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Mobile Home Residents Tackle Rising Challenges Amidst Change

“While mobile homes have emerged as the housing of choice among low-income rural households, many mobile home-dwellers face exorbitant interest rates, social…

Studies and Analyses

Chocolate, Wine, and Spicy Foods: Heartburn Relief Insights

Many of Gerson's patients walk into her clinic upset, having been advised elsewhere to severely limit their diets to help reduce their heartburn symptoms. But…

Health & Medicine

Ultrasound Technology Aids Tooth Regrowth Research

Using low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS), Dr. Tarak El-Bialy from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Dr. Jie Chen and Dr. Ying Tsui from the…

Materials Sciences

New Organic Gel Nanomaterials: Nature’s Eco-Friendly Innovation

“We are using the building blocks provided by nature to create new nanomaterials that are completely reversible and environmentally benign,” said Jonathan…

Life & Chemistry

New Cell Properties Discovered by Carnegie Mellon Researchers

Carnegie Mellon University researchers Kris Noel Dahl and Mohammad F. Islam have made a new breakthrough for children suffering from an extremely rare disease…

Studies and Analyses

REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Early Indicator of Neurodegeneration

The front page of the July 2006 issue of The Lancet Neurology, the journal with the highest international impact, contains a work that shows the relationship…

Life & Chemistry

Candidate Gene Identified for Familial Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, late-onset disease of lung parenchyma with unknown etiology. IPF has been treated with corticosteroids and…

Life & Chemistry

Perth Researchers Launch Bird Flu Vaccine Trials for Adults

The Vaccine Trials Group at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children is recruiting 150 adult volunteers to…

Life & Chemistry

Brittle Prions: New Insights into Infectious Prion Diseases

The discovery boosts basic understanding of prion infections, and could provide scientists with new ideas for designing drugs that discourage or prevent prion…

Earth Sciences

Montana State University Secures $1.8M for New Cold Lab

The university recently secured $1.8 million in grants from the National Science Foundation and the Murdock Charitable Trust for what has tentatively been…

Life & Chemistry

Campus Vienna Biocenter: Training & Dissemination Centre on RNA Viruses launched

Integrated Projects (IP) are one of the largest EU-Research instruments under the outgoing 6th Framework Programme. The Vizier IP on RNA viruses received…

Physics & Astronomy

SuperSTEM Microscope: Bridging Atoms at Royal Society

The SuperSTEM microscope at Daresbury Laboratory has been developed by scientists from the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge. It is so powerful that it…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Shaping Bioenergy Education and Training in Europe

Renewable energy sources are expected to provide up to 50% of the world’s energy supply by 2050, with bioenergy widely anticipated to be the biggest…

Life & Chemistry

‘Minerva’ officially opened at the Babraham Research Campus

Mr Phil Willis MP, Chairman of the House of Commons’ Science and Technology Select Committee, who unveiled the plaque said, “It is a huge privilege to…

Life & Chemistry

Henry Ford’s idea revisited in DNA copying

Dr Tomo Tanaka, Professor Julian Blow and their team member Dr Etsushi Kitamura at the University’s School of Life Sciences, discovered that, contrary to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Light From Sawdust: Innovative Energy Source for Students

The installation exists in a single copy for the time being. Students who are doing practical work for the “non-traditional power engineering” speciality are…

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