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Drug Combo Shows Promise for Arterial Hardening Relief

Writing in the American Journal of Physiology–Cell Physiology, researchers from the University of Kentucky found that when mice were given a nucleoside reverse…

Studies and Analyses

Anticipation Boosts Memory, Study Reveals Insights

Probing deeper into how such memories form, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that the mere anticipation of a fearful situation can…

Health & Medicine

Study Reveals ADHD Drug Effectiveness for Teen Drivers

“We now have evidence that prevention programs can be important tools to protect adolescents from the devastating effects of methamphetamine use, and we will…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Key Nucleus-Building Protein for Cells

The envelope acts as a barrier between the outer cell compartment, called the cytoplasm, and DNA stored in the cell nucleus. It regulates which molecules are…

Health & Medicine

Peninsula Medical School research team's breakthrough in fight to combat diabetes

Academics at the Peninsula Medical School are looking at what role genes play in people who develop Type 2 diabetes and how they can be used to predict the…

Life & Chemistry

Licensing Agreement Announced for Valrocemide Antiepileptic Drug

The licensing is primarly for valrocemide. The efficacy of valrocemide as an antiepileptic drug has been demonstrated in a small clinical study. Shire intends…

Social Sciences

Music – the key to feeling good?

The Braintuning project aims to find out, among other things, why music has such a profound effect on our emotional life and how enjoying music and the…

Environmental Conservation

Unlocking LCD Reuse: Advances in Recycling Technology

LCDs are a fixture of modern life, appearing in everything from pocket calculators and mobile telephones to wide-screen televisions. But the liquid crystals…

Health & Medicine

Research Aims to Reduce Stillbirth Risk for Women

The new research by a Warwick Medical School team, Dr Harpal Randeva, Dr Paul O'Hare & Dr Dimitris Grammatopoulos; Consultant Endocrinologists and Mr Manu…

Health & Medicine

Global Code Urged to Safeguard Kids From Marketing Risks

With the global epidemic of obesity already triggering the development of type 2 diabetes in increasing numbers of children, the IOTF, part of the…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells: How Chemical Signals Guide Embryonic Development

The development of an embryo from a few seemingly identical stem cells is a truly awesome feat of nature. As they bathe in a chemical soup they’ve manufactured…

Social Sciences

Discrimination Drives Science Pay Gap, Says New Research

Dr Sara Connolly, of UEA’s School of Economics, has undertaken research which reveals for the first time what proportion of the pay disparity is due to women…

Studies and Analyses

Designer babies – what would you do for a ‘healthy’ baby?

The findings will be presented by Dr Simon Hampton at the BA Festival of Science on Setpember 5.Dr Hampton and his team at UEA’s School of Social Work and…

Environmental Conservation

Otter Research Reveals Key Insights on Lead Pollution

As well as providing important new information about the secretive otter species, post-mortems on otters killed by cars since 1992 gave an insight into the…

Studies and Analyses

Study offers clues to brain's protective mechanisms against alcoholism

Why do some people with a strong family history of alcoholism develop alcohol dependency while others do not? A new study provides clues that differing brain…

Environmental Conservation

Global Changes Shift Plant Growth Schedules and Flowering Times

“Under today's conditions, grasses flower early in the growing season and wildflowers flower later, but when we increased the concentration of carbon dioxide…

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