The findings, published in the online open access journal BMC Medicine, should help physicians identify which men would benefit from intensive screening.More…
Project Title: Process and Production of Novel “All Natural” Sunscreen AgentsResearchers: O.M. Lai, C. Kong, C.T. Low, S.K. Lo, Rosfarizan Mohd., K. Long and…
Maslinic acid is a protease inhibitor that, among other features, has the capacity of regulating cell growth. It is useful for cancer treatment, as it allows…
The grant allows a team to spend the next three years trying to unlock the blood brain barrier to allow drugs to be targeted at diseases including cancer. The…
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a new rapid, portable and inexpensive detection system that identifies personal…
Critically ill patients who need a ventilator to breathe face a high risk of pneumonia. The lung infection, however, is exceedingly difficult to diagnose…
Dr Masood Yousef is a senior research assistant in the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, which is housed within the University’s School of Engineering. He…
Led by Director Dr Metodi Metodiev, the unit has uncovered a panel of protein biomarkers which could lead to improved diagnosis of tumour types and fine-tuned…
A team of researchers led by Professor Claude de Tychey, from Universite Nancy 2, France, found that just under a third of the 181 women they studied four to…
Ideally mothers should breastfeed their children for the first six months of life, but only a negligible percentage of mothers persist for that duration.Northern Ireland has both the lowest initial take up of breastfeeding and the poorest duration. According to the Infant Breastfeeding Survey 2005 63% of Northern Ireland mothers began breastfeeding in hospital, compared to 78% in England, 70% in Scotland and 67% in Wales….
ALA is a fatty acid that cannot be made by the body and must be supplied in the diet. The study will be published in the February 2008 issue of Archives of…
The Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre (MCRC) will help researchers from the Faculties of Medicine and Health and Biological Sciences to pool…
Delegates at the British Society for Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery Conference will hear that results from a pilot study saw graduates 95 per cent more…
The University of Manchester team will use the model organism to investigate Lowe syndrome, an inherited complaint affecting only boys.“Lowe syndrome is a rare…
Cornelis Boersma, pharmacist and PhD student at the University of Groningen, has analysed the medical data of over 8,500 Groningers and discovered that…
Although vaccines exist to protect against some strains of meningitis, there is still no vaccine to protect against all strains, including the most common in…
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