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Life & Chemistry

Can a spoonful of sugar treat cancer?

Dr Falconer, a Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry based in the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics at the University of Bradford explains: “On the surface of cancer…

Health & Medicine

Remote Health Monitoring: Enhancing Care, Reducing Costs

The HEALTHSERVICE 24 (HS24) project – with funding from the European Commission’s eTEN programme – provides one solution to the challenges ahead with an…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

First Resistance Gene Found for Rice Yellow Mottle Virus

Transmission of RYMV occurs by way of insect vectors or by straightforward contact between plants. Prevention measures, like direct sowing or the burying of…

Environmental Conservation

Boat paint to blame for Norfolk Broads’ desolation

In the current issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology, they reveal that introduction of the compound tributyltin (TBT) as a biocide in boat…

Health & Medicine

Edinburgh Project Aims to Support Prostate Cancer Patients

Dr Jim Ross, who comes from Kilmarnock, has been awarded a grant from the Association for International Cancer Research (AICR) to investigate the role of…

Environmental Conservation

ICSU Conference Explores Science in Hazards and Disasters

The conference, which took place in conjunction with the official inauguration of ICSU’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, addressed how science could…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Solutions for Managing ICU Memories and Trauma

Intensivecare often involves treatment in a respirator, with the air being supplied either via a tube in the nose or mouth or via a cannula through the…

Physics & Astronomy

MIT Simplifies Carbon Nanotube Fabrication Process

The work is reported in the Sept. 15 issue of Physical Review Letters, the journal of the American Physical Society. Carbon nanotubes — cylindrical carbon…

Power and Electrical Engineering

MIT designs 'invisible,' floating wind turbines

Today's offshore wind turbines usually stand on towers driven deep into the ocean floor. But that arrangement works only in water depths of about 15 meters or…

Studies and Analyses

Single molecular 'mark' seen as pivotal for genome compaction in spores and sperm

In higher order animals, genetic information is passed from parents to offspring via sperm or eggs, also known as gametes. In some single-celled organisms,…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Water-Protein Interactions Unveiled

No one has ever seen exactly how water molecules interact with proteins – even though water is the essential element for life . . . that is, not until now.Researchers led by Ohio State University physicist Dongping Zhong revealed these interactions for the first time, and report the results in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences….

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria’s Role in Sinus Infections: New Research Insights

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have evidence that curbed activity from several key chemicals on the inner lining of the nose are linked to chronic sinusitis that…

Health & Medicine

Shorter Six-Minute Walk Test Indicates Higher Mortality Risk

The research appears in the second issue for September 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American…

Physics & Astronomy

General Relativity Passes Tough Pulsar Test: Insights Ahead

They also hope to be able to use the two pulsars to determine the exact nature of the matter that pulsars and other neutron stars are made of.Their results are…

Life & Chemistry

UC Davis Study Uncovers Distinct Genetic Profiles in Europeans

An international team of scientists lead by researchers at UC Davis Health System has found that, with respect to genetics, modern Europeans fall into two…

Life & Chemistry

Rodent's bizarre traits deepen mystery of genetics, evolution

Purdue University research has shown that the vole, a mouselike rodent, is not only the fastest evolving mammal, but also harbors a number of puzzling genetic…

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