Their paper will be published online in advance of its scheduled August 1 publication date (www.genesdev.org).Using an approach that randomly alters expression…
A joint research project carried out by scientists from the Universitat Jaume I and the Cognition and Brain Sciences unit at the Medical Research Council in…
A team of Scottish researchers surveyed 379 five to 16 year-olds, who had been suffering from skin diseases like acne, eczema and psoriasis for more than six…
After undocking from the Space Station on Saturday, Discovery was cleared for landing after a last inspection revealed no signs of damage to the spacecraft. A…
Current Guidelines indicate that home parenteral nutrition is the primary medical therapy where the patient receives nutrition through the bloodstream. But for…
Our ability to move is largely dependent on various classes of motor neurons in our spinal marrow that govern the control of our muscles from there. However,…
Frescoes face two main hazards: moisture from the atmosphere and salts in the plaster of the wall on which Renaissance masters made their original paintings….
Try to picture a snake-like robot that can move into places that are too dangerous for humans to enter. The snake can climb up stairs, force past beams and…
The sensor, which measures 10mm x 10mm, can replace advanced, expensive optical devices containing lenses and grids in what are commonly called spectroscopic…
The system, which immerses an individual in what looks like a life-size computer game, has been created as part of a joint project between The University's…
Fluorescence microscopy as a research tool in bacterial cell biologyJeff Errington takes a look at the revolutionary new views of the subcellular organization…
The CAPANINA project, which uses balloons, airships or unmanned solar-powered planes as high-altitude platforms (HAPs) to relay wireless and optical…
Professor Richard Harrison of the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), part of the UK team working on STEREO said “Whilst our Sun may seem a calm…
Children aged under four are good at classifying objects, meaning that they can cope with a complex world. They effortlessly sort objects such as red apples by…
The IST-funded WIN project is using what happened during the Prestige oil spill as one scenario with which to test the integrated risk management solution it…
Professor Peter Hatton and colleagues in the Physics Department at Durham have been awarded £900,000 to design and build a soft X-ray diffractometer – an…