban in Europe

He has written to Graham Wynne, Chief Executive of the RSPB, to say that the government will press the rest of Europe to make permanent the current but…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

GM Potatoes Set for Market: Amflora’s Unique Uses

Amflora potatoes, which have been modified to be particularly suited for the production of papers and adhesive, are not intended for human consumption. In…

Life & Chemistry

Genetically Engineered Protein Splits Water for Hydrogen Fuel

This molecular complex can use energy from the sun to create hydrogen gas, providing an alternative to electrolysis, the method typically used to split water…

Studies and Analyses

Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage – but having a healthy diet and reducing stress when pregnant may lower risk.

These are some of the findings of a new study, which appears today in the online edition of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Measure Ultra-Short Laser Pulses Under 10 Femtoseconds

The study, published in Nature Physics, focused on extremely short laser pulses, less than 10 femtoseconds long – a femtosecond is one million-billionth of a…

Medical Engineering

New Microscope Enhances Efficiency in Eye Surgery

Although modern medical technology has reduced the time it takes to perform ophthalmic surgery, the workload has steadily increased as more operations are…

Life & Chemistry

New 3D Imaging Method Enhances Life Sciences Research

Knowledge of the three-dimensional organization of tissues and organ is of key importance in most life sciences.Traditional biological imaging techniques are…

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