In a paper published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, Dr Keith Hamer of the University’s Faculty of Biological Sciences reports that diminishing fish stocks…
Our bodies could not maintain their existence without thousands of proteins performing myriad vital tasks within cells. Since malfunctioning proteins can cause…
A 10-year study involving thousands of Israeli Jews and Arabs, led by researchers from American and Israeli institutions, has yielded important new information…
The study appeared in the June 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.Flavonoids suppress destructive oxygen free radicals — also known as reactive oxygen species, or…
The aircraft had been flying a sensor developed by the University of Colorado at Boulder, NOAA and U.S. Department of Agriculture that could provide detailed…
University of Washington scientists will attach satellite tracking devices to the backs of six penguins that have been treated at two centers in northern…
Under the agreement, Elsevier will assume publication of Journal of Tissue Viability, official journal of the Tissue Viability Society (http://www.tvs.org.uk/)…
The film is available to view at: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/pressreleases/video_enzyme_unravelling_dna.htmlThe research, funded by the Biotechnology and…
The new approach is based on technology similar to that used in pregnancy test kits. The so-called immunoassays are embodied in the “Life Marker Chip” (LMC)…
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease found largely in the tropics which the World Health Organisation has estimated infects 12 million people worldwide each…
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a state of serious impairments in both learning ability and…
NIACE, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, will use the findings of the Penceil (How People Encounter E-Illiteracy and how they can take…
“Because race has such profound social, political and economic consequences, we should be wary of allowing the concept to be redefined in a way that obscures…
The development comes as a result of an internet platform, www.infonet-biovision.org, launched today by icipe – African Insect Science for Food and Health and…
The research, carried out by professors Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos Gómez and Jesús Caro (University of Granada) and Ricardo Reques (of the company Ornitour), has…
The study’s authors say the finding will help efforts to design new vaccines for use against cowpox, monkeypox and, if it ever became a concern again,…
The fundamental challenges.Infections have always been among the principal causes of death in the human species. In the developed world, microbes may be…
The DILIGENT team used the EGEE computing Grid to process 37 million images from the online Flickr database in just 16 weeks. This computation generated…
The study indicated a significant portion of the gas is in the filaments — which connect galaxy clusters — hidden from direct observation in enormous gas…
More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago,…
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